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by sigstoat 5y ago
if he, and those demanding his firing were all members of the same union, how vigorously do you think it would defend him? would they not just move their campaign to having him ejected from the union?
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by sigstoat 5y ago
what (if anything) have you used for pedagogical materials for the guqin? and how effective have they been? i'd like to futz around with an instrument in that family someday, but there aren't lessons available anywhere near me.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Tbf I wouldn’t like to think they’d even know what I’m doing. Privacy should be ok. that would be my biggest concern. how are they deciding what i'm doing, and what happens when my usage pattern triggers their magical detection? a
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> When at any point as an engineer or a scientist have you observed large exponential growth to be sustainable in any context??? what on _earth_ do you think 6-7% a year is? that's exponential growth. > SPY is up 50% since 2019 (
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> This, my friends, is how business travel becomes nearly irrelevant the business trips i've been on either involved the installation of equipment, or were an excuse for somebody with budget to burn it on travel and expensive food&#
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by sigstoat 5y ago
it kind of looks like you're having a rough day. i hope you feel better.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
you're the one who hallucinated "consumer" into all of this. nobody said that. it wasn't in the title. this isn't a consumer electronics forum. as the abstract of the article points out, it's for energy harvest
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by sigstoat 5y ago
seems like that's a win for both parties? the transmission line heating is a waste product, which increases resistance, which increases the waste. so if folks are willing to pump the heat out and productively use it, that's great.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
this didn't claim to have anything to do with "common user"s. energy harvesting/storage for IoT-type nodes is of huge interest, with lots of work being done on it. > Dave of EEVBlog has a mission and i don't thin
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> their "usable energy" is on the pico-watt to micro-watt scale devices which have long-term average power consumptions of micro-watts are perfectly reasonable. it's how some BLE sensors can run for years off a single coin
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Borrowing something to sell it is a recursive behavior, as is buying shares of yourself. no, it isn't. this is nonsense, you're just trying to equate some reasonable market activities with something that sounds a bit scary an
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by sigstoat 5y ago
and he was nearly too early in "the big short" as well. and buying puts integrates the timing directly into whether or not you're right. so if he's too early again, he'll be wrong.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
when the activated feature in an image recognition net looks like a lovecraftian horror, that doesn’t explain how the net came up with “turtle”. explainability is going to have a rough time for the same reason ai alignment is going to have
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by sigstoat 5y ago
are you suggesting psychological testing to get a license? because bizarre attention-seeking behavior seems to be this fellow's only problem.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
i've had (multiple!) nightmares about somehow finding myself in the backseat of a vehicle that i was supposed to be controlling. i can't imagine wanting to do that on purpose. uggggh.
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> vs. say, the Wells Fargo down the street we've got other articles in this thread explaining how fewer and fewer local banks are offering safe deposit boxes, and they generally want out of the business. and indeed, how when they ex
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> But give a person the choice between all those things and an extra $100k income, and I'm pretty sure you can guess what they'll choose. At least most people. i suppose "most" can mean a range of things. but i think
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by sigstoat 5y ago
some slightly different things than i'm seeing in most of the other comments: * respect during the interview process. i've had interviewers repeatedly fail to answer/make calls for initial phone interviews, send emails about
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> But I would like to hear more specific complaints about how regulations could change, if it has the chance to improve nuclear. https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop is a review of "Why Nuclear P
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> Kind of interesting, I really have no idea what peoples sex life is like on average. Idk how you can find out, no one wants to talk about it. i assume the Kinsey Institute has studied this; they do regular surveys and such on the topic
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by sigstoat 5y ago
https://sat-smt.codes/ comes up on HN with some regularity, i think. "practical uses" tends to mean whatever the speaker wants it to mean, so no guarantees, but i think it covers a number of small useful tasks, in
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by sigstoat 5y ago
> The reality of the situation is that the virus has a mortality rate of around 0.3% of which half are over 80. ...when everyone can receive medical treatment in a roughly modern-ish hospital. the concern from the start of the "flat
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by sigstoat 6y ago
sure there is. this is less important to the university than it is to HN. probably it's been mentioned to the dean of engineering, but i doubt anyone above that knows or would care without half an hour of explanation. and even the lett
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> It’s just that the apology doesn't do enough in what harm they have caused and what they are going to do in the future to prevent this harm. and that's fair! (also completely unrelated to what i said.) and has nothing to do w
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by sigstoat 6y ago
to the folks picking this apart word-by-word: all evidence suggests that two of the signatures are natives of china, and the third of india. it is reasonable to credit them with not being native english speakers.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> I’m curious if automotive systems used more generic controllers for cabin systems if shortages like this would be less or more severe. that wouldn't help. generic and not-generic controllers would still use ICs, and ICs are still
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Though I disagree with the research in general, if you did want to research "hypocrite commits" in an actual OSS setting, there isn't really any other way to do it other than actually introducing bugs per their proposal.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
that at least has some positive benefit.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> "I have no idea how this gets determined; I've just been strongly incentivized to act randomly!" that was certainly how i felt about raises at one job. good reviews every year, but sometimes a big raise, sometimes a tiny
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by sigstoat 6y ago
that's not simulation. for that trivial case, there's going to be a closed form solution. your nearest copy of mathematica can derive it for you. not that having a closed form solution is relevant to anything. the answer is still

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