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by muglug 4y ago
There are a lot of hard sciences! Mechanics / Electromagnetics / Thermodynamics / Kinetics / Inorganic Chemistry / Electrochemistry / Analytical Chemistry / Earth Sciences / Anatomy / Botany &#
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99% of science being published today has no political motivations. The public perception of science, though, is not dictated by scholarly journals. It's what's discussed on the nightly news or seen in the Facebook news feed, and t
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They want gay people to stay in the closet and have unhappy marriages that produce lots of kids.
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> I've never personally seen any discourse communities that are as thriving and active as the phpBB, SMF, VBulletin, forums they replaced I can fix that! Click here: https://users.rust-lang.org/
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The average person with a computer in the US (just taking the country I live in) has never heard the words “proof of stake” or Ethereum. All the average person knows is that there were a bunch of Super Bowl commercials about “crypto”, and t
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As long as Bitcoin is still around crypto will have a heavy environmental asterisk attached to it. But, at least to me, this will make ethereum-based NFTs of interesting art a more morally-justifiable purchase.
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Having spent 20 years writing code, I have no idea how to measure “performance”. Is it “lines of code written”? Is it “technical debt addressed”? Is it a measure of how many engineers grew in those roles? Does it measure how many engineers
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Generally only the really professional church choirs have members in their 20s and 30s. If you want to sing with younger people you generally have to seek out people you know who sang in university, and found a way to keep it up.
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> Jeremy Johnson is a Tesla investor and supporter. He first invested in Tesla in 2017 after years of following Elon Musk and admiring his work ethic and intelligence. > Since then, he's become a Tesla bull, covering anything abo
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> You saw Taika Waititi savaging his effects team in the clip at the beginning of this story Waititi's comments are blown out of all proportion in this article (and also on Twitter). He points at a CGI character and says "does
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I know leftists that have been banned from Twitter too. I'd encourage you to read this thread about moderation on social media platforms from the former CEO of Reddit: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938
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The fact you think that Twitter supports "left orthodoxy" just means the conservatives have successfully moved the goalposts to make you believe they're the real victims. Twitter is full of very prominent hard-right voices. D
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The large language models already know too much. I was able to get GPT-3 to spit out reasonably accurate biographies for a couple of composers I know. GPT-3 could go even further — one of my composer friends has a reasonably rare first name
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> tech workers used to six figures for working 30 hours per day and then spending the rest of the day on activism or "day in the life of a X" Tiktoks > You've never worked a job that isn't 30 minutes of work and th
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Composer is the de facto package manager for PHP. I’ve never seen anyone try to compete with it. I also don’t believe a bundled package manager is necessary — NPM isn’t bundled with JavaScript, and it seems to be doing ok.
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Eh I think you’re wrong about Hollywood: the big-name actors generally don’t spend their time talking politics. Most big actors understand that the more they talk politics, the less bankable they are, and the dollar wins out most of the tim
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As others have said, this does not hold for the majority of commuters in New York City, where finding a parking space and navigating rush-hour traffic often makes commuting by car slower. In London they've chosen a different approach,
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Every newspaper that’s been around for over 150 years will have a history of fabrication and bias. That, on its own, means pretty much nothing. Quillette and the New York Times are very different. Most of the New York Times’ energy is spent
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There’s not a huge gap between a mass grave and a mass of unmarked graves. Both show a disregard for human life. Quillette writers love to get on a high-horse about such discrepancies, while ignoring everything wrong with the right-wing med
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Small personal bugbear about images used to illustrate these articles: in the clearest of skies the naked eye can barely see the milky way unless it's a new moon and you're hundreds of miles from any town. Even in perfect conditio
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The easiest part of a blog is figuring out a hosting platform (or building it yourself). I have spent many (fruitful) hours down rabbit holes. The hardest part of a blog is actually filling it with compelling content — research, writing and
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WASM has been a massive help to me. I'm building a static analysis CLI tool in Rust. It takes 30 seconds to build the WASM version, which I then upload to a website, providing a web-based version that other developers can use to demo t
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Incredible chain!
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That builds up to a conclusion that this guy is the sort of super-hacker you see in the movies. I don't believe he was stupid/clever enough to infect the trial judge's computer with a virus.
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Presumably a bored photo editor, trying to think of "elite" images, typed in "oxford university graduation" into Getty Images and got these results: https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/oxford-universi
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You could go further and observe that all of the article's pictured students are graduating from Oxford, whereas the article discusses students at US universities. But that's grasping at straws — it really has no bearing on the ar
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I think they gave out lots of contracts to contrarian writers (but just the sort of writer who excites venture capitalists), and assumed eventually the extra eyeballs would turn into revenue.
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Thanks for the work you’re doing — though it’s mostly too late for me, good to know that people are putting a lot of thought into these questions. The sense I have got from my experience is that OCaml is a great language for people who are
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I used StandardML at university in the early 2000s, and I appreciate that OCaml is an older language that heavily influenced the design of Rust. Given that history, it’s instructive to note the sorts of things (like auto-currying) that Rust
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> It takes a bit of time to learn to read [OCaml's error messages] Yeah, and I think you could say the same of Rust when it comes to the borrow checker's messages. But in Rust's case the problem it's trying to describ

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