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Comment · 4 months ago
Microsoft has a chrome and Firefox extension for similar management lockdown
Comment · 8 months ago
This sounds really interesting but possibly qualitatively different than programming/engineering where automated improvements/iterations are part of the job (and what's rewarded)
Comment · 8 months ago
Not even kidding - the AskHistorians reddit. I use their Sunday digest links as a magazine: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/search/?q=title%3A%22...

It's filled in both so many gaps and made me increasingly curious about many periods/places that I previously felt disengaged about -- and led to much more reading of actual history

Comment · 11 months ago
That is somewhat mitigated by grouping comparisons of S/M/L change sizes.

It would be interesting to group changes by line-deletions, say to indicate rewrites (and size of them)

Comment · 1 year ago
on top of that, I personally know several women scientists that had to put up with his misogyny first-hand.
Comment · 1 year ago
All my teacher friends (before this article) had joyously reported on lunch rooms being loud again (and even fights and lol, sex) happening.... But in a good way. If kids aren't getting into some trouble then they're not interacting and learning about society and human nature enough
Comment · 1 year ago
I can't imagine the Cloud Act being effective without Microsoft (and French gov) complicity.

If they can make successful tax shelters they can architect the entities and the architecture to remove this option.

There's some 9-eyes thing where this is a feature not a bug

Comment · 1 year ago
I do this with audiobooks/podcasts and then can start with the lights off and lying down. (important part I find is making sure the dynamics are low -- no high-volume ads or flashy punctuated sound effects)

Not sure if any other buds work like this but the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds seem to auto-pause based on some kind of fitbit/sleep indicator which help even more with staying asleep.

Comment · 1 year ago
From the article: > Another argument supporting the suggestion that species which have lost their GLO gene were under no selective pressure to keep it, is that all species which have lost their GLO gene have very different diets but all of them have diets rich in vitamin C

What would a diet poor in vitamin C be considering that "everything else" makes it? I guess root vegetables? It feels like, if anything, this would imply a GLO gene decay more often than has happened, no?

Comment · 1 year ago
Well, xz is a rare event too.

There's no knowing how many backdoors were added by small network companies or contractors. But there's rarely accountability when it happens because the company would rather cover it up, or just not ask too many questions about that weird bug

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
The headline is a little crazy. This is like someone talking about the Human Genome Project and the headline reading "scientists discover humans have DNA" The diversity at many levels was even known. They're just trying (which is great) to get far more known genomes (the same way we are doing with human microbiomes now)
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure they weren't unrecognizable or mystery and it's just being used as a pejorative for food they didn't like
Comment · 1 year ago
A friend of mine argued that "math is invented" rather than discovered. This seemed wrong to me and in arguing against it I found https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-mathematics/

At least at this stage I think it relates to whether you believe "the universe"/reality is a sort of momentary collection of the currently-existing things. Vs seeing reality as the set of all things that might obstruct "me" or any entity from doing something.

To me, even if the wall is invisible it's still a wall

Comment · 1 year ago
Just balance that as well with what chemicals and elements show up in farmed salmon and wild salmon (heavy metals, micro plastics, PBDEs,...)

Not saying one's better, just that all our food sources have higher and lower quality steps before market.

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