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Moving all of astronomy to space based observations is entirely incompatible with the way that instruments are funded, built, and deployed. It is only valid for a set of highly spe…

Not in Europe, where there are strict limits on credit card surcharges

JWTs are very helpful if you maintain many downstream services on separate domains that need shared auth and identity infrastructure

I just can't get behind this perspective, perhaps because I am a 'bad prompter', simply due to the lack of capability from current models. I end up rejecting them, asking them to i…

It’s started in TFA

This cross platform rendering engine’s website doesn’t render well at all on Safari on the iPhone.

People write applications that work with the S3 API but may want to host their own storage for a variety of reasons. Personally I make use of S3-compatible services for pre-signed …

Yeah, having your agent write 3x the code in exhaustive tests (I tried this recently and got 600 lines of tests for my 100 lines of code!) sure makes things look great, but when yo…

Maybe I'm entirely out of the loop and a complete idiot, but I am really not sure at all what people mean when they talk about this stuff. I use AI agents every day, but people who…

They're pretty much equivalent.

My point was that there’s a stop sign every block, so they need to stop anyway.

At some level this is driven by street design. The reason bus stops are so close in Philadelphia is because they stop every block, and there's a stop sign every block. The blocks a…

Complete and utter slop with no actual information about McDonald’s or changes in policy or advertisement.

46 authors isn’t that many. Big projects necessitate many authors (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06209 )

Racing and street driving are completely different. Racing involves detailed knowledge of vehicle dynamics and grip. Street driving is mainly obstacle recognition and avoidance. No…

I don't really understand how me saying that this tool isn't good for science as gatekeeping. The vibe-written papers that I am talking about have little-to-no valuable scientific …

The journal that I'm an editor for is 'diamond open access', which means we charge no submission fees and no publication fees, and publish open access. This model is really importa…

From my perspective as a journal editor and a reviewer these kinds of tools cause many more problems than they actually solve. They make the 'barrier to entry' for submitting vibed…

There is also FITS, but that is mainly for astronomical applications (and is in general an insane and terrible format). But it supports tons of types!

I’m not sure that’s an accurate description of the word’s entomology not least because “goyslop” is itself derived from… “slop”, which is low quality high-volume food for livestock…

Why? They don't necessarily increase productivity at all [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44526912

It's back now indeed, after around 1h30 of downtime, https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/nasa.gov.html

I stand corrected, either way NASA.gov is entirely down.

For an hour now the DNS record for nasa.gov has pointed to 192.0.66.108, leading to a total outage of NASA web services.