j-wags

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by j-wags 3mo ago
I got the RayNeo Air 2 since they had the largest field of view. Pros: - Price (~$200 one year ago) - Display quality/resolution is fine - Brightness is excellent, can use it in direct sunlight without issue - Build quality is fine. -
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by j-wags 3mo ago
I also got usb-c display glasses and they've been great as an external monitor while traveling. I strongly recommend them to folks who want to be able to work comfortably on airplanes or other situations where you don't have an er
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by j-wags 7mo ago
At least in CA, the DMV does issue Real ID state IDs. I have one.
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by j-wags 1y ago
I was recently inspired on this front by an interview[1] with a recommender system engineer that explored the idea of a "good" recommender algorithm: > It feels like smartphones have saturated the available time. It's like
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by j-wags 1y ago
Just wanted to chime in and say thanks for including the full transcript. I strongly prefer reading to listening and so I was able to read this over my morning coffee and send it to friends who prefer podcasts before they started their morn
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by j-wags 1y ago
I just got a pair of TCL Rayneo air 2 display glasses since I'm farsighted and my eyes become fatigued after a day of working on a conventional monitor. The increased focal distance seems to help, but the nose piece is weirdly designed
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TSB Preliminary Report: Delta CRJ-900 crash at Toronto Pearson Airport [video](youtube.com)
1 points by j-wags 1y ago|0 comments
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by j-wags 2y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I basically agree, and have a lot to say about the neither-black-nor-white state of academia but have never managed to communicate my thoughts as well as you did here.
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by j-wags 2y ago
I'm mostly out now, but I would love to return to a more accountable academia. Often in these discussions it's hard to say "we need radical changes to publicly funded research and many PIs should be held accountable for disho
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by j-wags 2y ago
It may have to do with how liability insurance requirements are quite low - generally a few tens of thousands of dollars. So serious crashes (both those involving small and large vehicles) might easily blow past that, causing insurers to ch
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by j-wags 2y ago
Wonder if this is related to the big cyberattack on Iran earlier today https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-814715
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OpenFold AI Research Consortium Welcomes Six New Members(businesswire.com)
2 points by j-wags 2y ago|0 comments
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by j-wags 2y ago
Thanks for sharing these numbers. I'm actually baffled to see the on-time performance so high and the passenger injury rate so low. I wonder how these numbers would look if they broke it down into greyhound vs. other operations, and wh
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by j-wags 2y ago
I think you're misunderstanding. GP isn't saying "drawing randomly from all videos of unsafe situations, a large fraction of them occur on long-distance buses". They're saying "drawing randomly from all long-di
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by j-wags 2y ago
We do have a pretty extensive greyhound network in the US (it was recently bought by flixbus, but I think they're keeping the greyhound branding). But it is a totally different experience than long-distance buses in Europe. I've t
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by j-wags 2y ago
A proximal cause of the Syrian civil war is drought [1]. > Factors contributing to social disenchanment in Syria include socio-economic stress caused by the Iraqi conflict, as well as the most intense drought ever recorded in the region.
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by j-wags 2y ago
I agree this is the current situation, but I think the concentration of homelessness in urban areas is largely a consequence of policies that favor suburbia: - Requiring a car for daily life drives up cost of living, pricing the bottom tier
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by j-wags 2y ago
> the only place that is solved is at the ballot box and within the legislative and legal frameworks This WAS solved at the ballot box. The law written by our elected representatives requires airport security to allow a reasonable opt-ou
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by j-wags 2y ago
It's possible that these aren't the original file contents, but rather the result of a manual attempt to stop the bleeding. Someone may have hoped that overwriting the bad file with an all-0 file of the correct size would make the
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by j-wags 2y ago
I don't disagree with what you meant here, but this sentence threw my mind through a loop. It shows how "have to" is a real weak point in how we communicate and think. Maybe we should rank our "have to"s on a scale
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by j-wags 2y ago
> Do you really think that the current situation poses a >25% cost on scientific productivity? Do you think your system would be able to recapture that? Yes and yes. I'm 6 years past defending my PhD and I have low confidence in
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by j-wags 2y ago
I work at Open Force Field [1] which is the kind of nonprofit that I think you're talking about. Our sister project, OpenFold [2], is working on open source versions of AlphaFold. We're making good progress but it's difficult
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New deep-water channel allows ships to pass Key bridge wreckage in Baltimore(apnews.com)
3 points by j-wags 2y ago|0 comments
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Large ships are now able to exit the Port of Baltimore(vesselfinder.com)
2 points by j-wags 2y ago|1 comments
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by j-wags 2y ago
Enough of the bridge wreckage has been cleared that most large ships can get out. There's one that's probably still trapped (the KLARA OLDENDORFF, with a 14.4 meter draught). But the Carmen (linked in title), a 230 meter long car
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by j-wags 2y ago
https://us-rse.org/jobs/
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by j-wags 2y ago
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/04/04/a-chilling-near... > ... Other fixes are regulatory. America’s cyber strategy, published last year, makes clear that the responsibility for failures should
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by j-wags 2y ago
I take the Amtrak pacific surfliner a lot and I've noticed that mac laptops will lightly shock me when they're plugged in. I think I've experienced this with 3 different computers over the past 6 years. Might be a useful data
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by j-wags 3y ago
This is the second time Varda's been on my radar in the past year. First time was when their engineer Andrew McCalip livestreamed his replication attempt for LK-99 (using company equipment) just days after the initial announcement [1][
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by j-wags 3y ago
> centaurs (human+AI) in chess/go were better than either humans or AI just for a short time. I was having a conversation about this with a friend last weekend, and we'd assumed that centaurs were still better than either top

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