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Posted by
m-watson on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:52PM
from the theconversation.com dept.
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m-watson on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @03:50PM
from the theverge.com dept.
Posted by
m-watson on Friday September 19, 2025 @02:45PM
from the electrek.co dept.
Thanks for that I was mistaken about how the vouch process worked. I thought vouching could work for flagged as well since fagged can lead to removal.
Yea, I have re-read things for goals as well. I also re-read things for the mental approach it may instill for a period of time while and after reading it, to enjoy it (like you said), or to see how the perspective fits to my new mental models a few years later. Three fiction books I constantly go back to at different times are Brave New World, The Alchemist, and Prey.
I'm curious what books others go back to over time.
I would love to see dang weigh in here just out of curiosity AND see how many people or if people are using the vouch mechanism if they can. Because this post doesn't have an insignificant upvote count and has actual conversation happening in the comments.
100% serious statement here, who are you looking at on Bluesky or how? Looking at the Discover (so a general feed) my follow which would be unique to me, and the trending ALL I see is people talking about this being bad OR posts showing how everyone is saying Bluesky is celebrating. I truly do not see this celebration happening that people are saying is happening rampantly. Right now, in a private browser going to
https://bsky.app/ there is 0 celebration.
(quick edit) And anyone who doesn't believe me go to Bluesky right now and look.
Posted by
m-watson on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @02:13PM
from the nytimes.com dept.
Here is the actual RSL website [0] and announcement [1]
"RSL is an open, decentralized protocol, based on the widely adopted RSS (Really Simple Syndication) standard, that scales to millions of websites and can be applied to any digital content, including web pages, books, videos, and datasets."
[0] https://rslcollective.org/
[1] https://rslstandard.org/press/rsl-standard
Posted by
m-watson on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @09:19AM
from the arstechnica.com dept.
The very study you cited states in their initial summary of findings that
"The study provides the first evidence to support a widely held belief: that racially mixed
juries do not discriminate against defendants based on the defendant’s ethnic background.
While the assumption has been that racially mixed juries will not discriminate against ethnic
minority defendants, this study showed that racially mixed juries also did not discriminate
against White defendants.[0]"
[0]https://www.ucl.ac.uk/judicial-institute/sites/judicial-inst... - page iv
Posted by
m-watson on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @01:24PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.
It makes sense people are going to LLMs for this but part of the problem is that a therapist isn't just someone for you to talk to. A huge part of their job is the psychoeducation, support and connection to a human, and the responsibility of the relationship. A good therapist isn't someone who will just sit with you through an anxiety attack, they work to build up your skills to minimize the frequency and improve your individual approach to handling it.
I'm not really sure if this is what you are getting at but it is using physical properties associated with QM to create the random numbers. Not just a mathematical model.
"This is the first random number generator service to use quantum nonlocality as a source of its numbers, and the most transparent source of random numbers to date."
Something that is nice with MoS2 and the others are transition metal dichalcogenides and have some beneficial physical properties like a natural electronic bandgap, unlike silicon.
From the way it is written it feels more like "Under Biden enough openings occurred that he selected the entire existing committee," where as under Trump they are being pushed out "“Without removing the current members, the current Trump administration would not have been able to appoint a majority of new members until 2028,” Kennedy wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. “A clean sweep is needed to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science. ”"
You might want to post this as a Show HN. But interesting stuff!
Absolutely, I was agreeing with you even though my wording was a bit strange.I wanted to try and engage in good faith forum responding to the other commenter but see that might not be productive. There are so many issues with this case and the many others that are popping up and I don't imagine they are going to get better.
Posted by
m-watson on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @09:52AM
from the 404media.co dept.
Posted by
m-watson on Monday November 18, 2024 @10:16AM
from the phys.org dept.
I would guess the key here is the "researchers reported that they had developed a drone they're calling the CoulombFly, which is capable of self-powered hovering for as long as the Sun is shining."
It only seems to operate off the solar power, no additional power. So the light keeps shining, the drone keeps flying.
Posted by
m-watson on Monday June 17, 2024 @01:05PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.
Posted by
m-watson on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:18PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.
Posted by
m-watson on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:32AM
from the xprize.org dept.
From the article:
"The facets distinguishing successful entrepreneurs include a preference for variety, novelty and starting new things (openness to adventure), like being the center of attention (lower levels of modesty) and being exuberant (high activity levels)."
And a little further down:
'"Our findings clearly show there's not one ideal 'founder-type' personality," says Associate Professor Margaret (Peggy) Kern, senior author of the study from the University of Melbourne. "Instead, the Big Five personality traits of successful start-up founders, which we can break down further across 30 dimensions, reveal six distinct types: fighters, operators, accomplishers, leaders, engineers and developers."'
Posted by
m-watson on Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:14PM
from the kotaku.com dept.
Yea, I agree. I similarly used it when I was moving I would take 360 photos of my old rooms or for seasonal decorations to see how the room changes over time. It looks like there are some decent 3rd party ones on the market but we'll see. It was a nice partner to cardboard.
Posted by
m-watson on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:41PM
from the phys.org dept.