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by mxcrossb 6y ago
It’s a shame the article doesn’t offer any hints as to why. I’m sure that we can point the finger at lobbyists and grift, but a big spike in 2020 probably is COVID related?
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
It’s interesting, a couple years ago I remember there was some debate about upgrading the public transport in Seattle(?), and I saw some comments saying maybe we need to hold off in case a full autopilot car infrastructure might emerge as a
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
The nerve of that website to beg for donations while being plastered with advertisements
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Heterogeneity Matters When Modeling Covid-19(physics.aps.org)
2 points by mxcrossb 6y ago|0 comments
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
There’s a lot of research in the field of scientific computing aimed at exactly this kind of data. You can definitely gain a lot of your floating point data is varying slowly.
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I think the trade off here is that if you don’t put the end meeting button there, users will get frustrated because they can’t find the end meeting button.
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Shklovsky's “Hollow Phobos” Hypothesis(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mxcrossb 6y ago|0 comments
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
What I don’t understand is why C programmers use the built in strings. It’s like rolling your own sorting algorithm every time you need it. Surely someone could write a better string library in C that hides the complexity. The real problem
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
The fact that you go to the word “hypocritical” makes me think we’re already in agreement on the basic point. I’m not trying to make a value judgement here. Go look at these arguments about confederate statues. Liberals condemn the moral fa
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I also find this topic far more interesting than the fairly cliche discussion over “cancel culture”. It seems like conservatives have caught up to post modernism, whereas liberals are now passionate about objective truth and morality being
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I think some of the comments here are seeing the word contrarian and dead seas scrolls and assuming he must have had some church forgery grand conspiracy theory instead of the more insider debate he was involved in. For anyone who is intere
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
> Griddy warned its 29,000 customers last week of impending price hikes and encouraged them to seek out other electric providers. I’m surprised how much Griddy is in the news despite having so few customers.
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I owned a GP32 back in the day. The killer app was of course Super Nintendo emulation, but it was also amazing to have a media machine at that time, and something you could easily develop for. I wonder if the mindset is different these days
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Amazon is basically my last resort these days. Unfortunately, the ongoing pandemic means there are times where I can’t justifying going out to buy something. But I wonder if they’ll be taking a bigger than expected hit once things clear up.
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Why is the development “this can’t fail” but the distribution isn’t? If we cut corners on distribution (and compound that with the real world flaws in the process) and you screw up, it would be a huge disaster. You would complete undermine
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I wonder if this is just making it clear that the words we use for describing red and white wines are fixed, and not that the students really couldn’t tell the difference in flavor between red and white wine. Does the visual information cha
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
We’re just not following a good process of discerning truth here. We started with a blatant, baseless conspiracy theory “this is a weapon China created”. Then we white wash the theory to “China created it, but maybe it was an accident”. The
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
There’s a certain irony to NPR doing a “we talk too much about politics, his something else” story, and all the comments here being about how npr is too liberal. Deep down, everyone wants a politics story
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Assignments going wrong is par for the course in python! I still am surprised it is taught to beginners...
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I wonder though if the really good trial data of the MRNA ones mean they’ll be able to do just safety trials (nothing on effectiveness) in the future, while the Oxford collaboration will be closer scrutinized.
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
> Well … OK I guess? But, pretty much exactly as pointed out last time, not only is the proof only one line, but the nature of the proof makes clear exactly how unoriginal this is to mathematics This is what I was wondering about while r
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Mathematician ranked as “highly cited researcher” has third paper retracted(retractionwatch.com)
3 points by mxcrossb 6y ago|1 comments
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
> It has to feel like the two of you cracked something open and are scamming the system, and yes, you’re technically getting married, but clearly this is something grander and deeper than the law ever scratched. This was the part that re
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Diamonds aren’t special and neither is love(theatlantic.com)
43 points by mxcrossb 6y ago|90 comments
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I think your analysis is right, but if cars and houses are things that people buy with borrowed money, it does seem like interest rates being low would drive prices up. And it might increase the price of inflation proof assets like crypto.
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I read retraction watch every day, so I’m used to seeing stories like this. But I’m always surprised the effort people go through over articles published in garbage journals. You’re never going to even make a dent.
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
I just checked the GitHub project for neovim and see that their CI is failing. That maybe is a good symbol of the differences in priorities
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
My experience is that a lot of these projects are bluffing when they use autotools. Autotools will work very hard to make sure stdlib is there. But as soon as you compile on a more exotic system, none of the checks are of any use, and you f
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
It seems he passed due to the coronavirus, so hopefully the people of the future have that handled before he is unfrozen.
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by mxcrossb 6y ago
Hence why over half of the comments in this thread about the passing of Larry King are about the political bent of CNN

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