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Comment · 2 months ago
Genuinely curious - do you all not have a code review process, or do the reviewers just not care?
Comment · 5 months ago
I was about to ask how the mosquitos survive long enough to make an impact if they can't "bite". I looked it up, and apparently male mosquitos survive off of nectar and are actually pollinators.
Eliminating mosquitoes sounds great to me on the surface, but I wonder if it will have any adverse effects on any plants that rely on them for pollination, or if it's expected that there are plenty of other insects ready to fill any void they leave.
Comment · 5 months ago
This is essentially what we do. All of our stored procedures, views, etc are kept in *_api schemas. Those schemas just get fully dropped and reinstalled whenever we migrate. It works really well, and has basically zero cognitive load overhead for developers.
Comment · 7 months ago
Ah, I found the official one: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/
Unfortunately the UI seems pretty busted. The tour is trying to point out a bunch of UI elements that don't exist and the mouse interaction just doesn't work at all.
Comment · 7 months ago
Does anyone know of a good status tracker for the mission? I'm watching the official feed on Youtube and it's great for commentary but I'd love a live Kerbal-style UI I could poke around.
Comment · 8 months ago
I used to love monodraw when I had a mac. My daily driver and work machine is Linux now, so I've been searching for a suitable replacement for a while now. This one is probably the best I've seen so far.
Comment · 9 months ago
Staying true to your username at least. While I hear you in principle, I don’t think shaming people into not building things is going to work out. Even if you could convince some people, you’ll never reach them all. Someone will build it. IMO energy is better spent figuring out how to best structure our society to handle the seemingly inevitable end state where superhuman AI is commonplace.
Comment · 9 months ago
I have no idea about his credentials or suitability for the job, but Warsh is the son in law of Trump's buddy Ronald Lauder. I get the feeling he's not picking people he doesn't think he can control.
Comment · 9 months ago
Do you really not see the difference here? It's amazing how hard people will try to bOtH sIdEs this administration.
1) Obama was not in office when this advance was given. What favors could Penguin Random House have been trying to bribe him for?
2) The Obamas were paid a $65M advance on their books, which while a huge sum it was actually seen as a reasonable investment at the time given the expected popularity of those books[1]. Both books were insane hits and sold like crazy. "A Promised Land" sold ~900k copies _on the first day_[2]. They almost certainly earned out on advance and are probably continuing to rake in more from sales.
3) This Melania movie is widely expected to have very poor sales. While making unpopular movies isn't in itself a crime, the amount paid in royalties to her does not look to any reasonable person like a sound investment. At least, not if you expect your return to be in ticket sales or streaming fees.
[1] https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/2/14779892/barack-michell... [2] https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/526599-bar...
Comment · 9 months ago
Looks like your login is busted. I get the following when trying to log in with Google or Github:
``` { "code": "REDIRECT_URL_NOT_WHITELISTED", "error": "Redirect URL not whitelisted. Did you forget to add this domain to the trusted domains list on the Stack Auth dashboard?" } ```
Comment · 10 months ago
I remember reading a paper back in grad school where the researchers put a dead salmon in the magnet and got statistically significant brain activity readings using whatever the analysis method à la mode was. It felt like a great candidate for the Ig Nobel awards.
Comment · 11 months ago
> so anyone who didn't get vaccinated before Nov. 2021 is considered unvaccinated?
The answer is in the first paragraph of the "Design, Study Populations, and Outcomes" section:
Exposure to COVID-19 vaccination was defined as the administration of a first dose of an mRNA vaccine between May 1 and October 31, 2021 (inclusion period), which was the mass vaccination period for adults in France, who primarily received mRNA vaccines. Multiple vaccinations in exposed individuals were not considered. The unvaccinated group was defined as individuals who remained unvaccinated as of November 1, 2021. Individuals vaccinated before May 1, 2021 (12.0%), or who received a first dose of another (ie, non-mRNA–based) COVID-19 vaccine during the inclusion period (1.4%) were excluded.
> why is everyone so keen to defend big pharma? i thought we were supposed to hate them?
Are we? Says who? Certainly there are bad actors who profit off of the misfortune of others. There are also brilliant people who work hard to bring about access to lifesaving treatments. There have certainly been examples of fraud in the past, and there have also been examples of truly amazing public health benefits.
Do I personally think the US health system could be better structured to disincentivize the former and promote the latter? Definitely! Is that evidence of a global conspiracy? Nope.
> had COVID and got hit by a bus? that was a COVID death
There's a good analysis of that here: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-evidence-that-a-million...
TLDR is that all-cause death increased in line with the reported covid deaths which strongly refutes the "had covid got hit with a bus" theory.
Comment · 11 months ago
I know you're joking, but the most interesting finding here is that they got more financially intelligent and tuned in after ascending to higher positions within congress.
Comment · 11 months ago
... until you get accused of generating that video with another AI.
Comment · 1 year ago
> 2025-09-29T16:55:10.367Z is the date. Write a haiku about it.
what in the world?