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by contrarian1234 1y ago
They forgot to check if it correlates with shark attacks They checked so many things I'm surprised it didn't match something just by accident (it's still a fun exercise :)) mostly just teasing)
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
I think the scientific community has done just fine. When these individual substances are tested they're by and large not found to have negative health effects. Then the loonies just refuse to believe it and thing the chemicals are mak
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
Seems like a typical blanket baseless unscientific attack of everything deemed "unnatural". Lots of the typical insane stuff, sugar is okay, but "Nonnutritive sweeteners" are not. Spices are okay, but MSG is not. Just a
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
I'm sure it's vastly different field to field - so I'm kind of hesitant to make too many blanket statements. I'd assume the "unknown unknowns" element is where your advisor would come in and tell you what you n
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
tldr: Courses are fundamentally for young adults that can't manage their own time.. My anecdotal experience was that courses are sort of idiotic at the PhD level. The course work is incredibly distracting from your research and project
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
super interesting! thanks
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
> As shown time and again what a load of warmongering bs.. I literally can't think of a single example. Korea, Vietnam, France, Britain, Japan, Germany every country involved in a war in the past ~100 years had prepared for it. Mayb
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
Oh very cool. Easel looks very interesting :)) I also over the years.. I've sort of come to terms with .. maybe I'm not super great at programming? I've been programming Clojure for ~6 years for my personal project. And I sti
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
Are they still a factor? I thought they quickly were put out of the picture once drone warfare was ironed out. Haven't heard of tanks in Ukraine for the past couple of years
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
War with China.. ya'll are nuts. The American zeitgeist is completely poisoned and insane. Listening to this stuff from the outside is kind of horrifying. War with a nuclear armed country ends with a nuclear winter for the whole planet
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
> Elisp is relatively straightforward and unambiguous PL - far less complicated than even JS or Python, it really doesn't take too long to get to know it. > Maybe try suspending your language preferences for just a month. Write s
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
According to Wiki Falcon 9 was announced in 2005 First launch in 2010 By the third flight they were delivering to the ISS Starship .. it's a bit unclear when they started designing it b/c they kept changing the design. But It&#x27
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
yeah, that's exactly where I didn't want to end up. I want my constellation of tools to be as interoperable as possible. I don't want to be locked in to the Emacs universe - hoping some greybeard makes a package for whatever
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
The development timeline has been so strange. Falcon 9 was made so quickly compared to Starship. I would have expected a working rocket would have been quick - especially given they have a wealth of experience making the first one. And then
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
Orgmode is what got me to stick with Emacs for a long time. Used it for years for static webpages, but eventually moved to Asciidoc. I think the fundamental issue is that having your markup language tied to an editor is .. insane? (yeah I
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
i have zero background in this topic.. but if i were to guess there are >100x more ceramic kilns than there are bronze smelters if some people chucked random ores into ceramic kilns, maybe one would get out some iron slag and then iterat
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
no, not at all. in asia many many international professors and postdocs work 100% in English. Its the norm. Extremely rare to meet the exception. Many dont even have a conversational grasp of the local language Even if you aquire the local
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
nowhere in the article do they claim its the oldest iron... they just had a theory that copper processing lead to discoveries in iron processing. the evidence they found seems to support that. theyre not claiming this particular site is whe
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
i dont know anything about how these companies are run, but couldnt it simply be their engineers were busy working on other projects? i assume there is a limited talent pool of the required people
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
Most academic topics have near-zero applicability to industry. A classmate just got her PhD on some paleoclimate records of biomarkers in permafrost. It's not a job. If you love the topic and do research in it.. then awesome. Otherwise
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
> still postdoc 10 years after getting his Ph.D I think this is just a matter of what position you want. A classmate of mine wrote one paper on machine learning (he basically barely know how to run the Python to train some ancient neural
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
They seem a bit more careful when it comes to political stats or economic figures. I enjoy their Behind the Stats podcast: https://www.bbc.com/audio/series/p02nrss1 (though also often sloppy) I think b/c poli
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
This is why there is a global crisis of confidence in science. B/c science is constantly portrayed as a tool to push agendas and policies (that are maybe even necessary) and not an exploration of facts. It's done so blatantly and
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
> Was it to demonstrate that the BBC‘s grasp of botany is poor? Sure, that's one way to put it. If you don't know the topic you're reporting on, then maybe don't report on it? I'm not a botanist, and I can smell
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
It's totally possible climate change has caused it a lot more viable to growing rice in the UK. I don't want to say they're lieing. I'm not some agricultural specialist to argue with them. But the way it's reported
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
> We often think of rice as a tropical plant, but it does grow in colder climates. ..? Is Japan and Korea tropical for the British? The BBC seems to love to ram in a climate change narrative in every possible hole it can find. While it&#
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
> department/university might have its own template/document class of arbitrary complexity I think there is a limit to how complex they can be. If you can't do it relatively easily in Word, then it's probably going to
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
While there are formatting guidelines, I've never seen them so specific that you could only easily do it in Latex. Is that really common? I've never actually see it as the assumed default option.. Maybe a decade back I could see t
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
i think when it comes to big picture stuff it makes sense that everyone has proportionate input. just bc you care a lot, doesnt mean you should have more say just make your opinion, cast your vote and let other people make their own decisio
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by contrarian1234 1y ago
i assume caring and acting here you mean in the context of larger issues. bc effort spent on your immediate world definitely does change reality there is no mechanism past voting to change the big picture. Nor should there be. The person g

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