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> And now we are 2.2% faster than Ninja! This claim isn't supported by the author's measurements?

You can pay in the app on the Denver RTD system!

CPA is very very widely used in experimental physics, so I don’t really think it belongs on this list.

latexrun does a pretty reasonable job with LaTeX files, and only runs when needed, etc. Would be nice to have this integrated into a build system for plots, data generation, etc.

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Do you have a link? Google just gives results about the US Navy detection of the implosion…

I don't think that 4o will actually be available for free. It seemed like they were quite careful in choosing their words. My guess is 3.5 is free without an account, and accessing…

Safer for the passengers, but increasingly dangerous for pedestrians.

Frequencies beyond the Nyquist limit alias back to resolved modes. So a combination of the camera plus a human eye to check that the flashing is “fast” (i.e. above the Nyquist limi…

A minor correction: anti-matter is actually regular matter. We understand it quite well, and are even able to create anti-atoms in the lab. On the other hand, dark matter is much m…

This has been my conclusion. I've spent the past few weeks polishing my yt-dlp scripts. Honestly, the experience of being able to watch any video I want offline and buffer-free is …

I’m sure the faculty were thrilled with this tradition. Less pages for them to read!

Reminds me of Joey Hess (joeyh.name). That said, I think this take has aged poorly in light of recent history. For instance, Google was started as a small collaboration, but has si…

Is it? Every large company has a well compensated CTO whose job it is to think through these sorts of hypotheticals. But “nobody gets fired for choosing Microsoft”, and so the mono…

The rise in student loan debt can alternatively be explained by increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people. In the past (e.g. 40 years ago corresponding to a g…

Stellarators in particular suffer from very long development cycles. It takes years and years of research to develop the algorithms used to optimize the coil geometries, and then t…

Worth noting that a neutron decays into a proton, an electron, AND an electron anti-neutrino, so that lepton number is conserved (electron is +1 and anti-neutrino is -1). This inte…

But you have to let the Turing machine run forever for this to work! Every number with a terminating decimal representation in rational. Maybe it's not so easy to describe a transc…

When I look at the link you provided, my conclusion is that US among the worst in deaths/capita, and about an order of magnitude above the median...

I'm a physics grad student, and this is completely wrong. The purpose of graduate classes (at least in physics) is to teach you how to navigate a the standard reference texts. For …