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neuronexmachina··on A Trail Gone Cold
> The memoranda I think is the complete books of the general store that are archived in the National Archives, Reykjavik.

Wow, it's fascinating they still have those.

neuronexmachina··on US man jailed for cloning giant sheep for trophy hunting
You can see a list of what he pled guilty to here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/montana-man-pleads-guilty-fed...
neuronexmachina··on Mindustry: Automation Tower Defense RTS with Deep Strategy and Modding
Mindustry is kind of like open-source Factorio with more of a combat and tower defense focus.
neuronexmachina··on Interview with Signal President Meredith Whittaker
TIL about the OTF, seems like a pretty awesome non-profit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Technology_Fund

> The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is an American nonprofit corporation[5] that aims to support global Internet freedom technologies. Its mission is to "support open technologies and communities that increase free expression, circumvent censorship, and obstruct repressive surveillance as a way to promote human rights and open societies. As of November 2019, the Open Technology Fund became an independent nonprofit corporation and a grantee of the U.S. Agency for Global Media.[5] Until its formation as an independent entity, it had operated as a program of Radio Free Asia.[5]

> ... The OTF funds third-party audits for all the code-related projects it supports.[13] It has also offered to fund audits of "non-OTF supported projects that are in use by individuals and organizations under threat of censorship/surveillance".[13] Notable projects whose audits the OTF has sponsored include Cryptocat,[14] Commotion Wireless,[15] TextSecure,[15] GlobaLeaks,[15] MediaWiki,[16] OpenPGP.js,[17] Nitrokey,[18] Ricochet[19] and Signal.[20] The OTF also matched donations to the auditing of TrueCrypt.[21] In 2014, the OTF reported that it had funded more than 30 technology code audits over the past three years, identifying 185 privacy and security vulnerabilities in both OTF and non-OTF-funded projects.

neuronexmachina··on SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99
Yeah, when I saw the screenshot of Facing Worlds the song from that level immediately started playing in my head.
neuronexmachina··on GitHub was down
Latest update at 23:29 UTC says: "We are experiencing interruptions in multiple public GitHub services. We suspect the impact is due to a database infrastructure related change that we are working on rolling back."
neuronexmachina··on DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate
I'm curious if Anzu Robotics would be permitted under the ban. For those unfamiliar, they use DJI Mavic 3 hardware manufactured in Malaysia with US-written software: https://www.therobotreport.com/anzu-robotics-launches-u-s-ba...
neuronexmachina··on DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate
"Shall not be infringed!"
neuronexmachina··on Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico
Yeah, survivorship bias doesn't quite apply if there's real-time telemetry. ;)
neuronexmachina··on The Lunacy of Artemis
Yep. For reference regarding the budget stipulations: https://www.planetary.org/articles/why-we-have-the-sls
neuronexmachina··on Cognitive reflection, intelligence, and cognitive abilities: A meta-analysis
The OP article cites Kahneman & Frederick quite a bit in the intro.
neuronexmachina··on What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?
Those layoffs suck, but I don't think those are related to issues with Google Cloud's VMWare Engine.
neuronexmachina··on Dressmaking CAD
This is probably a dumb question, but am I correct in assuming that Gerber Scientific (which I think is responsible for AccuMark), Gerber knives, and Gerber baby products are all from completely unrelated companies? Or is there some long-ago connection between them?
neuronexmachina··on Experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader
They come up sometimes in the GIS space when working with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_Markup_Language
neuronexmachina··on DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
Oh wow, I wish more companies had pages like that summarizing what sort of marketing/advertising they do/don't use.
neuronexmachina··on US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana
What does that have to do with treatment programs?
neuronexmachina··on ByteDance’s web of apps could get tangled up in TikTok ban
I think it's worth noting that particular list wasn't introduced with the bill. It goes back to at least January 18, 2021: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/22/2021-01...

> The term “adversary country” means the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, or, as determined by the Secretary of Commerce, any other foreign nation, foreign area, or foreign non-government entity engaging in long-term patterns or serious instances of conduct significantly adverse to the national or economic security of the United States.

neuronexmachina··on Doctor at Cigna said bosses pressured her to review patients' cases too quickly
Full quote for context: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mr-obama-goes-wash...

> “I don’t think in ideological terms. I never have,” Obama said, continuing on the healthcare theme. “Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’ That represents 1 million, 2 million, 3 million jobs of people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?”

neuronexmachina··on A leadership crisis in the Nix community
> Contributors to Nix have a problem with contributing to Nix and then seeing sponsors like Anduril advertised.

I might be misunderstanding, but I thought Anduril was repeatedly rejected as a NixCon sponsor?

neuronexmachina··on Digitized Continuous Magnetic Recordings for the 1859 Carrington Event
Something similar which is more recently-maintained: https://github.com/automeris-io/WebPlotDigitizer
neuronexmachina··on The man who killed Google Search?
It's based on emails published as evidence in a trial:

* https://www.justice.gov/usdoj-media/atr/media/1322631/dl?inl...

* https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417557.pdf

* https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417581.pdf

neuronexmachina··on Generative A.I. arrives in the gene editing world of CRISPR
And their repo: https://github.com/Profluent-AI/OpenCRISPR
neuronexmachina··on FAA now requires reentry vehicles to get licensed before launch
Official notice: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/17/2024-08...
neuronexmachina··on Tesla's biggest retail shareholder is voting against Elon Musk's $55B package
With Vanguard as an example, you can see their methods and past votes here: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/c...
neuronexmachina··on House votes to ban TikTok in the U.S. if it's not sold
> I heard inside info from the hill.

It was a fairly big story last month: https://www.axios.com/2024/03/07/tiktok-ban-congress-phone-c...

neuronexmachina··on Mini rope bridges built in Forest of Dean to help dormice
TIL the "Bob Bilby" stuffy from Bluey is based on a real animal.
neuronexmachina··on Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
The median credit score for low-income Americans is 658 (US average is 714): https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/research/average-credit-scor...

It looks like a number of decent rewards cards require a credit score over 670.

neuronexmachina··on CityGaussian: Real-time high-quality large-scale scene rendering with Gaussians
This is a 3D reconstruction, rather than a game rendering.
neuronexmachina··on Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low
Looks like it's stored as barrels: https://ppaq.ca/en/sale-purchase-maple-syrup/worlds-only-res...

(I was kind of hoping it'd be a giant pool of maple syrup)

neuronexmachina··on ArXiv Papers as Audiobooks
It'd be interesting to also have these generate a slide presentation explaining a paper via some combination of presentation markdown, MermaidJS, and an image generator.
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