Confiks

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by Confiks 5y ago
Beware of overly optimistic university press releases. It's hopeful, but certainly not a panacea. In fact, it's not clear if it will work at all. From your link: "The new study (...) was conducted on prions in solution in the
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by Confiks 5y ago
TIL: "There is no need to dissolve the yeast in warm water or feed it sugar. 'Proofing' the yeast was probably required decades ago, but I've never had yeast that didn't activate. The yeast feeds on the flour so you
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by Confiks 5y ago
Do note that Magtor is currently only claiming to be able to compress air, not air conditioning fluids / refrigerants. They add that "[a]lthough air compression is a first milestone for Magtor, the medium-term goal is to bring Mag
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by Confiks 5y ago
Thanks for the links! Mostly scams and very bad science journalism indeed. However, he completely misses the mark in his video about the Science paper "Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight
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by Confiks 5y ago
I'm also having a weird issue related to the screen on a M1 Macbook Pro. Every other month, the screen randomly turns blank. The backlight still works, and every time the laptop opens it flickers for a couple of seconds with a bit of t
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by Confiks 5y ago
If you want to try yourself if you can identify drowning, there's this great educational 'game': http://spotthedrowningchild.com It's pretty hard to spot it before your hear the lifeguard blowing their whistl
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by Confiks 5y ago
Reminds me of the incredible engineering done by Makani, as told in this 2 hours long autodocumentary [1]. They shut down in 2020 because they didn't see a path towards commercializing their airborne wind turbine. They made a non-asser
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by Confiks 5y ago
tl;dr: The test can only be spoofed if it isn't conducted properly, by not doing the step with the buffer solution [1] [2]. You may even be able to unspoof the test by applying the buffer solution after the fact. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by Confiks 5y ago
You mean like the guy who in 2018 claimed to have cured himself of lactose intolerance for a while by ingesting a gene-modifying Adenolike virus? [1] No fancy lipid-bubble-riding mRNA necessary. The rest of the channel is pure biohacking go
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by Confiks 5y ago
Note that this encoding isn't of the same efficiency as QR binary mode, as it converts 3 bytes into 2 base45 characters. So it's more like 'base41 using the base45' charset. I'm still a bit sad that with this standa
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by Confiks 5y ago
In case you were wondering, here are some people who are either slightly amused or just as confused [1]. [1] https://twitter.com/search?q=a%20command%20line%20shell%20fo...
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by Confiks 6y ago
Might have come in handy while I was struggling to type out ffmpeg -i part0.mp4 -i part1.mp4 -filter_complex "[1:v]scale=1280:720:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1280:720:(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2[v1]; [0:v] [0:a] [v
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by Confiks 6y ago
Note that there are various older forks [1] [2] available that allow to verify that the project isn't in fact "preconfigured to find and provide infringing copies of our Members’ film and tv content". The most 'incrimina
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by Confiks 6y ago
This robot might qualify, but I'm not sure that will put your concerns aside [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86MkG4aYDrc
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by Confiks 6y ago
Another interesting alternative: the pill camera. You fast, swallow a pill containing a camera, a bright LED and a battery, a video is transmitted through your body recorded by a sensor outside, and someone qualified can glance if anything
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by Confiks 6y ago
I think the more charitable explanation is that mainstream reporting often contains many misquotes, factual errors and omissions that you will only notice when you are knowledgeable about the subject at hand. To be forgetful or ignore this
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by Confiks 6y ago
> Honestly I don't see how this argument pops up in every single discussion on plastic bag reduction every time... Well, it wasn't an argument about plastic bag reduction. It was an example in an argument about omissions in rep
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by Confiks 6y ago
> The parent commenter said that plastic bags were banned, not that they were taxed. I said free plastic bags are banned. So they are 'taxed' by the store instead.
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by Confiks 6y ago
I mostly agree, but burning / pyrolysing plastic is not a bad outcome for 'recycling' oil into energy if properly done at scale (including emissions filtering) for electricity / district heating.
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by Confiks 6y ago
What I often fail to see mentioned in these kind of articles, is if the removal of plastic introduces some other method of packaging that is even less environmentally friendly (edit: with more carbon emissions). For example in The Netherlan
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by Confiks 6y ago
It indeed is trying to solve a real problem, but also conveniently breaks effective ad blocking. Doing that is a choice; there are other measures they could've taken to improve privacy to the same level while keeping granular blocking
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by Confiks 6y ago
> but sometimes I wonder about Brian Kendall No need to wonder; you can read his reflection on it here [1], although it's unclear when exactly it was written. [1] http://briankendall.net/animation/tdcm.htm
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by Confiks 6y ago
There's an enormous cache of historic SWFs hosted here [1] and it would be awesome if the Internet Archive could archive them, so they won't get lost. However, there are far too many to individually add. My personal favorites woul
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by Confiks 6y ago
You wouldn't burn the ammonia, but use a process to 'crack' ammonia into hydrogen and nitrogen gas, for example [1]. No oxygen is involved. Edit: Upon rereading, I found that the article actually states: "There are chall
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by Confiks 6y ago
Thanks for noticing. Fixed.
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by Confiks 6y ago
Another option which I don't see mentioned often is using formic acid to solve the volumetric capacity problem of storing hydrogen. Compared to ammonia and methanol, formic acid is less energy dense, but due to recent advances in catal
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by Confiks 6y ago
Here's an excellent talk that addresses your question: Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzb37RyagCQ
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by Confiks 6y ago
If this evolves further I might make a tiny website about the progress. In that case I'll put a link in my profile.
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by Confiks 6y ago
So the other day Spotify decided to block API access to SongShift [1], which used their API to transfer playlists to other services. By doing that, they removed a method which was valid under GDPR article 20 subsection 2 to transfer persona

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