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by btrettel 6y ago
I like the HN aesthetic and wasn't making recommendations for HN per se. I think threaded comments seem to conflict with avatars. There might be a way to have something like avatars that's inherently lightweight, not requiring s
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by btrettel 6y ago
One disadvantage of the minimal customization approach is the difficulty of knowing who is posting what at a glance. Avatars seem to help me a lot on this. Here at HN I've had to make an effort to read the usernames, which are in a gre
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by btrettel 6y ago
Could be this: https://www.webbloatscore.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12783898
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by btrettel 6y ago
I'm interested in hearing more details on this, if you're able to discuss them.
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by btrettel 6y ago
As a researcher, if I want to find a software engineer willing to review my code for free (I have no budget for this), how should I find one? The article says > We can’t ask software experts for a code review every time we do something i
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by btrettel 6y ago
That makes me think: Is there a search engine which removes pages with any ads or affiliate links? That might be the easiest way to remove the commercial pages.
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by btrettel 6y ago
I'm not saying this strategy can be implemented by everyone, will work forever, or that it's just. My only claim is that if you implement it now, it'll greatly reduce the probability of theft. Also: My bike is actually fairly
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by btrettel 6y ago
> A very narrow minority does this, and usually it is out of ignorance, not malice. Some of the worst offenders, delivery truck drivers, tend to know that parking in the bike lane is illegal. They tend to not care about cyclists, which i
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by btrettel 6y ago
I use both a heavy U-lock and a thick cable lock. I've never had a bike stolen though I have had accessories stolen. You don't need to make your bike impervious to being stolen, just harder to steal than another bike near it so th
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by btrettel 6y ago
Exactly. I'm not opposed to demanding things. I just don't see particularly disruptive protests as effective at realizing those demands. As you point out, these protests might even be counterproductive. If all they're doing i
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by btrettel 6y ago
To be clear, I'm not opposed to angering drivers period , just certain activities which accomplish nothing other than angering drivers. For example, I will often briefly take the lane if it is the safest option for me or legally requi
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by btrettel 6y ago
As a transportation cyclist for over a decade, I never liked the disruptive activities some cycling activists do. I'm not convinced that they're effective at anything other than angering drivers.
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by btrettel 6y ago
What don't you like about forums on mobile? The default phpBB skin is fairly good on mobile in my experience. I don't regularly participate on other forum softwares.
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by btrettel 6y ago
I appreciate your perspective. The people on the hiring and tenure committees as far as I can tell usually don't/can't evaluate quality directly so they instead focus on proxies like the total number of papers and what journa
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by btrettel 6y ago
When I was a teenager I worked at a Shell gas station. Once I had a customer who asked about the advantages of using Shell nitrogen-enriched gasoline. I didn't know anything about it and found their question really odd. As I recall, th
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by btrettel 6y ago
The comments here are interesting. My experience has been that cheating is too much trouble to deal with, but I can see that's others have had more success. Might depend greatly on the personalities involved. Once I was a TA for a clas
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by btrettel 6y ago
Defense spending is inefficient, but why should that money be spent on HEP rather than something else? I'm not even convinced that projects like the LHC are a net positive for humanity for the last reason I mentioned. As for your fin
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by btrettel 6y ago
Comparing the cost against defense spending, which has a reputation for waste, doesn't convince me. If the cost is similar to two B-2 bombers and one thinks that the B-2 bomber is overpriced, one would probably also think that the LHC
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by btrettel 6y ago
In my notes I had this called "site relative" following this Stack Exchange post: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/71376/12374 But you're right; relative by itself would refer to relative to t
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by btrettel 6y ago
Practically speaking these optimizations won't make much of a difference, but I still find them interesting. I have been keeping a list of similar optimizations. Here are some not in the linked article: - Use relative URLs when possibl
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by btrettel 6y ago
One thing I find amusing is that Stripe's CEO's webpage is a lot closer to Sourcehut in design than Stripe: https://patrickcollison.com/
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by btrettel 6y ago
I'm stuck with slow internet for now and can say this: The images on the site are far too large in terms of file size. I had to download over 10 MB to view the homepage according to Firefox's dev tools. https://qbix.com
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by btrettel 6y ago
I recall watching a documentary in the 00s where someone claimed to be buying land in Russia specifically because of this.
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The FOIA request was probably not denied because the FCC lacks the technical abilities to fulfill the request. In my experience it's likely that no technical people were consulted on it. A FOIA office simply looks for any excuse they
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I didn't argue that science is getting worse in general and that nothing valuable is being done now, and that's not what I believe. I could see how someone could infer the former from the number of authors per paper increasing and
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by btrettel 6y ago
> “Mathematics used to be a much more individual activity,” Minsky said. “Maybe in the next year or so, we’ll be back to some solo projects.” Seems that most research used to be more individual. I'm not sure why research has shifted
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by btrettel 6y ago
Interesting. The Zinc supplement that I started taking a couple times of week due to COVID-19 exceeds all upper limits listed on Wikipedia when taken at the recommended daily dose (50 mg). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by btrettel 7y ago
Here are the links to the articles moozville mentioned: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/107/2/363/1838... https://www.jstor.org/stable/2999617 https://
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by btrettel 7y ago
> Because I still want to pursue a career in research even if traditional opportunities dry up, I am interested in alternative funding models that will ensure that researchers could still make a living in a world that demands instant res
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by btrettel 7y ago
What are the complete citations for those papers? In the decision analysis class I took 3 years ago they proposed the framework in the following paper: Matheson, James E., Michael M. Menke, and Stephen L. Derby. "Managing R&D portf

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