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by cge 2y ago
To add to the other answers: at top universities, you can also have very unusual applicants. At Caltech we'd sometimes have (standard age) freshman come in with research publications, for example. If you have the resources to review ap
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by cge 3y ago
I think a difficulty with science communication is that it is very rare to have someone who is both a great scientist and great science communicator, and even with the ability, it is difficult for them to devote enough time and focus to be
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by cge 3y ago
I think the difference in opinions here is the feeling amongst those of us who don't particularly like Remarkable as a company that they do what they are legally required to do, based on the licences of the software they've used.
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by cge 3y ago
I think it's important to note the wider limitations of the homebrew community. I bought an rM2 relatively early on, enough to have lifetime free subscription access that I've never used, as I've always used homebrew arrange
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by cge 3y ago
Guinness World Records is a brand of the Jim Pattison Group, a conglomerate that also owns Ripley Entertainment. It hasn't been connected with Guinness beer, the brand of the drinks company Diageo, since the early 2000s.
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by cge 3y ago
As an undergraduate a number of years ago, in physics, I also experimented with taking notes in LateX. My approach, rather than making writing faster through editor wizardry, was to extensively use \def and \newcommand to abbreviate everyt
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by cge 3y ago
This is increasingly difficult, at least in Western Europe, without it being a significant imposition. I've had several instances where, despite absolutely no signage or indication anywhere outside the business, inside the business, or
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by cge 3y ago
I recall seeing in released emails about the Callendar Square bug that it's debatable as to whether what the system was doing was properly double entry. In that case, my interpretation of the emails was that there were transactions th
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by cge 3y ago
I get the impression that, no, forensic accountants were not used in the prosecutions, and they instead just relied on the software's accounting. From the bugs described, it seems like forensic accountants legitimately looking at spec
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by cge 3y ago
This advice admittedly makes sense for conversations within a certain programming culture, but often doesn't make sense in other contexts where the use of email, and what people need from it, might be different. It's unfortunate
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by cge 3y ago
>And many (I dare say "most," or "nearly all") USB-PD power supplies top out at 3A when in 5V mode. 5 A at 5 V seems to be sufficiently unusual for USB-PD that Wikipedia's section on the specification doesn'
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by cge 3y ago
Yes. I'm not sure that a clearer explanation of the author's argument would call this nationalization at all. The author seems to be arguing that Boeing is already essentially nationalized in terms of the disadvantages of a nation
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by cge 3y ago
I had assumed that bugs allowing such miscarriages of justice would require a completely unsound accounting method in the software. Unless, eg, the accounting simply didn't store a transaction ledger and software didn't store l
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by cge 3y ago
I wore P100 and FFP3 elastomeric respirators at various times pre-vaccine during the pandemic in California and Europe, as did several of my relatives. Places that understood the problem did care, and many hospitals and medical centres d
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by cge 3y ago
>It is absolutely your responsibility to make sure that it is safe to do so. In aviation safety, it has long been established that, regardless of how clearly you establish who is responsible for what, if reality is such that people frequ
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by cge 3y ago
>"permanent time zones as close as possible to solar time (natural time) in Europe." It doesn't even do that for most people in Ireland, according to its own map! As it appears to be based on land mass without regard to p
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by cge 3y ago
Thanks: it does seem like the lack of sandboxing is the major problem here. A difficulty in this sort of archiving is that we're not trying to make it so that we can build the code: we're trying to make it so that any reader in
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by cge 3y ago
>We made very sure we never left it pointed at a fire sprinkler after that. The one time we had an inadvertent discharge of a fire sprinkler in the historic building we're in was when a film crew had a light positioned too close to
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by cge 3y ago
> Take a look at nix-shell scripts. Much simpler, lightweight and faster alternative to Docker and friends for being able to build a project forever. As researchers using nix derivations to preserve usability of code meant to be archived
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by cge 3y ago
Your license does not seem quite the same as wg-easy's. Wg-easy's states that the allowed uses are "for yourself" or "for a company". Yours states "for personal purposes" or "for a company".
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by cge 3y ago
At least in California and Europe, most self checkouts I have seen either have a button to note that you've put your own bag on the scale, or just ignore weight put on the scale before you start scanning. Are there self checkouts that
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by cge 3y ago
Of course. It's just that fairness is often given as a reason, especially since the accommodations often might be unfair in other professions, but were meant to counteract specific unfair problems. For example, spousal hiring could b
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by cge 3y ago
Academia often involves a lot of time, but often in informal and flexible ways, with relatively little inflexible time (eg, lectures), and campuses that are not necessarily child-unfriendly. Unlike law, most likely, it isn't necessaril
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by cge 3y ago
Academia in a certain era, at least in the US, used to acknowledge that it posed several specific difficulties for relationships and families, and addressed them through policies and programs, for example, spousal hiring policies, family ho
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by cge 3y ago
A problem with those types of indicators is that they can often alternatively indicate an attentive driver handling situations the assistance features don't understand. A driver may seem to be drifting in lanes because the car's s
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by cge 3y ago
BofA/ML appears to have default limits of $15k/day for wealth management clients, and $25k/day for private bank clients, though there is a footnote stating that limits may actually be higher depending on the client. So at le
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by cge 3y ago
As an illustration of the requirement not being necessary, you can use Lyft (for cars only, I think) via a browser at ride.lyft.com. Outside of questions of accessibility, having web-based access is also very useful for unexpected problem
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by cge 3y ago
My recollection is that it is the opposite: Cloudflare and archive.is have disagreements about DNS, and as a result archive.is blocks Cloudflare.
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by cge 3y ago
Roman naming conventions[1] technically did have a personal first name that came first and was called that: first name or forename is a reasonably direct translation for praenomen. The complexity is that by the late republic praenomina wer
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by cge 3y ago
The extent to which this just seems to be openly true is startling. Some games, in response to new strategies that are particularly effective, by embracing them and setting aside older approaches. Some games respond by rebalancing and chan

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