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by retzkek 1y ago
And then, what? Are citizens beating down the doors to do these jobs but getting out-competed by migrants? Are these the same citizens who are lining up to do sweatshop labor when manufacturing “returns” to the US? If undocumented workers a
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Ask HN: What new tools are there for facilitating virtual conferences?
9 points by retzkek 1y ago|1 comments
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by retzkek 2y ago
Update: the former 18F folks have stood up a new site: https://18f.org/guides/
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by retzkek 2y ago
Their web dev guides - especially for a11y - are high quality, and were taken offline this morning. I stood up a copy (slightly modified) at https://guides.18f.kmr.me/ Hopefully the GitHub repos stick around; I forked and c
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by retzkek 2y ago
There are many conspiracy theories related to his trip to Moscow in 1987, which I don’t ascribe much to, but the connections are there, if only for some “assistance” to be rendered quid pro quo. I’m a firm believer in Hanlon’s Razor, and li
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by retzkek 2y ago
There’s at least one, although as a governor he may not count. > From the Department of Education, Medicaid, the CDC, and more - Trump and Elon Musk are gutting the agencies and programs that protect Americans every single day. https:&#
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President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology(whitehouse.gov)
2 points by retzkek 2y ago|0 comments
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by retzkek 2y ago
Years ago in college I did a bit of work on a nuclear physics simulator (think: reactor modeling) that based its geometrical model on implicit surfaces, specifically R-functions (of which min(x,y) is an example), which have some neat proper
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by retzkek 2y ago
I struggled with APL last year. This year I’ve been enjoying trying to solve the problems in uiua (“wee-wha”). It’s a symbol-based array language like APL, with a wonderful online editor and code formatter (also command line), that formats
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by retzkek 2y ago
> Not on topic, but from the other side of the Atlantic, how on earth did the US go from "her emails/lock her up" being a rallying cry to electing the guy who stacked piles of classified documents in his bathroom? The same
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by retzkek 2y ago
There is a similar unit used for tracking nuclear fuel “burnup,” which is how much energy it produced: GWd/t (or GWd/MTU).
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by retzkek 2y ago
mise in place is the art of reducing all that other stuff to as close as zero time as possible during the cooking, and many recipes expect the cook to read through first and identify what can be prepared/placed in advance. https:&#x
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by retzkek 2y ago
Toothpaste tube! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/El...
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by retzkek 2y ago
I refer to Strava and RideWithGPS heatmaps whenever planning a new cycling or running route, and they are very useful, but they still need vetting (satellite and street view mostly) since 1) people have different tolerances for safe/co
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by retzkek 2y ago
This is a nice trend, here's a couple other text-only mainstream news sites: https://lite.cnn.com/ https://text.npr.org/
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by retzkek 2y ago
A random blog I found through Kagi Small Web is one man's journey to visit all the pubs in the Good Beer Guide : https://simeyeveritt.wixsite.com/brapa It's such an interesting look into these slices of life, bot
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by retzkek 2y ago
> Brackets and s-expressions can be fun, but they can get very unwieldy very quickly in LIL, especially since backslashes are required to break up commands across different lines. > The previous vibrato example sine [add [param
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by retzkek 2y ago
I didn't sense any judgement there, just a statement of fact. Learning a new language as an adult is doable, but not trivial, so it's certainly a factor in making a decision to relocate to another country for a job.
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by retzkek 2y ago
> Not sure about west. :) Unincorporated addresses in Kane and DuPage Counties do use a reference system based off State & Madison as baseline (although it's been codified based off county and township lines). Eg. 40W100 Kesling
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by retzkek 2y ago
Amusingly that’s not a nuclear plant pictured; looks like coal. I don’t think we’re going to see a general nuclear renaissance in the US, but it has its part to play. Co-locating with a massive data center can make a lot of sense.
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by retzkek 2y ago
That's pretty ungenerous. The press release says "The press is the world’s strongest hydraulic pull-down die forging press in pit-mounted design" so it's easy for a layman to read "world's strongest ... press&q
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by retzkek 2y ago
> Moreover, while longer lifespans may drive calcification, they would also promote long-term thinking. How would we vote about the climate differently if we knew we'd be around for a couple hundred years? Would we act more in favor
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by retzkek 2y ago
What if you could ask an octopus the same, and it suggested that dying after breeding is best for society to prevent the problems of overpopulation [1]? Unlike your hypothetical aliens, octopodes live in the same resource-constrained world
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by retzkek 2y ago
The Overstory by Richard Powers - an intertwining of lives, as witnessed by the oldest beings on Earth, putting things into a rather different perspective. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - compassion and redemption, set in a terrifying
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by retzkek 2y ago
Seems to be documented, surprisingly: https://<INSTANCE>.service-now.com/cancel_my_transaction.do https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm... Or you can type “cancel_my_transac
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by retzkek 2y ago
> Launching a competitor to the panama canal requires more than just time and money, it requires political and geographic opportunities. Mexico is well on the way with their competitor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by retzkek 2y ago
CVMFS is a mature entry in that space, heavily used in the physics community to distribute software and container images, allowing simple and efficient sharing of computing resources. https://cernvm.cern.ch/fs/
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by retzkek 3y ago
The NY Times article about this addressed that concern specifically, indeed it was the key point of the study: > It’s worth acknowledging a crucial part of this story. Dartmouth admits disadvantaged students who have scores that are lo
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by retzkek 3y ago
Maybe you'd like jsonnet: https://jsonnet.org/ I find it particularly useful for configurations that often have repeated boilerplate, like ansible playbooks or deploying a bunch of "similar-but" services to k
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by retzkek 3y ago
As usual, it's from people pushing their beliefs and/or their products on the public to serve their own purposes; further, as with so many modern ills, we can put some of the blame on Edward Bernays. https://www.theguar

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