phdelightful

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by phdelightful 5y ago
I’m a new parent, so I just got to (had to?) name someone for the first time. In my jurisdiction you actually have quite a while before you have to make that choice, but you do eventually need to make it. It speaks to lots of point in this
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by phdelightful 5y ago
I live in Southwest US where it’s common to use a swamp cooler (aka evaporative cooler) for your house. Instead of the normal refrigerated air unit that sits outside your house, there is basically a box with a big fan that pulls air across
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by phdelightful 5y ago
If we are envisioning a single “nuclear explosion” (not a large nuclear attack), then this advice is not as crazy as it might seem. Think terrorism, or accident. If you survive the initial event, and the rest of the country is immediately i
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by phdelightful 5y ago
I agree, it's not clear. Maybe it's because the developer has sunk so much time into dealing with Google Play that she hasn't been able to release it on other platforms, or she's discouraged from trying to do so and gett
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by phdelightful 5y ago
Does it actually work like that or does each successive 1.7mm multiply the radiation flux by 0.98? And then the inner layers will get less radiation and grow less well also?
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by phdelightful 5y ago
I assume computer science results without published artifacts to be fake. When it's so easy to publish and run code, if the researcher can't even do that then I assume the code does not work and thus the results must be fabricated
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by phdelightful 5y ago
The average HN user: * is trained in the diplomacy of Sid Meyer's Civilization * Doesn't like nicely designed emails * are on the beneficial side of rideshare companies * has worse healthcare than the average US HN user * has ultr
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by phdelightful 5y ago
Yes, everything you write is true, it's a great list. I wish Nvidia had a section of their programming guide that succinctly stated the differences. I've been writing CUDA for a long time, and once you grok the host/device st
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by phdelightful 5y ago
CUDA's programming model is not /completely/ different than C. It's not even /very/ different. Most of the C abstract machine (what I think you meant when you wrote virtual machine) carries over directly. What
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by phdelightful 5y ago
Yeah it even starts with something not backed up by the study it's reporting on: "Imagine being able to swap out broccoli for sweets, Ben & Jerry's or some other sugary treat and achieve the same health benefits. This is
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by phdelightful 5y ago
If your point is "lies, damn lies, and statistics," then I guess I can't argue with that. If your point is something more specific about OECD self-employment data, or the processes and practices for a specific or category of
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by phdelightful 5y ago
Because I don't want to see a flamewar on HN, and by the time the war has started it's too late. As shown by this submission, it doesn't automatically bury things that are hard to talk about, it just means the submission has
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by phdelightful 5y ago
Not so surprising to me, it's about DINC without being political, and using transgender folks as a sort of A/B test is more intellectually stimulating than the Nth discussion about web technologies, at least to me. Perhaps others
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by phdelightful 5y ago
I got the predecessor of these (ATH-M50) in high school and I still use them 15 years later. Have a bit of peeling where the headband touches my head, but working perfectly otherwise.
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by phdelightful 5y ago
I also think it's humor. Scott probably just came across it while searching the name. When you search something on twitter, it is bolded in the results just like in the image. The caption is an example of irony I think: incongruity bet
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by phdelightful 5y ago
How about we set up some rules and regulations so that the price of goods more accurately reflects their total cost (environmental, moral, material) and then we can all just sort of automatically buy the right amount of stuff.
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by phdelightful 5y ago
A bad look when Alphabet is selling competing devices like Chromecast (at least partially competing) and then pull YouTube from Roku devices.
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by phdelightful 5y ago
Can you expand a bit more? Roughly speaking, someone has to tell you about consciousness before you can experience it? And how does that relate to a challenge of defining it?
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by phdelightful 5y ago
This is important work, at least partially addressed in other benchmark harnesses (like github.com/google/benchmark has DoNotOptimize and ClobberMemory https://github.com/google/benchmark/blob/7fad96
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by phdelightful 5y ago
It's not through the wall, it's from reflections off the wall. Imagine being able to see around a corner because all walls were mirrors, except this works for walls that are not traditional mirrors.
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by phdelightful 5y ago
I want a small discount for sequestering carbon in my child's body mass for several decades!
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by phdelightful 5y ago
I think it's because animal cells already know how to grow into the flavor / texture profile we're used to. I don't think anyone knows how to fake that convincingly out of constituent parts (or we'd have it already!
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by phdelightful 5y ago
I think I still largely disagree with what you wrote. I do agree that the thesis could be more clearly written to say that objectivity and rigor are not /purely/ harmful. Their definitions of objectivity and rigor are quite simila
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by phdelightful 5y ago
Their definitions seem reasonable: "Objectivity...is the distance between the “researcher” and “researched.” "Rigor measures whether research is reliable, accurate, and trustworthy." They they go on to criticize certain aspec
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by phdelightful 5y ago
To my eye the grandparent is right and your reading is the uncharitable one. Obviously I think there is some "clickbait" going on in the title, which you can take issue with, but the article is pretty clear: On objectivity: "
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by phdelightful 5y ago
I don't think either of the two antitrust agencies in the US are empowered to give approval, they are only empowered to challenge at the time of the review. They can always review more later and challenge if they want, but never give a
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by phdelightful 5y ago
Of course last weekend I just stitched lvm2 and restic together to do an incremental snapshot backup. I'll have to consider whether this is a better solution.
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by phdelightful 5y ago
I’m not an expert in this but I can see you’re mixing up a few things > However, the only acceptable treatment for trans-presenting children is 100% acceptance and affirmation This is a bit reductive isn’t it? You can take them at their
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by phdelightful 5y ago
A fair question. It's VMware Horizon client or something like that in this case.
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by phdelightful 5y ago
My employer doesn't even really allow personal electronic devices on the network, though there is some provision for visitors of course. So if you need a phone they have to provide you one, same for a computer. The same security constr

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