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by prpl 4y ago
Fermilab has been in trouble for a while. They did not diversify enough at the tail end of Tevatron and (I think) are mostly working on DUNE, which isn’t going great. You can’t have a lab that big with mostly a singular focus which is being
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by prpl 4y ago
At least my local safeway is cashing in on wonder bread-quality bread.
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by prpl 4y ago
I’m personally pretty optimistic which is probably why I enjoy proving the pessimists wrong.
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by prpl 4y ago
Been reading since 2008 or so, after I started playing around with old DSLRs and posited an upgrade to a D200. Will be a ad to see it go. One of the few websites I still check daily. Hopefully somebody builds an archive at least.
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by prpl 4y ago
I was excited for Spack and used it for some small packages, but it didn’t have a proper binary artifacts then. Ended up settling on conda-forge and it’s okay. If I was doing a large scientific computing project today, I’d probably reach fo
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by prpl 4y ago
Both of those are non-trivial and annoying to say the least, I know ROOT has a few very smart people managing build recipes in conda-forge too.
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by prpl 4y ago
I’ve been around pessimists, which can have different flavors, and while it can be draining, it can also be strangely motivating - some of my best work is frankly adversarial pessimists.
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by prpl 4y ago
nah, they will get another SVB through lobbying, regulatory capture, and deregulation in time.
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by prpl 4y ago
Scottsdale seems a reasonable place for someone like that
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by prpl 4y ago
You can schedule jobs without a wall clock time if the admin didn’t disable it, but it’s awkward. That will make scheduling MPI jobs hard/impossible.
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by prpl 4y ago
I think that’s largely because people who get certificates often do so because they didn’t have formal (or close to formal, e.g. highly motivated dropouts) education in the field they are getting a certificate. (also - job churn, and/o
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by prpl 4y ago
After 15 years of the talent acquisition arms race they all finally got what they wanted, and now they are happy to throw it all way.
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by prpl 4y ago
I mean, Peter Thiel has undeniably shaped startup culture for the last two decades, in particular 2008-2014 or so.
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by prpl 4y ago
I was also using iCloud shared photo album which was great until my mother switched to an android phone (in addition, lost true Facetime support which was also a bummer) Ironically she switched to an android phone because she had too many p
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by prpl 4y ago
Grandparents have shared photos of their relatives, just usually through wallet photos in the past, email maybe later - so it probably feels like a small delta on that. Probably doesn’t help more of their lives are spent online than in pers
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by prpl 4y ago
Don’t worry, there is at least a lifetime on the usage.
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by prpl 4y ago
Fundamentally this all boils down to precision measurement/observability (for both analog and digital). Occasionally, small changes are observed in high end equipment with high precision instrumentation - but a subjective interpretatio
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by prpl 4y ago
They can get bridge loans or sell their deposit claims at a discount (in exchange for the liquidity), if they didn’t otherwise have supplemental insurance. That’s what’s at stake here, the companies would prefer to have all their money, ri
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by prpl 4y ago
Depositing anything over the $250k limit is a risk, but one that is standard operating procedure. The reality is that every startup/VC was happy to absorb that risk for benefits previously described. They, in fact, should have hedged t
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by prpl 4y ago
For many SUVs there’s no real difference. A honda pilot weighs less than an Odyssey, though probably with some small amount of added drag. Usually an SUV is more likely to have AWD I bought a tiguan because I needed the occasional added sea
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by prpl 4y ago
Lower middle class (and even uneducated pedigree upper middle class) is where the brutalism is for competitive schools, but lower middle class has state schools (if in California, Cal State schools) or community college- and almost always f
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by prpl 4y ago
I stated having tinnitus after wearing airpods (gen3, but dropped to gen 2 ) last year. I’d used big headphones and standard issue wired headphones for years. Even went to an audiologist to get hearing checked. I’d concurrently had a bad si
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by prpl 4y ago
You don’t need SYS_PTRACE to really do this? Or is it only observability for the network alone?
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by prpl 4y ago
the is less demand though (people don’t like to move in winter/mid school year)
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by prpl 4y ago
Obscurity through pronouncement
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by prpl 4y ago
Funny you mention that because Trump gave away USA-224’s optics capability. You can understand from that photo the kind of resolution you can get from space (during the middle of the day, in August, in a desert - no less).
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by prpl 4y ago
It's an optics problem. Most of the scattering when looking down is near the objects because that's where the turbulence and air density. Looking sideways has to go through all of that - it's dense, uniform, and turbulent in
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by prpl 4y ago
That’s true but it assumes it can get within ~40 miles as the crow flies of an interesting target, even then you are going through a LOT more dense atmosphere for your photos.
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by prpl 4y ago
I think you might be overestimating Chilean quality/economic circumstances. The big difference between Chile and Turkey is that larger earthquakes than that happen regularly all through the country (every two years at least) - and much
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by prpl 4y ago
All that talent centralization at large tech companies had to come from somewhere - it’s not like 100k devs magically just appeared from college. They finally got what they wanted after 15 years of talent wars and now they were happy to tos

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