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by namuol 2y ago
I meant these are talking points more so than the sort of things actually affecting most Americans.
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by namuol 2y ago
I never doubted these were real stories, I just doubt they’re particularly relatable. On Waco: I do not see how this fits in with the others.
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by namuol 2y ago
Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I’m not convinced the general public thinks any of those bizarrely specific things.
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Inside Musk's Aggressive Incursion into the Federal Government(nytimes.com)
39 points by namuol 2y ago|1 comments
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by namuol 2y ago
The emotional turmoil of trying to get help from the medical system with an unknown chronic illness can be just as bad or worse than the illness itself at times. I hope the author gets to the bottom of things and is able to find treatment o
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by namuol 2y ago
The eye-watering funding numbers proposed by Altman in the past and more recently with “Stargate” suggests a publicly-funded research pivot is not out of the question. Could see a big defense department grant being given. Sigh.
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by namuol 2y ago
Already happening within tech company policy. Mostly as a security concern. Local or controlled hosting of the model is okay in theory based on this concern, but it taints everything regarding deepseek in effect.
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by namuol 2y ago
What sort of coding? Are you maintaining any large projects?
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by namuol 2y ago
I think it’s relevant if you consider his personal metamorphosis in the last election cycle relevant.
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by namuol 2y ago
Highly recommend doing software renderer stuff like this for fun. Raytracers are a popular sort of project but this sort of retro realtime rendering code makes for a great weekend project too. I implemented basically the same algorithm ages
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by namuol 2y ago
> Why don't you change it? Bribery is legal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
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by namuol 2y ago
I don't think this analogy resonates particularly well with the drug manufacturing process. I would think in general the bulk of the expense of a drug comes from its R&D, not manufacture. The cost of manufacture probably varies wil
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by namuol 2y ago
The research specifically deals with cellulose bags which are often sealed with glues containing synthetic polymers. The picture from the study of the cellulose bags show a round “pillow” style bag which is likely sealed with a glue, unlike
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by namuol 2y ago
The title: > Bat Feces Used to Fertilize Cannabis Is Linked to 2 Deaths From the article: > The men, who lived in Rochester, N.Y., were not named in the article, published this month in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases. >
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by namuol 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
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by namuol 2y ago
This may be the best answer to the title question.
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by namuol 2y ago
Should you care what another engineer’s title is? These kinds of discussions bother me because it always implies some kind of worthiness of the title. Maybe it’s just my work experience but I’ve found very little correlation with e.g. the s
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Real Life "Sort by Controversial"(lesswrong.com)
2 points by namuol 2y ago|2 comments
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by namuol 2y ago
> The Food and Drug Administration approves new cancer treatments when they are shown in clinical trials to be more effective than the current approved cancer treatment for a given cancer type. The approval comes when the treatment exten
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by namuol 2y ago
More competition is good, but I’m pretty sure the end result will just be, at best, a duopoly of products equally ruined by advertising for their “free” tier, and somewhat less ruined for the “premium” tier.
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by namuol 2y ago
Love it! If you like this sort of thing, be sure to check out Simon Tatham (creator of PuTTY)’s Puzzles: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ The Android and iPhone ports are also excellent and fr
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by namuol 2y ago
I feel the same way about python, but I don’t blame python authors for using the python ecosystem to write python tools when I am forced to use a little python. I consider python to be an essential part of any build system since it’s used
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by namuol 2y ago
> Stop assuming everyone wants to get anywhere near the JS ecosystem The author is writing about JS ecosystem tools.
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by namuol 2y ago
The surest way to get yourself into a mess like this is to assume that a sufficiently complex codebase can be deeply understood in the first place. By all means you can gain a lot by making things easier to understand, but only in service o
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by namuol 2y ago
I always come back to this saying: “Debugging is the art of figuring out which of your assumptions are wrong.” (Attribution unknown)
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by namuol 2y ago
If this is interesting/novel to you, you might be surprised to learn there’s a W3C standard for annotating the web which never really caught on. https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/ It deserves more attent
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by namuol 2y ago
Yeah the names are confusing here. I actually had to edit my post after I realized I used “MicroLED” when I meant “MiniLED” so I’m not sure if you saw that one. If so, sorry! For those who are mercifully unfamiliar: MiniLED is different tha
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by namuol 2y ago
Shame that the existing NAND has to be turned to dust. Gone are the days of upgradable hardware.
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by namuol 2y ago
Headline should read “The Death of small LCDs…”. MiniLED backlit LCD display tech can come pretty close to OLED and it’s only going to get cheaper. I’m a longtime OLED enthusiast but the M1 series displays were what convinced me there’s a
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by namuol 2y ago
So very true. The greatest science teachers understand the power that comes with the stories of scientific discovery. Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and some of Richard Feynman’s best lectures come to mind as some of the most memorable examples, but I

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