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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
aha my terrible hypothesis masquerading as an informed opinion back there. You are right, mostly-- I can' t agree about libreoffice but I can be entitled to the opinion that it is clunkier that the msoft version cant I? Here is a revam
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Not particularly OT but not really offtopic either.. have you noticed that mathematicians( and logicians, and quite less so but still programmers) can be mentally very ill and and still become famous for their work? Not so much for other sc
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Dont know if its just me, but I observed that, in general, that the people who were into the Math (or even theoretical CS) game as kids feel less regret when they grow up, compared to those who were into the STEM minus M game. Maybe they re
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
"the headlines never get as hot on the plate as they did in the pan." --English speaker trying to make sense of it
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Ok I didn't make it clear that I was wondering about references to 1776 in Heinleins work. Anyways it seems that Moon is a Harsh Mistress is entirely a reference to 1776. Going to read it mor closely now, his wife probably appears in c
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
They mention 1776 being significant to the Heinleins but is there more to this? The only battle fought in 1776 was Trenton and I don't know of a ship named that in his novels?
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
( to be sure, i mean FOSS anything else rather than OSes. I think Windows and Solaris were just unbelievably unlucky -- or something about prestige?) Or- maybe open source isnt really the achievement here.. after all finland is and was the
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
I think of open source as the tech equivalent of public education ( and public infrastructure, like roads). The world will be truly worse off without it --unimaginably so. But it is total garbage when compared to the Ivies. So, education is
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Truth is more nuanced than that. Japanese have a native word 'sake' for the native salmon that is hardly eaten nowadays. They definitely use the word sake for imported salmon too, especially if its cooked ( because thats how they
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
The article mentions that the race venue used to house the world's largest (traditional, HV) electron microscopes at one time. I thought it would be cool if these towers were actually for that but it seems likely the place is just a sc
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
Oops I intended that as a pun on (the abuse of) the word 'optics' in PR/marketing/media/politics..
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
That looks like a giant van der Graaff in the background. Powers the microscope or just the optics?
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by kalimanzaro 4y ago
That's fine. One can also do essentially the same work in a mathematics department without the miasma of subjective or historical notions of what progress means. I mean, mathematicians are perfectly fine with producing theorems, proofs
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
In a book by another French author Rene Girard, it is implied that the above lines of thought are insidious forms of nihilism, for: Why work for actual success when you can fake it? Etc. Yes. Virtue signaling is a debasement of the currency
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
Kind of sleepy but maybe heresies are sort of like a self-published but hard to verify/reproduce social zero day. Imagine NSO describing their iphone exploit in vague terms on their very own homepage.. that would get a rise out of conc
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
Sounds like a scene from The Man In The High Castle.
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
https://youtu.be/F3hPvusB0ds For those who are turned off by "cerebritiesh" (pronounced the way Taleb fan of Wolfie would, or perhaps Sean Connery if he had the chance to meet the old dog in person) But who secret
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
IMHO it doesn't help that the middle class in California especially are health obsessed. Couple that with a kind of contrarian or rationalist/conspiratorial mindset in the public intellectuals(think Phil Dick or even Musk/Thi
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
"nundated" or "undated" both be disnegations of "inundated"
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China sees 'unprecedented' capital outflow since Russia invaded Ukraine(straitstimes.com)
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
Hello probable physics nerd. Did you see the Englishman https://git.ist.ac.at/hlab/environment/-/wikis/Boards/The-Bi...
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
I know the people involved, though I haven't run my interpretation past them, so here goes: They fit data, using a "genetic algorithm", to 2 different models of the superconductor. They find that the magnetic model works bett
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
Something tells me in the anecdata above, the unfirable characters involved picked 1 _at most_: The teflon engineers don't seem smart and probably can't get things done on time if at all. While the sensitive engineer seems unpleas
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
The signage may be Chinese but the locale is Singapore. That said, 80% of the "uniquely Japanese" things mentioned in the sister article are found in any East Asian city with a significant Japanese presence. Eg: vending machines f
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30382691
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
Well perhaps if animal studies were primarily concerned with investigating the interaction of reason and emotion in animals there might just well be :)
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
By your dichotomy, Physics seems closer to Psychology than math. Why aren't there replication crises in Physics? My answer is that there always has been-- it's just that they get resolved quick. The problem with Psych is that it i
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
Would Google Research be interested? This sounds like an intersection between physical and computational engineering and as far as I am aware there are some folks at GR who are working in that intersection -- awkward enough that no one acad
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by kalimanzaro 5y ago
Throwaway to your throwaway. My intuition tells me (Mandarin) Chinese is similar and thus they just might become the next century-old superpower. I guess emotional precision is too costly for the political class lol