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by thisrod 3mo ago
I think you're being too kind. The article is entirely one-sided. The title says lies, so it's fair game to call the content propaganda. The facts on low-dose radiation exposure are pretty simple. There is no useful direct evidenc
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by thisrod 3mo ago
This problem isn't specific to timezones. In general, you did X on the basis that A was B, and now you know that that A is actually C. The strategies to handle that are quite interesting: https://martinfowler.com/articl
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by thisrod 9mo ago
People with this level of dementia won't be able to live independently, and there will be someone else to check that.
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by thisrod 9mo ago
I succeeded at this. My academic physics career petered out, then I stumbled into an industry role with almost as much physics as I was doing in my quantum mechanics postdoc. The jobs you're looking for are rare, but they do exist. The
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by thisrod 1y ago
Original report here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-24/no-return:-australias...
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by thisrod 2y ago
It's called capitalism. Take one billion times Haiti's GDP per capita, pour it all into a few blocks in Shenzhen, and reinvest the profits.
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by thisrod 2y ago
Also if you’re using windows on an IoT device… Microsoft is using IoT in a loose sense. The "thing" could be an industrial PC at the train station that plays a recorded message saying the 8:15 will run late today.
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by thisrod 2y ago
I wonder how much this will cost? A drug you take 2 times a year could be much cheaper than one you take 365 times a year, and that's a big deal. The existing daily pill is really expensive. Australia knew that PrEP would practically
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by thisrod 2y ago
Thanks!
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by thisrod 2y ago
I've finally gotten around to reading SICM, but I can't get MIT Scheme to install on the current OSX 14.2. Autoconf requires an old version of the OSX SDK. Has someone else already solved that problem? I was surprised by how man
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by thisrod 2y ago
> in my experience aerospace is way better in most ways. As an Amethyst user, I'm approaching this comparison from the other direction: is there one compelling reason to switch? The improvement I'd most like to see in Amethyst
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by thisrod 3y ago
I'm trying to figure out the name. Is it simply a play on Hypothesis , or am I missing something clever about this being the opposite of property-based testing?
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Australia misplaces Iraq War decision records(smh.com.au)
6 points by thisrod 3y ago|0 comments
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by thisrod 4y ago
Has anyone read Late Victorian Holocausts , a full exposition of this argument? It's important if true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Victorian_Holocausts
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by thisrod 5y ago
I'm a bit disappointed that people with little connection to Asia are still making a big fuss about wet markets and exotic animals. In March 2020, it was natural for people to leap to conclusions, because the only thing anyone knew abo
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by thisrod 5y ago
In one sense, this is worse than pointless. The hydrogen was made from brown coal, so this shipment has caused more greenhouse gas emissions than any other way Japan could have imported that energy. The capture and storage part of this pr
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The first liquid hydrogen shipment has begun(abc.net.au)
3 points by thisrod 5y ago|1 comments
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by thisrod 5y ago
This retired immigration official makes a good point: if Djokovic was suspected of doing anything dodgy, there were lots of opportunities to question him before he boarded a plane. To that extent, it's an Australian stuff up. And the
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by thisrod 5y ago
The details of this are obscure, due to medical privacy, and I don't know more than anyone else. On the other hand, this isn't the first time that someone has arrived in Australia with a visa, been taken aside at the airport, ques
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by thisrod 5y ago
The biology is even more interesting than I thought. These things have brains, which shut down, then reboot when they rehydrate. Wow!
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by thisrod 5y ago
> not entirely resisting the troll potential here Entirely possible. The sad thing is, when I've seen physicists take the "no such thing as bad publicity" approach, it's worked. University presidents watch the news
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by thisrod 5y ago
So this is me. A decade ago, I would have been a plausible choice of referee for a paper like this. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C6BzRwwAAAAJ You'll have to take my word for it, as I don't currently
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by thisrod 5y ago
> the law really should catch up Of course it should! My point is that LKY ended up supporting that, so it's a bit unfair to blame him for it not happening. In the context of the article, it matters that the dictator was in favor
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by thisrod 5y ago
> LKY is often called a "benevolent dictator" ... The country’s record on LGBT rights is particularly dismaying Actually, Lee Kwan Yew spoke in favor of gay law reform in Singapore from 2007. (Which is longer ago than it sound
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by thisrod 5y ago
This isn't a massive surprise: Australia has 90-95% uptake rates for every other vaccine, and it was never obvious why COVID would be different. (Apart from the Prime Minister getting involved in drug purchasing. That's usually
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by thisrod 5y ago
This is an interesting point. Julia might well benefit from Base.not_understood(f, x::Apple_Count, y::Apple_Count) = f(int(x), int(y)) |> AppleCount with semantics borrowed from Smalltalk. I'm a bit rusty with Jul
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by thisrod 5y ago
People say that the Melbourne city loop was the world's first computerized train line. If that's true, this hardware and software had some serious heritage value. It's a pity that Museums Victoria didn't try harder to
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by thisrod 5y ago
> There's a reason large states arose in the first place, to displace hunter-gatherer tribes, and it is precisely this That's a big leap, from the paleolithic world of 10 000 BC to the iron age armies of 1000 BC. Other things
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by thisrod 5y ago
There's no technical solution to this, short of writing your own browser. Web browsers are big, and there will only ever be a few organisations capable of building one. Like Boeing and Airbus. Those organisations are rich targets fo
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by thisrod 5y ago
Australia is really stable. The edges of the Australian plate are in New Zealand and Java, which aren't. But tectonic plates are big, and we're in the middle.

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