JBorrow

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by JBorrow 2mo ago
Moving all of astronomy to space based observations is entirely incompatible with the way that instruments are funded, built, and deployed. It is only valid for a set of highly specific and well funded observatories that take decades to get
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by JBorrow 3mo ago
Not in Europe, where there are strict limits on credit card surcharges
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by JBorrow 4mo ago
JWTs are very helpful if you maintain many downstream services on separate domains that need shared auth and identity infrastructure
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by JBorrow 4mo ago
I just can't get behind this perspective, perhaps because I am a 'bad prompter', simply due to the lack of capability from current models. I end up rejecting them, asking them to implement again, they spew out tons of crap co
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by JBorrow 4mo ago
It’s started in TFA
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by JBorrow 5mo ago
This cross platform rendering engine’s website doesn’t render well at all on Safari on the iPhone.
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by JBorrow 5mo ago
People write applications that work with the S3 API but may want to host their own storage for a variety of reasons. Personally I make use of S3-compatible services for pre-signed url access to data on disks I own. The distributed aspect is
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by JBorrow 6mo ago
Yeah, having your agent write 3x the code in exhaustive tests (I tried this recently and got 600 lines of tests for my 100 lines of code!) sure makes things look great, but when you actually look at the content of the tests they’re meaningl
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by JBorrow 6mo ago
Maybe I'm entirely out of the loop and a complete idiot, but I am really not sure at all what people mean when they talk about this stuff. I use AI agents every day, but people who say they spend 'most of my time writing agents an
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by JBorrow 7mo ago
They're pretty much equivalent.
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by JBorrow 7mo ago
My point was that there’s a stop sign every block, so they need to stop anyway.
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by JBorrow 7mo ago
At some level this is driven by street design. The reason bus stops are so close in Philadelphia is because they stop every block, and there's a stop sign every block. The blocks are very small. I don't know that 'removing&#x
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by JBorrow 7mo ago
Complete and utter slop with no actual information about McDonald’s or changes in policy or advertisement.
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by JBorrow 7mo ago
46 authors isn’t that many. Big projects necessitate many authors (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06209 )
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by JBorrow 7mo ago
Racing and street driving are completely different. Racing involves detailed knowledge of vehicle dynamics and grip. Street driving is mainly obstacle recognition and avoidance. No waymo ever operates anywhere close to the limit of grip, wh
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by JBorrow 8mo ago
I don't really understand how me saying that this tool isn't good for science as gatekeeping. The vibe-written papers that I am talking about have little-to-no valuable scientific content, and as such would always be rejected. It&
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by JBorrow 8mo ago
The journal that I'm an editor for is 'diamond open access', which means we charge no submission fees and no publication fees, and publish open access. This model is really important in allowing legitimate submissions from a
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by JBorrow 8mo ago
From my perspective as a journal editor and a reviewer these kinds of tools cause many more problems than they actually solve. They make the 'barrier to entry' for submitting vibed semi-plausible journal articles much lower, which
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by JBorrow 8mo ago
There is also FITS, but that is mainly for astronomical applications (and is in general an insane and terrible format). But it supports tons of types!
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by JBorrow 8mo ago
I’m not sure that’s an accurate description of the word’s entomology not least because “goyslop” is itself derived from… “slop”, which is low quality high-volume food for livestock.
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by JBorrow 11mo ago
Why? They don't necessarily increase productivity at all [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44526912
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by JBorrow 1y ago
It's back now indeed, after around 1h30 of downtime, https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/nasa.gov.html
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by JBorrow 1y ago
I stand corrected, either way NASA.gov is entirely down.
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NASA.gov is completely down(whatsmydns.net)
5 points by JBorrow 1y ago|7 comments
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by JBorrow 1y ago
For an hour now the DNS record for nasa.gov has pointed to 192.0.66.108, leading to a total outage of NASA web services.
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by JBorrow 1y ago
Yes, that's tens of thousands of people.
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by JBorrow 1y ago
You should look up 'cap-exempt H1B'. Many postdoctoral researchers, research staff, and doctors use the H1B program.
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by JBorrow 1y ago
All cap-exempt institutions that I know of are treating it as if it does. There has been no clarification as of yet.
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by JBorrow 1y ago
Many people on H1Bs work for nonprofits or hospitals, or are otherwise publicly funded.
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by JBorrow 2y ago
That 'excellent seeing' is for sites that are chosen for telescopes. Typical seeing from sea level is much worse: - https://www.ing.iac.es/astronomy/development/hap/dimm.html - https://ww

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