austinjp

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Fisher Price Music Box Teardown(twitter.com)
1 points by austinjp 5y ago|1 comments
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by austinjp 5y ago
Can you explain in more detail what your customers can buy for $399 per month?
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by austinjp 5y ago
> I'm exploring that right now, thx a lot. No problem, good luck :) Is good to see someone experimenting in this area and asking for advice to stay on track.
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by austinjp 5y ago
Nah. Reviews tend to cost thousands of $CURRENCY as part of the publishing costs, while reviewers give their personal time, thereby losing cash and/or time.
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by austinjp 5y ago
You raise several straw men. At the most basic level, a junior author will not be invited to be a peer-reviewer until they have published several papers. A proportion of academics leave academia before they are invited to review other paper
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by austinjp 5y ago
It should be explicit . The time required should be protected and remunerated accordingly. It's not. Instead, it's unbounded in terms of time and effort, and hence allows unbounded amounts of pressure to be applied. There's
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by austinjp 5y ago
I find it ridiculous because it simplifies the problem, thereby making constructive conversation about realistic solutions more difficult.
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by austinjp 5y ago
While I take the point, and support dismantling the power structures within academic publishing, it's not helpful to dismiss the effort required as "easy". The pressures that are brought to bear within academia are extreme, i
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by austinjp 5y ago
Well, the bath and the sink are also porcelain. The plumbing is hidden (unless you go looking for it) while the porcelain is what you interact with day-to-day.
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by austinjp 5y ago
My laptop doesn't have a webcam, and even if it did, I wouldn't permit my web browser address to it unless I really needed to. A website that asks me to access the webcam just to log in isn't going to appeal to me. I've
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by austinjp 5y ago
> What problems do you face with whatever 2FA you use? Ease of migration. I'm currently migrating away from Authy to Aegis. This experience in Aegis is simple because it can import and export the data. I use gauth [0] on my laptop s
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by austinjp 5y ago
I'm often curious about the audio approach used in a bunch of 1960s films where multiple people are talking over each other. It's very deliberate, but I don't know the terminology. The Graduate is an example, I think in the p
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by austinjp 5y ago
That's a variation on the Ship of Odysseus. Years pass, nternets come and go, gateways open and close. Does "the Internet" still exist? (Rhetorical question.)
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by austinjp 5y ago
There are several comments here that involve other people doing things over the generations. Printing stuff, reminiscing or reflecting on anniversaries, taking legal and fiscal responsibility, etc etc. Has anyone here been on the other end
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by austinjp 5y ago
Have a search for "aphantasia" and see if your experience matches.
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by austinjp 5y ago
I never knew that my default approach is called readme-driven development :)
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by austinjp 5y ago
I'm sure device manufacturers are looking at energy-harvesting technologies for true "always on" capability. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28715935
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Converting Wi-Fi signals to electricity with new 2-D materials (2019)(news.mit.edu)
1 points by austinjp 5y ago|0 comments
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by austinjp 5y ago
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I suspect this boom will be relatively short-lived. Sure, plenty will get rich off it, but plenty more will be harmed by it, and that harm will fuel the push-back. The US has the luxury of being able to loo
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by austinjp 5y ago
> I'm not sure if you live in the US Erm... as I mentioned, UK :) > It's becoming more socially accepted, widespread, and losing its stigma. My contention is that this may be short lived. It's an industry which causes h
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by austinjp 5y ago
Well, fair enough. To split hairs ever finer, though... Placebo is present in all circumstances, as is nocebo. Regression to the mean is a statistical phenomenon. It can help aid understanding of the size and role of placebo effects, but it
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by austinjp 5y ago
> > by definition it hasn't looked at non-randomised trials, or pragmatic trials > > They looked at quality studies, not bad studies that fail to control for all the confounding factors, yes. That's quite the straw-ma
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by austinjp 5y ago
The Cochrane review only looked at randomised placebo-controlled trials. That's reasonable, and a good and necessary thing to do. But by definition it hasn't looked at non-randomised trials, or pragmatic trials (i.e. under "r
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by austinjp 5y ago
Hmmm nit picking but I think regression to the mean is different from placebo. Regression to the mean: most headaches go away within a few hours. Placebo: your favourite brand of paracetamol seems to cure headaches quicker than the unbrande
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by austinjp 5y ago
I'm curious, why do you want to work in the gambling industry? It exploits addiction and ruins lives. The tactics used to entice and retain customers are reminiscent of those used by the tobacco industry: the product actively harms tho
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by austinjp 5y ago
Yes, recently I was getting notifications on my Android phone from Google Docs. Requests to approve doc edits or similar, but very obviously spammy. They seem to have stopped now.
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by austinjp 5y ago
Yep, plenty of new spam that's passing Gmail's spam filters. I'm seeing variations on a common format: From: seemingly.real.name@gmail.com To: several apparently real Gmail addresses Subject: (no subject) Blank body apparentl
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by austinjp 5y ago
Yeah so I'm somewhat tickled that a nuclear industry technician commenting on a thread about checklists has two "finally..." points :) Thanks too for the circle-slash system, I'm pinching that.
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Reminds me of lena.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
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I genuinely like Curtis' work, and Bitter Lake is peppered with interesting stuff and fantastic stock footage. But the dialogue in his recent films has been predictable: *But the old systems had never gone away. And then one person rea

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