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I count fires as a form of weather in CA, would probably apply to the PNW too

I think you're misunderstanding what I mean by "quality" in this context. It's not quality as in something like meat, it's quality as in "a quality education". Does it go above and beyond vs. do the bare minimum to address the scientific question proposed by the authors.

Something can appear to be of very high quality and yet still be completely fraudulent. This occurs in countless fields; art, counterfeit money, deepfakes, etc.

Scientists are attempting to address fraudulent research in other ways, but peer review is not the best means for it and it should not be thought of in that way.

That's actually exactly correct. Peer review is supposed to characterize the research in terms of quality, not validate it. Otherwise, those peers who validate it would practically be co-authors.

It's a system built upon honesty. A dishonest person is obviously going to take advantage of it. Really blatant things are caught in peer review, but sneaky fraud will definitely slip through.

Ah yes, that would certainly be far better.

Everything in politics is about delegating authority. The bureaucrats were indirectly elected by the bureaucrats we did elect who gave them their authority. It's also why citizens don't vote on laws themselves.

>Isn't this just confirming a seemingly widely held opinion

Yes-- this represents formal acknowledgement by a regulatory agency. The hope is that agency can now use this formalization to enforce change within Boeing.

This is maybe the most beautiful description linking the arts and sciences that I've ever read. A good scientist is one who extends the envelope of our external knowledge; a good artist is one who pushes the boundaries of our inner qualia and interpretations

its a tiny setup, too small for normal steps. it may be just fine if it were bigger.

and anyway, it probably won't be the final iteration of this. it's just a prototype, a proof-of-concept. people are looking at this like you can go down and buy it today and are writing it off.

they kept the 737 branding to indicate backwards compatibility with existing jetways so airlines wouldn't need to upgrade other equipment.

Bad UI is just one that breaks the patterns we're used to. If you're young and learning fresh patterns it doesn't matter as much

it started as live pathogens (cowpox) so it must have gone through many iterations if that were the case

That's not the definition of a vaccine. A vaccine is something that registers our active immune system against an antigen, so that our body detects and eradicates it upon detection. The timing doesn't really matter and there are a lot of therapeutic vaccines [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9729511/

Sometimes the ephemerality of the medium is what makes it special. Radio exists just while you hear it. Having it be accessible everywhere via the internet ruins that sense of place. I don't know, maybe I'm just old.

I've gone to ultimate-guitar since the early 2000s. Some of my tabs are still on there. Visiting it today is a god-damn tragedy. What a mess of a site. I'll definitely be trying this.

It does feel like Microsoft wanted this to happen, doesn’t it? Like the systems for this were already in place. So fascinating, and a little scary.

This is a molecular study. Not done in humans. It is showing the molecular effects of nanoplastics within cells. Does not claim anything about effects in humans directly, just provides a model for future testing.

Here’s the version in Science Advances: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi8716

How can you be sure that it wasn’t their efforts that allowed us to continue existing? Maybe if they hadn’t made the destructive implication of their work clear no one else would have recognized it. None of us can say.

It’s obvious in hindsight, but can we really say with certainty that things would have been exactly the same if the inventors did or said nothing? I’m not willing to take that bet.

To me, effort such as this is always worth it, even if it DOES have no effect, because the chance it can change things for the better is worth it.

Twitter rumors from “insiders”

While Apple is far from perfect, the difference in extent between the two is pretty dramatic. I switched back to MacOS from Windows this year because Windows 11 was annoying me to no end. Microsoft has gone much farther down the anti-user experience road.

Rinse aid is a dishwasher-specific product. It “helps” by removing residual soap and water spots from a dishwasher cycle.

I use a brand of dishwasher tabs that are supposed to be more “natural” and never use rinse aid, to no ill effect. Personally I think the normal tablets and rinse aid are specifically designed to be used together.

The very interesting thing is that the catapillar’s experiences, on some level, are maintained into the butterfly stage—despite so much of the larva being dissolved!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13412-butterflies-rem...

I have a 1660Ti. I get 40+ fps on 1080p. It's functional. Now, whether it is really any better than the previous generation is the more relevant question in my opinion. There are a few things improved, and a whole lot missing. The performance issues are only a small fragment of the game's issues.

Not all titles are available in 4K unfortunately. We used to have the 4K plan, and in my experience very few of the things we watched had it.

Interesting… why wouldn’t you? Do you live far from one?

I love going to Best Buy (and most stores), but maybe that’s just because it was great growing up with them as a source for all things electronic.

Personally I get more joy from browsing stores in person compared to browsing digitally. It becomes something to do—an event of sorts. We exist in the physical world; the digital world is less satisfying to my other senses.

It probably marks the beginning of the end for the medium though

Ha! If only you could charge for time wasted, eh?

Feel free to enlighten all of us, instead of using ad hominem on this particular comment. I, a lowly uninformed user, would love to know what UX/UI is versus what it pretends to be, so that I might understand the decisions being made in Windows 11.

Yes but my point is that for an equally valuable house the property tax contributes equally to those resources whether they live there or not, but I can’t imagine the burden of someone living full time in a house of that value is very high on such resources. I understand what you are suggesting conceptually, but I disagree on the impact. If there are any numbers on such a resource burden maybe I’ll change my mind! I’m not sure if there is data out there for this kind of thing.

Unless you are suggesting replacing such a home with higher numbers of lower value homes. Obviously that would be a different story.

I think your last paragraph is leaving out a lot of context on the way the Speaker had treated Democrats up to that point. It wasn’t really about humiliation — McCarthy refused to work with the Dems and said as much.