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A codebase where some developers use spaces, another use tabs. Changes to the other person's code always has whitespace changes on large blocks of text that are otherwise unmodified resulting in much more in a code review than is neede
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Thank you... > The Tech Guild, which won its union election by a landslide in March 2022, is negotiating its first contract. Times management has been dragging their feet in bargaining and attacking the Tech Guild every step of the way s
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The comment that I originally responded to was: > with people implanting rare earth magnets into the tips of their pinky fingers And I was specifically referring to those rare earth magnets. Your comment then: > I have an implant and
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by shagie 2y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4848040/ > The static magnetic field B_0 of an MRI machine attracts ferromagnetic objects and accelerates them toward the center of the bore of the MRI scanner.
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> ... with people implanting rare earth magnets into the tips of their pinky fingers ... Imagine the joy of getting an MRI and forgetting about that bit of biohacking.
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There are potentially many reasonable things to negotiate for. So far, all the information I can find is "stalled contract negotiations". Working without a contract is a perfectly valid reason to strike. Things like making sure
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> If you want the Union's opinion, their strike demands are the place to look. https://www.axios.com/2024/09/10/nyt-tech-union-strike-vote > The New York Times Tech Guild, which represents more tha
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> Why should a principal SWE there get paid less than a senior SWE working on Google News, for instance? https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28GOOGL%2C+NYT%29+reve... (GOOGL, NYT) revenue per employee Alphab
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What would be more equitable? https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=New+York+Times&assumpti... puts the revenue per employee at $422,656. They've got 5900 employees and https://www.nytimes.com/2024&
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by shagie 2y ago
I believe the appropriate clip to watch is Lisa and Bleeding Gums Murphy - https://youtu.be/PX05DJWNj3k
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I've read Singularity Sky, and Iron Sunrise. Also read http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/09/books-i-... > My first two published SF novels, "Singularity Sky" and "I
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https://www.cbc.ca/music/read/how-john-cale-recorded-the-def... has more background on the editor process that Cale did. > Shortly after Shrek's success, Cale ran into Cohen at a Starbucks in Hollywood, wh
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by shagie 2y ago
Another space book series that I'm going to toss out there... * completely* different take on the universe and human nature... Nathan Lowell's Solar Clipper series. The author read (and is a very good reader) the first books as
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by shagie 2y ago
At one point in my music library, I not-quite-dated a woman who's fond of the song ... and I picked up a few versions of it in my music library. There was also a version playing on KFOG at the time. One of the things that interesting
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I was first introduced to him with Dread Empire's Fall series which has one of the more realistic space battles between capital ships. There was a long gap between the first trilogy (2002 - 2005) and the second (2018 - 2022). Some of
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It isn't gelled as much because it wasn't really meant to be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando#Plot_summary_and_b... The publication dates of the short stories spans a bit over three years. https:&#
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Followed up with Anathem (by Neal Stephenson). It took me three tries to get into the book before going audible on it... and then realizing its a really neat philosophy text wrapped around a plot.
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The COMP.BASILISK FAQ is in the 'futures' section of Nature ... which has a number of other good short stories. https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures --- For Adrian Tchaikovsky, I really liked t
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Accelerando and Glasshouse fall in a "the ideas of one feed into the next" sequence that I find interesting to read in sequence... the first four of which are available on the web. COMP.BASILISK FAQ https://www.nature.c
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I would suggest you argue with the judge that downloading something is making a non-transformative copy of the material. I believe that, however, is irrelevant to the transformative nature of the end product - the model itself. I would also
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There is law - its in the carveout and printed above the copiers in a library that stems from https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108 > The rights of reproduction and distribution under this section
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This is still an open matter of law. The core issue is the transformative test in fair use. Is the model sufficiently transformative? The question of what, if any, impact OpenAI has on the copyright holder's income is yet to be demons
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Authors Guild v. Google - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,... . and https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/summaries/authorsguild-go... > The Second Circuit agreed w
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Digging through my photos... it was the '08 Great Road Trip... and I even took it on my iPhone then which means that I've got all the other metadata info. October 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm. The geocoding location on it puts it at htt
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The most recent Kurzgesagt video (on time travel) https://youtu.be/dBxxi5XAm3U had this passage: > To explain how this actually works without making a math video, we have to make a lot of physicists grumpy, so please kee
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The fossil reactor at Oklo https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100912.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto... can be used for that question. From Wikipedia: The nat
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> Honestly, it's probably the one science demo that blew my mind when I saw it. It's SO slow. And we had already learned about the math behind it, but was amazing to see in practice. Many years ago (searching... Amazon 2017) go
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Non-Newtonian fluids are fun... until they aren't. One time a group of college students I hung out with got a bulk order of silly putty. This was fun to play with. Until someone had the idea of dropping it from about 6 feet up onto t
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Unlocked article - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/04/technology/waymo-expansio...
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https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/346/iii/2... I am sure you can find similar laws in other states.

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