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by nxobject 2y ago
In these times the saddest tragedy here is that Dahl was so preoccupied with medical care and expertise for his family – and the one time he let up, his daughter died because his brother-in-law thought "let the girls get measles[...] i
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by nxobject 2y ago
I can see a little bit about what inspired the "spark" of his children's books – love, but also a need for escapism, normal but heroic figures in the middle of bewildering and impossible situations, nurturing. It think Danny,
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by nxobject 2y ago
> is reviewing the errors these tools are identifying. Unfortunately, no one has the incentives or the resources to do doubly triply thorough fine tooth combing: no reviewer or editor’s getting paid; tenure-track researchers who need the
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by nxobject 2y ago
To be fair, at least humans get to have collaborators from multiple perspectives and skillsets; a lot of the discussion about AI in research has assumed that a research team is one hive mind, when the best collaborations aren’t.
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by nxobject 2y ago
If science cost zero dollars and zero cents, sure. When it's public dollars you can see why every researcher needs strong preliminary evidence to justify dropping hundreds of NIH dollars on research. Waste, fraud, and abuse, no? Anyway
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by nxobject 2y ago
In general, are aware of any physically-based long-term geological process models with real life fidelity as a goal, and that have a remote chance of being feasible for gamedev? I imagine that, analogous to work done in weather forecasting,
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by nxobject 2y ago
I imagine it's hard to think about investing in one when LUCAS machines are out there, too.
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by nxobject 2y ago
TFA observes how the current resolution is fairly low - compare this to was available for live view on the frame buffers of the first EMI scanners, barely 80x80. Even that was revolutionary, and I think to a layperson illustrates how little
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by nxobject 2y ago
Why a quantum leap isn’t the length of an Ångstrom will always sadden me. I’m sure there are other scientific concepts you can use to describe a Great Leap Forward…
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by nxobject 2y ago
It’s funny - I think of DESQView/X, their fully compliant X11 server complete with both Motif and OpenLook. The exact opposite of vanilla DESQview.
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by nxobject 2y ago
It's also a good way of isolating proprietary applications that barf services, applications, and custom ways of keeping user state all over the system – I'm looking at you, Citrix.
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by nxobject 2y ago
> GSA may not sell all of the offices. The agency said in its statement that it “welcomes creative solutions, including sale-lease backs, ground leases and other forms of public/private partnerships to drive the full optimization of
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by nxobject 2y ago
They briefly had a living room and kitchen furnishings company, too – YAMAHA Livingtec – but the heritage was clear there: they expanded from wooden piano housings to other wooden furnishings.
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by nxobject 2y ago
As a double-aside, Peter Kogge wrote a very good early textbook on pipelined microarchitectures that's worth reading if you want to learn how early supercomputer vector processors were designed: The Architecture of Pipelined Computers
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by nxobject 2y ago
As synonym for the smell of cologne, I think.
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by nxobject 2y ago
What are you talking about? Direct File completes tax return forms for types of income that already have taxes withheld.
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by nxobject 2y ago
Sadly, the last art of that MO is “…knowing that if you do fuck something up critical, that other people will point out your mistakes, so you have no incentive to actually be right in the first place”.
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by nxobject 2y ago
I’m not sure why the downvotes are here - tax breaks and rebates are likely going to be part of Republican spending outlines going forward, damn the deficit.
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by nxobject 2y ago
Don’t worry - I’m sure that if Scott Bessent’s ever worried about his job he won’t hesitate to get rid of Direct File.
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by nxobject 2y ago
Are you sure the question wouldn’t be “why don’t they just take it out at payroll like they did before $RIGHT_WINGER did this, that would be more efficient and save everyone time like every other country in the world?”
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by nxobject 2y ago
To be fair, I currently don't think anything currently makes sense about the administration's "move fast and have other people fix the consequences later" approach towards slashing government programs by mass layoffs, ot
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by nxobject 2y ago
I’m skeptical about convenient plain text is, compared to more structured formats, once we try to encode even more of the conveniences we get out of current calendaring (e.g. time zone shifting, notes of indefinite length, events that last
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by nxobject 2y ago
No. No amount of slashing programs would have saved the USFS from a government-wide campaign of firing probationary staff, from the CFPB and NIST to the USFS. (A citation on their programs abroad would be nice, too.)
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by nxobject 2y ago
No. The average USFS salary was ~$60k in FY 2023. https://openpayrolls.com/rank/highest-paid-employees/forest-...
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by nxobject 2y ago
A surprising amount of work involves law enforcement - all sorts of public land, from NPS to BLM, is used for drug manufacture and cultivation.
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by nxobject 2y ago
As an aside, I'm getting lots of stuttering when scrolling the website on a variable-refresh rate monitor + an M1 laptop. This is a static-content website – a profiling tells me consent SVG animation and their ganja.gs [1] math library
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by nxobject 2y ago
A great loss to the outdoors industry, and anyone who cares about being able to escape civilization and enjoy communing with the nature we have left. America will never have "right to roam" that European countries have, but Nation
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Windows NT for GameCube/Wii(github.com)
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by nxobject 2y ago
I agree – I'll need to look this up myself, but I'd love to know what his self-reflection on his annoyance involved: I admit that I still need to do the same to learn restraint during disagreements with new collaborators, that I h
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by nxobject 2y ago
I think the difference with Deep Research – and other hallucination and extrapolation-prone research agents – is that without assistance, that verifying synthesized information is much more of a slog than, say, doing your own research and j

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