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"The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project"

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...

I really like Immich, although recently their android app randomly decided to go out of sync with my library and stop backing up automatically :/

I built mine around an N150 board off of aliexpress. 6 SATA slots, 4x2.5G ethernet, 2x m.2 slots. Find a cheap second-hand case, a bit of RAM and you're ready to go. It's got hardware transcoding, handles 4K without breaking a sweat. And it consumes 6W!

Theranos famously didn't manage to raise VC money, the funding all came from people like Rupert Murdoch and the Walton family.

It's bad on purpose to make you click.

I completely agree with this evaluation, I dropped it as well fairly early on.

People with aphantasia are actually _better_ at mental rotation tests! Lack of visualization is no obstacle to the brain, which of course has all sorts of interesting implications.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381002...

All psychological traits are highly heritable. See eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4739500/

Everything search is the most befuddling one. The delta between Everything and the built-in Windows search can only be described as monumental. A vast gulf. They do not even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence. Just fucking buy the thing and integrate it, what could they possibly be thinking?

Nature, uh, finds a way.

You know what, I _would_ download a car.

Seems like a straight-forward CFAA violation, no?

From Stella Maris:

Cantor, Gauss, Riemann, Euler. Hilbert. Poincaré. Noether. Hypatia. Klein, Minkowski, Turing, von Neumann. Hardly even a partial list. Cauchy, Lie, Dedekind, Brouwer. Boole. Peano. Church is still alive. Hamilton, Laplace, Lagrange. The ancients of course. You look at these names and the work they represent and you realize that the annals of latterday literature and philosophy by comparison are barren beyond description.

If anything, I would say the book suggests he was cynical about literature rather than science!

Having read the Di Giovanni translations, I find them inferior to the Irby/Yates ones. Hurley is the worst.

Without a second offer in hand, you're always going to be in a very bad negotiating position when it comes to salary. Avoiding the stress of multiple interviews is almost certainly costing you tens of thousands per year. Over your entire career we're talking about millions of euros.

If a third alternative existed that would be a meaningful objection.

A ~1sd difference in average g at the national level is the difference between not having stable electricity, and being an uber-rich technological wonderland. That suggests that even if the curve is bending, it's not a very hard bend.

Are you equally surprised that it's legal to go long and then talk your book?

The distortionary effect of VAT is much better than taxing income. If you're worried about its relative impact on poor people you can just redistribute more (which EU countries obviously do).

It has trouble with the Caesar cipher (and other stuff like basic math) because of the BPE tokenization. The easiest way to bypass it is to ask it to write a function that does what you want it to do, it's obvious it understands the Caesar cipher.

Sing, O prompt engineer, of the artstation anime waifus

mandatory 1-3 days chatting

This is not a real thing. In fact once you go above 2-3 back and forth messages your chances of actually going on a date start to go down.

I don't really understand on what basis they're making the claim that these differences are due to unconscious biases. The entire thing seems to be completely made up.

One that he doesn’t discuss much but that is particularly pertinent to today, is the accretion of laws and regulations.

Tainter does discuss this, and rejects it (incorrectly imo).

Well, it's a problem for the ideology.

It's a beautifully shot show

It so isn't. It's got that ugly flat daytime soap lighting that ruins so many of these streaming shows, I guess because they think they can save money by not paying for a good dp.

IKEA says the fornuftig is only for 8-10 square meter rooms. How "real" is that limitation?

Doesn't ZFS have a mechanism for periodically checking for and correcting bit rot?

The days of soldering are far behind us, pretty much everything these days is hot-swappable. It sounds like keychron would be a good fit for you.

The price difference is pretty wild, hard to make an investment like that without being able to try it first.