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by ak217 5y ago
You're not wrong, but your models of aging events seem to be too simplistic. Aging is not one process but a complex of interacting processes. There are definitely a number of processes involved in aging that are pre-programmed as you s
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by ak217 5y ago
I also had a horrible experience using the recommended SPARQL interface to query Wikidata. The queries were inscrutable, the documentation was poor and even after writing the correct queries, they timed out after scanning a tiny fraction of
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by ak217 5y ago
> In summary many people hypothesize that natural infection is better because it induces a broader and more balance antibody response, but the literature has not established consensus that this is necessarily "better" in terms
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by ak217 5y ago
How does Taiwan block mainland blue water access - any more so than Okinawa?
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by ak217 5y ago
Most problems with security specs and libraries that implement them are communication problems. They involve people incompletely describing or understanding their requirements, capabilities, or threat model. Often this also involves providi
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by ak217 5y ago
I feel like I should point out here that there is also SpecID (Specific Share Identification), which is another way of identifying which of your inventory/lots you want to sell. SpecID can come in very useful if you want to maximize co
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by ak217 5y ago
Atlanta 96 was a great case study in this. Atlanta built a ton of infrastructure that continues to serve the city well. Many of the venues built in downtown and especially on the Georgia Tech campus went on to be very productive and useful.
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by ak217 5y ago
> there is something to just enjoying yourself. I have little adventures four times a week That's what people often don't get about outdoor exercise. You can combine physical and mental exercise - exploring new areas, impromptu
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by ak217 5y ago
Other comments have covered cases like departments having money left over in their quarterly budgets, or companies looking to spend in a particular quarter for earnings/tax deduction reasons, or reducing currency risk by hedging forex
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by ak217 5y ago
I don't think the level of integration between tramp and other essential emacs plugins (flycheck, jedi, magit, etc.) is comparable to vscode. In vscode, entire plugins responsible for this stuff are sent over to run on the remote, leav
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by ak217 5y ago
To be clear, I was only mentioning vi and emacs together because both have incredibly passionate communities that can be quite myopic to the UX deficiencies of their platforms. I have a lot of muscle memory committed to emacs so I still use
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by ak217 5y ago
Yes, the vscode remote development plugin is a game changer. It's the new benchmark for how client-server IDEs should work. I am (and more importantly, my team is) no longer constrained to the terminal and memorizing incredibly obscure
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by ak217 5y ago
Glad it worked for you. I've had both good and terrible experiences at Kaiser (in pretty serious circumstances such as major op and post-op experiences), and a similar spectrum at other HMOs. I don't think Kaiser is a panacea, alt
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by ak217 5y ago
Kaiser has no specific preventative care requirements and does not withhold care if you are not up to date on some schedule. In fact Kaiser works pretty much exactly like any other HMO with the main difference being that insurance is in-hou
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by ak217 5y ago
> you don't have a reliable way to determine when the bridge is no longer safe I have a hard time believing this. Despite the ridiculous claims of another poster in this thread (that rebar just spontaneously and completely turns int
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by ak217 5y ago
It's relatively straightforward to overengineer concrete to the point where it will take many decades, not just years, of neglect for damage to become unrepairable. A lot of this discussion is comparing apples to oranges. Reinforced co
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by ak217 5y ago
Reinforced concrete is easier to maintain indefinitely than wood, because it's easier to seal against moisture, especially in harsh environments. Just because there are plenty of poorly built/maintained reinforced concrete structu
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by ak217 5y ago
Seriously, I want this in my retinas, along with the sixteen mantis shrimp photoreceptors. And dog ears.
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by ak217 5y ago
Carbon sequestration.
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Offshore contract shops have a very poor track record in my experience. By contrast, what I have seen work very well is when a company hires an H1B worker, invests in their professional development, promotes them to some sort of manager, th
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by ak217 5y ago
That's bullshit. Americans provide a huge safety net to seniors. Most states have property tax relief for seniors, HELOCs are available, and there are many other support services and discounts for seniors for other costs of homeownersh
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by ak217 5y ago
How would you deal with people living in one tax locale and working/shopping in another? Taxing real property to fund improvements and services adjacent to that property makes the most logical sense. I don't buy the argument that
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by ak217 5y ago
How do you think local services and improvements that those people rely on should be funded instead?
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by ak217 5y ago
That sounds histrionic because real property is already taxed in many states, and short of taxing wealth, the government can do many things to devalue your assets. Putting aside the issue of the current trajectory of increasing inequality a
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by ak217 5y ago
I had a wild guess this would be Garmin too. Between this and the problems evidenced by their ransomware payout, their software engineering could use a serious overhaul. A shame, because their hardware is generally good.
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The issue with the evidence in that paper is that they used primers to amplify the specific genes of interest. That introduces a strong assumption at the start of their analysis: specifically, that these genes appeared in the genomes by som
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by ak217 5y ago
> One way to address this is to add regulation to digital services, saying that they must be up x% of the time or respond to incidents in y minutes or whatever. This is good reasoning but I don't think it's possible to legislat
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by ak217 5y ago
GitHub Actions and GitLab. I personally found both of those to be paradigm shifts (I went from Hudson to Jenkins to Travis CI to GitLab to GitHub Actions). Travis CI introduced self-serve test infrastructure configuration-as-code, GitLab in
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by ak217 5y ago
Tencent also owns almost half of Epic.
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What I find amazing is that Fivetran is a bunch of glue code to forward data between different APIs and database formats, and it's legitimately useful, in part because when the upstream API breaks they go and fix the connectors for you

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