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arbitrage··on The Magnetic Field of the Milky Way (2000)
No, light is EM radiation. Not all EM is light.
arbitrage··on Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files
Reddit attracts a lot of trolls. Managing the reddit takes work (moderation, keeping up with stupid reddit drama).

With a project discord, you're filtering out people immediately -- typically only people who want to be there wind up there. It makes things easier for a lot of people this way.

arbitrage··on The creatives pushing nail art to sculptural new lengths
You're gonna break that necklace if you clutch your pearls any harder.
arbitrage··on 20 years ago Gmail revolutionized email. It's time for a new revolution
Fastmail is a paid solution, and you are comparing it to the ad-laden version of gmail. They are absolutely going to be different experiences.

You do in fact appear to be heavily biased based on your previous involvement with google, it shows.

arbitrage··on What's the fastest language in the world?
t;dr: it's Japanese
arbitrage··on The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome (1998)
Do you talk with them, or talk at them? Are you the only one giving feedback? What feedback do you get from the employee you've been failing to connect with?
arbitrage··on A Surprising Advantage of Vinyl (2011)
> Not sure what to make of this.

One possible conclusion here is that you are not as discriminating of a music listener as you assumed or thought you were.

arbitrage··on Why are there suddenly so many car washes?
The machinery is all commoditized and the same. Plumbing as a trade has been around for thousands of years. The level of sophistication here is limited.
arbitrage··on Why are most sofas so bad?
You're exaggerating about light-bulbs. There is no way LEDs last less than incandescents. If you are experiencing this, its possible your wiring is bad. You should call an electrician and have them check that out.
arbitrage··on Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate
Tachyons aren't a thing. Tachyons are sci-fi nonsense.

Nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light. This does not hold for the universe itself. It can and does expand faster than the speed of light, using specific reference frames (i.e., big enough).

So, space can increase FTL. Particles do not travel faster than light tho, that is nonsense.

arbitrage··on Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate
That's a mouthful.

The title should be "Hubble Tension almost certainly not caused by measurement error."

arbitrage··on A broken vintage piano turned into an analog hybrid of 20 instruments
https://archive.is/mgu2l
arbitrage··on Google slips as OpenAI said to be working on search product: report
Google didn't slip. Google's stock price fluctuated. Which is a normal occurrence. There's a difference between the two, and the headline is really close to click-bait.
arbitrage··on It's Fair to Describe Schizophrenia as Probably Mostly Genetic
This article mentions nothing about twins being affected asymmetrically by schizophrenia. Any model of the disease needs to account for that.

Also, this gem: "You also can’t point to any individual lung cancer patient and say “smoking caused this person’s lung cancer”."

Article loses all credibility at that point. Lol.

arbitrage··on Let's Block It
Oh wow, I can block already watched videos on youtube, at long long last.

Thank you so much!

arbitrage··on Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range?
Hold the fob under and in contact with your chin and aim your face at your car. The beam gets focused in a specific direction when you're using your head to amplify the signal. This is how you get improved distance with your head. Your skull is not an isotropic resonant emitter. The signal ends up beam-shaped.
arbitrage··on Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?
Did you read the linked article or abstract?

> Participants' demographics, including education and familiarity with LLMs, did not predict detection rate, suggesting that even those who understand systems deeply and interact with them frequently may be susceptible to deception.

arbitrage··on Ask HN: Why is OpenAI firing Sam Altman such a big deal?
Good point, and the answer to that is possibly not. But, considering that it isn't ideal to publicize this sort of thing during market hours anyway, regardless of your public/private status, my takeaway is that OpenAI felt that they had to get in front of this news at all costs. I find that very interesting, and I wonder what the competing narrative would have been had they not done that.
arbitrage··on Do authors get paid for ad placement in novels?
I find it particularly scene breaking as well. Stephen King does this a great deal -- he seems inordinately fond of name-dropping electronics.

I don't think authors get paid to include name brands as adverts. I think what you and I are seeing is men of a certain age thinking things are "cool" and then using the name of a product or service to themselves appear "cool" or in-touch.

I personally always feel it has the exact opposite effect for the reason you already said: authors who do this do it so often that it becomes extremely noticeable and scene-breaking.

arbitrage··on PFAS Forever Chemicals Present in Some Plastic Recyclable Bottles
This article was not about recycled plastics. It's about plastics that can be recycled. Subtle difference, there.
arbitrage··on I got robbed of my first kernel contribution
This has been my experience contributing to F/OSS, as well. Upstream maintainers loooooove stealing your code. They are exceptionally unpleasant to work with, overwhelmingly so.

"Sorry, I like my version better" is almost verbatim the same ripoff-kissoff I've gotten before in one specific circumstance in the past.

arbitrage··on The SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System worked by tracking the stars
Get over yourself, they did it together. The allieds invaded France. Russia would've been made a vassal state of Germany if it wasn't for the US.
arbitrage··on Parmesan makers add microchips to cheese wheels to foil counterfeiters
You can eat the rind. Some people do. That's not typical, however.

> The p-Chip micro-transponder is a grain of salt-sized silicon chip containing a unique identification code that is attached to the silicon substrate.

It will probably be safe if it gets accidentally ingested.

arbitrage··on The shrinking number of primary care physicians is reaching a tipping point
A dermatologist has been consistently difficult to get an appointment with for twenty years in some places.
arbitrage··on Canonical LXD forked by former project leader stgraber
>> I [...] uninstalled snapd (forgetting lxd used it)

Okay, but that's a "you" problem, not anything related to the actual software.

arbitrage··on Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase
> in those days you could sink Ethernet with a faulty PC

That is still possible in the modern era.

arbitrage··on Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue
I mean, blame is probably better assigned "because capitalism", not "because Linux".
arbitrage··on Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?
> and there's a reason why SF has famously terrible urban design.

... which is?

arbitrage··on Kevin Mitnick has died
I believe that at first it was a game for him. Eventually he got tired of running, and this may have been a way of taunting his pursuers and forcing an end-game situation that he overestimated his chances against.

He was not prepared for four years of solitary and unconstitutional delaying of his trial. He did not ultimately have a game plan for what to do if his opponent cheated.

If the government had acted justly (that is, according to their own laws) he would have been found innocent and walked at his trial. However, the prosecutors lied, they cheated, corrupted the system they claimed to protect, and that was it. Game over, no redos.

arbitrage··on Debate over 'fake work' and 'lazy management' in tech industry
I too have worked in tech before, during, and after the hiring boom; but not for any of these companies. I have seen very much of the sort of make-work that is described in the article.

It seems our anecdotes might cancel each other out.

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