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by periheli0n 5y ago
I thought the base model M1 maxed out at 16GB? Must be a M1 pro or max.
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by periheli0n 5y ago
I agree, but in my experience, recruiters and HR departments share total paranoia about giving feedback to applicants, most likely out of fear of being sued. Sometimes (rarely) it's possible to obtain feedback from people you know at t
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by periheli0n 5y ago
There is a lot wrong with todays scientific publishing industry. But this does not mean that their service should be free. Access to research is one thing, organising the review process, print layout, marketing another. Most researchers I k
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by periheli0n 5y ago
Either way, it is known how much gas is available. It can also be estimated fairly reliably how much gas will be used a couple of days in advance, given the weather forecast. Therefore a gas shortage will be known in advance, and contingenc
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by periheli0n 5y ago
In practice there will be gas rationing. By the way, is the German power grid really reliant on gas to such an extent?
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by periheli0n 5y ago
That is why Germany’s decision to deliver weapons is much more dramatic than many Germans realise. It is the admission that their previous policy of “Wandel durch Handel” (roughly meaning to gain influence in a country by forming tight trad
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by periheli0n 5y ago
To be fair: once Putin invaded, Germany came around. What many Germans don’t seem to realise yet is the massive changes they are in for. Some consequences are evident already now, e.g. gas rationing next winter. Many other, still hidden con
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by periheli0n 5y ago
> don't know if Germans were really happy that their country wasn't even onboard supplying arms to Ukraine till yesterday. I guess Germany was under pressure from Putin regarding their gas dependency from Russia. The decision t
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by periheli0n 5y ago
> lead to quite a bit of civil hardship and even death next winter. Death? Hardly. Most German homes are well isolated and can be heated quite efficiently. If gas cuts out one can use an electric stove. Same for cooking, one can use a
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by periheli0n 5y ago
WFH may allow to reduce heating in offices, but will increase heating in homes. Net effect may be zero.
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by periheli0n 5y ago
> I personally find more modern (like MacOS 10) styles to look the best, and flat designs to be just as usable as more skeumorphic ones. Shouldn’t we separate looks from usability? KDE’s multifunctional search bar (similar to Spotlight o
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by periheli0n 5y ago
Computers being fast enough to do this in biology education is quite along way out. They probably used a farm of Nvidia racks for several months to obtain the simulation. Personally I doubt that an atom-scale simulation of a cell is very u
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by periheli0n 5y ago
If the first thing that comes to mind is fvwm95, does that mean I’m old?
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by periheli0n 5y ago
What would keep some entity that has its SWIFT access revoked from switching to China's CIPS or even crypto? Would it be merely an inconvenience, requiring the change of a few processes, or would it create hard problems?
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by periheli0n 5y ago
> I'd speculate the whole action is to force the West to a new deal with Russia, so they can balance China. I think any trust that Russia still enjoyed in the west is gone as of today. A few days ago the official Russian position wa
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by periheli0n 5y ago
> You can typeset EPUBs with it too, if you want. In theory, yes. In practice, this only works when the document is using a restricted set of packages. I tried. I'm fighting not so much with LaTeX, rather with ArXiv. They have the s
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by periheli0n 5y ago
> I'll believe this when scientific papers start appearing in the form of reflowable HTML. YES! It's 2022 and in spite of the often-praised superiority of LaTeX, we are still getting paginated PDFs on ArXiv, instead of responsi
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by periheli0n 5y ago
> On publishers, I wrote a book for Springer-Nature, and they wanted LaTeX. I wouldn't have published with them, if not. Do you know if they used LaTeX for the layout internally, or if they used some proprietary system that was fed
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by periheli0n 5y ago
The problems in converting LaTeX usually come from third-party packages. When only a restricted set of packages is allowed then it is quite straightforward. This is the reason many publishers require latex, even if they don't use LaTeX
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by periheli0n 5y ago
Lyx is great for that exact purpose! I used it too as an undergrad. But it doesn't offer the full flexibility and toolset available in LaTeX, which limits its use for more complex documents.
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by periheli0n 5y ago
Yes, almost ;)
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by periheli0n 5y ago
The discussion reminds me a little of the one around LaTeX in the scientific community. Latex is extremely powerful but reading the raw source of a text is a pain. WISYWIG is just so much more comfortable when writing, but MS Word sucks in
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by periheli0n 5y ago
> I think they call it "Schengen-land", named after an obscure town in Luxembourg. Strictly speaking it's not named after the town, but after the agreements which were signed there, which grant the right of check-free bord
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by periheli0n 5y ago
But mixed zoning usually comes with rules regarding opening hours, and a requirement to respect the neighbors' sleep. If a business repeatedly breaks those rules they get shut down. That's how in works in my city. The rules might
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by periheli0n 5y ago
This is not the only hole in the story. When I would get harassed at 2am by an employee of a half-illegal business I would a) call the cops to shut down the noise, b) team up with a few neighbours to obtain legal counsel how to shut them th
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by periheli0n 5y ago
Isn't running noisy 24/7 businesses in residential areas and repeated threatening behaviour from riders something that the cops should be able to shut down relatively easily?
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by periheli0n 5y ago
You could go to the primary literature and read the abstracts.
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by periheli0n 5y ago
Actually, both Nature and Science call themselves 'magazines', and they have plenty of pop-science-compatible content, mixed with primary literature. Arxiv needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt because much of the content is
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by periheli0n 5y ago
You could read his papers if you're only interested in the science?
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by periheli0n 5y ago
The sensors are not independent. Gas sensing is really tricky. Metal oxide gas sensors respond nonlinearly to all three of gas, temperature, and humidity. Plus they drift. AI can help with the nonlinear response. Drift hasn't been so

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