JR1427

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by JR1427 1y ago
Interesting project. Most of the pairs seem to not be taken very far apart.
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by JR1427 1y ago
Out of sight, out of mind...
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by JR1427 1y ago
I used to think I didn't like clubs and societies. Then I joined a local sailing club, and I love it. Lots of nice people, all with a shared interest, but many other non-shared interests that make it even more interesting! I would defi
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by JR1427 1y ago
> IIRC, it wasn't that contagious. Or, restated, they confirmed it was contagious.
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by JR1427 1y ago
If you haven't tried birding, try it. You'll like it. It's like collecting Pokemon, but IRL.
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by JR1427 1y ago
The spectrogram is actually also really handy for manual ID, and (at least for me) in remembering calls.
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by JR1427 1y ago
If this scenario plays out as you describe, what would stop companies simply continuing to hire truckers and use regular trucks?
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by JR1427 1y ago
It's only worth $6k if it can be sold for $6k.
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by JR1427 1y ago
I did a similar thing, having been agnostic for many years. I thought I'd give Christianity a go, and keep going until I felt it likely wasn't true. ~5 years later, I'm still going. Of course, if I was not living in a Western
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by JR1427 1y ago
Good UI and UX isn't about which icons to use etc, it's about making the user's journey through an app match how they're thinking about the problem. In my team we spend so much time picking icons, and checking that we ar
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by JR1427 1y ago
There is saying in english that people "eat with their eyes". When it comes to papers, I always reminded myself and others that people also _read_ with their eyes. It is easy to be cynical about this (with some justification!), bu
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by JR1427 1y ago
I've found it really helpful in rummaging around an unfamiliar codebase, and pointing me to relevant parts of it. The application of patches is hit and miss. If there changes are across multiple files, I find it gets stuck going in cir
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by JR1427 1y ago
> Wood is a terrible material to make window frames out of I respectfully disagree. There are certainly downsides, and upsides to modern materials (e.g. UPVC), but there are reasons to still use wood in many situations. From a practical
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by JR1427 1y ago
I should add my wrinkly fingers to my phone's fingerprint sensor, then. I very often can't unlock my phone because my hands are wet.
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by JR1427 1y ago
You can identify quite a few pathogens with Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. I think the machines for that are smaller and cheaper than mass spec machines. see https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2
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by JR1427 1y ago
I had a pretty good time! My supervisor was supportive, but fairly hands-off. I learned a lot, published pretty well, and mostly enjoyed it!
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by JR1427 1y ago
I have a PhD in cell biology, as well as post-doctoral research experience. I'm now a software engineer for a big chip designer. > Is there a 'hacker news' for biology that I'm missing out on? Not that I know of. Coul
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by JR1427 2y ago
Humans have brought with them the ability to dramatically change ecosystems on timescales far shorter than usually seen without them (exceptions being volcanic eruptions etc). These short timescales mean that the mechanism of natural select
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by JR1427 2y ago
This is like the old Soviet Ekranoplans [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan
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by JR1427 2y ago
Lead by example, and show there is much fun to be had away from phones etc. I make sure that my daughter (6) sees me writing in my notebook, reading, making things etc. More often than not, she then wants to join in. I will hold out giving
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by JR1427 2y ago
One interesting fact about C. elegans is that the way the grow from 1 cell to adult (~1000 cells) is almost completely reproducible between different worms. I.e. the pattern of cell division and the positions and identities of the cells is
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by JR1427 2y ago
I'm not sure how much value this has. Ultimately a human still labels the samples, and it is this labelling that is the most likely point of fraud. I.e. I label this sample as X, but it is really Y. This is how the slightly smarter peo
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by JR1427 2y ago
I have this book. It's fantastic https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Violin-Making-Chris-Johnson/dp/...
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by JR1427 2y ago
After a ten second glance, it looks like there are simply more kebab shops close to stations, and therefore a larger sample from which to see a broader range of ratings (including bad ones).
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by JR1427 2y ago
Yes, I think so! In one of my interviews for a job I will start soon, I mentioned a side project and one interviewer pulled up my site there and then to look at it. I don't know that it made the difference, but I'm sure it helped!
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by JR1427 2y ago
> Aluminum seems like it would be fine There are risks with aluminium causing neurological problems, especially the soft unanodised stuff. I think aluminium cooking pans are banned in some countries.
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by JR1427 2y ago
From the FAQs of https://burnernote.com " How does this product make money? It doesn't. Making money isn't the point of this product. " Usually the case that people set out with lofty ambitions of being above
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by JR1427 2y ago
Great book, and one I used for my own homebrew Z80 project https://www.jake-reich.co.uk/zx-jakey
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by JR1427 2y ago
Yes, I agree whole-heartedly! When the nights start to get longer, I have an instinct to put on a comfy knitted jumper and settle down to a raspberry Pi project (or similar).
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by JR1427 2y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40692333

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