onthecanposting

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by onthecanposting 3y ago
I already assume most pseudononymous online commentary and articles are written all or mostly by machines. Usually for marketing or social engineering purposes. But I am a cynic.
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
A lowercase "i" prefix would really tie it together.
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
PIs may not be able to raise money for replication studies. Some of this is a consequence of guidelines for federal funds to prevent waste on duplication of effort.
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
Darwin and Hooker did something like this in the 19th century to Ascension Island. Few know this. Deliberate modification of an ecosystem couldn't be done lawfully in the US. However, that's an administrative obstacle rather than
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
I really don't see Chinese-style whole government response with state-owned-enterprises and all happening in the US. That may not even work if it were possible. A viable domestic manufacturing sector is just not a goal of US decision m
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
Firefox is mostly paid for by Google, so I wouldn't suspect it's a threat to their goals. I think a 'dumb' protocol or partition of the web might be the best we can do.
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
IFCOpenShell was news to me. Thanks for sharing. You're doing God's work.
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I get the sneaking suspicion this is part of a ratcheting strategy for state prohibition of private ownership of any means of transportation for common people. Calling these policies sumptuary laws probably wouldn't fly nowadays I supp
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by onthecanposting 3y ago
Since you are an insider, would you please shed some light on a personal question I've had for a while? Is the reason the IFC specification is so extremely complicated because they're trying to map nicely to an object model that&#
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Bentley has a market cap of around $15B. It's worth something to somebody. Their only serious market is DOT work and their position is attributable to administrative inertia and aggressive vendor lock-in. The biggest problem isn't
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Construction technology. Design software for horizontal construction is astonishingly bad. The PDF is still the "product" in am era where GPS and automated machine guidance are the norm. We're decades overdue on rethinking pr