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by jancsika 1y ago
> Of the 40 students enrolled in her popular introduction to real estate course, Pugh said she’d normally drop three to five from her roster who don’t start the course or make contact with her at the start of the semester. Key word: &quo
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Here's a fun thought-experiment: imagine that NASA began with the truism that tardigrades are the best fit candidates for astronauts[1]. They put all their effort and money into robotics and tech to support little tardigrade colonies o
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> No wonder that newspapers don't cite others... That's just an advertisement for their competitor. Just read the CBS article linked by the author. As she mentions it always cited WaPo. And it now it properly cites her, too: &q
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by jancsika 1y ago
> Yuck all round. Yes, but also it's an impressive digital Jedi mind trick on a website. signs a question mark with hand "This is the support number you're looking for." And the victim is extra primed here because s
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> Signal’s encryption algorithm is fine. At least in the case of the leak the culprit was the UX, no? Suppose a user wants the following reasonable features (as was the case here): 1. Messages to one's contacts and groups of contact
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> "do everything at once, without taking the time to do it right" Testing tariffs in realtime is nothing like, say, fuzzing idempotent methods in a framework. It is a lot more like testing sending out spam from a set of static
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> an obscure new thing that had come up Since you've provided no explicit counter-evidence, I'm gonna go ahead and say I have four nines of accuracy in predicting that your smartphone was squarely in the dependency chain of any
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by jancsika 2y ago
> It's the equivalent of fixing a spelling error in a novel, or a wrong chord in sheet music. Your analogies don't pass a simple self-check-- they are vastly different in scope. At worst a spelling error will create a single al
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by jancsika 2y ago
> An “interval” is a combination of two notes. Minor nitpick: it's a "dyad" that is a combination of two notes. An "interval" is the difference between two (or more) pitches. And just as you'd measure the sp
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Regarding #2 through #7: they are all true and important. I'm aware of different efforts over the years to address some of them, but they are all definitely active problems. Regarding #1-- is it possible you have a drinking problem?
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> I’m buying investment cropland on the cheap from idiots who voted for him to trash their livelihoods. I don't understand this sentence. Are you saying you are researching sellers' voting records, then buying the farms of the
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by jancsika 2y ago
> Surely it doesn't really start until the first note is played? That question itself is built on a radical assumption. Example: Just skimming, it looks like 38 out of 48 of the fugues from Bach's WTC Books 1 & 2 begin with
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> My favorite everyday olive oil comes from Tunisia. They now have a 38% tariff on them. "Silver lining:" there's a good chance that oil was either rancid or doesn't pass basic quality tests for the "extra-virgin
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> They also looked at a very limited time window. They also note that some teachers weren’t using the air filters. To correct and clarify: They also looked at a very limited time window. They also note that -- after this very limited tim
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Here's what I'm hearing: How would you design a Forth interpreter to encourage more people to solve actual problems with it? :)
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> whereas any writer in Hollywood will try to introduce it as early as possible I like the Lynch version of this in Lost Highway: 1. Conflict: someone sent us a video of the outside of our house. 2. Rising Conflict: oh no, now they sent
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> By the way, the FOIA process certainly has a cost which needs to be optimized out... Meaning 1: Republicans might very well try to get rid of a democratic check on power under the cover of "reducing waste" and that is bad and
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by jancsika 2y ago
> Increase in takeout is an increase in efficiency for each line cook and emnployee. There's also a kind of precarious food-business "art" going on behind your anecdote that follows the sentence I quoted (long line, but &q
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by jancsika 2y ago
Never heard of Manifold. Judging only from your posts on this thread I'm going to guess it's something like astrology but for data scientists. Am I close?
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They did, it is worth watching, and it most definitely does not make the claim that Keller scuttled the story because he wanted GW to win the election. I've never heard anyone except user Luma at the top of this HN thread make that c
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by jancsika 2y ago
Even Chomsky has said that you could read the NYT from back to front to partially counteract the bias toward cozying up to power. (I.e., the stories that show bias in favor of U.S. govt are the ones at the front that are most prominently pl
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by jancsika 2y ago
> Firefox has severely lacked support for hardware "connections" and has been unfriendly for developers for a long time, so I simply stopped using it (one of the reasons). How many devices are you setting up per day? I just can
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by jancsika 2y ago
> Beethoven The mythical rivalry should be with Beethoven, not Mozart! True tidbits: * Beethoven actually referred to Salieri as his "most active opponent" (Solomon's translation) * Salieri criticized Beethoven's oper
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> That certainly is just a Sewer TV inspection van! Hee hee, I can hear the NSA now: "Dammit, who parked a sewer inspection van in the middle of our massive surveillance network?!?" Back on the topic of indiscriminate wide-net
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> I started programming with C a long time ago, and even now, every few months, I dream of going back to those roots. It was so simple. You wrote code, you knew roughly which instructions it translated to, and there you went! Related-- I
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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724 Notice that Apple admits it did this, for the date that makes sense for what the user is claiming. The only debate point is whether they actually did it for the reason of tr
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(Re)-Read their story[1]-- they were fighting to publish the refutation as the first chapter of their dissertation . They wanted to publish no matter what. Given that, choose your sword: 1. Grad Sword that must be approved by a dissertatio
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> Instead, they repeatedly suggested that a scientific criticism of a published paper had no place in a dissertation Why not a) finish the dissertation as soon as humanly possible, and b) now that you're bona fide , publish a sepa
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Thanks, I'll check that one out.
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Speaking of techniques-- I remember that Disney's Snow White being a kind of pastiche of different art styles and physics. The Fleischer Snow White, too, with the rotoscoping of Cab Calloway vs. all the bouncy, stretchy characters (all

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