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I got the RayNeo Air 2 since they had the largest field of view. Pros: - Price (~$200 one year ago) - Display quality/resolution is fine - Brightness is excellent, can use it in di…

I also got usb-c display glasses and they've been great as an external monitor while traveling. I strongly recommend them to folks who want to be able to work comfortably on airpla…

At least in CA, the DMV does issue Real ID state IDs. I have one.

I was recently inspired on this front by an interview[1] with a recommender system engineer that explored the idea of a "good" recommender algorithm: > It feels like smartphones ha…

Just wanted to chime in and say thanks for including the full transcript. I strongly prefer reading to listening and so I was able to read this over my morning coffee and send it t…

I just got a pair of TCL Rayneo air 2 display glasses since I'm farsighted and my eyes become fatigued after a day of working on a conventional monitor. The increased focal distanc…

Thanks for sharing this. I basically agree, and have a lot to say about the neither-black-nor-white state of academia but have never managed to communicate my thoughts as well as y…

I'm mostly out now, but I would love to return to a more accountable academia. Often in these discussions it's hard to say "we need radical changes to publicly funded research and …

It may have to do with how liability insurance requirements are quite low - generally a few tens of thousands of dollars. So serious crashes (both those involving small and large v…

Wonder if this is related to the big cyberattack on Iran earlier today https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-814715

Thanks for sharing these numbers. I'm actually baffled to see the on-time performance so high and the passenger injury rate so low. I wonder how these numbers would look if they br…

I think you're misunderstanding. GP isn't saying "drawing randomly from all videos of unsafe situations, a large fraction of them occur on long-distance buses". They're saying "dra…

We do have a pretty extensive greyhound network in the US (it was recently bought by flixbus, but I think they're keeping the greyhound branding). But it is a totally different exp…

A proximal cause of the Syrian civil war is drought [1]. > Factors contributing to social disenchanment in Syria include socio-economic stress caused by the Iraqi conflict, as well…

I agree this is the current situation, but I think the concentration of homelessness in urban areas is largely a consequence of policies that favor suburbia: - Requiring a car for …

> the only place that is solved is at the ballot box and within the legislative and legal frameworks This WAS solved at the ballot box. The law written by our elected representativ…

It's possible that these aren't the original file contents, but rather the result of a manual attempt to stop the bleeding. Someone may have hoped that overwriting the bad file wit…

I don't disagree with what you meant here, but this sentence threw my mind through a loop. It shows how "have to" is a real weak point in how we communicate and think. Maybe we sho…

> Do you really think that the current situation poses a >25% cost on scientific productivity? Do you think your system would be able to recapture that? Yes and yes. I'm 6 years pa…

I work at Open Force Field [1] which is the kind of nonprofit that I think you're talking about. Our sister project, OpenFold [2], is working on open source versions of AlphaFold. …

Enough of the bridge wreckage has been cleared that most large ships can get out. There's one that's probably still trapped (the KLARA OLDENDORFF, with a 14.4 meter draught). But t…