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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
So does this mean that the mRNA vaccines are probably going to be like flu vaccines, where they have to predict which variant will dominate each season and adjust the doses accordingly? Can other options like the adenovirus-based or J&J
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Agencies like ICE and the TSA appear to be jobs programs for people who would otherwise have difficulty finding work. It's just a shame that the makework mostly involves harassing people. You'd think we could find more productive
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
I disagree. Regulatory capture is a clear and present danger to the United States, and it is contributing to a breakdown in accountability across all sectors of the nation's economy and society. So I offered it as an explanation for wh
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Many American regulatory institutions have crumbled in the past few decades, the FAA being a particularly jarring example. In some cases it seems like peoples' trust in those regulators may be fueled by nostalgia, but the FDA does seem
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
We're also very good at not thinking about certain things, though. And I doubt anybody would make a system of immortality that didn't have an escape hatch. Alpha Centauri is prescient as ever on this subject: >I plan to live fo
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
We need a new mark of quality to account for environmental ruggedness. "Designed in Chennai and Winnipeg."
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
>Back at the Base I was furious to hear of discussions of the possibility that the atmosphere might be detonated. This possibility had been discussed at Los Alamos and had been quashed by intensive studies of all possibilities by Hans Be
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
I agree in principle, and so did I, but there's no denying that it puts a major crimp on your social life. It's wrong that people are forced to decide between accepting predatory terms or losing touch with friendly acquaintances.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
People like you and I didn't decide that it was what we wanted. We just have no other options, because the companies which impose the terms aggressively snuff out or buy up their competition. I would argue that people are accepting the
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Don't leave without a concrete goal and a timeline. What do you want to work on, with who, and why? Don't give up the pay and benefits until you can answer that, and make sure that you budget for N months/years out of work. I
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Anecdotally, these findings mesh with my experience in a US city which had a vocational school; I wish these sorts of programs were more popular outside of Europe. Apparently it's not too common in the States, but our vocational school
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Give people more rights, and enforce violations. It won't happen, because the sort of rights that we need would obviate a huge swath of the economy. But put simply, I think that we need to make it highly illegal to use information asym
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Very cool. It's interesting that they are planning to start with Vulkan support, followed by OpenGL/DX/etc. I guess it makes sense; the RISC-V crowd might possibly skew towards early adoption over backwards-compatibility. It
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
You might be misunderstanding the US capitol outrage. It wasn't that people brandished weapons or killed each other - that's bad, and everyone wants it to stop, but it does sometimes happen. The problem was that the Capitol was in
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
If you think about it, a lot of Google and Apple's power comes from their dominance of the smartphone market. I hope that mobile computing follows the path of desktop computing, and we end up with more viable small-device OS options.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
The revolution always devours its children. One of my favorite aphorisms is: >Don't put your faith in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. What happened to Georges Danton, the
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
I have one question for Tesla customers who trust the company to deliver full FSD. How do you reconcile that belief with the fact that Tesla's embedded developers did not understand the extremely simple concept of write endurance? The
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Well it's up to the paper, but personally, I support papers re-evaluating their positions on this sort of thing. You'll still be able to find the old article on archive.org et al, but what a paper publishes today should reflect wh
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Well in the US, postgrad education is a genuinely interesting proposition. * Very low pay. * Good benefits in a nation with poor safety nets. * Tuition waivers along the lines of $10-100K/year. * When the Dr. says jump, you ask how hig
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Not all the time; to be fair, universities don't pay their students to work 40+hrs/week. But graduate schooling is still a big opportunity cost, and not to go all Mark Twain, but sometimes that can get in the way of your education
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Sure, the low pay is commensurate with...uh...some sort of ephemeral opportunities in the future. But seriously, you're right. Grad students do grunt work, that's how it goes. And if an academic Python2 library is widely-used, por
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Yeah, really. Graduate students aren't cheap! Oh wait, we pay computing grad students literally 1/10 of their potential salary ($10Ks vs $100Ks). Why could there possibly be a shortage? -_- More importantly, it shouldn't be p
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
They might just dislike H2O2. But it is useful as a disinfectant, and it can help get rid of earwax if you dilute it. Do we really need to ban the stuff? Peoples' tastes vary, but personally, I'm not a huge fan of earwax.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Interesting, thanks for the correction.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Maybe, but try to get into the mind of someone who installs a minimalist OS. They might think that Linux is too heavy and an RTOS is too constrained, right? That kind of perspective probably wants to be fairly close to the metal, and virtua
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Good question! I'd also be curious as to the answer. But I suspect that it is probably "no". Because it looks like ST was planning to pay ~$1.8B per 300nm fab in 2017. https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news&#x
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Hang on, is that actually true though? I was under the impression that shrinking process nodes represented a trade-off in terms of power consumption on the low end. There must be reasons why nobody makes a 14nm microcontroller, right? Shrin
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
You can hold the fob under your chin to increase its range, using your skull as a reflector. It sounds crazy, but it works.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Hey, we don't need to shame people for their interests. Whether it is Shareable image Manipulation or car alarm circumspection, everyone should be welcome in open-source software.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Maybe you could take advantage of that by putting a blue LED on your dashboard or rear-view mirror that blinks every few seconds when the car is off. Speaking of, I'm surprised that there aren't more prank automotive devices. What

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