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Civitello··on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
Perhaps if there was success she would have had no material power and not have been responsible for the success.
Civitello··on The startling rise of disability in America (2013)
>can't get married<br> This is the next frontier in marriage equality.
Civitello··on Jupiter was formerly twice its current size, had a much stronger magnetic field
It shrank because of all the boys going there to get stupider.
Civitello··on The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
The email was a bit much, just altering the ready message should have been sufficient.
Civitello··on How Silica Gel Took Over the World
What a perfect opportunity to link to one of my favourite candies https://waskstudio.com/products/sealed-fate-candy-packets

Balls of hard candy shaped and packaged like silica gel!

Civitello··on Dangerous chemicals were detected in 100% of the braiding hair we tested
Fine, I'll yield the weasel word point, the rest of my comment stands.
Civitello··on Dangerous chemicals were detected in 100% of the braiding hair we tested
TL;DR we found these chemicals present but with only one cherry picked exception we make no quantifiable claims of potential harm. That exception is lead, and we used the strictest standard we are aware of to describe the "dose", also note that we assume that the product is ingested to come to our conclusion. We also use weasel wording to avoid explicitly claiming that there are any regulatory or legal violations.
Civitello··on Tesla Cybertruck Unexpectedly Accelerates into Home with Rear Wheels Locked
> Imagine telling the homeowner to recover damage from their insurance company.

That is exactly how these things work in the US.

> The insurance company should recover their costs from Tesla.

These two things are not mutually exclusive.

Civitello··on Tesla Cybertruck Unexpectedly Accelerates into Home with Rear Wheels Locked
It is hard to cover Tesla in good faith without frequently reporting on things likely to cause FUD, reality has a well known anti-tesla bias.
Civitello··on Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic
This would look incredible in VR.
Civitello··on Rethinking Text Resizing on Web
As someone who has worked in compliance testing for tightly controlled software platforms, things like this piss me off. These problems have known solutions.
Civitello··on Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months
depends on the goal of the speaker
Civitello··on The purge of German science in 1933
heck there are probably humans who can sight read ROT13
Civitello··on Lessons after a Half-billion GPT Tokens
> Every use case we have is essentially “Here’s a block of text, extract something from it.” As a rule, if you ask GPT to give you the names of companies mentioned in a block of text, it will not give you a random company (unless there are no companies in the text – there’s that null hypothesis problem!). Make it two steps, first: > Does this block of text mention a company? If no, good you've got your null result. If yes: > Please list the names of companies in this block of text.
Civitello··on Experts clash over report suggesting fluoride can affect brain development
I'm more worried about possible impacts of an increase in atmospheric CO2 on cognitive function. It probably isn't an easily measurable amount on individuals, but across the worlds population it may have a notable effect.
Civitello··on Tried Vision Pro. Here's what I thought
Why?
Civitello··on Apple Vision Pro review
I'm pretty sure one of the varjo headsets had displays like you describe.
Civitello··on Apple Vision Pro review
> field of view...Limits of the technology

It really isn't though, at least not for long, as of mid 2023 there are publicly showcased compact lightweight prototypes with 240° FoV.

Civitello··on We made an animated movie in 8kB
I want to know more about how the irises were done.
Civitello··on How far could the sun possibly be?
So, without reading, here are my uninformed thoughts on how I would do it:

You could probably figure out the distance by using a technique we use to figure out the distance to nearby stars, measuring the change in position in the sky relative to very far away stars. I think you'd only need to observe two stars to figure out the distance.

Could also use pulsar timing like gps signals to track the location of the Earth throughout its orbit.

Could also take measurements after launching a pair of space probes away from the earth.

Civitello··on Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people
A motto is not a mandate.
Civitello··on Tim Sweeney on why Epic did better against Google than Apple in court
One was a jury trial and one was a bench trial. I think that probably has a lot to do with it.
Civitello··on 2×4 Lumber Sizes – The History Behind the Mystery
If time counts as a dimension then there's 7-11.

Los of batteries are hmm in some circles purely by their dimensions. 18650s for example.

A4 (paper)

35mm (film)

9mm, 12ga, 22cal (firearms and munitions)

A pint (beer)

A 40 (beer again)

Civitello··on Shein Files for U.S. IPO
It is used because the alternative is to not provide the information.
Civitello··on Aerial refuelling without human intervention
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratovision
Civitello··on Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
do they have peers that would join them if they went?
Civitello··on James Webb Space Telescope finds 2 of the most distant galaxies ever seen
Eventually, there will be a telescope to be the last to set the record for the most distant galaxy observed, because cosmic expansion will make it impossible to observe things so distant. I sometimes like to imagine what it will be like in the far future when you can only observe things a billion ly away, or a few million.
Civitello··on U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game
I believe that a significant part of the reason the nuclear is so unpopular is due to the influence of the Simpsons.
Civitello··on Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music (2022)
I have been tempted to release music under the name Feat, maybe a song called Ft, and album called Featuring.