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by jp57 3y ago
One point he doesn't bring up is that this could be an evolutionary selection event. As wealth, education, birth control, and abortion make it possible for women to choose whether or not to have children many are choosing to have zero
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by jp57 3y ago
Seems like you could accomplish the same thing more cleanly (IMO) with make. You can create a target for each test, which can be done with patterns, and then use `make -j` to run them in parallel.
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by jp57 3y ago
The numbers in the OP indicated that few new editors are being added, so even if it’s not short of editors now, it will be eventually, unless new editors are added or there’s some breakthrough in longevity research.
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by jp57 3y ago
I got involved with scheme back in the days of R{5,6}RS (as a user, not in the standards process). Even then it was an argument for the BDFL model over design by committee.
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by jp57 3y ago
One implication of this is that some time in the future (tough to say when exactly) Wikipedia will have a big attrition problem. I could imagine a scenario in which all the current editors retire or pass away and simply are never replaced
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by jp57 3y ago
I've seen this advice before and I have so many issues with it. First, it just seems like this kind of "parental optimization" is likely to have such a small effect on long-term outcomes that it's probably a wash overall
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by jp57 3y ago
Current title of this post: "Paper investigating police chief prior to the raids on his office and home." But it was the newspaper owner, not the police chief, who was raided. Actual article title and subtitle: "A conversati
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by jp57 3y ago
The "multi-million dollar empire" is a big part of the problem here. When scientists build a lucrative business that is based on the truth of some hypothesis they've been studying it immediately creates a conflict of interes
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by jp57 3y ago
Many many years ago my dad, with his fresh ChemE degree, was a junior engineer at a chemical plant near Houston. Probably the kind of role that would have been responsible for ensuring that things are working correctly and things like popc
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by jp57 3y ago
This is the way.
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by jp57 3y ago
I think there's a question of what bar you're trying to reach. The mid-teens driverless car hype seemed to promise ubiquitous driverless cabs everywhere. I think what people will expect is that you can call them and they'll
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by jp57 3y ago
For those who may have been confused, The Texan[1] is not to be confused with The Daily Texan[2]. For a moment I was cheering to see the student paper on the front page of HN. Alas. [1] https://thetexan.news [2] https:/&
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by jp57 3y ago
They keep it. They didn't ban tenure.
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by jp57 3y ago
Reminder to be careful where you put your negatives with compound objects. They banned DEI offices and passed (a weak form of) tenure reform.
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by jp57 3y ago
Giving a valuable service away for free on the internet is like putting out a bowl of candy on halloween night with a sign that says "Be nice, please take one," and then walking away. There are a lot of not-nice people out there
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by jp57 3y ago
I wish the article would give some specific examples of what it looks like to focus on what went right in a productive way, instead of just speaking in generalities. Since the website is focused on safety at sea, let's suppose I go on
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by jp57 3y ago
If AI is the car, the human mind is the horse.
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by jp57 3y ago
This two-post thread is a microcosm of American politics on all issues.
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by jp57 3y ago
Reporters, without irony, discover Gell-Mann's amnesia[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
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by jp57 4y ago
Not that long. A day, maybe, before they start to feel pretty dead for regular recreational play. As the level of play goes up the tolerance for old balls goes down. In top-level pro matches they get out fresh balls several times in a ma
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by jp57 4y ago
Everyone who plays tennis knows that tennis balls don't retain their pressure for very long once outside their pressurized cannister, though. I can't tell if this article is just ignoring that fact or if they are actually running
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by jp57 4y ago
Are the onsites actually on site?
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by jp57 4y ago
Models are empty creatures. The camera lens fills them with color and texture, and, once in a while, even mystery. But just like there is no mystery to a vacant lot, it's just there until you put something interesting on top of it. --C
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by jp57 4y ago
I think the take home message is that successful entrepreneurs can tell you everything that’s necessary for success and it still may not be sufficient. Some luck is still required.
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by jp57 4y ago
Have you found it hard to find nerds on HN before this?
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by jp57 4y ago
I don't know what Amazon is doing but when apple moved to hybrid in-office, they made the pandemic hires move to within commuting distance of their department's office, with paid relocation. I.e. the same thing they did with new
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by jp57 4y ago
If you lay off 11% then lay of 17% of what's left that's only a total layoff of 26% of the original number, but yeah.
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by jp57 4y ago
> Alcohol ... has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer decades ago – this is the highest risk group, which also includes asbestos, radiation and tobacco. But as I understand it we do
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by jp57 4y ago
> Remove zones alone, and HOAs will get areas into legally binding covenants that are also just as tough as their current zoning regulation. This. Houston has little or no zoning and is terribly sprawling and car-centric. Despite the l
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by jp57 4y ago
The airship renaissance is the fusion of transportation world. It's always ten years away. Seriously, I've been hearing about the great promise of modern airships for twenty years. Where are they? Are there any airships opera

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