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bymethano
026 @12:15PM
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Attached to: When Two Years of Academic Work Vanished With a Single Click
I've been doing research for close to 50 years. I've never seen a situation where, if you wipe out 2 years work, it takes anything close to 2 years to recapitulate it. Actually, I don't even understand how this could happen to a plant scientist. Was all the data in one document? Did ChatGPT kill his plants? Are there no notebooks where the data is recorded? This kind of thing doesn't happen to a good scientist. Oh, I see. It's 2 years of work, not 2 years of research. This is just another sad "lack of backup" story. The modern day "my dog ate it".
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bymethano
026 @12:05PM
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Attached to: US Formally Withdraws From WHO
One more example of the Enshitification of America, brought to you by those morons that thought that voting for DJT would be a good idea.
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bymethano
026 @08:39AM
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Attached to: AI Boosts Research Careers But Flattens Scientific Discovery
publish more less useful
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bymethano
2026 @05:07PM
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Attached to: EV Roadside Repairs Easier Than Petrol or Diesel, New Data Suggests
The article states "Even so, AA call-out data indicates EVs are more likely to be successfully repaired at the roadside than a 12-volt battery in a petrol or diesel car."
What the hell does that even mean?
Why try to even wade through gibberish like this?
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bymethano
026 @02:37PM
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Attached to: America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza
Probably doesn't help that a lot of pizza these days taste like cardboard as the industry tries to squeeze profits out of the fading attraction.
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bymethano
2026 @03:52PM
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Attached to: Elite Colleges Are Back at the Top of the List For Company Recruiters
The good news is that all this is done with electrons and magnetic fields. If we still used paper, like in the old days, there wouldn't be a tree left in site.
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bymethano
1, 2025 @08:00PM
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Attached to: Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity
As an ex-smoker, I'd say this is a bad idea. A really bad idea.
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bymethano
2025 @09:13AM
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Attached to: Military Planners Dread the Arctic, 'Where Drones Drop Dead and GPS Goes Haywire'
This whole thing, with cold weather altering military aspirations, has been vetted before. Read the lead story in "Napoleans Buttons". Or just Google it.
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bymethano
2025 @11:16AM
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Attached to: Retreating From EVs Could Be Hazardous For Western Carmakers
Retreating from electric cars will ultimately be suicide for US car makers. Electric cars are better in almost every way. In ten years, most people will come to understand this. Unfortunately, this understanding will come from people dying and not people changing their minds.
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bymethano
2025 @02:36PM
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Attached to: Waymo Has A Charging Problem
Seems like, with all that technology, they could turn off all that beeping and flashing while they're in the charging station area. This is not a real problem with no solution. There is a solution but no will power to implement it. I don't believe the charging equipment makes that much noise.
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bymethano
2025 @11:27AM
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Attached to: American Kids Can't Do Math Anymore
Oh yeah, the math thing. That's almost entirely because all the curricula is being decided by people who don't do math. My wife, who is probably in the top 1% of math talents, tutors on occasion. She spends more time trying to figure out what they're trying to teach, than actually working the math. Usually, after some work, she figures it out and explains the old timey way. The response is almost always "Oh, is that what they're trying to say?".
Most math education is being concocted by education majors experimenting on our children.
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bymethano
2025 @11:18AM
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Attached to: American Kids Can't Do Math Anymore
Boomer here. I was just young enough to avoid Nam (born in '53) and young enough to see America peak. Unfortunately, I am also young enough to have seen my successful education and employment eventually get shipped off to China before I was ready to retire. I still had a mortgage and 2 kids to send to college. I've made it through. I'm glad to have lived through our golden age. We're past the age of rationality and basically in rot mode now. No better evidence than more than half of the US voted for the orange one. I feel bad for the youngins.
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bymethano
2025 @07:43AM
(#65767360)
Attached to: Daylight Saving Time: Still Happening. Still Unpopular
The summary says "standard time year-round, which means more light in the morning and less light in the evening".
I don't think that's right. They should be about the same, more or less, depending on the wobble.
Lots of bad math in the summary.
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bymethano
2025 @08:07PM
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Attached to: Falling Panel Prices Lead To Global Solar Boom, Except For the US
Such shame I feel for my people. Such shame!
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bymethano
2025 @11:07PM
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Attached to: Westinghouse Is Claiming a Nuclear Deal Would See $80 Billion of New Reactors
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