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by sseagull 4y ago
I was seriously looking into Apple News+ a few months ago, but it turns out you have to use the app (from what I remember), which of course requires an Apple device. I only have an iPhone, and like to read news on my computer or tablet whic
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After you think you are perfect, then there’s suicide linux: https://github.com/tiagoad/suicide-linux “Any time - any time - you type any remotely incorrect command, the interpreter creatively resolves it into rm -rf &
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The more interesting/disgusting part is that they own EyeMed, so for many people they also get your insurance premium, and then also what you pay for glasses or whatever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica#Med
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I bought a Surface 7+ a few months ago and really like it. I think of it as a “laptop replacement”. My serious work is done on a desktop with 3 large monitors at home, and a laptop with two large monitors at work. So I only needed a small-i
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> they never put abortion into the constitution to firmly protect it Neither party has had the votes to do that in a while (2/3rds in both the House and the Senate). It must also be ratified by 3/4ths of the states (38 right no
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But you could write a C++ class with a manual .copy() method and a deleted copy constructor (and other conversion constructors not implemented). Doing that seems a bit easier than integrating a whole new language into your project (although
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by sseagull 4y ago
But the temporary copy only happens going from const char * to std::string, so the C code would have to be calling C++ code. std::string to const char doesn’t (usually?) require copying.
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You left out ecology (again, which wouldn't be funded by business and I would consider important for society). The NSF also gets somewhat close to the others via Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, which includes anthropolog
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Don't get me wrong, we are mostly on the same page w.r.t. salaries and what not. > BTW, what is your university's pension plan like? Postdocs get the same pension plan/401k plan as any other faculty (postdocs are indeed re
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Oh you have absolutely zero argument from me. One problem is the “professionalization” of universities, who are now run by admin “professionals", which removes power from the faculty. Although one part of this is regulatory burden by t
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> Leave academia and find a company who will fund your work. This is the weakness in your argument. Not all of science is interesting to the private sector. I worked for a large company once that in the past had large labs for researchin
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I hate the trivialization of this. The solution is not obvious. Paying more/longer requires more money. Where does that money come from? At least in my areas of science (chemistry), most of this money comes from grants, which comes fro
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The book "Turn the Ship Around" by David Marquet is basically along these lines. He worked to turn a poorly-performing submarine in the US Navy to one of the best. The gist is that he enabled autonomy and shared vision to reduce t
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Now I do wonder about the history of the term. The tendency is to call computational science software “codes”, but I’ve never heard a scientist call, ie a web browser, a code. There’s a different connotation. Like how theres a different con
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> They call it "codes" They/We have probably been calling it that since before you were alive. I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes from the 60s or 70s. Every group of people has their own terminology for stuff. There is no
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I do. I bought a house a few years ago, and needed to buy a whole bunch of stuff (lawnmower, generator, washer, dryer, freezer, bed, etc). Really helped pare down what was out there. Largely use it for bigger items, though. I just didn&#x27
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That’s basically what I thought. However, IIRC they were marketed more towards high-performance computing (with avx-512). They were an uncomfortable middle ground though, between normal CPUs and GPUs. My benchmarks showed that there wasn’t
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It looks like the law allows the governor to ask the AG to investigate matters of public interest related to public safety. There doesn’t necessarily need to be a violation of the law. “…New York Executive Law Section 63(8), which permits t
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This is kind of related to Moravec's paradox. Very generally, computers have a tough time with things humans are innately good at (recognizing items in photos, integrating sensory inputs, etc). But things that humans are be bad at (com
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One of the theories of brain evolution is that it increased in size after bipedalism due to the need for better cooling when standing up (the so-called Radiator Theory)
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I got a Surface 7+ recently and really like it. I can put full desktop applications (firefox + ublock origin, pycharm) and have it better mirror my dev environment with WSL. Windows 11 on a tablet is really not that bad. (I also run linux o
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XMPP is federated as well. And since Facebook and Google used XMPP, you could message those users from your home server. Well, you used to be able to. They eventually closed it off, of course.
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I'll give a bit of a different example. I was recently playing the remastered Dark Souls on Switch. For some reason, they used the Japanese button mapping of B and A rather than the usual mapping in the US. And you couldn't change
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I somewhat agree, except maybe: > This blog post is a set of requirements for a Homer car, not a sensible professional tool "Professional" is a wide category for sure, but I would argue professionals are the ones who need more
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Because people have different needs, expectations, and preferences. It’s part of what makes humans interesting. Computers should be made to serve people, not the other way around.
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> Apple went with their custom iTunes-related protocol with the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, because why not. You can mount an iPhone as MTP. But only for pictures, not for music. I kinda get why, but blah. It’s a bit of a weird distin
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Ah sorry, I wasn’t clear. Setting the scroll direction there also changes the direction of the scroll wheel on a mouse. I don’t have a mac near me but when I did, I could not get them set to be the way I wanted.
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Since we are all airing grievances - how about the ability to set different scroll directions for the touchpad and a mouse. I dunno, I guess my brain is just wired differently from what apple expects.
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I have had some gastroscopies done. For me they used some lidocaine (intravenous) and then propofol. This was done by a certified nurse anesthetist. I don’t know the distinction between that and “general” anesthesia (they called this genera
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I just bought a Surface Pro 7+ with an i5 and 8gb of memory, and am really liking it. I was looking more for a tablet (with a real OS on it), but it doubles as a laptop in a pinch. I have a more powerful desktop for heavier tasks, and this

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