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Uilleann piper, highland piper, extreme Gaelic music enthusiast.
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What kind of an idiot makes that mistake once and then doesn’t just delete the app from their work phone?
He’s either totally oblivious, or so many other insiders are using Signal too that he can’t abandon it.
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phys.org/news/2025-02...
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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IDK about that: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
People have all sorts of ideas about Trump’s relationship to Putin, but he’s not literally arming Russia!
(Although he’s probably asked his advisors if the US could make more money selling to both side!)
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When people talk about crazy bureaucracy standing in the way of innovation, this is what they’re talking about.
Are you really going to stand in the way of the most successful US aerospace company just for a small stretch of usually-deserted beach?
Careful is one thing, but this is nuts!
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AFAICT, SpaceX, not Musk, wants to control the beach. So that they don’t have to mess around with closures and miscellaneous red tape every time they want to launch something.
Seems like a perfectly reasonable request to me. I’m not a Musk fan, but this article is just stoopid.
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Seems strange. Just accept that you’re going to have to do cardio, and lifting stuff will always be a secondary beneficial activity… not what you should spend most of your time doing!
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When I read these studies, particularly popular coverage, I have to wonder: what’s the obsession with resistance training anyway?
We know aerobic exercise extends life-span and health-span significantly. People seem to hope that RT will be as effective, despite the worse evidence so far.
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(And Victorian-era people actually thought like that too! Go read literature from that period about scientific and technical advancement. Go and look at how socialites showed up to the opening of things like water processing plants; when they already had plenty of fresh water themselves…)
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Clearly where we went wrong is the misapprehension that the only way to counter an unjust concentration of wealth and resources is to give everyone the very, very small chance to accumulate their own unjust concentration of wealth and resources.
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There was a brilliant Blender Conference talk on this work. If you want to see “behind the scenes” in a technical sense, it’s all there! youtu.be/doln4Txge9g
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Yes, so NIH funding is acting as a government subsidy for pharmaceutical companies, right?
After all, it’s not as though profits from those new drugs are going to support the NIH, nor are the new drugs contributing enough tax revenue from positive externalities to justify it.
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Also AOC and Bernie both reportedly saw the “split voting” phenomenon, where people voted for both them AND Trump. To me, that suggests a presidential candidate more like AOC or Bernie would have done better.
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There’s no extra context here. I just asked for which conveys the lower likelihood. I would certainly say that “improbable” is not the same as “unlikely”, but I’m not American.
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If you’re down then don’t dismay,
Fix it all with Special K!
If you can’t bear to leave the den,
Try this great hallucinogen!
Your business is now in the trash,
Oh fuck it all; let’s get smashed!
- Elon Musk 😆
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“… easily gameable by making it have a better personality.”
Sssshh… don’t give away all the secrets we engineers use to get hired! 😆
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Yeah; getting pulled into rooms at places like LAX for interrogation isn’t at all uncommon or new.
Friends of mine have missed flights and other connecting transport in the past (on Australian passports!). Detained for hours.
We’d need data on what has changed, and by how much.
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Yeah. When people talk about grand conspiracies that involve Trump and Musk stealing everyone’s details, I really think they’re giving them way too much credit…
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Enola Roommate
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SpaceX engineers are amazing, but even they have limits. This rate of failure bears all the hallmarks of rushed work, under excessive management pressure, with engineers lacking sufficient time and resources.
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Bernie is the crazy old man we should all be listening to: www.youtube.com/live/QlrQKv1...
Imagine if the USA had a principled person like him instead. He might be wrong about some things, but he’s right about so much else.
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Will they start pronouncing Notre Dame correctly now?
“Noder Daim” is a guy called Damian who writes NodeJS all day.
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Amusingly enough, England doesn’t have an “official language”.
Not that they really need to specify it. Like the USA, they have been using English in that de-facto capacity for long enough. It’s not, strictly, official though.
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💯 I find this kind of thing is one of the best uses of LLMs.
It’s stuff you *could* piece together from bad, straggling documentation, but an LLM can figure it out much more quickly.
Having LLMs answer questions about code is far higher value (and lower risk) than getting them to write code IMO.
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Possibly the same nation(s) that have been severing the undersea cables in that area. 🇷🇺🇨🇳🕵️🔍🔬🔭
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I think a kind of hysteresis model with exceptions for some medically-adjudicated cases (pregnancy, death of a loved one, short-term care for an adult person … the obvious stuff) would work really well.
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(You’d want to have a way to balance the options so that people can take leave when it suits, but aren’t denied the leave when it’s necessary.)
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I would go even further and say that “sufficient leave” should be a requirement for men and women without children too.
I think an accruing leave allowance that can “go into the red” for certain life events, and *must* be taken when it’s “too far in the black” would be a good model.
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Signalling to China that now is the time to “Hong Kong” Taiwan.
(Yes, Hong Kong is now a verb.)
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s/how/has
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Gosh yes. Who would ever have thought Bolton would look kinda sane by comparison?
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I’d like that too, but with something to handle principled differentiability when appropriate.
Google’s dex research language is along the right lines IMO, but doesn’t feel quite general-purpose enough: github.com/google-resea...
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Agreed! I don’t think much of Macron in other ways, but in all of this he just oozes class, sophistication and overall adult problem-solving.
The contrast is pretty stunning when you see them side by side.
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It must have been quite a time. It’s difficult to imagine academics getting together today to collaborate on a language in quite the same way.
This paper is an interesting narrative of the history. Hudak et al. (2007) A History of Haskell: Being Lazy With Class.
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...