IvyMike

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by IvyMike 5y ago
I mean the instructions are delivered to cells by Adenovirus instead of mRNA but isn't their statement still technically true?
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by IvyMike 5y ago
"Waking up late is a sign of depression" would match the article contents better. And I mean, then it's a "study reaffirms what we already know" headline.
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by IvyMike 5y ago
It's unclear if there's a global limitation, but my reading is that the limit of 64k operations is per IORING_OBJECT. There's nothing that says you can't have multiple submission queues; for example, the NVMe spec allow
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by IvyMike 5y ago
Fits with the Teller quote about magic: "Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect"
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by IvyMike 5y ago
Bring back .plan files!
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by IvyMike 5y ago
A short work by Ted Chiang that got me asking the same question: https://nautil.us/issue/75/story/the-great-silence
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by IvyMike 5y ago
The IRS IMF has got to be up there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Master_File
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by IvyMike 6y ago
I recently started reading Nadia Eghbal's book, "Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software" [0]. One point she makes early on is that attracting lots of people to open source projects isn't a
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by IvyMike 6y ago
> If there is solid evidence that a vaccine will kill people, it should not be used. Don't all vaccines have some extremely low but nonzero probability of killing someone? > It's intolerable that people die taking a prophyla
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by IvyMike 6y ago
Very nice! Thank you. For those who also want to try it in the web interface: Gear->See All Settings->General->Button Labels Don't forget to scroll all the way to the bottom and save.
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by IvyMike 6y ago
I moved to Tidal when Spotify decided to blow huge amounts of cash getting into the "exclusive podcast business" while still paying peanuts to most artists. Tidal pays musicians something like 3x what spotify does. [0] This is pro
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by IvyMike 6y ago
Who would have thought that airplanes needed dashcams.
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by IvyMike 6y ago
Everybody gets sent a lego set and (for those who can) a drink, and you spend a couple of hours building and talking.
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by IvyMike 6y ago
Haven't seen this at farmers markets. But on the other hand I just bought two live lobsters at Vons.
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by IvyMike 6y ago
Is there any common image file format with internal error correction embedded within it? Like a JPEG segment with LDPC data, for example.
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by IvyMike 6y ago
Oh hooray, just what we need. The recent uptick in invasive Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Pasadena/SGV drives me crazy. Wasn't there supposed to be some anti-mosquito laser system by now?
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by IvyMike 6y ago
A few years ago, I wanted to buy a small bottle of imodium before a trip overseas. There were people on amazon selling lots of 800 pills. I always worried about the diarrhea problem that would justify such a purchase, but I guess this expl
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by IvyMike 6y ago
Low-cost kamikaze drones seem like an unexplored but promising option.
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by IvyMike 6y ago
I learned a lot about Cutler's style in the book "Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft". This quote from the article kinda sums it up: > “People work for Dave because
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by IvyMike 6y ago
It's a few days later, but here's a pretty extensive report on the Florida coverup from the Florida Sun Sentinel, titled "Secrecy and spin: How Florida’s governor misled the public on the COVID-19 pandemic" https:/
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by IvyMike 6y ago
I still have nightmares about the Ceti Eel scene in Wrath of Khan; your ability to hold out for an hour is admirable. https://youtu.be/3i42Smtbmeg
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by IvyMike 6y ago
> That turned out to not be true, at all. Do you have any citation on this? That would help your case a lot.
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by IvyMike 6y ago
> ...nor are they so numerous that iterating over them is computationally difficult That's not correct; for a given bound x, the expected number of primes is x/ln(x). For example, if you need to choose a prime of 100 digits, th
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by IvyMike 6y ago
> The employer can't modify the specifics of the resignation You say this, yet I have seen it done many times. Of course not being a lawyer of any sort, I don't know. Is there a reference for your claim? Jeff's email is i
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by IvyMike 6y ago
From this tweet: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334343577044979712 > I said here are the conditions. If you can meet them great I’ll take my name off this paper, if not then I can work on a last date.
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by IvyMike 6y ago
Update with leaked email: https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...
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by IvyMike 6y ago
Can you post a link? I can't find it. (I see email from her manager to Timnit, but not the original email from Timnit to the mailing list)
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by IvyMike 6y ago
One of her tweets says: > I was fired by @JeffDean for my email to Brain women and Allies. In a later tweet, says she would repost the email publicly but she no longer has access to it. I'm guessing it will leak soon.
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by IvyMike 6y ago
Raspberry Shake (citizen science seismometer network) may be interesting to you. I haven't used it myself, so I'm not sure if it's real time: https://raspberryshake.org/data-center/
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by IvyMike 6y ago
Has a "rebrand a popular term that is already embedded in common usage" attempt ever worked?

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