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by atrettel 3y ago
Card catalogs are still used in many archives and libraries, especially when the cost to digitize them in either time or money is prohibitive. I visited the National Air and Space museum archives once to access a special collection, and on
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Exactly. This is the primary difference between observational and experimental studies (controlled experiments). Experimental studies control for the hypothesized mechanism as part of the experimental design, but observation studies do
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by atrettel 3y ago
This is just one example of the overall problem. In my view, hiring managers often are just going off a list of requirements and do not really know too much about the technology. They tend to reject anyone who does not use the exact terms
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by atrettel 3y ago
I connect my printer via USB for this exact reason. Connecting it to Wifi is convenient but just poses too many potential attack vectors. I agree that ink levels are not sensitive information, but a lot of things that you print (or scan if
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by atrettel 3y ago
This is a feature of some online catalogs where it lists adjacent books on the shelf. This is usually done by the call number, so it basically just lets you see what the previous and next call numbers are. Given that the call numbers are
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by atrettel 3y ago
Fair points, I was just trying to give an alternative perspective, especially since my needs are likely different than others on here. I appreciate the feedback. I tend to agree that storage is not a bad option, but so many libraries just
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by atrettel 3y ago
I have spent a lot of time in university libraries and the disinvestment is often difficult to see unless you are doing deep research or in the weeds. I should note that I am writing this response as somebody who is a professional researche
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by atrettel 3y ago
Another way to put this is that the incentives in academia right now encourage "careerism", for lack of a better term. People have to put so much effort into maintaining their position that the actually big picture goals like res
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by atrettel 3y ago
I have heard a similar story about Richard Feynman. If I recall correctly, Feynman claimed to have only applied for grants on work that he already completed, that way he knows he can fulfill what he set out. I am unable to find the source
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by atrettel 3y ago
> I can‘t even think of an alternative to this other than adhoc whiteboard drawings which can‘t match PPTs on any axis except if you‘re just (collaboratively) developing an idea/concept I think this is a major part of the problem.
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by atrettel 3y ago
Yeah, getting quarters is a real problem, especially when all of the banks in your area are only open during business hours and not on weekends. That said, I'd personally prefer quarters over an app, since quarters are much more fail-
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> Humanity has collectively decided cars have more utility than bikes. Humanity has not "collectively" decided to prefer cars over other modes of transit. Other countries, most notably the Netherlands, do in fact prefer a much
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by atrettel 3y ago
I totally agree! I know people and have heard stories of people applying to hundreds of jobs and getting few if any responses, let alone offers. I view the process as stochastic rather than deterministic, and that is why I call it a numbe
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by atrettel 3y ago
I agree with you but with the additional point that this is how the job market for many fields has operated for several years. Tech has just be insulated until now. I'm a mechanical engineer and scientist. I've applied to hundre
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by atrettel 3y ago
I would add that inertia works at both a personal and institutional level. For example, Vim, Emacs, and Nano are available on most supercomputers but Neovim really is not (haven't seen it myself). Many people may like having highly c
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by atrettel 3y ago
I would think that the "obsession" your peer group has with retiring early comes more from the realization that they can retire early (they have the ability to if they want) more than anything else. Your observations of your peer
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by atrettel 3y ago
Interesting, I was unaware of these standards. It seems that different agencies want different things, since the existing identity verification by Login.gov was good enough for one federal agency but not good enough for the IRS. The feder
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by atrettel 3y ago
I do not know why the IRS is still using ID.me, but Login.gov does now have identity verification [1], so the IRS cannot claim anymore that a lack of identify verification with Login.gov is the reason why they only allow ID.me. I did the L
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by atrettel 4y ago
I never use Edge except during work at my current job. Management there has basically mandated its use and does not test any internal sites for anything other than Edge. Indeed, many sites refuse to work even in Google Chrome, but they wo
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by atrettel 4y ago
Thanks, those are all generally good ideas. I realized another would be to provide separate paths for pedestrians and vehicles (beyond just sidewalks), but that may be difficult to implement in many suburban neighborhoods.
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by atrettel 4y ago
I agree with the video's thesis that large trucks and SUVs are unsafe to pedestrians, children, and other drivers even, but the end of the video focuses on trying to change regulations to make these kind of vehicles safer in many respe
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by atrettel 4y ago
> Some supercomputers use partially shared memory, but I'm not familiar with that space. Some supercomputers do have some shared memory architecture, but a whole lot more use Message Passing Interface (MPI) for distributed memory ar
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by atrettel 4y ago
Dimensional analysis is one of the most underrated techniques out there. All too often we are taught how to solve equations, but it is equally important to think about how to reason with equations and how to examine the properties of solut
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by atrettel 4y ago
There are a lot of these kind of edge cases that are just not going to end up in training data sets, at least not in sufficient quantities in sufficient time. That makes it hard for 100 percent data-driven approaches to adapt to all circum
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by atrettel 4y ago
The UC system does provide housing for some graduate students, but they do not have enough housing for all graduate students. When I was working on my PhD at UCLA, I lived in a UCLA-owned studio apartment for the first three years. The apa
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by atrettel 4y ago
I tend to use escape in most circumstances, but I am increasingly partial to Ctrl-[ when using certain keyboards where the escape key is a bit too far for me. It's another option that's always available by default.
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by atrettel 4y ago
> Every job hunt for me is still around 100 applications : 10 interviews : 1 offer. These ratios have remained pretty reliable through bull and bear hiring markets. This rough estimate agrees with the data I've collected from my own
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by atrettel 4y ago
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has referred to this concept as "epistemic arrogance". In "The Black Swan", Taleb defines it the following way: > Epistemic arrogance: Measure the difference between what someone actually knows
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by atrettel 4y ago
I agree that this is a big thing to consider here too. I set up a computing cluster in grad school and it was much less costly to make a mistake there than it would have been in a cloud service. Re-running something only wasted wall time
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by atrettel 4y ago
The FBI and other US federal agencies have attributed similar tactics to North Koreans looking to infiltrate particular industries [1-3]. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korean-crypto-job-cand... [2] https:/

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