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by epistasis 2mo ago
They are not similar types of research. It's like asking why Knuth doesn't do systems research for a social network or advertising company. Eddy's lab builds the tooling and concepts that everyone else uses throughout the fie
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by epistasis 2mo ago
It's hard to overstate how chaotic and mismanaged NIH has been in the past two years. Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice, so it's hard to impute motives here. A lot of labs are being defunded for n
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by epistasis 2mo ago
I think we are headed to an era of energy abundance such that the question won't be "how can we use these MWh that would otherwise go to waste" but rather "how can we make sure that these electrolyzers for hydrogen are n
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Yes, because utilities get a fixed rate of profit from grid expenses; but generation costs of electricity are not tied to their profits. Instead, highly distributed generation, and in particular distributed storage, drastically reduce gri
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by epistasis 2mo ago
So you're telling me that < £500 won't be a problem... Perhaps there's an intergalactic mixing service that can be used here to assist in finally solving this hand dryer situation.
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Please don't forget one of his longest standing and most important planks: * move the hand dryer in the Crown & Treaty pub in Uxbridge to a more sensible location. This YouTube video shows just how dire the situation is: https:&#x
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by epistasis 2mo ago
What are campaign finance laws like in the UK? Can he crowdsource this to offset his cost? I live in the US and am a citizen, with no connection to the UK, but this hand dryer situation at the Crown & Treaty really needs attention and n
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Claude Code won't pass my personal Turing Test until I get a lot more "no" and "can't be done" out of it. (For the record, my comment above was in jest, to point out the real experience of humanity in most co
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by epistasis 2mo ago
On the particulars of residential solar deployment, it's the utilities. (And to a degree, the US's completely backwards permitting system which varies by municipality and mostly exists to drive up costs for everything and maintain
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Solar overcapacity is really cheap, because panels are really cheap. Dedicated seasonal energy storage technology doesn't even exist right now, much less economically efficient storage technology. The closest thing would be a massive t
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by epistasis 2mo ago
I'd imagine the difference between flat and curved, in addition to very different wear patterns, and inability to get your desired color. Even slight changes in packaging to adapt the panels to a structural material might increase cost
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by epistasis 2mo ago
What's funny is that Australian-born Rupert Murdoch has been far more effective in the US than in Australia on this front. The propaganda is still going really strong in the US. Talk to the population and 1/3 to 1/2 will ha
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Given the durability of panels, it'd be fascinating to see roof redesigns, and some changes in panel packaging, that standard large rectangles become the basic components of a 30 year roof. Or as siding. I've seen them used vertic
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by epistasis 2mo ago
This is exactly what utility propaganda and PUC manipulation in the US has successfully stopped from happening. From NEM3 in California, to charging a high fixed fee for being on the grid in other areas of the country, utilities have manipu
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by epistasis 2mo ago
On many sessions I have taken to adding an all caps "ANSWER WITH ONE PARAGRAPH ONLY" scream at the end of all my input. It's the only thing that gets results.
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Until an AI does that, it won't be able to pass a Turing test.
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Their contract was with OSS, a company that went defunct, that had apparently been using Iron Mountain underneath.
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by epistasis 2mo ago
"Golf course gunman" was not an attack, but boy did they try to make a standard arrest like it was one. Trump is a uniquely violent president, and polarizing president, that intentionally inflames as much violence as possible in t
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Anybody working in the field will be very familiar with these concepts.
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by epistasis 2mo ago
No, it could not have been titled that. There's no streamlining, there's only bumps. Not a "few" bumps. This is just pure mismanagement, a massive reduction in following of the law, for no apparent cost savings at all.
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by epistasis 2mo ago
It's very important to realize that the rest of the world does not exist in the US's media sphere, and evaluates evidence in a very different way. Talking about how things went for Democrats has ~0 impact on the actual security im
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Yes, and why would they leak it like this when exactly this sort of headline would be the result? You see, it's very weak! That's why you don't let it out! That's my complaint!
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by epistasis 2mo ago
When it comes to national security, appearances matter a ton, and any president that doesn't understand that is putting the US at great risk. Wars are started on appearances not on reality. Everything goes into managing it. The US us
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Making "preemptive security move" to protect against supposed Iranian infiltration is what makes us look weak, when the extent of it is walking into a catering cart and moving to a different plane. "The biggest challenge its
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Zero downsides except looking weak and like a doofus. The US is already looking super weak having given up the Strait to Iran for zero gain, and now begging them to just open the Strait up and publicly signaling that the nuclear demands cou
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by epistasis 2mo ago
The embarrassing thing isn't using an unmarked flight like Clinton did. That's totally normal, and not something I'd find unusual in the least. It's that shuttling around in a catering cart... Why would anybody ever admi
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by epistasis 2mo ago
If true, this is really embarrassing. Have security standards really fallen that far, that we can't protect the US president in a more dignified way? That this story is even out there at all is an embarrassing low point for US competen
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Orca is my main ADE too, but I haven't found any other users! What do you when done with a work tree? Just delete? I wish there was a middle ground of hiding it from the main panel, but keeping it for a week or so just in case I need t
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Oh, I love the idea of a changes walkthrough. Maybe I'm old fashioned but I still look through all the code and prose that gets committed. In Orca, it took me about half an hour to even find the diff view (hidden behind a panel, activa
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by epistasis 2mo ago
The thing that's the real mindfuck for me is group theory. It makes a bit of sense when doing crystallography in the 1830s, because there's obviously symmetry in crystals. Fine. But go ahead 90 years, and you get to Noether's

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