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I had to look up the article to figure out if this was the intolerable downside of having kids (all this work raising them, and then they just fly out of the nest) or _not_ having …

I don't think people choose Python because it's virtues as a language for tooling (it's not great from that perspective, statically linked binaries would be better). They choose it…

Getting images of simple molecules or lattices seems tricky.

Did you mean to say it's _related_? The original "spiral" image by Ugleh is explicitly credited in the "Related Links" section.

Thank you for the prompt, that's very useful! I'm surprised GPT "knows" what Monster of the Week is. RPGs in general are somewhat obscure, and to ask for a specific one at that?

I agree with all these criticism. But I also know many human DMs who make the same stylistic decisions as GPT did here. It's definitely not good Burning Wheel, but it might be ok D…

Yeah, maybe there's a confusion between percentage and fraction, and this was meant to be 0.001 (not 0.001%). But if so, the error is not the journalist's: I clicked through and th…

Re 2: this is not true if you're doing margin or futures trading, which was FTX's main business (and may be Binance's). This type of business is what characterizes an "exchange" (a…

Yeah! Its deepest point is only 10 m shallower than the deepest point of the Baltic Sea!

Relatively little energy is actually used for heating and cooling. In the UK, a country pretty far north, it's about a fifth of energy use ( https://www.withouthotair.com/c7/page_5…

There must be a little more to this, since clearly they are not a wholly owned subsidiary.

I bought and played it after reading this piece. It's a small but enjoyable game; if you're at all intrigued, I'd encourage checking it out!

Looks like the fundamental problem is that a substantial number of users are perfectly willing to sign up for providing fake likes, as long as they receive fake likes in return. A …

Interesting. I use Pigma Microns for line drawing, but never used them for writing. They are lovely!

He was the CEO of Waze, but not of Google. After the acquisition, he had to adopt Google promo processes.

He does have a passion for automation, but where's the dissonance? He recognizes it in the very opening, with the xkcd!

I believe they are talking about using Zoom to call friends/family from your work laptop.

You can export to BiBTeX (.bib).

That (nicotine carrying non-minimal health risks) is Myth 3 in the linked article. I recommend reading it, it's very informative!

I see this as a win-win, too, but in a different way. Early on, the US companies cut their costs: good for them, and likely their customers. In the long term, China developed the e…

This is all true, but I sometimes missed the nuance of less witty but more detail-oriented histories. Harari could seem flippant at times, which mostly amused me when I agreed with…

Lengthening the second is unlikely: for every physical phenomenon with a duration (from the rotational period of other planets to the frequency of atomic transitions), you would fo…

Abstract of a talk with the same title by one of the authors (Ju Sun; coming up at Duke University on February 5th, 2018): Many problems arising from scientific and engineering app…