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I don’t think such a middle ground is really realistic. There are plenty of apps that are just thin wrappers around their backend calls and are no more capable of working offline than I am of going without food or water. But if a program is capable of being fully functional offline for 30 days, then what does it really need to call home for, other than as a confirmation of payment?

I live in Westchester County NY, quite possibly the living breathing heart of Reform Judaism in the US (outside the UES anyway). Plenty of genuine supporters of Israel here, even among the Gentiles. I try hard to avoid the topic even with friends. I don’t really want to hear a defense or denial of genocide.

The nature of a 'teaching professor' job can vary a lot, but the positions are often very precarious and unstable, as I can attest from personal experience.

Note that all this information is 20 years old and is badly outdated. Many of the facilities mentioned (eg the Nouchimi Outfitters gas station) no longer exist. https://www.facebook.com/TabascoADV/photos/a.696618650541057...

Woodside, Malibu, lots of places.

You’re not throwaway8526! … or are you?

Admittedly Atherton is like the very definition of a top 1% part of CA

What’s a “top 1% part of California”?

Somebody in real life was just saying something similar about Boston’s appeal as a mini nyc. I was genuinely pretty surprised — I think of Boston as pretty different from New York (much, much smaller, lots whiter, more educated; in my head Chicago or even Philly are closer to nyc-lite), but I can imagine a bunch of new englanders do move to Boston to get an urban experience.

Sure, underlying conditions were different and partially explain the different colonizing strategies. Doesn’t change the fact that there were key differences that manifest themselves in evidence like these newly discovered codices.

Yeah Spanish colonialism was very different from English colonialism. The Spanish attempted to coopt and convert the local population, not displace and kill them. That’s not to say it wasn’t a nasty process but to this day there are millions of people in Mexico who speak Nahuatl (the Aztec language) as their first and primary language.

I really like the new IntelliJ UI. It’s a blatant rip-off of VS Code but I like VS code so I’m fine with it. Removes a bunch of lesser-used features from the main view and feels a lot cleaner.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/new-ui.html

(2016)

Reddit has had a lot of trouble with revenue, as I understand it. Not an inspiring field to move into.

Though presumably he can have both sincere and cynical motivations for such blog posts.

Definitely

Plastic, Metafilter, memepool, others too I’m sure.

That number seems impossible on its face. Healthcare spending presumably consists of salaries and overhead, and I can’t imagine overhead is 92% of all spending.

It’s too bad the piece doesn’t have any reactions from other physicists. Is this a pretty speculative idea in the field or closer to the mainstream?

You empty the trash from your hotel room? Really?

On free baby formula in the UK see https://novaramedia.com/2023/06/21/parents-are-having-to-ste...

Academia is a club of purportedly professional peers, with a strong social norm of supporting one another. If you bring a lawsuit against your advisor you might be able to get them fired, but you will kiss any chance of a career goodbye.

That said, I’d be curious to know of any examples of students bringing lawsuits against their advisors, and what the legal and professional outcomes were for student and advisor.

I think this is bad advice. Bringing a lawyer to the academy is a fundamentally adversarial move, and barring exceptional circumstances will not go well (some female academics denied tenure in the 80s did do well from lawsuits on gender discrimination grounds).

Doesn’t matter. He resigned in disgrace, will never work in academia again. Honestly I’m now curious what he’s been up to the last two years.

Cost is way too high. A few taxis and drivers won’t cut it.

Pretty dismissive of your wife’s patients. To your “welcome to parenthood” I might reply “welcome to being a pediatrician.”

My glorious employer doesn’t pay for the Office suite, so I occasionally use Numbers for some very lightweight spreadsheet work on the work laptop.

Americans really do not have to go back and forth with metric a lot. Life in the glorious USA is lived unapologetically in imperial units.

Kinda sounds like gpt prompting

OED has /lʌɪd/, like lied (to my ears)

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/lide_n