reptation

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by reptation 2mo ago
As Benjamin Studebaker put it, bring your whole self to work just means the whole self should be professional
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by reptation 1y ago
Remake/Remodel is an all time great! https://youtu.be/m-zSnO7sbXg?list=RDm-zSnO7sbXg
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by reptation 1y ago
Figures: https://opticapublishing.figshare.com/articles/media/video5_... https://opticapublishing.figshare.com/articles/media/video6_... https://opticapublishing.figshare.com
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by reptation 2y ago
It also misses that vinyl records degrade more gracefully than CDs, IMO.
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by reptation 2y ago
Sure, hiring is hard but the factors you mention are rare, and teams are extremely motivated to fill vacancies.
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by reptation 2y ago
Before the destruction of the Second Temple, pilgrimage was an important part of Judaism as well.
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by reptation 2y ago
I looked into Bitwarden but hard to see what it offers over Psono and the pricing is significantly steeper.
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by reptation 2y ago
https://chatgpt.com/ is returning bad gateway
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by reptation 4y ago
n=1 but the built-in Maps on iphone seems to be fine these days. Doesn't steer me wrong, integrates with a car. Not sure what the moat here is other than name recognition or current popularity. Perhaps app integration or API consumptio
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by reptation 4y ago
It's worth pointing out that there is a minority of physicists who don't accept the Big Bang as proven beyond doubt. An alternative theory would be a 'steady-state' universe which, as you suggest, would be much older tha
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by reptation 4y ago
Please expand on this.
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by reptation 6y ago
> Being at the forefront of figuring things out about the workings of the Universe is amazing, and unparalleled in any business setting. This is the key attitude to gauging whether it's worth sticking it out in academia. I tell peop
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by reptation 6y ago
Off-topic, but light gray font does not have good legibility.
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by reptation 6y ago
Obligatory link to a paper from one of the "Big Bang Bashers" http://web2.utc.edu/~tdp442/RedshiftEssay.pdf
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by reptation 6y ago
Funny, was recently at Disneyworld and impressed by the live-action Cinderella during the nightly fireworks/lights show. Was she a robot?
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by reptation 7y ago
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1126/science.aay0262
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Pervasive functional translation of noncanonical human open reading frames(science.sciencemag.org)
1 points by reptation 7y ago|1 comments
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by reptation 7y ago
Presumably the Eastern Orthodox Church which includes the Greek and Russsian branches and was centered in Constantinople/Istanbul.
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by reptation 7y ago
Not a semi-colon but - Setting up a GPO to push Microsoft updates to clients in an AD domain, I spent ~8 hours debugging why the clients couldn't connect to the WSUS server. It turned out that there was trailing whitespace in the serve
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by reptation 8y ago
This is part of what Eva Jablonka talks about as "soft inheritance" http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415... These sorts of discoveries really push towards a re-evaluation of Lamarck&#x2
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by reptation 8y ago
Whether the effect was large or small, there is a fundamental scientific question: how does non-ionizing radiation cause cancer? The fact that it can requires better models of how EM waves and biological matter interact.
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by reptation 8y ago
Yeah, this appears to be accomplishing the same purpose as the 'Terragrunt' wrapper which uses DynamoDB for locking state IIRC https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terragrunt
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by reptation 8y ago
Sidenote, but Yalom's book on group therapy is insightful in a variety of social settings: https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Practice-Group-Psychotherapy-I...
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by reptation 8y ago
that's bogleheads.org I take it?
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by reptation 8y ago
Nice, I've played some comparable R packages ( https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/units/index.html ) but hopefully this is simpler to use.
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by reptation 8y ago
One reason for this dependence could be that DNA exists within a confined space in the nucleus. The locations of the genes are not random. eg. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136759311...
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by reptation 8y ago
His criticisms of Dostoyesky do not sit well. I've read several of Nabokov's books -- Lolita, Pale Fire, Speak Memory, The Defense, and Invitation to a Beheading. The last 2 are highly recommended and in general the works original
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by reptation 9y ago
There are physical phenomena that do not readily become math. "Positive and minus attract" for instance does not have an obvious mathematical basis as the inverse square law.
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by reptation 9y ago
Ah, you're right, I mis-remembered: """ The `c', 's', and `u' attributes are not honored by the ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems as implemented in the current mainline Linux kernels. ""&qu
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by reptation 9y ago
This is only true for some filesystems. ext4 notably doesn't acknowledge -i attribute

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