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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-02-05 at 10:45

"the [...] conservative unwillingness to believe in the idea that justice might involve any type of collective sacrifice. [...] Any type of personal sacrifice that is designed to help someone other than you. They fundamentally disagree that that is important, and they believe that you shouldn't have to do it, and the reason they believe that is because their status in society is generally secure."

https://www.fivefourpod.com/episodes/miliken-v-bradley/

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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-02-05 at 10:08

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it seems to me that your actual impact would be much higher by contributing to an existing piece of software, with an existing user base.

Yes, adding to existing software is harder: you have to understand someone else's code before you start, but the users don't have to learn something new. So, overall, we probably save time?

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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-02-05 at 10:06

science software funding chat

how often do folks who review (or otherwise look at) grants (or projects) see "we will contribute to X package/library" where X is not written by the grant authors?

I see (and have been involved in) a lot of projects who say "and we'll write a package for this" but very few (almost none) that talk about external contributions to existing software.

The latter seems far more useful, but obviously less flashy. Are the incentives ("originality") in the wrong place for this to happen or am I suffering from sample bias?

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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-02-04 at 13:18

amazing how cookies are used for basically everything online except keeping me logged in to Wiley to access papers

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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-02-04 at 11:15

happy first "fucking git" e-mail from Mark Bravington of the year to all who celebrate

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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-02-04 at 08:05

also from that paper

"aphid eggs can withstand temperatures as low as -35C without suffering mortality (James & Luff 1982)"

wow! brrrr.

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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-02-04 at 07:43

so I know the popular culture perception of the computer person with multiple monitors is you have all these different windows open all ticking away with different things etc

BUT, my big screen is just one massive #rstats graphics device 🤷

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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-02-04 at 07:38

really wish there was an alpha= option in 1986

(source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2403943?seq=1)

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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-02-03 at 14:16

before someone tells me, I was already using lubridate!

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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-02-03 at 13:50

once again, I've made a mistake in calculations using dates and times :(

time was a mistake

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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-02-03 at 08:37

"Made In UK

Shipping from China"

I think you may have a different idea about what "made" means, or a very very inefficient distribution method.

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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-02-02 at 11:09

no war except trade war?

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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-02-02 at 11:08

realised that a lot of "AI art" (esp. earlier stuff) just looks like the video for "Butterfly" by Crazytown

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Written by David Lawrence Miller on 2025-01-31 at 16:54

Ah great, we’re back to having to report this nonsense and then have to follow it with a citation saying it’s wrong, what a massive waste of time :(

“Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) called out a 2023 appearance on Bill Maher’s podcast in which Kennedy said antidepressants cause school shootings. (Many experts say this is not the case.)” from Berkeley’s excellent psychedelics newsletter https://themicrodose.substack.com/p/kennedy-hearings-us-embassy-in-peru

Last parenthetical links to https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31513302/

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