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I have fiber optic internet service, yet I'm still, somehow, waiting seconds for web pages to load :blobhuh:
gonna have to do some digging on this...

vice.com/en/article/dyv537/why

I eat raw lemon "flesh", but have only eaten the peel, pith, and a couple pips cooked (and I didn't like it).

The Rocket Ranch: Episode 7: Turning Space Trash into Gas nasa.gov/mediacast/episode-7-t

it took me way too long to pick up on the "joke" of OSCAR

This rock almost looked surprised that I was coming back! Thankfully, I was able to collect another sample here to replace the one I discarded earlier. This may be one of the oldest rocks I sample, so it could help us understand the history of this place. #SamplingMars

I'm trying out . so far, it's pretty clunky for my typical usage pattern: paste in an RSS feed URL and play episodes from a point I choose in chronological order. I can at least get there though, which is more than I can say for .

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what's a good FOSS mobile podcast player? I've been making do with VLC, but it's beyond shitty for this purpose

Use the *median*, not the average, to aggregate individual preferences in one-dimensional domains ⚖️

E.g. "what temperature should we heat the room to?" 🥶🌡️🥵 "how much money should we budget for the project?" 📈 💰 📉

-> incentive for everyone to answer truthfully
-> extreme responses don't skew result (manipulation resistance)
-> theoretically and intuitively evident that most-prefered option ('Condorcet winner') selected

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median

nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/the-bod
very cool interview. I think that quote, "Nothing is more important than what you are doing right now," will stay with me. I don't have an ops and planning team behind everything I do, but I often find myself working on subordinate, sometimes fairly boring, tasks in service to a larger goal. keeping the attitude suggested by that quote really helps to bolster my spirits for such things

> 7.91+dfsg1+really7.80+dfsg1-2
It was then that she began to realize that software versioning might be more complicated than she had ever imagined...

claims on config files are so stupid and probably not even enforceable but we add them anyway and i hate it

The US copyright office is consulting the public to see if we have any objections to mandatory automatic copyright filters. It would be a good idea to let them know.
eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/tell

I'm tired of fan noise, so my new computer case is built entirely out of heatsinks.

I had forgotten about this youtube channel for a while, but it's pretty great:
youtube.com/channel/UCobqgqE4i

as a sometime ML student, I have a casual interest in practical data munging techniques. AI Coffee Break is great for getting me a basic understanding of fairly complicated concepts and tools without a lot of upfront work learning lower-level stuff. For the most part, I understand the concepts at the level they're discussed using not much more than my undergrad-level knowledge.

globe.gov/explore-science/scie

I had noticed this phenomenon a while ago and was recently thinking about it as my heater wasn't coming on as frequently in the late afternoon/early evening, but I hadn't actually seen it described quantitatively.

> Any sufficiently advanced technology often breaks as if by magic.

This is way too true @nerthos ><
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