All of my lab’s data is available on public GitHub repos. My Chinese student doesn’t have a leg up on anyone with an internet connection. It’s insane to discriminate like that. I can sort of see issues with DoD funded work, but basic science?

A good chunk of the Midwest would be wiped out if the dams along the Missouri failed in sequence. There’s a ridiculous amount of water there.

Columbia station load follows within a certain range set by nearby hydro. It can be done. The economics aren’t even that bad, as fuel is one of the cheaper inputs to the reactor.

Ah ok, I missed the joke, but then, both my husband and I have binary socks, and I have GitHub socks as well, so… I am the joke, I guess? :)

What’s wrong with programming socks?

NIST has abandoned them

Would that my IT department had gotten the memo. They think NIST is god-tier, even when our own CS department is like… yeah, no. And personally, having worked with NIST researchers in fields that aren’t IT policy, I wonder how good their IT policy docs really are. The whole organization is bureaucracy getting in the way of good science and common sense.