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by jeffwass 2y ago
Dish is evil. Years ago when signed up with them I opted to pay the extra service for local tv channels, which required an andditional antenna to install. For some reason the installer couldn’t fit it securely on our house, and said to call
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Mirror Cells – 'A Second Tree of Life' – Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn(nytimes.com)
4 points by jeffwass 2y ago|4 comments
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New publisher Spines aims to use AI to publish 8k books in 2025(thebookseller.com)
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by jeffwass 2y ago
As a former physicist (PhD in Experimental condensed matter physics), I have to ask WTF? I get the importance of AI development, but Physics?
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by jeffwass 2y ago
US Residents? What about US Citizens living abroad?
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by jeffwass 2y ago
One of my old physics professors said something similar - there are only three numbers in the world - 0, 1, and infinity. No wait, zero is just one divided by infinity, so there are only two numbers, zero and one. So if the answer is not ze
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by jeffwass 2y ago
That’s awesome! Did you connect with the Italy station before the EME to see if they could hear you, or did you just broadcast out into the void hoping for a listener somewhere else?
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Sycamore Gap: Iconic tree being 'regrown' in secret lab(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by jeffwass 2y ago|0 comments
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by jeffwass 2y ago
And on a similar note : Pi seconds is a nanocentury!
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Microplastics Discovered in Human Penises for the First Time(cnn.com)
21 points by jeffwass 2y ago|5 comments
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The Life, Death and Rebirth of an A.I.-Generated News Outlet(nytimes.com)
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by jeffwass 2y ago
I saw this article on NY Times this morning. It is a provocative title, but the author Alina Chan seems legit. She’s a molecular biologist who recently completed her postdoc at the Broad Institute at Harvard & MIT, studying the genetic
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Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points(nytimes.com)
13 points by jeffwass 2y ago|3 comments
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by jeffwass 2y ago
Actually the crazy part was finding my friends at 3 AM after walking a few miles in the dark from the concert grounds to where we parked the car, with only a rough sense of where I was going. Amazingly we found each other! On the way in, a
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by jeffwass 2y ago
I had a similar experience at Woodstock '94, though the level of violence was certainly much lower than at ‘99. (I just wrote up a huge expose on my experience, but the comment was waayyyy too long to put here, so i'm just putting
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by jeffwass 2y ago
As the father of a deaf girl who had cochlear implant surgery a few years ago, I despise these videos for misleadingly representing the reality of the situation for most patients. Those videos you mention are designed to invoke “happy-fee
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by jeffwass 2y ago
Worthwhile to note that an alternative magnetic microscopy technique called MFM (Magnetic Force Microscopy) has been around for at least a few decades now, with resolutions down to 10 nm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by jeffwass 2y ago
This. You can avoid 99% of all phone scams by never giving personal information out on an unsolicited call. Regardless of what the caller’s phone number appears as. A legit caller won’t care if you call back yourself.
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Confronting pro-Kremlin troll on false claims Jewish student was Sydney killer(bbc.com)
4 points by jeffwass 3y ago|0 comments
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by jeffwass 3y ago
You can also hit right button and say “windshield wipers Speed 2” or similar. But yeah it’s weird to have to do that as half the time Auto doesn’t pick the “right” speed in the rain. Either too fast or too slow.
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Will Stonehenge lose its Unesco World Heritage status?(bbc.com)
2 points by jeffwass 3y ago|1 comments
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Insurers Reap Hidden Fees by Slashing Payments. You May Get the Bill(nytimes.com)
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Obligatory Far Side cartoon from 38 years ago : https://ifunny.co/picture/the-far-side-by-gary-larson-thy-pr...
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Orange Steam Funnels Are a New York Symbol. What Are They For?(nytimes.com)
2 points by jeffwass 3y ago|0 comments
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by jeffwass 3y ago
“Getting Started In Electronics” by Forrest Mims. Start from there. http://www.forrestmims.org/publications.html
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Below quote from your wiki link. I’m not a graphics guy, but would appreciate if someone with experience in computer graphics could please give an example of this common problem. “A common problem in computer graphics is to generate a non-z
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Regarding drinking from streams, back in the mid-90’s I did a camping/hiking excursion with Outward Bound in the Appalachians of North Carolina. We sourced all our drinking water from streams, using concentrated iodine to make the wate
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We Asked A.I. To Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image(nytimes.com)
5 points by jeffwass 3y ago|8 comments
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by jeffwass 3y ago
Back in the late 90’s when I was looking for a job out of college, I gave a resume to a company, and they called me up for a first round interview and mentioned a few keywords from my resume that were of interest, but some of those keywords
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by jeffwass 3y ago
A few years ago I met an author who was switching from self-pub to traditional pub for one of his books (usually this is tough to do, traditional publishers typically won't touch a book that started off as self-published). His take wen

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