otoburb

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by otoburb 5d ago
>> I'm not against fact checking, but it absolutely felt like a punch in the gut coming from a non-dev. There was no "trust" there. She couldn't rely on my expertise, she had to go back to her "source of truth
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by otoburb 1mo ago
You're right, but I understand that many graduate programs will ask for your undergraduate GPA and/or transcript as part of the application process. If one doesn't plan on applying to grad school immediately after undergrad t
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by otoburb 9mo ago
>> I try to keep 150-200 miles of spare range on my vehicle when I am in that kind of country. That is hard to do on a typical EV. Plus the additional anxiety of trying to figure out if dropping temperatures will add massive downside
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by otoburb 10mo ago
>>[...] at least gave precise consistent definitions for basic terminology. Hopefully interactive proof assistants like Lean or Rocq will help to mitigate at least this issue for anybody trying to learn a new (sub)field of mathematics
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The future of war is the future of society(noahpinion.blog)
3 points by otoburb 10mo ago|0 comments
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by otoburb 11mo ago
Not having a highscool diploma or GED can limit one's future career options; an example is the US armed forces[1]. [1] https://www.usa.gov/military-requirements
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by otoburb 1y ago
This reason alone is unlikely to provide sufficient motivation to keep grinding away. Language acquisition can be a slog even though it's (eventually) super rewarding.
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by otoburb 1y ago
Assuming you could afford it, would the new iPhone Air be a consideration in your ultralight base load going forward?
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by otoburb 1y ago
Ericsson is a Swedish company with headquarters in Stockholm. They (and everybody else) have lost and continue to lose market share to Huawei short of these types of overt government interventions/market interventions.
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by otoburb 1y ago
Maybe not 'exclusively' slept, but koalas[1] sleep for a majority of the day (16-20 hours) in order to digest highly toxic eucalyptus leaves which constitute the main portion of their diet. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by otoburb 1y ago
>> That's why I don't invest in bonds or any investment that is denoted in dollars. Most investments seem to eventually (?) denominate into USD equivalents, especially if you live in the US. Do you mean hard(er) assets like
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by otoburb 1y ago
>> Small dogs maybe. A judge in Brooklyn recently ruled[1] that dogs are (now) classified as "immediate family members". I wonder if the this might push the Central Park Conservancy to step up considerations for eradication
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by otoburb 1y ago
I agree with you, but the trade off is real for most people. It's unfortunately a binary choice: 'privacy ⊕ social community', instead of 'privacy & social' community. It's interesting how opensource Zulip[
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by otoburb 1y ago
Did I parse that correctly? You parsed that one specific incident correctly, but sems like you also missed key parts of the article that helped bring a bit more nuance into the discussion. I thought this rather short Nature article was ac
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by otoburb 1y ago
>> Can't sell the item itself? Okay, makes sense. IANAL, but I think it goes even one step beyond that, which is that the item and derived works can't even be used to support a commercial enterprise, even if the (derived) w
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The Robotics Threshold: China's Rise, America’s Reckoning(edgeofautomation.com)
5 points by otoburb 1y ago|0 comments
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by otoburb 1y ago
Seems like 1-3 above could be answered/tracked with some plumbing pipeline elbow grease leveraging tools like open source edgartools[1] (just a happy user) or sec-api[2] paid proprietary service. 4 would be a heavier lift because it go
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by otoburb 1y ago
You have to go back more years to see the trendline. BLS has a different chart showing the male participation rate dropping while female participation rate has remained fairly constant over the past decade.[1] By my rough estimation that&#x
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by otoburb 1y ago
>> What's even less clear to me is why the apparatus of state seems so willing to go along with these whims of the executive. Can you expand on this a bit more? Are you suggesting that government employees should quit in protest
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by otoburb 2y ago
Except that many NYC public schools have yellow buses that park in the narrow streets during pickup or dropoff which are the cause for 20 minutes of gridlock along those streets. "A couple of hours" seems to be rather unusual.
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by otoburb 2y ago
>> I've been fighting trying to chunk SEC filings properly, specifically surrounding the strange and inconsistent tabular formats present in company filings. For this specific use case you can also try edgartools[1] which is a l
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by otoburb 2y ago
>> I've lost count how often an elderly family member (who is still sharp as a tack fortunately) told me that the "police", "your beloved niece", or "Microsoft" called them. It's very sobering
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by otoburb 2y ago
Did you try this with Julia too? Their vector & matrix support is literally first class.
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by otoburb 2y ago
>> [...]but do you think these groups would NOT train just because of some state law? To your point, the groups will likely continue to train (seemingly illegally), but the quality of the groups will definitely be degraded due to t
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by otoburb 2y ago
>> Maybe the military is just that good at filtering out those types during psychological testing, or maybe belonging is far more important than ideology. The more mundane reason is probably because it's more appealing to use th
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by otoburb 2y ago
In addition to the prohibitive cost and effort to setup and maintain such a program, I believe all 50 states have laws on the books that make it illegal to organize and train in military tactics without prior authorization from the state.[1
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Superbacked (secrets management) is now free(superbacked.com)
3 points by otoburb 2y ago|2 comments
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by otoburb 2y ago
And Nicolas Bourbaki's " Éléments de mathématique ".[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
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by otoburb 2y ago
>> Theres even a name for the movement and catchy slogans. What was it? The movement is called "4B"[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4B_movement
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by otoburb 2y ago
Given the rise of Physican Assistants and Nurse Practitioners and their expanding scope of (even independent) practice across various states, specifically to address this growing shortage of primary care physicians (PCPs), it almost becomes

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