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by darthoctopus 1y ago
As an intermediate alternative between a hardware keyboard and a graphical symbol picker, I use an .XCompose file with contents that look like this: # GREEK <Multi_key> <g> <A> : "Α" U0391 # GRE
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by darthoctopus 2y ago
why is this downvoted? the specific cities (notably in Arizona) that have taken deliberate action on this are exceptions proving the general rule that light pollution is demonstrably less of a policy concern even compared to the notorious A
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by darthoctopus 2y ago
this is not a conclusion that he jumps to! all that is stated is that there is a mapping from every pair of points on a curve to a set of 3D coordinates specified by their midpoints and distances. there is no requirement for uniqueness here
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by darthoctopus 2y ago
given the audience here, there's almost certainly an element of denial of complicity in this
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by darthoctopus 2y ago
This is valid (if somewhat obscure) notation for decimal dates in particular, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
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by darthoctopus 2y ago
There's healthy skepticism about vaccine side effects, and then there are these antics: > On 11 January 2023, Bridgen had the Conservative whip suspended after tweeting about COVID-19 vaccines: "As one consultant cardiologist s
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by darthoctopus 2y ago
is pissing certain people off your primary consideration in deciding how you educate your kids?
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by darthoctopus 2y ago
thanks for the script!
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by darthoctopus 2y ago
> The private sector funds most global research and development, and many of the results of such work are not published in peer-reviewed journals. We at Nature think it’s important that journals engage with the private sector and work wi
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
Why not both? Green spaces and buildings are necessities insofar as they provide important amenities for mental health, pollution/heat island management, and placemaking, and in this sense they are critical infrastructure. But many cit
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
The "representation" in "representation theory" that the wikipedia article refers to is a term of art, referring to a class of one-to-one maps between groups (sets endowed with a binary operation with specific properties
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
> Fears that the experiment would engender laziness in participants were not borne out in the project’s findings: “The ‘laziness’ contention is just not supported by our findings,” the chief data analyst of one of the experiments said. “
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
[2021]
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
about time
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
how is this substantially different from the current situation, where people are able to simply purchase influence? At least banning paid lobbying has the advantage of forcing the wealthy to spend time rather than money. Everyone has only 2
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
Nope, you're not imagining things. The article actually quite wrong here: kilonovae are so named because they yield ~1000 times the peak luminosity of classical novae (~1e8 Lsun vs ~1e5 Lsun), not supernovae. For that matter, supernova
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/world/middleeast/afghanis... > It was in the waning days of November 2001 that Taliban leaders began to reach out to Hamid Karzai, who would soon become the int
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
Not OP, but right now my biggest unfulfilled use cases are: - global keybindings (e.g. I would like variations on super+space with extra modifiers to trigger different behaviours in an application launcher, Kupfer) - remote control (x2x) --
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
read the article. literally the first few paragraphs: > In the 1980s, tobacco giants Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds acquired the major food companies Kraft, General Foods and Nabisco, allowing tobacco firms to dominate America’s food su
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
anecdata, but at least in my grad school astro department (which will go unnamed) this kind of bullying behaviour would be, and actually was, called out and ostracised, rather than rewarded! granted, it took a whole year for the university
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
Not mentioned in the article, but pretty widely circulated in the astronomy community when it happened, is Avi's utterly disrespectful and frankly uncalled for vituperation onto Jill Tarter in response to her public criticism of his (s
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
previous discussion of these problems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30895307 > The real problem is the Numerical Recipes license, which is extremely restrictive - probably more so than most users realize. I won&#
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
it is for precisely not resorting to these dirty tactics that ProPublica is considered the gold standard.
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by darthoctopus 3y ago
should there be a statute of limitations on ecological catastrophe? that seems like it would strongly, and perversely, incentivise cover-ups and other nefarious weaponisations of information asymmetry against the interests of the commons.
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by darthoctopus 4y ago
For some context: the author, Benny Ferencz, was the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg war crimes trials (in the aftermath of WWII). He passed away just a couple days ago on April 7th.
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by darthoctopus 4y ago
[2017]
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by darthoctopus 4y ago
that is, to proponents of the LVT, a feature, not a bug: it discourages rent-seeking, thereby incentivising other uses (e.g. actually living in the property).
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by darthoctopus 4y ago
While we're on the topic of Bambi, here's an excerpt from its wikipedia article: > The copyrights for Bambi, a Life in the Woods were inherited by Anna Wyler, Salten's daughter, who renewed them in 1954. After her death, W
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by darthoctopus 4y ago
> simultaneously expensive and highly profitable
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by darthoctopus 4y ago
Indeed. My personal pet theory is that this combination (expensive + unprofitable) might have been why so many early pioneers of computing were female in the first place.

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