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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 3h

Oh look. X is strongly correlated with rank(X)
#AxesOfEvil

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 4h

Absolutely.

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 4h

The only time I can think of when serious numbers of college students were wearing gender-nonconforming clothes was back when jeans for women counted.

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 8h

It's a term of art, limited to what happens during the stroy: alternatives include friends-to-lovers, enemies -to-lovers

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Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · 1d

Here we go again 😡. I'm really concerned about this & that the mistakes of the previous disastrous restructure seven years ago will be repeated. A museum is much more than its buildings. It's people that matter. Is central government going to properly fund Te Papa? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... 1/3

Te Papa announces plans for restructure in an effort to cut rising costs

It comes after the museum started charging international visitors to the site due to rising costs of energy, insurance and staffing.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 1d

Someone needs to explore the boundary between the names. Tryptophan Cloudberry is clearly Space Twink and Bandicoot Calabash is the other guy, but can we find a sort of Buridan colloquy that wavers between them.

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 1d

The sedevacantists may be nuts, but at least they're nuts in an internally coherent way

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 1d

There's a family of geneticists who make it rhyme with 'sang'

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Jörg Vogel @jorg-vogel-lab.bsky.social · 2d

Two group leader positions available in the broader areas of RNA science, RNA technologies, and RNA medicine. Attractive packages and a great environment. Come and join us at Helmholtz RNA Würzburg, Bavaria.

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 2d

*speed advantage

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 2d

Even in 2001 I was saying "the advantage of the *apply functions is legendary: that is, partly history and partly fiction"

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 2d

It's probably slow because of the nested loops, but leaving the braces off won't make it any slower

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 2d

It's a cognitive dissonance thing for me

On one hand, I hate how the server knows perfectly well that I have access because who else will want a math stat paper from 1973 but I still have to do the whole login dance

On the other hand, I remember having to walk across campus to photocopy the paper

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 2d

"writ in burnished rows of steel", too

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

“Habeas corpus” is what Sam Altman joyfully shouts when he thinks he has finally secured all the training-data legal rights to other people’s copyrighted work.

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 2d

Middle Earth

Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 2d

Middle Earth

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, now I know who someone was subtweeting

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Thomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 2d

Train cancelled for the second day in a row. Despite the 1-hour gap between trains, AT Mobile app still says "Good Service" on the Onehunga line

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 2d

Astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung was born #OTD in 1873. 🧪 🔭

H-R diagram:

🔵 🟦 🟥
🔵 🟧
⚪️ 🟨
⚪️
🟡🟡
⚬ ⚬ 🟠🟠
⚬ ⚬ ⚬ 🔴
⚬ 🔴
⚫️

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 3d

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...