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by beefman 3y ago
Open source has been a boon for tech monopolies. If you're a long-lived code monopoly, you dread waking up one day to find your code is in an obsolete language and you can't hire people to work on it. By open-sourcing your code, y
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by beefman 3y ago
The Clarendon's gone – I regret her – The George is closed and forgot; Some changes are all for the better, But Woolworth's is probably not.
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by beefman 3y ago
Current status: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_dracunculiasis#...
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Introducing Contributions(unison-lang.org)
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Spiritual Freedom(john-uebersax.com)
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Ninth Dedekind number found by two independent groups(quantamagazine.org)
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Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved(pnas.org)
1 points by beefman 3y ago|1 comments
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Akazehe(en.wikipedia.org)
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XPRIZE Launching $101M Competition(xprize.org)
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Inverting a Function(blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
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by beefman 3y ago
I've long wished for more studies like this. So it's good to see. This one does miss some important variables: 1. Dose-dependent effects 2. Naive vs experienced users of a drug 3. Novel vs familiar task Though the authors spend a
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by beefman 3y ago
RBMK is not considered a PWR because it is graphite-moderated. Most reactors are classified first by their moderator. PWRs and BWRs are both LWRs, moderated by light water, as opposed to HWRs moderated by heavy water, or graphite-moderated
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U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game(spectrum.ieee.org)
357 points by beefman 3y ago|484 comments
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Von Karman–Gabrielli Diagram(en.wikipedia.org)
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Google scraps $15B deal with lead developer of Silicon Valley campus projects(theverge.com)
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James Watt, Instrument Maker (2021)(technicshistory.com)
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by beefman 3y ago
Second time in a year https://www.noozhawk.com/missile_test_ends_in_explosion_seco...
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Minuteman III test provides vital data before termination(afgsc.af.mil)
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by beefman 3y ago
Better URL: https://dynomight.net/predictions/
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by beefman 3y ago
Many sprays and powders are harmful to lungs, including zinc oxide particles of any size. SCCS concluded nanozinc in non-spray sunscreens is safe https://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/consumer_s...
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by beefman 3y ago
We briefly had nanozinc, which works for hours, stays on in the water, and is good for skin. But it was cancelled in a bout of consumer hysteria based on nothing. Fifteen years later we're still stuck with chemical sunscreens that are
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Notation Must Die: The Battle for How We Read Music [video](youtube.com)
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Here's his explainer on Hamiltonian Monte Carlo that includes a whirlwind tour of mechanics! https://bjlkeng.io/posts/hamiltonian-monte-carlo/#markov-cha...
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An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus (2022)(bjlkeng.io)
2 points by beefman 3y ago|3 comments
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Mojo Does Give Superpowers(control.limited)
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Returns to Scale vs. Experience(gist.github.com)
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Bringing Modern JavaScript to the Jupyter Notebook(blog.jupyter.org)
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by beefman 3y ago
So is butter https://doi.org/10.1080/0002889738506828
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by beefman 3y ago
Announcement: https://twitter.com/thenetrunna/status/1720859919497236825
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Shoggoth Systems(shoggoth.systems)
5 points by beefman 3y ago|2 comments

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