azalemeth

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by azalemeth 8mo ago
Oh, I completely agree with you. What does help however is if the back benchers get a ton of emails about this and pressure the government from the inside – when Boris Johnson was teetering on the edge the volume of correspondence MPs recei
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by azalemeth 8mo ago
I think this article is a great opportunity to mention two under-used statistical techniques: Deming regression [0] and the Theil-Sen estimator [1]. They both fit straight lines to noisy data. Deming regression is an errors-in-variables mod
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Do not ban children from using virtual private networks(petition.parliament.uk)
4 points by azalemeth 8mo ago|2 comments
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"Giving children the space to grow"(keirstarmer.substack.com)
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by azalemeth 8mo ago
Many organists are not religious but appreciate the creativity and beauty of the music, buildings, and the mad range of incredibly different instruments that are all collectively called organs. Heck, in England, I've often wondered how
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Grok is still undressing men(theverge.com)
5 points by azalemeth 8mo ago|3 comments
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by azalemeth 9mo ago
Kagi is very good at this too.
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by azalemeth 9mo ago
My understanding is that (1) there is, as you say, a very nonzero risk of landing in a field and good visibility of what is _in_ that field is critical; (2) when riding thermals it is traditionally the case that many gliders soar in close p
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Diving into the Depths of Widevine L3(neodyme.io)
2 points by azalemeth 9mo ago|0 comments
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by azalemeth 9mo ago
I'm pretty sure I completed Morrowind for the first time ever using both wine and a celeron. Likewise before that with VirtualPC (remember that?) on Mac OS (note the space!) and Age of Empires (not even Rise of Rome!). Single-digit FPS
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by azalemeth 9mo ago
In en-us education "101" is often used to refer to an introductory course in a particular topic. My inference from the fact that this _educational_ slide is called "101" is that this is a basic example of core knowledge
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NSA Network Shaping 101 [2007, Snowden leak] [pdf](christopher-parsons.com)
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by azalemeth 9mo ago
It might be worth linking this document from the Snowden leaks: https://christopher-parsons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/n... "NSA Network Shaping 101". Big descriptions of ASINs, and layer 3
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by azalemeth 9mo ago
Regarding the spy in a bag -- the person involved was a GCHQ mathematician seconded to the SIS and studying Russia, whose "naked, decomposing remains were found in the bath of the main bedroom's en-suite bathroom, inside a red spo
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(2023) GCHQ [Sigint] Summaries(christopher-parsons.com)
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by azalemeth 10mo ago
Nothing highlights how pointless e-sports items are more than a real dollar value for a player base of all of them. The entire global GDP is as an order of magnitude roughly $100 trillion. So this $340 trillion figure is 3.4 times planetary
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by azalemeth 10mo ago
What are the symptoms of being shadowbanned? I see an awful lot of "click here to prove you are human" boxes, click then, the page reloads, and I'm left with the captcha again. It's been very very frustrating.
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Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults(games.jmir.org)
168 points by azalemeth 10mo ago|133 comments
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by azalemeth 10mo ago
This just isn't really true any more. The Scandinavian countries have become net green energy exporters including over winter (lots of wind power and biogas in municipal heating networks) and the block as a whole is banning Russian gas
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by azalemeth 10mo ago
I'd be interested to know what the material differences are between the US DoD standards and FAA/ICAO standards (the article hints that there are) - and also what the difference is between these and a "landing zone" wher
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by azalemeth 10mo ago
Everyone is born and at some point will die. The costs associated with this vary hugely but the certainty of those two end points are inescapable. Almost every other developed country in the world recognises that and shares both the risks a
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by azalemeth 10mo ago
It's also worth stating that the worst part of that proposed amendment [1] isn't even necessarily the VPN ban, it's the next clause, on page 20: "The “CSAM requirement” is that any relevant device supplied for use in the
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by azalemeth 10mo ago
This is a clearly terrible idea. It's clear to us, at least, not to them. As is on the public record, there are three proponents behind this amendment. They and their contact details are: LORD NASH [Tory, contactholmember@parliament.uk
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by azalemeth 10mo ago
Indeed. My understanding of modern powerstation gas turbines is that they all basically run _at_ the Carnot efficiency eta = (1-T_cold / T_hot) and that rather than chasing marginal gains in how close to that theoretical limit you actu
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by azalemeth 10mo ago
This is why Google Docs was so revolutionary... In 2006.
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by azalemeth 11mo ago
This all sounds like a wonderful way to write some truly annoying malware. I expect to see hidden mounts on SQL-escape-type-maliciously-named drives soon...
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by azalemeth 11mo ago
I thought this article would be about freezing rights on either Godstow meadow or Christ Church meadow; both places where you can expect to see both horses and cows and places where it is not surprising to learn of medieval rules pertaining
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by azalemeth 11mo ago
Indeed. Martin's a great name in the field -- the thing that has actually made most clinical proton MRI substantially better over the last twenty years has been parallel imaging (acquiring the magnetic resonance signal from different s
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by azalemeth 11mo ago
It's perhaps worth linking to the official EC page on this proposal: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/faqs/digital-packag...
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by azalemeth 11mo ago
I sold an old Ultra45 from my lab on eBay rather than letting the university people scrap it. It went for the equivalent of $2000 (which I later donated to a charity) and attracted quite a bidding war. Apparently at least one major airport

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