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https://www.aaronhuertas.com/revisiting-reactionary-centrism-a-response-to-jonathan-chait/
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An extensive analysis about how gap asymmetry affects qubit properties could lead to better engineering strategies. @fzj
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Republicans take bold stance against ethics! 😄
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OKAY so hopefully that's the right pinout. Yes, it's offset by one. that's on purpose.
Time to test.
PSA: take some time in 2023 to back up your/your family's CD-Rs (and other recordable media) full of memories you threw into storage 10+ years ago; there's a decent chance they've started to rot!
the tenuously thin layer of dyes/adhesives holding the data *will* break down over time, rapidly so if their environment is uncontrolled, the surface was previously nicked/contaminated, or they were cheap ones to begin with
I meant to get this to a fellow Minecraft user. It is the basic layout of what we call "The Borehole" on our server. Unfortunately, I was unable to find the original discussion thread. I'll post it here and hopefully the person intended will see it. I welcome discussion on this particular concept.
I'm standing on a ladder looking down. The ladder is necessary because "stuff happens" and the vines could catastrophically break from a water incident, or lava burning them up.
Iron bars at the center and the two opposing corners hold in the water elevator on the side opposite the ladder. One may fall straight down into water at the -59 level. The water brings people back up "not quite as quickly, but still faster than climbing." Vines, not needing support like a ladder, allow one to easily break while descending to climb back up a missed stop. This is lit by torches at every stop. The walls are solid except at each stop, which has a gap 3 high making it easy to enter and leave The Borehole.
If the intent is to "strip-mine," I have found this way to get between stops really does the trick.
If there is interest, I am happy to share screen captures of the stops and how I have those laid out to make strip-mining a breeze. Note, "Strip mining" in Minecraft is different from "real world" strip mining. In Minecraft, it refers to making a single straight shaft, often 1 wide, 2 tall in a pattern to most efficiently encounter an ore cluster without having to waste time and effort to mine out each and every single block.
I’m gonna do a manual quote here to say that this is exactly the type of stuff we predicted, and especially with automation bias with people overtrusting model outputs. Police didn’t even check the height of the person they claimed did this, and neither was the person in Atlanta.
https://dair-community.social/@poppastring@dotnet.social/109634255362720798
Pandemic
I'm honestly confused about the ongoing pandemic discourse where risk calculation is discussed in terms of people who are "high risk"and people who are not.
We know that covid radically alters immune function, and affects are cumulative.
It doesn't matter which risk group you think you're starting in, surely everyone is only one covid case away at most from being high risk.
I don't understand why it's not framed that way.
Strange Aeons does that "Friday" song, and what was behind it.
The Legacy Of Rebecca Black's Friday & Ark Music Factory https://youtu.be/dVQkDz91sdU via @YouTube
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