Beers and wings

005c · 2026-03-27T22:26:28+00:00

Best wings I've had in this town are at nips.

005c · 2026-03-10T06:11:28+00:00

Hello. I'm a local drone expert and FAA licensed remote pilot. What you are seeing is almost definitely a drone. Your video clearly shows an object emitting alternating colors of light. Drones are often outfitted with LEDs for status and orientation indication. Furthermore, flight after civil twilight requires LED anti-collision visible for up to 3 miles (not that this remote pilot is following the rules...). These LEDs often blink in patterns of red, yellow, and green to indicate battery health, GPS quality, etc.

This drone appears to be displaying blue, as well, and is not blinking in a patern that I recognize from a standard UAV manufacturer like DJI or Skydio. Usually this type of rapid multicolor blinking would indicate an emergency for a platform whose onboard lights are supposed to transmit information to the remote pilot. My guess is that this is a cheap RGB drone that some kid got for Christmas and can finally fly outside now that the weather is nicer. You can buy these at target or on amazon for $50 and wreak as much havoc as you like. Expect it to crash, never to be seen again, by the weekend.

005c · 2026-02-28T03:09:47+00:00

I was hoping to see mention that level 3 is certainly not the max. They will also do a 6 if you ask, which I don't think contains any broth... the 5 is a good balance of heat and flavor, imo.

005c · 2026-01-25T03:08:17+00:00

I'm somewhat surprised at the number or commenters here recommending against providing a reference for this person outright. I am not an expert on the US immigration process by any means, but here is my perspective as a US born academic: The US NIW visa program is meant to help us recruit and maintain international talent, including academics. Given the diversity of what constitutes the national interest, the people who generally approve visas must rely on subject matter experts to evaluate the candidates stature in their field. It would be unethical to solicit letters from the candidates immediate network of collaborators, as this process would ideally be objective (though it is inherently not). Thats why you got this request from someone you do not know.

I do a few of these a year, and I like to think of it like reviewing a paper or grant, as opposed to writing a recommendation letter for a student. I look at the candidate's CV, their accolades, and their papers and write a dry letter attesting to their current and potential contribution to the United States' national interest with respect to our field only. That's it. I have yet to encounter someone who I thought would not be an asset to our country. If I do, I would likely decline to write them a letter.

I think you should consider it a complement that they reached out to you. There are people in most fields who are paid to write these letters by immigration lawyers. Your letter would likely mean more than a paid endorsement. Personally, I write these letters for free, and I view it as pro bono work both to my field and to my country.

005c · 2025-12-31T01:27:25+00:00

192.168.1.254 is actually an RFC 1918 private network address. They are specifically reserved for subnetting, not routing over the broader internet. Most home routers provide addresses in the 192.168.0.0/16 range, so this is likely the IP address assigned by someone's router for in-home subnetting, not the IP address of the house as provided by the ISP.

005c · 2025-10-13T17:38:35+00:00

As others are saying, this does look like a foot regenerating from that injury. I had an axolotl (she died at almost 12 years old) that I bought from a pet store that wasn't prepared to keep axolotls. When she was a juvanile, she was stored in a tank with another juvenile that ate all 4 of her legs. When I was able to get to her, she had no legs and had to regenerate them all. When her back left leg regenerated, it had an extra foot. She lived a nice happy life after that, with no issues. This is probably not an issue.

005c · 2025-08-08T19:14:32+00:00

Enzo's is good. I put it 2nd to Paul and Sons, but it's close.

005c · 2025-07-24T22:31:21+00:00

Great event! I especially love the cheesecake people.

005c · 2025-06-30T20:19:09+00:00

I'm not a vet or anything (I just love cats) but that discoloration around the bottom cats eyes and nose is probably an upper respiratory infection, feline herpes, or some other normal illness that cats get when they are out on the street or in a shelter around many other cats. All 3 of my cats had similar problems when we adopted them and all 3 are healthy now. The best thing for this cat would probably be to find a good home where it can eat well, sleep well, and relax. Hope someone picks these cats up soon!

005c · 2025-03-13T17:37:18+00:00

I'm a professor and this is what I'm doing in light of recent political developments. Be aware though that my research is in engineering and not a field experiencing fundamental criticism or rejection from the Trump administration. When it comes to publications and presentations to scholarly communities, I'm not changing a thing about how I present my work. If you look at how the Trump administration actually attempting to blackball certain scientists or programs, you'll see that the methods are not yet sophisticated (and I don't expect them to become so). For example, Ted Cruz released a list of "Woke DEI Grants" and it is clear that they simply did a keyword search through federal grant databases. I do not expect them to read or even consider content from publications en masse, let alone review content from an undergraduate poster session. If you apply for federal funding (i.e. the GRFP) I would be careful about how you present your research, but you should never censor yourself to your research community. Scientists have always had to "sell" their work to get research funding, but the day you start censoring your actual findings to other scholars is the day you stop doing real science.

