Co-lead (Near-Term Detection) at the Nucleic Acid Observatory in Boston. Speaking for myself unless I say otherwise.
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I did see your comment on FB! I’m still thinking about what I want to try next. I’m worried that silicone with your method would tear, though.
If I only ever ssh’d into a single EC2 instance (
aws-ec2-compute) then that would work, but I have several. SinceHost ec2-*.compute-1.amazonaws.commatches any EC2 instance, and there’s no way to tell from the hostname whether this is the one I’m callingec2_0,ec2_1,ec2_2etc, I can’t do this through the.ssh/config.
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I don’t see how I could put them in
.ssh/config? Lets say I have three hosts, with instance IDsi-0abcdabcd,i-1abcdabcd, andi-2abcdabcd. I start them with commands likestart_ec2 0,start_ec2 1etc wherestart_ec2knows my alias-to-instance ID mapping and doesaws --profile sb ec2 start-instances --instance-ids <alias>. Then to ssh in I have commands likessh_ec2 0which looks up the hostname for the instance and then ssh’s to it.
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They’re weird: input and output in the same jack. They’re for connecting to external effects, often through a cable that splits TRS to dual TS.
do you already know that a piezo signal is much improved by a preamp with >1 meg ohm input impedance?
Very much so, yes! And input impedance this high pretty much requires an active circuit.
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I have never met anyone, nor heard of anyone, who was somehow under the impression that cream cheese frosting is in any way incongruous or weird.
Strange; I’ve run into this multiple times. Most memorably, when my five year old younger sister was really upset that her birthday cake has cream cheese frosting—“cream cheese goes on bagels”. At a time when she already had had and liked cheesecake.
I don’t think so? Pledging 10% and earning to give in general have been common in EA from the beginning. There was a bit in 2018-2022 when this approach to impact was emphasized less, but that reversed with the post-FTX need for more funding diversity. And this is a widely accessible path to impact.