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Calling an article from the Cato Institute, which was published in the Washington Examiner (you know, the same one that published op-eds claiming that most climate models are worthless, by an author who received hundreds of thousands of dol
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Hmmm, that's really interesting! Thanks for digging into it a little more and posting these resources :)
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I suppose that's fair--funding bias is surely a thing, and may be valid in this case, although I disagree about the actual authors "highly biased" credentials. If someone was interested in education, those are the kind of cre
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This is something people researched for a long time. Either way, you definitely need more than a single counterexample to wholesale claim that there is little relationship between funding and performance. I've linked a couple of studie
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Okay, I guess we'll jump through this step-by-step... >> Nobody gave me the option to show up without school supplies. That would be an "F" grade. That sucks, I'm sorry you had that experience. In a public school s
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Look, obviously you've provided a couple of sources, and my own experience is anecdotal, but I don't think your statement that "That is not the case for any large part of the US" can be true. I have a friend who went int
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I genuinely don't know the answer: is there another word for this concept, where a parasite benefits the species as a whole, but not the individual? That would seem to be a form of symbiosis, not parasitism. >> there are many cas
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I'm sorry, I think reducing the lack of modern rail in the United States to "because the geography is different" almost completely misses the mark. We don't have anything close to this, anywhere. There are plenty of plac
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This is one of the more encouraging things I've heard about this space recently. Obviously no worries if not, but is there any more detail you can provide about the (I'm assuming) niches you're using it in?
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Redox is still very much active... [1] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/groups/redox-os/-/activity [2] https://www.redox-os.org/news/
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I don't believe Redox fits the bill for this--so far, the kernel is only written to support x86 architectures at the moment. I do think there's been a couple of Redox Summer of Code students who have been funded to work on porting
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Is there any chance that some of the upcoming open-source cross-platform standards like WebGPU could have an effect on this, if tooling around them was built to support writing more GPGPU-focused code?
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I was under the impression that this kind of interpretation of employment contracts was more or less illegal (or, at the very least, unenforceable) in many states (I'm assuming you're US, programming in Fortune 500, so maybe not a
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I'm not sure I've had that issue with Mobian--I definitely am able to receive phone calls while it's sleeping in the other room, so it's not like there's an inherent inability to push notifications during sleep. I t
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I'm not sure if it's just because of a change in my own mental filter or due to an actual increase in this type of content, but it feels like I've started noticing more posts and general information about homelabs showing up
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If you haven't read the book written by the NYTimes journalist Ian Urbina that much of the original research this article refers to, I highly, highly recommend it [1]. Not only is it illuminating, but the writing and stories within it
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RSoC Update: Improving Kernel and Drivers(redox-os.org)
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I own the Pinephone UBports CE, which I've run UBports, postmarketOS, and currently have Mobian installed. Mobian is definitely my favorite of the three so far. Set-up was really easy, I'm perfectly okay with the Phosh UI, and bei
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Just wanted to +1 Pop's Pop!_Shop. I have machines running both Ubuntu and Pop!_OS, and for some reason (not sure if it's because of the underlying tech/architecture differences, System76 curation, or what), the Pop package m
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This seems like some pretty good reporting-- I was particularly interested by the sections noting the difference between the marketing speech that is featured heavily on the site and the actual language used in the privacy policy and ToS. T
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I actually work with underwater ROVs, and in general, I think that this sort of a thing is a long way away. For one, most vehicles that small use an onboard battery, and it is really easy to burn that capacity if there's even a slight
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Just a quick reminder that in California, a bill allowing statewide ranked-choice voting in all cities (not just charter ones) was passed by both the state assembly and senate by a wide margin, before being vetoed by Gov. Newsom last year.
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I don't think this is an entirely fair comparison. I thinks it's closer to the Post Office being worried about finding enough new drivers for their mail routes, but refusing to upgrade any of their delivery trucks from a manual tr
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I have use GitHub to host some of my professional work that is publicly available, and I do use it primarily as a productivity tool with the benefit that I can link other people to it if they need to. However, I find the "sense of comm
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For what it's worth, I believe that the RPi4B now also has an option for 8GB RAM.
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RedoxOS Summer of Code 2020: GDB for Redox – Part 0(redox-os.org)
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Not affiliated with them, but there's a startup in New England that sounds like they've gotten pretty good results and feedback using drones. I think they use hyperspectral sensors find things like areas that are under/over-w
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You certainly don't need lidar to do auto-steering on a farm that you own yourself. You can get decent straight-line results using a PID controller on a compass alone, and tossing in a GPS module would make the whole thing even more ac
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There was a science teacher in my high school that used to have a rule about doing things similarly. For any kind of a lab report, instead of "you must write a report of at least 3 pages", it was "your report must not be more
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If you're interested, there's an unofficial working group that's been organized to start doing development in machine learning for Rust at https://github.com/rust-ml . We actually have a meeting scheduled for

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