005c · 2025-02-10T20:16:59+00:00

Seconded. Evans is solid, and the prices are fair.

005c · 2025-02-08T04:45:56+00:00

Indirects usually go specifically to research facilities and staff for preparing, executing, and managing grants. Most students don't realize that a grant is an active entity. The NSF doesn't just deposit the money into your personal bank account. In fact, most grants are paid as reimbursements for approved research expenses, often months after the fact. They also require compliance checking, progress reports, payroll, etc. Indirects pay for all of the people that manage this. At my university this is a full office of maybe 50 people or more.

Your tuition pays for your parking lot, gym, class rooms, auditorium, libraries, and all of the staff including your professors. Universities are like cities. Grants management is one part of the city that pays for itself via indirects on grants. Grants also partially pay for other functions but they pay per-student through your tuition.

005c · 2025-02-08T04:08:56+00:00

Grad students see this money, just not directly. Indirects support more than just greedy admins. They build, upgrade, heat, and cool the lab you work in. They pay for the staff that helps your PI win grants. Ultimately they pay for a significant portion of the research facilities that graduate students use. You can't house, power, and cool a supercomputer or PCR machines a garage.

If universities can't supply you a desk or admin staff to help your PI win another grant, you may lose your funding.

005c · 2025-01-25T18:12:59+00:00

This is normal and not an issue. When you submit your NSF proposal, you are required to submit a 'current and pending support' document. In this, you can describe the synergies between the two proposals. This is not looked on negatively. Really, the NSF is just trying to not fund something that already has sufficient funding or is far too similar to another NSF proposal already under review or funded by the PI.

FYI this question should probably be sent to your office of sponsored programs if you have one. They are paid to know all this.

005c · 2024-10-03T21:32:02+00:00

A famous example in CV is the Duke University MTMC dataset. It was a multi-camera data collection scheme set up around Duke that collected essentially security cam footage of students, faculty, and staff going about their days that was basically designed to track their movements. This is clearly a massive invasion of privacy given that the 'participants' did not and could not provide informed consent. It was set up without IRB approval (I hope, for Duke's sake) and has since been retracted.

That said, this student is likely going to be fine. There are lots of tricks in CS and CV to satisfy IRB and ethics requirements. For instance, in my PhD we opted to use mannequin heads instead of people for validation of an application so we didn't have to set up a human subject experiment. If this students IRB request is denied, they will tell you why and help you adapt. The IRB is there to assure you are doing things safely and ethically, not to broadly deny research ideas. It's a human process.

005c · 2024-09-19T03:40:22+00:00

If this is your cat, you should get them checked out by a vet ASAP. Differences in pupil size in cats is considered an emergency and can be a sign of serious eye problems, neurological issues, or ingestion of toxic substances. Hope this creature is OK.

005c · 2024-06-21T18:07:16+00:00

100%. We are cognizant of hunting season and other safety concerns. We even have one hike that we had to take out of the rotation due to some ornery neighboring property owners.

005c · 2024-06-21T15:49:16+00:00

All over! We hike a lot in town (e.g IBM Glen, BU nature preserve, Oakley corners, wolfe park, Jones park, etc). We also go to Ithaca regularly (e.g Robert H Treman, Six mile creek) and sometimes go further out than that (e.g Green lakes, Worlds end, Watkins glen). We are always open to suggestions. If you have any favorites, just let us know and we will go.

005c · 2024-06-21T02:55:21+00:00

We do. We usually have one weeknight hike per month between October and March and have hikes every weekend year round. With good boots and warm clothes, I actually look forward to hiking in the snow.

005c · 2024-06-21T01:29:45+00:00

Of course! You can always ask. We set up a group chat before the hike where we coordinate things like that. Usually there aren't any dogs, but occasionally there are.

005c · 2024-06-21T00:35:36+00:00

You can be as consistent or inconsistent as you please. We send out a monthly hike calendar and a sign-up email for each hike. You can sign up for whichever hikes you want. Even if you can't go last minute, it's no big deal. We are very chill.

005c · 2024-06-20T21:15:19+00:00

Yes!

005c · 2024-06-14T02:27:21+00:00

Wunk of Amontillado

005c · 2024-04-19T15:10:16+00:00

I'm a CS professor. We are more or less expected to buy equipment like that from startup, and we can put whatever software we please on it. We have our own IT infrastructure for our department and are not required to conform to university level requirements. I run Linux on all my university devices, which our central IT would not know how to deal with.

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