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by klyrs 2y ago
The proper way to think of reversible computing is that you just write everything down in a single-static-assignment ledger and never erase anything except for the tail end of the ledger. This can be accomplished with a multi-tape machine
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by klyrs 2y ago
> or even actively damaging to consumers, the environment, etc. Jury's still out on this one
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by klyrs 2y ago
I agree, it's feasible to do this but the article, and the experience I relay, is the truth on the ground in the US and Canada today. In STEM, it's totally possible to pay one's way through grad school without taking on ex
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by klyrs 2y ago
As a PhD student, I was paid about a third of what I was paid at the first job I landed as a PhD, except for one year when I got a sweet scholarship and I made two thirds. Yes, they were adult jobs, but I don't describe them as such b
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by klyrs 2y ago
Presumably they aren't tied up with school obligations after they finish their degrees, and they have time to take an adult job. But for many of us, the time between graduation and that first paycheck can be pretty hairy.
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by klyrs 2y ago
> The aircraft was in a descending turn when one of the control cables under the wing came off the pulley and was wedged in the pulley bracket, locking the stick. The turn tightened until one of the wings folded up over the propeller and
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by klyrs 2y ago
> he thinks this sucks for everybody Works out pretty well for the hot mansluts! Won't somebody please think of the... sorry, nevermind. Yeah, tinder is shit, and it doesn't seem like most dating apps are much better.
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by klyrs 2y ago
Yeah, I have a love/hate relationship with squash. On one hand, I think everybody misses an autocommit hook once and a while and in Python its not uncommon to have "black" commits interspersed throughout it all. Love becaus
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by klyrs 2y ago
I'm an ADHD weirdo who will mix six issues in my personal branch, and use rebase, cherry-pick, and in a pinch, difftool to carve out clean patches when something is good and ready. If I were to give people an honest history of what wa
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by klyrs 2y ago
> You realize that "Free Palestine" is not going to be a safe place for gay people or anyone else. Yes, I realize that! We've royally fucked the entire region by supporting terrorist organizations, and by supporting genoc
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by klyrs 2y ago
Aye? And are Republicans gonna be honest with farmers about the long-term consequences of not swallowing this bitter pill? Are your politicians prepared to talk about the real welfare queens in this country, the truck-driving rural populat
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by klyrs 2y ago
> Jews, Blacks, LGBT, and other minorities should naturally align together to protect values of freedom Then seek that unity, friend. Do not vote for the people selling violence as a solution to fear that they have fabricated. And espe
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by klyrs 2y ago
> Jews, Blacks, LGBT, and other minorities should naturally align together to protect values of freedom. Should do, yeah; but I've known anti-Black Jews, antisemitic Blacks, racist-af queers; etc. Clarence Goddamn Thomas. > And
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by klyrs 2y ago
No, the exact same thing isn't happening, don't be daft. Rather, politicians are attempting to legislate people like me out of existence, and the lack of public protest is deafening . You're worried about some protesters i
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by klyrs 2y ago
I didn't realize that you being mad was a sign of enjoyment. Perhaps somebody should look into this curious apparent overlap of pleasure and pain!
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by klyrs 2y ago
This isn't a recipe. It's an article about a human. His story is the point . His science is cool too, if you're actually interested in the science, it's super easy to find his publications.
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by klyrs 2y ago
Don't read magazines. They have pictures of humans. And stay away from IEEE journals, too.
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by klyrs 2y ago
God forbid we gaze upon the visage of a scientist. It must be horribly jarring to read a textbook and see pictures of Einstein and Curie...
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by klyrs 2y ago
I always assume that they'd stop asking if and only if you say yes to all -- is that not the case?
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by klyrs 2y ago
When LGBT denizens of states, universities, countries, and websites are threatened, dehumanized and scapegoated, HN is quick to defend the freedom of speech. We, too, were killed in the same camps during the Holocaust. What makes you so s
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by klyrs 2y ago
I've misunderstood, then. Do elaborate on your question "Who is appropriating whom?"
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by klyrs 2y ago
You accuse a conquered people of appropriating language that forced them to assimilate or die?
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by klyrs 2y ago
Yes and no. Aboriginal peoples world 'round have been displaced and slaughtered. The name conjures all meanings of the word, as is the nature of words, consequently there is a distinct and predictable reflex to associate this name wi
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by klyrs 2y ago
> This is an excellent example of 'thinking inside the boundaries of our paradigm'. And by thinking within the boundaries of our paradigm, we can conclude that this particular combination of technology and culture has not sprea
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by klyrs 2y ago
Also, a good warning sticker to put on books
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by klyrs 2y ago
Note my use of the term "heuristic" and not "algorithm." There is not a correct number. The correct approach is to fiddle with the parameters; record good populations; occasionally restart from scratch... we call thi
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by klyrs 2y ago
Sounds like you're running with a single elite clone. That's a really bad idea in genetic heuristics for exactly the phenomenon you mention.
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by klyrs 2y ago
> solely for the act of traveling great distances that are required to reach a distant star, they would need to have discovered physics paradigms far beyond our understanding today. No, they wouldn't. Modest progress in engineering
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by klyrs 2y ago
For those of us who prefer text to youtube: a nice page that goes in-depth with nice pictures of barium tracers https://eos.org/science-updates/ionospheric-fireworks-illumi...
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by klyrs 3y ago
Did not need that earworm, thanks.

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