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by hwbehrens 4y ago
I typically open the comments first before I read the article, so that I can more easily preserve the link between content and discussion by opening the article from the comments page. Thank you for limiting my "Nooooo..." to only
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
In case you are wondering what this does (like I was), Wikipedia states "This bill is designed to solve [American dependence on China] by reducing reliance on Chinese manufacturing of semiconductors and increasing America's scient
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
My meter was working perfectly until I read the parent comment, at which point it measured off the scale and promptly broke.
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
Here is a nice little discussion about this exact topic: http://talkingplants.blogspot.com/2019/09/botanic-or-botanic... It seems to be a historical and cultural artifact?
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
By default, you can use Zotero without logging in, which will cause it to keep everything locally. It's not obvious how you might go about partially syncing to the cloud, however. In practice, though you shouldn't store the SQLite
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
I like the idea, and it's definitely an under-served market. One comment off the bat: it's not at all clear to me what is the division between the free version and the "Grow" tier. I might be in the minority on this, but
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
I am only moderately not a biologist, but this seems essentially correct -- vaccines are trying to address false negatives, but allergies are (in theory) caused by false positives. The mechanics of T cell training in the thymus for self&#
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
My wife and I share a single Spotify account, so when she's listening, I switch to the free tier of Amazon Music. I wonder if that counts toward that 13%?
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
> People need work to feel fulfilled. While you're likely to get skewered for this line, I think it's because of a mismatch in vocabulary that is being ignored. The "work" in antiwork is usually referring to paid em
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
Moisture interactions are usually a key consideration for nearly all building materials, but it doesn't seem to be considered here at all. They mentioned space a lot, but there's not a lot of water in space... What structural comp
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
The parent's loyalty isn't to the company, it's to their direct reports (I assume). After you've been shielding people from the shitstorm for long enough, it can feel very difficult to fold up your umbrella and leave. Ev
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
I downvoted your parent comment not because I didn't catch your meaning, but because I didn't think it contributed meaningfully to the conversation (basically, a throw-away 'ha ha' comment). Elaborating on your perspecti
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
If pigs (or any animal) broaden the compatibility to other organs, what are the ethical implications for raising them with the intention to harvest their organs, if any? On one hand, we already raise pigs to kill and eat routinely, and (mos
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
> they're impossible to shut down They're impossible to shut down without (potentially) affecting innocent bystanders. If they don't care, they absolutely can and do shut down towers. In this case, if they judge anyone b
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
As a counterexample, this [0] was a paper that I read and summarized for some colleagues a while back. It's fairly related to my area of expertise, so I didn't find it too bad -- maybe a couple of hours to grok it and do a write-u
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
It also ignores that if you booked a trip to a place, you likely did so because you want to go to that place . Thus, if you were forced to cancel your trip due to a conflict, it is implicitly more likely that you would book a trip there ag
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
You might also check out the Dygma Raise, which follows a similar vein as the Moonlander but keeps the staggered layout.
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
> probably the same thing These things, which are usually things like diabetes, blood sugar problems, high blood pressure, elevated cortisol and so on, do correlate with poorer COVID outcomes. My understanding is that, even when you c
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
> I thought we were supposed to have each other's back, There are 3 to 4 million devs in the US alone -- with a sample of that size, you'll get the full spectrum of people. Heck, you'd probably find some that like that
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
> It is also hard to convince people to do a ground up rewrite of code that is seemingly working fine. I think this is an understatement, considering that it's a core cryptographic library. It appears to have gone through at least
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
> On the resume part, fill up your resume/LinkedIn profile. I've been told the opposite -- in the recruiter view on LinkedIn, they can only see your 3 most-recent positions, and they almost never expand the fold to see the re
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
The denominator of the death rate is not COVID cases, it is total population. If the number of COVID cases drops, even if mortality remains constant, then the death rate will also see a concomitant drop. When compared to a graph of the dail
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
While I agree with the author in principle, I think there is an implicit criteria they ignore, which is the intuitive correctness from the perspective of the user. Imagine a user chooses "Sort by rating", and they subsequently obs
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
> Owning the name of a common adjective seems dubious to me. It's like naming your company "big." Or "Uber"?
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
Actually, one recent work on n-body gravitational methods found that "nuclear explosives remain an indispensable element of the planetary defense portfolio." [0] In particular, although these dispersion methods (as you pointed out
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
Wow, I totally forgot about that period. I recall that I used to plug in my laptop when I arrived at my desk, then remove the battery to ensure that it was running exclusively on wall power in an effort to improve battery health. I never
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
I'm personally most interested in the typing and debugging improvements, but I imagine most people will be looking forward to the pattern matching (case statements).
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Python 3.10(docs.python.org)
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
> Why is transparency a problem here? > The person doing orders of magnitude more work is probably only getting paid 10% more. You've answered your own question. Transparency is undesirable from an employer's perspective bec
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by hwbehrens 5y ago
> The fact that even Beijing isn't taking that path should show how extreme it is. I think they absolutely are taking that path with their recent push towards the eYuan. If they want to replace Alipay with their nationalized, cent

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