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by sseagull 3y ago
I find the nomenclature discussion very interesting. I wonder why "modern" music has so many genres? I listen to a lot of "classical". People will generally dump centuries of music into that label, or into the slightly b
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What a shit article. Pure chum for the current anti-Boeing frenzy. Doesn’t give the aircraft model or any details about the incident. AV Herald story: https://avherald.com/h?article=51620c12&opt=0 Was a low tire pressur
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The NSF may be getting its budget cut to about $9 billion, which is not a huge amount considering all the areas they cover. Now compare that with the profit of big tech… that is truly insane.
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Easy to say, but good luck with that. It's flawed for sure, but there's so much around you that comes from this system if you care to look for it.
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You are imagining a solution to a very hard social problem. It is trivially simple on paper, but realistically extremely difficult to implement when you think it through. The fundamental issue: what is in it for the reviewers in this case?
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This is a common refrain, but if this was a requirement science would absolutely grind to a halt. There is just too much science being done. And in some fields, what scientists publish is generally sound, if incremental (and maybe of dubiou
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by sseagull 3y ago
Mass specs would have this problem, yes. That's why they are usually paired with chromatography of some sort (usually GC/MS or LC/MS). The GC or LC more or less reduce a mixture into components, which are fed into the mass sp
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by sseagull 3y ago
But you aren’t storing application data in the IMAP server. I hope. The idea (for me anyway) is that if you have a postgres db with data, and need a queue for tasks dealing with that data, building it into the existing db can make more sens
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by sseagull 3y ago
Some universities also have their own power plants. It’s also becoming more common to at least supplement power on campus with solar arrays.
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I am doing that. I am part of a research group, and don’t have the $$ or ability to pay so much for all these services. So we got a $90k server with 184TB of raw storage (SAS SSD), 64 cores, and 1TB of memory. Put it on a 10GB line at our u
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by sseagull 3y ago
I was looking for a new car and recently and gave serious thought to an EV. I found out that there aren't really that many EV sedans, but lots of SUVs and whatever you call the in-between-sized vehicles. I wasn't too impressed wit
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Keep reading: "Perhaps the communities who've invested in becoming experts in Pytorch and Tensorflow will wrestle them away from their corporate masters and make them generally useful. Certainly, a lot of people will have gained s
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by sseagull 3y ago
maybe? I'm wasn't even sure what databricks was until I looked it up. I might not be the right person to answer this question, so you might need to narrow down what your audience is :) My POV comes from academia. Our data is rarel
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by sseagull 3y ago
Money doesn't bring happiness, but lack of money can bring hardship and lack of happiness. Money can alleviate hardship and stress, but happiness is more than absence of sadness, hardship, or stress.
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by sseagull 3y ago
Not sure if this helps, but tons of people in science use local jupyter installations (typically installed through conda). Using externally hosted ones are probably the exception in my circles. I’ve only used a few hosted ones from time to
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by sseagull 3y ago
> Daycare in my area is ~2400 a month If you are retiring early, why are you paying for daycare? Many people would love to retire early just to be able to spend time with their children.
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by sseagull 3y ago
> Wouldn't all those examples also work just as easily with torrents/magnet-links? My (possibly wrong) feeling is that IPFS is meant for smaller files, and torrents for bigger collections. So with the example of a package manag
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Uber shutting down alcohol delivery service Drizly(axios.com)
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by sseagull 3y ago
Here's a link to an Aviation Herald search for "windshield crack". Looks like a lot of bird and hail, but also a fair number of them just cracking. https://avherald.com/h?search_term=windshield+crack&opt=0
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by sseagull 3y ago
Beware the paradox of averages. I bet a lot more than 99% of people have some wrinkle with their return. One person has a wash sale, another has some real estate stuff, another became disabled, another has child care stuff, another has ed
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by sseagull 3y ago
It's more to do with developer ergonomics. Knowing what something is or returns (and having some guarantees about it) make it much easier to reason about code. Then, knowing (with guarantees) what a variable/object is, knowing rig
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by sseagull 3y ago
I basically agree (except I will take static typing over dynamic typing any day). I work in computational chemistry, and scientists here don’t necessarily have problems actually coding (we’ve been doing it for 70+ years). But the “other stu
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by sseagull 3y ago
Foreign keys are really just constraints - the row referred to by the FK must exist, and the database will ensure that. That is the basic idea. Cascading, etc are just useful features on top. While FKs and JOINs often go hand in hand, JOINs
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by sseagull 3y ago
Looking at the data sheets, seems to have phosphates in it, which are questionable for the environment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphates_in_detergent
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by sseagull 3y ago
Another comment mentioned it, but: 1. You can check for user changes when the refresh token is used and a new access token is requested (user deleted, permissions changed, access revoked) 2. Refreshes can go to a different endpoint, whereas
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by sseagull 3y ago
I am no JWT expert, but I have found them useful for APIs rather than web apps accessed from the browser. If the user is expected to use a programming language and hit the API many times a second, then even a short expiration and moderate r
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by sseagull 3y ago
> as long as they can keep doing their research work, it doesn't affect them That’s a big question. Once stuff starts going “commercial” incentives can change fairly quickly. If you want to do interesting research, but the money wan
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Read up on Kelo v. City of New London if you want to get angry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London "Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005),[1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme
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In the short-lived Strike Force Five podcast (five late-night talk show hosts during the writer's strike), one of them talks about this. They mentioned how they tried and tried but couldn't get the garlic to actually do that. When
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I like the practicality of this. I know everyone (particularly here) is excited about new languages, and some of them are great. I'm learning some myself. But there's billions (?) of lines of existing C++. For those projects, ther

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