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by earthscienceman 3y ago
I was never big on Sonic Youth but I met Thurston Moore at a poetry reading when he was touring around for his book. I went because a friend suggested. I was in awe at his ease with fans and his general excitement for "the scene".
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
It is the Climax mine. No it's not from the 1800s, and it's still in operation. It has absolutely demolished that section of the mountain range.
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
I have a few questions about computer architecture for you hardware folks. These many core architectures get so complex. I'm a lowly scientist that does some fairly heavy compute in both interpreted languages (python) and compiled lang
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
Can you tell me, with sincere curiosity, how you expect being able to buy modern handguns to make America less violent? I ask as a gun owner.
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
Wait. Does this pass for science in these fields, psychology and medicine? They summarize various statistics from prior papers as if they are trends across space and time (hello sample bias, are there papers that contradict their claims the
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
That is one lens with which to view the situation. But it's a simple lens when inflation is a large forceful re-structuring of the economic pyramid that is impacted by the attempts of central authorities to manage money. Inflation is
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
Well,this is extremely clever and simple. I tried that out from vterm in 29.1 and it crashed emacs...
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
Ummm. It probably depends on the kind of work you do in the terminal but for me it was a game changer. Being able to pull in any of the text from a terminal into a buffer, easily, without copy paste or mouse is a massive game changer for th
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
Wait, I'm confused, because you might have found a solution to something that's bothered me for a long time. I use emacsclient -t as $EDITOR and editor is invoked at a normal emulator, it opens a new buffer in the terminal. Great.
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
FYI, I use vterm with a few custom keys so that it operates exactly as if it were just a standard terminal emulator.
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
If you think that's a strictly historical phenomena you're underestimating how humanity operates. I done research cruises in the Arctic and there was multiple instances of the ships crew not realizing, understanding, or caring abo
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
Everyone here mentions the handpresso but the picopresso is a better design IMO: https://www.wacaco.com/collections/picopresso
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
It is very eesh. But tbf, I would precisely use this for single-drive monthly cold storage backups of a large raid nas for example.
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
This is bizarre to me. Cloud storage kills the need for small drives. So for the individual with modest storage needs, the cloud is relatively inexpensive and thought free. But the moment you get over 2TB the cloud gets extremely expensive.
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
You're being downloaded because "boy" is diminutive in this context. Like real men can't wear small watches. Which is, of course, unnecessary cock sizing.
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
Again, like much of the discussion around Firefox, feature vs bug is in the eye of the beholder. I think the UX of deep links on Firefox is vastly preferable. I hate when a website opens the play store and forceably tells you to install an
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
You're adding important context but I would like to clarify something to highlight just how complex climate change really is. I also am going to make a few related comments, as I do most of my research on melt in Greenland. Full disclo
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
I don't. This is so obscenely flawed in obvious ways. The energy to train the model was used only for model training while the energy used by the baby performed a myriad of tasks including image recognition, and can presumably apply
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
I'm an atmospheric scientist who has written/contributed to papers on cloud microphysics, albeit in the Arctic. I have not directly researched cloud seeding but do have the background to understand the dynamics at play. The answer
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
The negativity in this thread is fascinating and shows just how different expectations from users can be. I've been a KDE user since installing Fedora on a lark right when KDE4 "left beta" which, if the developers were being
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
I would legitimately use this or anything like it as an SSH gateway often. It would be very neat to have. Does anyone know just how bad the version of Devuan they propose using runs, how slow? If you aren't using graphics I assume it&#
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
Woah. This is really an incredible project. I'm currently running a seafile server for this purpose but it really isn't all that great and I keep debating going back to simple SFTP. Using your frontend would be a great addon. Very
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
I could help you there if you'd like.
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
Hackers would probably also love to consider that a lot of hardware that has code that depends on lat/lon for internal calculations can have all sorts of weird problems. When you are exactly at the pole longitude can switch from +180 t
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
It's both intense and the most boring thing you could imagine. Picture day after day in a tractor traveling across a white landscape with another tractor in front and another tractor behind. I have only traveled such things by snowmobi
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
I love when HN commenters get out of water on topics. The GRACE retreivals to reconstruct mass changes for "mascons" that are several hundred kilometers in width\height take a month of static overpasses and incredible mathematics
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
Errrr. Journalism. Yikes. This happens to be precisely one of the research topics I study, sea ice energy feedbacks and constraints. Two prominent sea ice physicists have gone through the effort to directly debunk this because it's suc
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
Jedberg. I've called you and them out on this before. There are HackerNews comments from '08 and '09 where the astroturfing and fake accounts are openly mentioned. Don't make me go through the effort to dig them up. As f
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
This is a nice time to remind everyone that Aaron Swartz died while fighting for a freer internet and a freer world. He is, by Paul Graham, considered a founder of reddit but is rarely mentioned in these stories. Instead of trying to go for
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by earthscienceman 3y ago
They spammed posts and comments with fake accounts to fake growth until it caught on and then talked about it on HackerNews ...

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