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by dguest 4y ago
Go to an unoccupied mountain hut, drink the beer, eat the food, use the wood for the stove, use the med kit (better to leave the morphine...), sleep in the beds, take some of the local cheese, and then leave your payment in the cookie tin,
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by dguest 4y ago
I'm not sure I have any idea what you're talking about, and I remember the 90s. Do you have a more concrete example, e.g. a picture of these things?
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by dguest 4y ago
Not that I've heard: it's not unusual to have the start of the job delayed by a year or so while someone checks in with everyone you've lived with / worked for for the last 10 years.
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by dguest 4y ago
I assume it can be both: every customer likes free things, and WhatsApp likes having more customers. The existence of Free Basics isn't exactly news, but not all countries that have free WhatsApp have Free Basics.
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by dguest 4y ago
I don't think it's particularly surprising or nefarious for WhatsApp to be paying carriers to become the default messaging client. That's just good business (unless you want to bring things like net neutrality into it). The r
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by dguest 4y ago
I've traveled to a few places where it's impossible to buy a data plan that doesn't include free unlimited WhatsApp messages. I don't really know why this was true, but it made using any other messaging app a non-start
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by dguest 4y ago
No it wasn't static, it felt like the 60 Hz buzz that you only get from touching something connected to the electric grid.
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I worked the lowest paying job in a ski lodge one winter. One day while waiting in the cafeteria line, one hand on the stainless steel counter, I noticed that I got a bit of a shock from the steel railing on the other side. There was also a
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by dguest 4y ago
To answer your second question: no. On a few of the biggest experiments the author list is completely flat and alphabetical. From outside the collaborations there's no way to know who actually wrote the paper or did any of the work des
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by dguest 4y ago
These days Einstein could just put his paper on arXiv and worry about publication later. The physics community goes nuts about arXiv results all the time. There's zero review if you have a university email (or national lab etc). I tend
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by dguest 4y ago
Boring title: "Scientific authors follow more citations when reading modern papers". When I read a modern paper, I skim a lot more of the references. Getting to a cited paper is often just two clicks: there's a reference to t
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by dguest 4y ago
That prevents the rolling, but do they use those to prevent the constant heeling that sailing cross-wind causes? I edited my comment since I guess "sloshing" was the wrong word for a constant incline.
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by dguest 4y ago
I'm trying to understand how a sailing yacht has a pool on the aft deck. Do boats this size not heel much or is there some clever way to prevent all the water pouring out?
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by dguest 4y ago
The US is spending around 1% of its national budget on science, and a minuscule part of that goes to quantum computing. That fraction of the pharaoh's treasury might have payed for one rather entertaining crackpot to build bird-like th
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by dguest 4y ago
It's finite but not explicitly conserved: science funding is around 1% of the US national budget and can change (a bit). In practice you're right, though, usually new funding in one place gets taken from somewhere else. But if the
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by dguest 4y ago
The bigger experiments will routinely burn through tens of millions worth of computing. But 10 million euros isn't much for these experiments. The issue is that they are publicly funded: any country is much happier to build a local com
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by dguest 4y ago
Unfortunately this is usually plotted as momentum vs coupling, which, if you wave your hands around the uncertainty principle enough, is sort of the reciprocal of the same thing. You can find a plot in the preprint: https://arxiv
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by dguest 4y ago
Link to preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01169
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by dguest 4y ago
I assume the other problem is that public key infrastructure doesn't exist in a lot of places, whereas (almost) everyone has a webcam. I had the same thought as many on this thread: all biometric identification is basically an arms rac
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by dguest 4y ago
Actually that's sort of a large correction, thanks for pointing that out. Isn't it a bit of an inversion of the norm in astrophysics? I'd thought many grants included money for telescope time.
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by dguest 4y ago
As others have hinted, the real science is going to be less pretty. For example, some algorithm might filter the raw images and extract objects matching some properties, fit them, and then run every reasonable manipulation of that filter to
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by dguest 4y ago
Everything will be public eventually. There's a bit on the data policy on wikipedia [1] but basically the operations costs are funded (in part) by people paying for telescope time. The project that is currently paying for the telescope
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by dguest 4y ago
Targeting the non-engineering crowd also means they are optimizing for a group that cares less about stability. That allows them to deprecate features, change interfaces, etc. An open source language is inevitably going to attract some main
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by dguest 4y ago
I always assumed it came from big international physics experiments where English is most people's second language. People who learn to program in an expat community are going to pick up some jargon that will sound weird to native Engl
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by dguest 4y ago
It depends on the amount of technical debt in the project. When there's no technical debt, sure, grad students are the backbone. They can happily go about their projects and supervise undergrads, while the postdocs supervise them and a
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by dguest 4y ago
The funding situation around quantum computing is quite strange indeed. Governments want to get a foot in the door for a new high-tech industry, but it also has implications for national security. The few existing quantum computing nerds ar
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by dguest 4y ago
Saudi Arabia alone exported almost $100 billion in crude petroleum in 2020 [1]. That was significantly less than the previous year. Given these scales I'm not really sure $50 billion is a lot of money for the entire world to spend on a
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by dguest 4y ago
The traveling nurse phenomenon is exemplary bureaucratic absurdity. To paraphrase a conversation with a nurse friend: Nurse: It's really hard for us to hold on to our good nurses, we can't afford support staff so they get stressed
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by dguest 5y ago
They seem to be taking issue with the "up or out" mentality of academia, and it's hard to fix academic mentality without talking about it and trying to change people's minds. I don't know how effective it will be, b
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by dguest 5y ago
If we're going to get into it, coding with git makes you more of a trad climber and less like a free soloist. Sometimes you run it out when the going is easy, sometimes you put in some extra protection when it looks sketchy. It'

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