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by peatmoss 4y ago
numpy, clearly rhymes with lumpy :-)
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Was interesting to see a callout to Racket here. It looks like the Gentoo project has some Racket fans! https://gentoo-racket.gitlab.io//About.html
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Sure, if they have an in-stock phage that targets his particular strain of staph, why not? But the Bacillus subtilis also appears to be readily available. I think if I were faced with a potentially life-threatening staph infection, I'd
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by peatmoss 4y ago
It's very much an acquired taste for most people. I wouldn't say I love it, but am mildly positive towards it.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I'm not an expert here, but I think part of the selling point of phages is their specificity in targeting a particular bacterial strain, and then having the capacity to co-evolve with bacteria to that might otherwise develop immunity t
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by peatmoss 4y ago
People who poke around in Tableau might not get a lot of respect in the hierarchy of DataFolk, but descriptive statistics and thoughtfully chosen visualizations can be immensely useful. Exploratory data analysis sometimes reveals patterns t
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by peatmoss 4y ago
> Data Scientist's job is to launder management's intuition using quantitative methods Ouch. This is savage, but sadly correct in many cases. HOWEVER, to play devil's advocate here, I've also seen corporate data scien
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by peatmoss 4y ago
My desktop is a new-ish AMD CPU, brand-new intel wifi, brand new AMD GPU computer, and I didn't so much as think about anything related to compatibility with OpenBSD. For laptops, I'd assume the Framework laptop works without issu
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Maybe this is a stupid question, but why not also liquid cool the video card if you're already liquid cooling the CPU? The GPU seems like the more power hungry / heat generating component.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
My existence is split between OpenBSD and Linux. What I really want is OpenBSD than runs Steam and Proton—nothing more. OpenBSD has maintained exceptionally good taste when it comes to change. When they rip out and replace a "classic&q
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Or even better, a way of reproducing the work of Harmy's Despecialized Edition of Star Wars. You have a lot of frames of video in the blu-ray reissues that didn't really differ in content from the frames of video in the old laser
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by peatmoss 4y ago
For me, the difference between ML and most of what we use stats for in classical research settings (Bayesian or otherwise) has less to do with the specific methodology chosen, and more to do with the purpose of the exercise. With ML, the ut
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by peatmoss 4y ago
This is correct, though paradoxically people who live in cities tend to use more energy in practice, largely due to the larger average wealth in the cities. That said, I (I think like you) believe cities are the solution. We just have to op
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by peatmoss 4y ago
This is an excellent sci-fi premise. Also an interesting thought experiment to think of what an optimal research approach would be if you knew a priori that you were living in a universe in which the implementation details don’t exist until
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I was just thinking about video games where vegetation, animals, and hills spring into existence when you get close enough. Far away, and they don't bother to render the little things. Depending what generation tech we're running
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by peatmoss 4y ago
In (public) high school, I had a physics teacher who showed his conservative politics pretty prominently. He was a great instructor, but had conspicuously placed religious books around the class room. "Teaching your students about God&
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I think every company likes not having the liability of PTO hanging on the balance books, and most companies quietly enjoy the reduction in average PTO taken. For the outlier users of PTO, they'd better be firebreathers, or I suspect t
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I've seen cynical takes on unlimited PTO, where in practice nobody took time off for fear of falling behind. Then I've seen organizations that really tried to instill a value around taking time off regularly. BUT, at the margins,
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I get it periodically. I turned handles and nobs out of osage orange for my old school lever espresso machine. It was very orange colored at first, and has darkened to almost brown with exposure to light. I’ve worked small pieces with hand
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I do pot-in-pot with 1:1 ratio of water to brown rice. We have a number of small stainless steel bowls that we set on top of the wire trivet (don't forget a small amount of water in the main pot too). I cook for ~15 minutes for most br
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by peatmoss 4y ago
It's a crying shame that a commercial lab found this (and presumably patented it). If it had been a government lab, we could theoretically have dozens of groups all making progress with memristor tech. I remember breathlessly telling f
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by peatmoss 4y ago
A desktop computer that you leave at the office in 2022 is the height of status and luxury. My first job out of college was for a government agency where everyone had an assigned desk with a desktop PC. The people at the top of the org char
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by peatmoss 4y ago
You can run cold water over the lid of a pressure cooker, and it will release abruptly. Most modern cookers include this in the instructions. Old cookers may not be safe to do this, if they don’t have a geometry that directs a sudden blast
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by peatmoss 4y ago
The article linked in this thread mentions the strengths of plaster—the tech that preceded drywall. Plaster has some nice aesthetic properties, good fire resistance, good sound isolation, can be shaped into organic contours. All those thing
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by peatmoss 4y ago
> Another correlation, in my experience, is bugs and glitches. Most of us are slumming it with non-ECC memory I'd wager. In a very real sense, more memory usage corresponds to a larger target for a bit to get flipped by an stray cos
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I'm pretty certain that most people who drive cars are licensed, and thus have a conceptual understanding that such driving is dangerous. In contrast, cold water paddling poses risks that can be unintuitive to normal, everyday people.
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I decided I wanted to get more deeply into kayaking this year, after having fantasized about becoming a regular kayaker for many years. Part of that process has been to start taking classes with a certified instructor. Even from our level o
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by peatmoss 4y ago
I assume this comes along with “Mastered for iTunes” / “Apple Digital Masters” ah least in part. I think if it’s only available for limited tracks, we’ll know they went the full separate-the-vocal-track route. If it’s everything, then
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by peatmoss 4y ago
Funny, I connected up an old rPi 3 that I wasn't using just yesterday, and put OpenBSD on it for the first time. I wrote the miniroot iso to my SD card using one of those cheapy camera USB adapters on my desktop, then just installed to
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by peatmoss 4y ago
In places with very hard mineral deposits, one solution is to put an inline mechanism that dispenses a very small amount of citric acid into the water supply. I'd guess that, for the amount of exposure time that your dishwasher compone

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