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by wumpus 5y ago
I have a friend who's terrified of this new phrenology. She's missing some muscles in her face, such that she blinks weirdly. She can only mostly close her eyes, thanks to an operation in her childhood that took a muscle from her
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by wumpus 5y ago
It's mostly Python most of the time, from my vantage point. Several of the GPU projects I'm watching have GPU kernels contained inside of python frameworks. So the typical user only has to change the python part of the code.
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by wumpus 5y ago
> One of the features of arguments for “ethical” treatment of animals is that they are often so unethical. One of the features of arguments is that accusing people who disagree with you of being hypocrites is popular. It doesn't lea
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by wumpus 5y ago
It appears that he was speaking for himself.
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by wumpus 5y ago
> No one really cares if pigs suffer It's surprising that you don't have any family, friends, or co-workers who do care about that kind of thing. My academic astronomy group has a bunch of vegetarians and vegans. While I have n
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by wumpus 5y ago
It would be fun to compare the two. Interesting that the blog author is the creator of Pandas and didn't include a comparison.
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by wumpus 5y ago
I am a human and I have agency. Your alternative isn't respecting my choices.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Maybe you can't? Just a thought.
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by wumpus 5y ago
My favorite email is the "we're going to stop sending you emails because you aren't ever opening them." I use mutt. And this is proof that it does the job.
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by wumpus 5y ago
I just got back into astrophysics after having been gone for 25 years, and no one uses IDL anymore.
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by wumpus 5y ago
The famous comic along those lines: http://vectorbelly.com/electrical177.html
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by wumpus 5y ago
Aren't heavy water reactors the most popular way that new countries have built nuclear weapons? Basically everyone but North Korea?
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by wumpus 5y ago
Good news! > There are other possible power sources.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Have you actually read the book to observe how it was used there, or are you just responding to the previous comment?
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by wumpus 5y ago
You shouldn't lump search ads in with display ads -- search ads are relevant to the search terms, and are much more valuable than display ads. Search ads get a much smaller lift from personalization.
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by wumpus 5y ago
If you say "missing matter", the thing most physicists think of first is probably missing anti-matter, and then missing baryons. Not dark matter. It's a bit late to suggest new nomenclature for something that's been arou
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by wumpus 5y ago
There's a continuous median in that area. One Bay-area example where the median disappears to allow a left turn lane is C-17 going to Santa Cruz.
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by wumpus 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_v._Environmental... -- the EPA can regulate CO2 because it is a pollutant, according to the Supreme Court.
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by wumpus 5y ago
That wasn't what I was getting at, sorry to have been unclear. What I was saying is that you can write an IRC bot and then show it to your friends (on IRC) without your friends having to do anything in advance (like downloading an app.
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by wumpus 5y ago
IRC bots are really a fascinating category of software, because you can inject them into situations where people didn't necessarily agree to use them :-D much easier to attract users of your code if it's not totally... voluntary.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Well, and then there are some people that I don't exactly want to consider how IRC "improved" them.
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by wumpus 5y ago
As those of you who frequent alt.irc.recovery recall, I quit IRC cold turkey a long time ago. But I'm fascinated by what Slack has done with the IRC concept -- it can be an amazingly positive cultural transition for a tech company to s
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by wumpus 5y ago
Good times! I wonder how many people were launched into infosec careers or learned coding or had some other positive result in their lives because of petty fights on IRC. I learned a lot from that era, not only about social skills, but also
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by wumpus 5y ago
That's what you get for centralization combined with a couple of decades of poor architecture choices. signed, the wumpus who gave the world EFNET
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by wumpus 5y ago
Also for smoke, apparently: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/world/middleeast/22phosph...
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by wumpus 5y ago
I don't think rent control prevents an owner from installing a pay charging station or service.
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by wumpus 5y ago
Some employers have plugs at work. Facebook has several hundred L2 charging stations at HQ, for example.
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by wumpus 5y ago
It's worth clicking on that link -- they've totally screwed up predicting the future 10 years in a row. By a huge margin.
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by wumpus 5y ago
China has recent laid a bunch of very long high-voltage DC cables to transport power west to east. None of them are underwater, but it sure seems possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects#Asia -- an
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by wumpus 5y ago
Needs a "video" label, there's no content without the video.

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