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by azernik 6y ago
a) I don't know if protein-folding software is good enough to figure out the exact structure of the resulting protein given just the gene, but I suspect you could figure out through the equivalent of the strings command - looking for s
602.
by azernik 6y ago
The protein they're trying to manufacture is indeed quite simple - AFAIU both BioNTech and Moderna put together their sequences in a weekend. (Though there was a more involved process of winnowing down the sequences for the most effect
603.
by azernik 6y ago
Usually that's in the datasheet they send during initial negotiations.
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by azernik 6y ago
The terrain along the Negev route is extremely hostile. Bypass proposals have mostly focused on rail lines from Eilat/Aqaba to the large and well-developed Israeli ports on the Mediterranean, but even constructing rail lines there is q
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by azernik 6y ago
Both a) and b) would require a real increase in tensions. Israel and Egypt have a cold peace, with several common enemies/interests; the prospect of a direct military confrontation is nil, and neither side will go out of their way to h
606.
by azernik 6y ago
It's been floated after the peace treaty too; it's just unlikely to justify the massive cost, now that the strategic consideration of bypassing an Egyptian blockade is past.
607.
by azernik 6y ago
It's not 100% negative - clever Egyptian governments have managed to charge an extra "price" in diplomatic and geopolitical advantage. e.g. using selective closures as a weapon, selective opening to military traffic as an inc
608.
by azernik 6y ago
A compression algorithm allows multiple different encodings of the same underlying data - spend more CPU time finding redundancies in the data, and you can make the file smaller. I strongly suspect that the difference here is between real-t
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by azernik 6y ago
There is a very popular Linux phone OS. It's called Android. This sounds somewhat pat and snarky, but I am trying to make a real point. Let's go to some of what the article says: ================== Having an "one true way&quo
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by azernik 6y ago
A fixed term which refers to the lushness and vegetation on a mountain. These are the precise denotations where the word is equivalent to English with "green". And after a quick search, jisho.org translates that precise set phrase
611.
by azernik 6y ago
"Green" is a reasonable translation - the same word is used for the "green" of plants or traffic lights. When referring to a mountain it is very likely to be referring to its greenery. The boundaries between named colors
612.
by azernik 6y ago
It's F-35, sadly
613.
by azernik 6y ago
That depends on whether the air-defense laser research everyone's hyped up about produces something useful in the next few decades.
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by azernik 6y ago
They're "sipping coffee in Paris" as in they've beaten NATO and occupied Continental Europe. They're asking "who won the air war?", with the implication that they don't really care because they won th
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by azernik 6y ago
The whole point of "cold" fusion is that it does not require immense pressures or temperatures; hot fusion hasn't consumed all of the hydrogen in the universe because those pressures and temperatures don't exist in most
616.
by azernik 6y ago
* Dealing with sensitive data is their core business, not a side concern. i.e. their customer base is security-conscious enough that they know incompetence on that front will kill their business * