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by hyperrail 2y ago
The original academic article: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00702-3 S. Jay Olshansky et al., "Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century", Nature Aging (2024) Open
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Don't expect human life expectancy to grow much more, researcher says(apnews.com)
5 points by hyperrail 2y ago|1 comments
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by hyperrail 2y ago
Indeed, I have heard that at least early versions of Finale had painfully unmaintainable code that severely slowed its development. This supposedly was/is in part because Finale's original author Phil Farrand [1] was a musician tu
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by hyperrail 2y ago
These news reports quote responses from other interested groups like the New York Police Department itself, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and ShotSpotter, Inc.: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/news/n
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by hyperrail 2y ago
Fringe benefits not specifically excepted are also taxable wage income in the United States, but I don't think employers are forced to gross them up at the highest marginal tax rate or are otherwise discouraged from giving them out in
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by hyperrail 3y ago
The same place you download the x86 build: visualstudio.com See: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/arm64-visual-stu...
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Numbered Musical Notation(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by hyperrail 3y ago|1 comments
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by hyperrail 3y ago
Personal story: Some of my relatives in Thailand play the piano or electronic keyboard as a hobby. Almost all their "sheet" music score books are printed in this notation, but some of my western friends didn't realize it was
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by hyperrail 3y ago
Part of a series summarizing a law review article by the same author: Nicholas J. Nugent, The Five Internet Rights - https://nugent.s3.amazonaws.com/public/Nugent+-+The+Five+Int... (previously posted to HN but with n
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How can the state prevent Internet “viewpoint foreclosure”?(reason.com)
2 points by hyperrail 3y ago|1 comments
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by hyperrail 3y ago
Today's The Daily WTF is very direct, usually just one intro paragraph and then the wacky code or process. Maybe more your speed?
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by hyperrail 3y ago
It's interesting: as of when this comment was posted, 3, and maybe 4 of the 5 claimed Microsofties in this comment thread (including myself) aren't the best fans of these ethics training videos. Which is definitely not a common op
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by hyperrail 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UyHHsCmtoc <-- This local TV news story includes clips that give a bit of a taste of these Microsoft ethics training videos.
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by hyperrail 3y ago
I find these Microsoft ethics training videos quite cheesy, but I appreciate that they try to keep your attention by falling into neither of the buckets you mentioned. The originally linked news story goes into that quite a bit. As an alter
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by hyperrail 3y ago
You can always go back and watch the old videos - I think that you're expected to anyway, unlike the pre-Nelson SBC trainings. CELA figures the policies being taught don't change that much, so they no longer repeat all the materia
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by hyperrail 4y ago
> if the error message suggests a change, one of the risks is that such an edit can make the error go away, but the code will not be correct. [...] "Error messages: diagnostic is preferable to prescriptive" [1] is a riff on a
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by hyperrail 4y ago
The Financial Times had an interesting, and more optimistic, take on this a few months ago: Is US Industrial Policy Undergoing Japanification? - https://www.ft.com/content/5c2f8bd2-e586-435c-9a0c-2ec165521... (archiv
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by hyperrail 4y ago
Yup, Northstar lets you self-host multiplayer servers for Titanfall 2, with non-standard game modes, settings, and map rotations. And with the Northstar client (modded TF|2 app) you can access a server browser for Northstar servers, so you
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by hyperrail 4y ago
Oh, that's great to hear that Titanfall 2 runs on Steam Deck (apart from that crashing/over-syncing problem). I'm guessing you own the game on Steam and not from EA/Origin? Are you using the base game or Northstar? If No
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by hyperrail 4y ago
I like Raymond Chen's formulation of this point: > Good advice comes with a rationale so you can tell when it becomes bad advice. If you don't understanding why something should be done, then you've fallen into the trap o
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by hyperrail 4y ago
Archive.today link: https://archive.ph/A1M2G
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Nonprofit Hospitals Put Up Obstacles to Help Needy Patients(wsj.com)
2 points by hyperrail 4y ago|1 comments
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by hyperrail 4y ago
> It's almost as if the C-64 were the favorite tool for writers, and Commodore still made it just because of that. Many lawyers in America still use WordPerfect, and I suspect Corel still makes and updates it for that reason :-) I
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by hyperrail 4y ago
I think English just refers to the language for the package labels and manual. Nothing to do with the calculator itself.
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by hyperrail 4y ago
I'm having some trouble understanding what note-taking systems the author is attacking. There are some hints: > Getting lost in your knowledge management system is a fantastic way to avoid creating things. > All of the above a
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by hyperrail 4y ago
Take note that the map is partly based on opinion: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/About/WhatistheUSDM.aspx > Who draws the map? > Several authors from the NDMC, NOAA and USDA create the map. They take turns, u
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by hyperrail 4y ago
https://www.coloradoexcluded.com/ <- last year, when this requirement began, several companies started refusing to accept job applications from Colorado residents to avoid having to post salary ranges, and someone made t
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by hyperrail 4y ago
It's also possible that you could be working in a department that focuses on writing bug fixes for released versions of Windows, instead of writing features and fixes for the next version. The bug-fix department will often be called so
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by hyperrail 4y ago
Salaried office workers receive far poorer wage and hour protections in the U.S. than you may be used to. Overtime above 40 hours per week is often unpaid, as is the case at Microsoft, and no amount of paid vacation is guaranteed by law. (W
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by hyperrail 4y ago
I think what I meant to say is that sometimes even telemetry and logging is unavailable to you. In my example, you might ask for more dumps for your Windows component or Microsoft first-party app on Watson Portal / Get More Data, but e

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