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by dls2016 5y ago
My old man was a Navy nuke turned instrument tech at Three Mile Island... he can go on and on about steam tables. I worked there one refueling outage while lazing about after college. Highlights include: sweeping river muck out of the empty
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Sounds great!
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Stink bugs, gypsy moths, Japanese beetles... I get it. The wave of SLF hit Central PA right as my first grape vines were maturing. But Tree of Heaven is also an invasive species, native to China like the SLF; it's their favorite host p
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I have one in my yard from previous owners, maybe this is the kick I need to cut it down. Maybe replace it with a native mulberry or pawpaw. Still have a few Trees of Heaven that were covered in spotted lantern flies the last two summers (2
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> There is another counter balancing force...numerous other opportunities. The "take it or leave it" attitude strongly insinuates that corporations should be allowed dictatorial control over the manner in which work is complete
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Unions are comprised of large groups of people, and are subject to make the same kinds of "self-serving" mistakes as any other large group of people (like corporations and governments and universities and churches and...). Which i
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James Prigioni (one of the videos in the article) inspired me to start an orchard a few years ago. Hoping to get my first apples and plums this year, as well as a very nice amount of berries. Regarding shade-tolerant plants, I planted two k
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Same as any profession, the reason for the tests is to sort for compliant employees. Check out the book “Disciplined Minds” by Schmidt. https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/01BRrt.html
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I don’t understand how natural origin is your “bias” while everyone else is “jumping to conclusions”. There’s a lack of conclusive evidence for either scenario. And politics aside, SARS has leaked before resulting in deaths… no conspiracy r
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How many SARS lab leaks should we tolerate? It has happened before and killed people and with this attitude will continue to happen. https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/82/6/news.pdf?ua=1
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Not regarding omicron, but SARS viruses have escaped the lab numerous times in the past… even killing people. It’s not like the lab-leak hypothesis is the whackiest idea, some might even say it has a “strong prior”. https://www.n
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Why is a cover up necessary? SARS has leaked from the lab many times before, yet this fact is almost never mentioned in these discussions. The media does plenty of self-censorship. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic
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For anyone out of the loop, his paper "The Rendering Equation" is very readable. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.63....
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Embrace, extend, extinguish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
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Good point, which I didn't appreciate. But I'd argue the pre-programmed gaits are more analogous to "presets" and not samples. To be honest I don't if use of presets falls under the same copyright rules as use of sa
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I finished a NASA SBIR before Thanksgiving with my buddy. Mixed results on the technical end and, after lots of discussions with potential gov/industry customers, we realized the market is probably not big enough if we could productize
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And, to me, creating bones of a character seems a lot like extracting individual hits of a beat. Both allow you to easily re-arrange the original creation. (Let's assume that you own the copyright to the underlying recording in the ReC
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There are thousands of tools out there for automating tedious parts of animation or drawing or video editing or audio production… Where is the complexity? For instance ReCycle was a tool written in the 90s for chopping up a sampled beat (wa
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If the authors of this story would like to help out Mr Markovich, perhaps they should write an article that gets to the point.
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I believe it's more the rampant insider trading that illustrates their selfishness.
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Similar: Libertarian Police Department https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...
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F=ma and you need initial conditions on position and velocity to pin down a trajectory… you can always apply a change of coordinates (e.g. ephemeris) to make computation easier in some specific case.
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> Carmack’s recent “But here we are” speech resonated with me. Watching this right now and all I can think about is Microsoft Bob.
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Somehow we’re supposed to believe that there’s no white supremacy, that mathematics simply lives in a platonic ideal world where it doesn’t matter that so few African America mathematics phds are awarded each year, for instance.
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Thanks, I should really look into this more closely.
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Isn't this kind of the core of Section 230 protection?
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I said “I’ve been worried…” not that the worry is necessarily rational. The worry is based in what I view as weaknesses in human organizations. But it is also based in scenarios outlined by IPCC, so I’m not sure why you’re going on about “t
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In the IPCC case, the report itself says the evidence rules out less than 1C of warming but can't rule out more than 5C of warming by the end of the century. My views are perfectly consistent with the science... it's simply that t
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> This sounds like an odd negotiating tactic in business (or anything): 'I'll take whatever you say, just please don't leave!' Remember the Amazon HQ2 race to the bottom?
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I've always been worried that estimates and predictions in the IPCC reports, for instance, are much too conservative. The reports are averages, in some sense, of thousands of peer-reviewed publications. It's hard to get your publi

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