KurSix

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by KurSix 3mo ago
I want to meet the clinician who can keep a 40‑ton patient engaged
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by KurSix 3mo ago
I think this is just the eternal tension between catchy headlines and the underlying science
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by KurSix 3mo ago
I have a question... how many other "normal" animal behaviors are actually weird little hacks to deal with constraints we never think about?
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by KurSix 3mo ago
Simpler tissue makes it easier to see the core mechanics without blood vessels, inflammation and a lot of other processes happening at the same time
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by KurSix 3mo ago
Same. Somehow "the jellyfish is basically the flower" is the detail that stuck with me more than the wound healing
36.
by KurSix 3mo ago
But I would still be careful not to blur together wound healing, regeneration and rejuvenation. They may share some cellular machinery, but they are not the same process
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by KurSix 3mo ago
The article is pretty explicit that the interesting part is that some of the underlying epithelial repair mechanisms appear to be conserved across animals, including mammals
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by KurSix 3mo ago
What I like about this work is that the jellyfish may be less important as a source of some magical "regeneration gene" and more useful as a system where you can actually see the basic mechanics clearly
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by KurSix 4mo ago
A T400 is old enough to feel refreshingly simple but still new enough to be useful. A 1996 Aptiva is more like a historical instrument. I like that distinction between old and actually vintage.
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by KurSix 4mo ago
Trying to use a 15-year-old Atom netbook as a modern laptop is mostly pain. But treating it as a small always-on appliance is a much better fit
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by KurSix 4mo ago
There is something healthy about a challenge where the goal is not optimization, productivity but just spending a week with constraints and making something
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by KurSix 4mo ago
The annoying bit is that owning a domain should make email feel more stable and professional
43.
by KurSix 4mo ago
This is a nice sibling problem to validation. In both cases, the bug is assuming an email address has a predictable human structure
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by KurSix 4mo ago
I love these examples because they show that addressing has never really been as formal as we like to pretend
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by KurSix 4mo ago
Email addresses are a great example of boring infrastructure hiding decades of edge cases
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by KurSix 4mo ago
The vendor response is the more worrying part
47.
by KurSix 4mo ago
The fact that the author had to publish a third-party patch because the vendor didn't consider it a vulnerability is not a great look
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by KurSix 4mo ago
Male mosquitoes don't bite, and the goal is population suppression rather than introducing a new self-propagating organism. Compared with pesticide use, this feels fairly targeted
49.
by KurSix 5mo ago
I think the habit/friction part is underrated
50.
by KurSix 5mo ago
Yet it still seems like decent evidence that the consumer-facing story is much simpler than the actual recycling path
51.
by KurSix 5mo ago
The study looks more like an advocacy stunt than a rigorous audit, but it still points at a real problem: recyclability labels often describe theoretical acceptance, not likely end fate
52.
by KurSix 5mo ago
The distinction between "accepted for recycling" and "actually recycled" is doing a lot of work here
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by KurSix 5mo ago
Short stories often seem less like a mass-market product and more like a writer's demo reel
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by KurSix 5mo ago
Maybe the key difference is that natural complexity asks for adaptation, while human-made complexity often asks for submission
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by KurSix 5mo ago
Complexity itself obviously isn't new, and in many cases we've replaced terrifying, opaque natural uncertainty with systems that are much better at keeping people alive. But I think there's still a difference between complexi
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by KurSix 5mo ago
Maybe the goal isn't to reject complexity entirely, but to be much more suspicious of complexity that gives no corresponding increase in dignity, beauty, autonomy or peace
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by KurSix 6mo ago
Yes, that "thinness" of the record is a huge part of the appeal
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by KurSix 6mo ago
This is exactly the kind of thing that makes Old English fascinating even if you don't know the language properly
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by KurSix 6mo ago
This is the sort of discovery that makes digitization projects feel genuinely magical
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by KurSix 6mo ago
Mesh networking is still mostly a playground for hobbyists and hacky, built-on-the-knee implementations. People love shipping a cool PoC, but as soon as the boring stuff starts - stabilization, drivers, edge cases - everyone bails to chase

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