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by iterance 1y ago
Yes, tungsten. Oops
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by iterance 1y ago
Several friends and I have been tossing around the idea of sending a solid billet of osmium in a small flat rate box, matching its size. "One rate, any weight," right? Sadly this experiment would cost in the high tens of thousands
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by iterance 1y ago
The primary difference is that CVE was unexpectedly killed by the US Government yesterday and the program terminates today.
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by iterance 2y ago
I am not sure I entirely understand the game. In typical Fermi questions, the goal is to arrive at the appropriate order of magnitude. In this game, the order of magnitude appears to be provided for you. The extrema are ~220k and ~1.8M for
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by iterance 2y ago
Firefighting in the US is not (generally?) done by private corporations.
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by iterance 2y ago
> Wikipedia could fund Oka or other organizations. It's possible, though I do not know if this is sufficient to cover their legal risk in this scenario. Likely it would require analysis of details beyond what could be reasoned throu
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by iterance 2y ago
There are labor law concerns. It is very unwise to be paying people to do for you what others do for you for free. As the boundary between a volunteer and employee blurs, the difference between paid and unpaid labor must remain clear and we
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by iterance 2y ago
For what it's worth, very few locations and processing styles result in significant doses of fluoride in tea. Within the United States, these types of tea are not typically consumed. For example, Tibetan brick tea is consistently high
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by iterance 2y ago
Frankly the commit message is usually the important thing. I care about why a change happened. Give me a Jira ticket, or a line of reasoning, or some documentation. I need to know this far more often than I care who literally typed the co
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by iterance 2y ago
To provide a little grounding for the author's writing, most novelists don't publish until their 40s or later. Most young novelists who publish don't publish anything that sells until their 40s, too. Which isn't to disco
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by iterance 2y ago
Imagine also knowing that if you don't teach your language, few else can, and fewer will.
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by iterance 2y ago
Modern physics has actually done it quite well. This is because the core of many physics concepts revolve around general principles which can be taught directly or by example. A modern undergraduate education in classical mechanics teaches
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by iterance 2y ago
Nine missed meals.
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by iterance 2y ago
Edit: Incorrect. Original comment: Any plane crash in the US is unusual and significant.
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by iterance 2y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. I guess I just don't worry about it that much these days. What you're describing - the fear of overburdening or burning bridges, the uncertainty about what I can give back - I dunno. I had that, at one poin
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by iterance 2y ago
Anecdotally I'd say I can't imagine living with like, one or two people I turn to for emotional support. Would be a nightmare. I know probably 20 or 30 people I could turn to if I needed something, even just to vent. I wouldn&#x27
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by iterance 2y ago
meh. you're probably right. I edited and distilled it down to the main point. I just wish it were a nonprofit at the end of the day, I guess. It would've been the right thing to do. That he chose not to makes me sad. That he was r
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by iterance 2y ago
True enough. I guess it's probably not beyond saving, either. It does have a pretty good core idea.
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by iterance 2y ago
Would that it had been a public benefit corporation or nonprofit; maybe I would still be contributing today.
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by iterance 2y ago
Are you guessing, or are there results somewhere that demonstrate how LLMs improve OCR in practical applications?
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by iterance 2y ago
It's also not necessarily the case that we can reinstate old burn practices successfully. Zero-fire policies and climate change have made it harder to run prescription burns. And when we do, these fires today burn hotter, larger, and m
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by iterance 2y ago
Eh? Unless otherwise specified, corporations satisfy the definition of a person across all federal laws per 1 USC §1, which reads: "the words “person” and “whoever” include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, so
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by iterance 2y ago
You're right in the short term, but in the long term (decade+), the home and corporate markets are symbiotic. People buy for the office the tools they expect employees to be comfortable and familiar with. It's not the only factor
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by iterance 2y ago
Huh? You absolutely still need sales people even with a market leading product. It sells itself, sure, but someone needs to work with the client and close the best possible deal.
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by iterance 2y ago
A bit funny to quote "chop wood, carry water." In this context "enlightenment" must be taken to mean "earning a shitload of money."
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by iterance 2y ago
This seems unnecessarily negative. Teaching analogies don't need to perfectly resemble the system being taught. From a pedagogical perspective, the aim is typically to relate something unfamiliar to something familiar, like water flowi
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by iterance 2y ago
Well, I don't think it's safe to say natural numbers "are" sets, but surely they are isomorphic to some collection of sets (and this allows them to be modeled as sets within set theory). The important part about the cons
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by iterance 2y ago
Ah. Me, too.
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by iterance 2y ago
That quote isn't real; it was a metaphor Rutherford purportedly once used, posthumously recalled by John Bernal. It was incorrectly converted into a direct quotation by later writers. But even then, you're misunderstanding the quo
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by iterance 2y ago
It's a famous Henry Ford quote actually. "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said smarter rats."

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