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by magneticnorth 2y ago
July - September, yes, we have oppressive sunshine. Spring/fall tend to be cloudy & rainy, and November to February-ish is referred to as "the big dark" - the days are short and the sun is low and obscured by clouds when
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Well, probably! But it hasn't actually been proven yet that pi is a "normal number" [0], though most mathematicians think it must be. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number#
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
The article mentions that he'd go home for dinner, up until his wife died. The hotel pool was apparently also where he did his "job": being a deal-making middleman for a 2% cut, per a later description in the article. His job
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Same here. We moved when I was four, so I know I have a lot of memories from before then, because they're set in locations I never went back to after the age of 4.
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
As does PSE (puget sound energy) https://www.pse.com/en/outage/outage-map
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Extremely white, somewhat gendered as well. I travel alone as a woman a lot, and while it's not as dangerous as many people fear, I'd never ask a taxi driver to take me to (potentially) his private residence in a random neighborho
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Yes? And while they're there, you don't want them to chew on the wires. You can't prevent your engine from being warm (assuming you need to use your vehicles), but you can make it less appealing to gnaw on the nice chewy part
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "countable in a computable sense." Sure, certainly you can't generate one program that enumerates all the programs that compute real numbers. But the set of programs that compute rea
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
>> and it turns out that all but a measure 0 set of real-numbers are actually computable. This is the wrong way around. The computable numbers have measure 0. In fact, they are countable. The non-computable real numbers have full meas
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Driving through Montana is how I discovered my current car won't let me set the cruise control higher than 90 mph. Probably for the best, they do have 80 mph speed limits now, but lots of drivers there still drive like there's no
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
My understanding of this Stanford research group collection is that it is all the ads (or all they are able to find) - I don't think they were only collecting ads from women's magazines. If this ad campaign was mostly run in women
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Oh, huh, good catch. More of their quotes are just theaurus-substitution rephrasings: > Lucy concludes: “It’s clear mid-level management remains a lynchpin of any organisation, and to keep these roles filled employers need to innovate th
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
From the article: "This became a recurrent theme for Glenmark in subsequent years as FDA investigators dinged one plant after another for failing to follow manufacturing processes that prevent defective drugs from winding up in America
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
In the 600 million years that our planet has had complex multicellular life, only about 130 of those years has any species here been able to communicate outside the planet. That's .00002% of the time, on a planet with multicellular lif
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Note: This study was on a particular species of fly. I think that's an important detail left out of the one-sentence summary.
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
If those are literally the only choices, then I vote for "practically impossible to get rid of." But I think this is a bit of hyperbole - some kind of ongoing, documented low performance seems obviously better than just letting ma
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Yeah, I enjoyed the author's tangent about the game in the article.
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Yes, it's a few miles outside of the nearest town. It's the intersection of a state highway and some small roads that mostly lead to farmland. Not much pedestrian traffic expected there.
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
"Retiring before the statutory age will not be allowed, state news agency Xinhua reported" I'm curious what this really means - just that people can't pull from the retirement pension before the statutory age, similar to
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Huh, I had noticed much the opposite. Second growth forests that have been left untouched for 20 or more years are complete snarls. Young trees are more likely to fall down in a storm, and the open canopy lets in enough sun that you get all
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Why does the dry lake bed emit large amounts of CO2? I couldn’t find that explained in the article. Edit: For those curious like me, sources 1,2,3 from the original paper go into more detail about it. Original paper: https://www.
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
He's saying that if a stretch of highway has traffic volume of 10 million trips taken on it in a year and an average of 2 deaths per year, that is still much safer than a neighborhood street which sees 10,000 trips per year and average
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
One of my dogs thinks tv remotes are the most delicious chew toy. I've switched to using my phone as a TV remote, exclusively, but I realize I'm a bit of an edge case.
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
I believe the authors, Katy Blumer, Kate Donahue, Katie Fritz, Kate Ivanovich, Katherine Lee, Katie Luo, Cathy Meng, Katie Van Koevering, may have had a similar experience to your son.
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
I'm not the person you asked, but I'm in the process of learning French. I'm a native English speaker who had a much easier time with listening comprehension for Spanish and German, my other languages. What I find helps me
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
I clicked around in the southern appalachians on this map, and there are a few nighttime recordings from there. The night ones are very loud with frogs and insects, in contrast with the daytime ones that are mostly birds. Maybe as they get
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Apparently a slack competitor. I found this: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/15/threads-a-slack-alternativ...
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
It does start out touting a particular piece of software, but the last section, "What does doing research for leisure mean?" does go into research as a leisure activity, and the author promises more posts on the topic in the futur
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
I have only mild anxiety, but "butterflies" or other anxiety-related sensations in my gut are not at all uncommon for me.
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by magneticnorth 2y ago
Interesting! Is that because you don't have large immigrant populations, or is it more cultural where it's seen as important for newcomers to assimilate to the local culture? In the US & Canada, of course, the vast majority of

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