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readthenotes1··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
I imagine this is what farriers felt when the automobile came out.
readthenotes1··on The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend
Name chosen on gender change

https://medium.com/@MissMercedes/the-birth-of-mercedes-cb41d...

readthenotes1··on Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society
Nor when it is very competent...
readthenotes1··on The Aaronson Oracle
It would be neat to do a large language model trained only on Mark Twain.
readthenotes1··on Is 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence?
Among my peers, some would want to interpret "it was tired" to mean that the road had too many vehicles on it.
readthenotes1··on Now that information is free, what's a college campus for?
If the replication crisis has anything to say about it, colleges seem to be a pretty bad filter.
readthenotes1··on Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years
Did you read the article?

The contamination created by Chernobyl is especially long-lived, not because of the amount of fuel.

readthenotes1··on Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video]
The upside down installation in hospitals came up a few weeks ago and if I recall correctly, the reason was that if a large metal object were to fall on the plug, falling on the ground pin things are okay, but if it falls the power prongs things are not okay.

So, ground side up is usually safer.

I do not recall hearing a explanation of why the US naturally installs things to be more dangerous.

readthenotes1··on I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
It would also place a higher burden on investment home owners so it's not all bad.
readthenotes1··on Japan's most famous tuna buyer says he turned Somali pirates into fishermen
And then they turn to piracy for its own sake because they realized how lucrative it was
readthenotes1··on Part of a police code for describing suspects
I got a pop-up asking me to resend data. I declined...
readthenotes1··on The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI
A misspelled "buffoon."

I believe that is an example of irony.

readthenotes1··on Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser
That's the man's name
readthenotes1··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
It's been abused for decades, if you're of the mindset that hiring H1B workers for cheaper is an abuse of the system instead of the intended result.
readthenotes1··on Fitts's law: why the menu bar is at the top
Not The way I use it, or since you're getting downloaded as soon as many others
readthenotes1··on Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald
The trouble with that logic, as the US courts figured out, was that if the police could be held accountable for misdeeds done while allegedly doing their job then so could other public officials, like judges.

For instance, the judge who refused involuntary commitment for the schizophrenic who killed the woman in Charlotte could be held accountable for their bad judgment.

Judges face almost no consequences for their decisions, and so they think it is right and proper that police should have qualified immunity from similar consequences.

readthenotes1··on Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years
40 years and counting, vs 1 year for Hiroshima
readthenotes1··on Earth Tipped on Its Side During the Age of Dinosaurs–and Not Just Once
Most of the comments are saying that this is only about the magnetic pole wandering.

However, it also says

'the “entire solid Earth reorients to restore this alignment,” according to the paper. But the core and climate belts remain fixed,'

So this is indeed about physical Earth tipping, and it seems that it's trying to say that it happens during times of "polar wander".

Regardless of what it is saying it is so badly written it has no place in public discourse.

readthenotes1··on A Minsky machine in ncurses terminfo
Does it play Doom yet??
readthenotes1··on Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers
Iirc, AA/Sabre knows that a flight identifier is actually carrier+flight number+origin airport+departure date.

But who all calls someone by their full name all the time??

readthenotes1··on Barcodes are about to go extinct
How to i keep my thumb off it during scanning?
readthenotes1··on Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude
Well, Harvard hasn't exactly been a bastion of scientific integrity lately has it?
readthenotes1··on Scientists Have Found a Weird Physical Sign That Someone Is Interested in You
I wonder if this will be replicable?
readthenotes1··on How El Niño Made the Atlantic Hurricane Season Disappear
People I know who used to be climate change deniers are now saying that even if it's true more CO2 is good for plants so everybody's a winner.

I am pretty sure they will say everything's for the better until it specifically and undeniably affects them negatively.

readthenotes1··on Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far
If the past 30 years have shown us anything, it's that academic credentials and reputation are very difficult to blemish.

Polson is just pushing the knob to 11 because it's louder.

We've been in the dark ages of science for so many decades...

readthenotes1··on Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It
This must be microbe awareness day.

Earlier iirc someone posted

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cancer-infections-9.7361622

readthenotes1··on What makes software development engineering
The USA company my Dad was at in the late 1970s had to change all their software "engineering" job titles because the State of Texas required the licensing of people that called themselves "engineers".

The revelation came up when my Granddad reminisced laughing at the absurdity of my Dad being promoted to a "Senior Software Developer" at the age of 28.

readthenotes1··on Who Killed Paulina Borsook's Career?
You regularly use "panegyrics"?
readthenotes1··on The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines
I wonder if there is a correlation between the non-seriousness of the research papers and the permeation

There are only so many Beatles songs. Does that explain the replication crisis??

readthenotes1··on U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982
So cover 6% of California in solar panels?

Or nearly all of Maryland?

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