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by lispisok 3y ago
When covid first hit I was smug because while everybody was freaking out buying up all the hand sanitizer and Clorox wipes I remembered the section college biochemistry about surfactants and bought a few extra bottles of soap. Sodium Lauret
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This stuck out to me too. If Effective Altruism is about using math to figure out how to do the most good they seemed to have ignored higher order effects of their actions. What if buying the castle hurt Effective Altruism's reputation
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This is the most likely answer. Since the atmosphere is a chaotic system weather models are extremely sensitive to initial conditions. A lot of the improvements in weather forecasts have come from better data assimilation for better initial
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I think UI's are an inherently hard problem and HTML/CSS/JS are the completely wrong tools for the job. Every time I'm doing front end webdev it feels like I'm trying to hammer square blocks into round holes.
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A new weather model NCAR is working on uses Voronoi meshes to divide the planet into cells. The Voronoi meshes allow nice transitions of higher resolution to lower resolution cells so you can model at higher resolutions in areas of interest
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Agree. I dont see the government letting another 2008 happen either. They will do whatever it takes to keep housing prices from declining significantly on a large scale
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Cupertino, a bastion of conservatism...oh wait
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Seasonal forecasts have zero skill. Even with ENSO being our strongest seasonal signal the areas labeled as above average can easily end up below average and vice versa
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The electric vehicle market is almost entirely affluent liberals. Does this electric Chevy truck appeal to affluent liberals? I wouldnt say so. Since Elon's falling out with the left Rivian is the new vogue electric car brand and they
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>Healthcare and education are both suffering serious staffing shortages The people who actually do the work like doctors, nurses, and teachers are understaffed. The administrators are very plump. I have multiple friends in education admi
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"Reduce, reuse, recycle" is in priority order. Recycling is supposed to be the last resort
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You tried to use a timeseries database without a time column?
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What are the applications where slow startup time is such a big issue?
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People are forced to deal with the issues you mention like being forced to move and more because of housing unaffordability because of NIMBY regulations. I have more empathy for them than somebody who "prefers less density"
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You're projecting some collective you are imagining in your brain onto me as an individual. I had that concern then and I have it now. I hate the trend of common passenger vehicles getting bigger every year.
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>And I agree that this smacks of vague anti-EV sentiment. Where were the gas tax concerns about plug-in Prius drivers? Changing the tax structure because of one car model with limited popularity isnt worth it. As the fraction of electric
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1-2 week sprints always seemed like a great way to accumulate tech debt as people rush to complete their stories. Doing good work can take time.
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We definitely need to rethink some things with electric cars. One is taxes for roads. You're gonna have to replace gas tax and possibly even increase taxes overall since the extra weight of electric cars mean more road wear and tear (p
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>These ban cycles and 'enforced ignorance' to the problem nets them more profit than it would otherwise; disenchanted players play less, reducing infrastructure costs -- and banned players buy another 2 dollar copy of the game
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Great Facebook boomer copypasta but my takeaway from this story is the power plant was designed very poorly if one loose screw can take down the whole system and is not diagnosable by anybody who didnt design the system. The retired enginee
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Cloud costs to easily balloon out of control and I bet this is helping companies save money but this FinOps stuff also seems like something straight out an HBO's Silicon Valley skit.
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Accurate medium-range global weather forecasting with 3D neural networks(github.com)
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So they generated training data from one laptop and microphone then generated test data with the exact same laptop and microphone in the same setup, possibly one person pressing the keys too. For the Zoom model they trained a new model wit
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The thing about BS jobs is you could eliminate the position entirely and nothing would happen. The point of the BS job is to be filled with bodies so there is no reason to automate it.
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Some other company's LLM being your secret sauce is different than using AWS services to build your secret sauce on top of.
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Are there quality alternatives that dont cost six figures?
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Why does everything have to be Javascriptified? Scheme is a big part of the SICP experience and trying to do it in another language you are losing a lot. Do people learn Javascript when starting their web development career then refuse to l
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>When the means to achieve equality is to handicap the strong, we're going the wrong way. A lot of people in the equity/equality movement have been following "the means justify the ends" for quite some time now and th
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The master plan is to have everybody writing Microsoft Typescript in Microsoft Visual Studio Code using Github (Microsoft) Copilot
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>by this logic social media is perfectly in their right to block posts from political positions they disagree with, which many folks might find impinges on their right to free speech. Social media has been doing just that for a long time

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