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I did a deep dive on this once: Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is coordinated among ... who? The answer (at least when I looked into it): University of Paris, NIST, and the US Naval Observatory. The other two are constantly comparing state of the art atomic clocks. USNO is the only member looking outward.

Yeah, version control seems like a better approach in every way. Some of the articles I've been asked to review are clearly written by a harried grad student writing English as a second language, as though the senior author didn't even bother proof-reading it. I see no reason for me to expend so many hours reviewing to figure out what in the hell they're talking about, effectively editing and proofing as I go so I know it's at least structured correctly. I think I'm effectively being co-oped by the senior author to teach their students. Why not just post to GitHub and see if it gets traction? If it does, cool. If not, let it die quietly under the fallen leaves.

Thanks for the detailed analysis, I really appreciate it.

> why require certificates and PKI

to buy down risk in a highly regulated sector. Tesla has been doing this internal to their cars for a while now. Inferences from the ML computers are signed and compared, and the path software. And there's already a pile of PKI options available.

> it’s my professional responsibility to assess its validity, suitability for purpose, and limitations; to know how to use it properly; and to interpret and evaluate its output.

I commend that approach, unfortunately, policy at a national level has to assume there are bad actors. The problem in my profession is that anything more than some light algebra to calculate basic statistics is completely out of their skill set. Additionally, the practitioners are so bound by other policy, they basically have to be compelled to do anything more.

We have a few of these in our office. The experience is decent, but, man, I really miss chalkboards. I just don't find whiteboards, physical or virtual, as compelling. I actually make some use of the Jamboard app in meetings occasionally, but usually I'm at a desk with my feet up, using a tablet to draw while everyone else is remote. Not only has Jamboard never been a first-class citizen, no whiteboard is a first-class citizen in VTC world. Partially, no one else knows how to use whatever is in use today.

I actually have a slate chalkboard my dad got from an old schoolhouse in Nebraska. He built a frame for it, gave it me when my kids were young, and I have moved with that all over the world. I have actually as productive is a chalkboard and a phone on a tripod, joining the phone to the VTC so people can see the chalkboard. I wish there was a better way to do that.

I love chalkboards so much, I really, really miss them.

If I'm ever in charge, I'm buying chalkboards.

Why do I feel that seeing this article here hints that people are leaning harder into causal inference problems?

for the curious, "follicular lymphoma" is what you want to search for. Fairly pithy site to get started: https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/lymphomafollicularno...

Profit centers directly produce profit. Cost centers may indirectly produce profit but the administration has a fundamentally different view of the assets. To wit: the leadership of a profit center could molest children and the administration would not notice (this is literally the source of countless headlines), while the leadership of a cost center could get staffing slashed if they use too many post-it notes (this is the source of no headlines ever).

Tell me you don't find it relaxing to sit in the closet.

Pro-tip to avoid show-through when scanning documents on thin paper with text on both sides: put a piece of black paper on top so the reverse side luminance is constant.

One of the links in the book, for the refractor tool, is on a server with a dead certbot. https://refractor.fastforwardlabs.com/

Mostly about knowing the rules, but obviously it doesn't hurt to know the people.

Or a great SNL skit.

I know a number of folks who get or have gotten SBIRs. The rules of the game requiring knowing them well in advance of showing up because timing matters.

tl;dr for those who didn't read it: capital sucks, think of the workers, regulate the tide of technology so .... workers can retool for another job, I guess? How do you regulate the tide?

The most impactful PM I know from Defense Digital Service doesn't have a degree in Fahrenheit. He did arrive with a 20 year track record at Microsoft though. Have a look at US Digital Service, Defense Digital Service, Defense Innovation Unit or 18F. Check out usajobs.gov. If you're in the Bay Area, feel free to PM me.

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I expected this comment to be the response. Fair. But you can feel the author identifying more with the CS or literature major than the carpenter or the bricklayer.

Ah, CFR looking down its long diplomatic nose at carpenters and brick layers

"new stimulus-driven opportunities in fields such as carpentry and bricklaying hold no interest for graduates in areas such as literature and computer science."

The CFR crowd should spend more time learning about anagnorisis and peripeteia https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_learning_from_dirty_jobs

* Make it fast

* Make it secure

* Make it beautiful

* Think of the users!

"the legislation indirectly defines who is responsible for the security of open source and who should pay to improve the current state. In addition, it puts the responsibility on individual developers and foundations hosting open-source projects instead of the manufacturers of goods embedding the software."

That seems like a catastrophe.

So far. I'm sure someone is going to figure out how to engineer viable tooth buds for adults.

And as for "just for children" ... I had no idea how significant pediatric dental specialties were until my daughter fell out of a pickup truck onto the curb broke her two front teeth at the age of 3. Luckily her adult teeth grew in appropriately, but she still needs braces to fix the spacing in her smile that the injury left. It's been over a decade and I still feel terrible.

Which 'wich?

Looking at Table 1, I wonder if this is an effect of increased variance in smaller populations? Table 2 kind of feels like it's trending that way.

Also, apparently in 2014 there was an article describing Xi Jinping's lifestyle, which reported he ate breakfast daily before dawn. This study started in 2014. Probably a total coincidence, but ...

https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-glimpse-president-x...

How would hydration predispose to liver cancer?

I've only diagnosed one case of coccidioidomycosis, and it was on a small tropical island. Black male in his early 20s. Looked for all the world like a cutaneous lymphoma. Biopsy was full of granulomas and I got a fungal stain reflexively. We were all flabbergasted. Turns out the young man was from the Central Valley.

I note the patient's sex and race because it seems this particular group either has a particular tolerance for the disease until it's metastatic, or has a particularly aggressive reaction to metastatic disease. In either case, my ID colleagues tell me that when they present, they seem to present with markedly worse systemic disease. Don't take my word for it, here's the Mayo Clinic, reviewing many other studies over decades:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012635/

I have had things cut for me and I find myself begging the workers to wear ear pro, eye pro, air pro, and they invariably smile, nod, and work without it. Even if I point out the protective gear sitting near the work area. I too was young once. Now I wear the kit.

Parent's actual imgur is a very thin black image of a post from the grandparent commenter. It's quite on topic. However, I see imgur suggesting some very off-topic things below that, so I can see how you may have thought that.

I mean, just because there's an OR doesn't mean you have to throw out the rest of the conditions as soon as you get TRUE.

There are other affordances though: the fleet can now have a legitimate chance of standardizing on a coherent software platform, reduce the network admins afloat (which cost way more), improve cybersecurity, etc.

I'm on an ship doing oceanographic survey work in the arctic. StarLink is $5000 for 5 TB. Without it, we're on iridium, which both eye-wateringly expensive and slow (1MB up and down). Low bandwidth mode would be hella appreciated right now.

Interestingly, one of the major sucks for these LEO systems does not appear to be bandwidth. It's the route. We throttled the ship down to 2 Mbps for a while (100 pax) and Google properties are actually quite snappy while everything else is dead slow to the point of timing out. Turns out Google arranged to have Starlink ground stations installed in their data centers. That takes off a lot of hops. Amazon was one of the few other things that would load.

I hate to sound like a shill for big tech, but I get the sense Google and Amazon actually give a shit about speed. When you measure your bandwidth bill in billions, you can afford to?