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by bckr 4y ago
> Are people just browsing these shapes and seeing patterns in them That's one approach. The thing to understand is that proteins form "binding sites": areas that are more likely to attract other particular regions of prot
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by bckr 4y ago
Possibly used in a pseudo scientific notation way, to denote the precision.
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by bckr 4y ago
Well, that really drives home the point that these telescopes might not be as fragile as we laypeople would assume
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by bckr 4y ago
A lot of good advice here; I'll throw in my 2c. What do you actually care about in life? Is it people? Ideas? Circumstances or something you can give yourself? If you can find just a tiny seed of caring about something outside of yours
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by bckr 4y ago
I think it looks devastating. The people who run the thing think it's fine. I'll defer to the people who run the thing. See ThisIsMyAltFace's comment.
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by bckr 4y ago
Probably talking about this[] from[]. I think it's overstated, though. The telescope seems to have a lot of redundancy and flexibility. [] https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/jNgqXUj6dDVWbSvkw5ngMk-970... [] https:&#x2F
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by bckr 4y ago
That's because there's not a straight line between correlation and causation. The controlled experiments haven't been done yet. But that's not all there is to science.
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by bckr 4y ago
> But I suppose you think this does not matter That's an ungenerous interpretation when otherwise the GP demonstrated curiosity about your provided information. It's easily read as "this may be important to more people tha
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by bckr 4y ago
Correct answer. We don't even know what makes you conscious, or gives you memories or will. The brain is basically a magic blob to us at this point. Maybe in 100 years?
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by bckr 4y ago
I don't think most people want to pull their hair out for anything, period. Yet, young people will pursue what fascinates them very deeply when given the chance. A huge problem is that we don't teach things in such a way that it&#
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by bckr 4y ago
Great observation. Reminds me of this article[] about how surgeons are having a hard time getting experience with the rise of robotics. It may be that this training will need to get pushed to the education system (whatever that looks like b
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by bckr 4y ago
Oh, that didn't cross my mind. Yes, that's a serious potential. Take it a few more steps and then you get to automated analysis tools, system simulations, and NLP systems. This looks essentially like IronMan's Jarvis running
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by bckr 4y ago
Perfect opportunity for a new corpspeak term. "Let's sync this week for the pre-sprint Jira climbing"
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by bckr 4y ago
+1 for coaching / private lessons. I'm actually tutoring a friend and it's great to see him learning rapidly. Also there was an article recently about how CS masters degrees probably aren't a good idea to get, with the k
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by bckr 4y ago
Agreed, you don't need to pursue a degree to pass these interviews. You can learn all you need to know about time complexity in probably a few hours, then it's just practice/pattern matching.
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by bckr 4y ago
Yeah, the govt is subsidizing their employment. The economy depends on the poor at least as much as the rich.
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by bckr 4y ago
Big science inspires wonder and curiosity, which causes children and young adults to pursue STEM, which leads to more biologists, medical researchers, and nuclear physicists.
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by bckr 4y ago
No, not as simple. But goodness wouldn't that be at least more interesting than what we have now?
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by bckr 4y ago
There's this idea that we should be sad about this. I say, if you're sad about it, I understand. I feel a little sad, too. But I'm also curious about what comes next. What will only get a chance to live thanks to the things t
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by bckr 4y ago
I just started learning myself, and this weekend got VS Code to launch Reaper as a debug target so I can read print statements from my VST built with JUCE. This is where the fun begins. Open to helping anyone else get to this point as well.
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by bckr 4y ago
Thanks for sharing that. I had a similar experience at my last job. The emotional/physical toll is so real. On the one hand, guess that's why we get paid? On the other hand, screw that.
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by bckr 4y ago
Sounds really unhealthy and I don't understand why you'd stay at that company, but you definitely have an interesting life.
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by bckr 4y ago
They built an extension to "escape Google's [recommendation] algorithm". They're clearly not talking here about privacy, they're talking about managing their own attention. Their implementation does fit their purpos
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by bckr 4y ago
This is a great use case and in fact I would pay for this service. Sitting and barfing up text can be fun when I'm inspired, but I'm frequently not inspired but would still like to make progress on my stories.
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by bckr 4y ago
Thank you for this beautifully lucid comment, tzs. It would be valuable to pin this to the top of every thread.
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I tried that out but found it very distracting.
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by bckr 4y ago
> and the change of posture prevents getting sore from sitting on my ass all day. The change of posture prevents my ass from getting sore from sitting on it all day.
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by bckr 4y ago
Is there something else: a repository, an outline of a future specification, ... ?
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This is a little bananas and I don't really understand it but I'm attracted to the utopian attitude and some of the visualizations it presents. Certainly the next 100 years of programming won't look exactly like the last 100
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Do you? If so, what is it like?

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