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    Enjoy your stable systems while you can! Learning comes through solving problems as they come up. It's a good sign if you don't have to.

    Need some new functionality? Figure out how to set it up. Encounter a bug or issue? Troubleshoot and fix it. Functionality that you want doesn't exist? Time to program it yourself.

    You can also start customizing (ricing) your system as you wish. Take a look at unixporn style communities for inspiration and advice.

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  • City street network orientation
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    Fun thing is that in Montreal, 'North' is refereed to as the direction where streets go away from the river, which ends up being the WNW, further from north than "East".

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    English also has cases, we just don't think of them much. It's why pronouns are typically given as nominative/objective pairs: she/her, they/them, etc. So, similarly in German you'd probably only need to give one or two examples to make it clear which set to use. Or give all four.

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  • AI is starting to make independent discoveries in basic science, as shown by AI's recent discoveries in how insect wings work.
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    No part of this article involves AI making independent discoveries. The researchers used ML to map muscle contractions to wing motion.

    It's interesting, but a far stretch from what OP wrote for the title.

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  • Canada needs a digital infrastructure that isn't beholden to private interests
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    I'm always amazed about the lack of conversation around nationalizing telecom. We have sasktel as a great example of how it can work, and hydroquebec as a great historical representation of the benefits of publicizing infrastructure. Seems about time to start recognizing internet as a necessary utility that the government directly provides to the people.

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    Japan to release Fukushima water into ocean starting Aug 24
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    Actually we both screwed up by a factor of 1000, the article states 190 becquerels of tritium per litre, not cubic meter.

    Seems like you have the right order of magnitude, but the sources I've seen gives the ocean close to 0.5-2 TU, or "Tritium Units" which correspond to 180 Bq/m^3. So I wouldn't call the water being released as cleaner, just basically on average with the ocean already.

    https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/fac/etg.tmp/text/woce_method.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969718348034

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  • NASA’s incredible new solid-state battery pushes the boundaries of energy storage: ‘This could revolutionize air travel’
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    This is similarly true to a container of gasoline. The difficult part is we've yet to find a battery tech that comes even close to the same energy density. Gasoline has nearly 12000 Wh/kg, compared to the 200-500 mentioned in the article.

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    $40CAD for a baseball hat is already ~double what I'd normally expect. Plus tax, plus shipping makes it even worse.

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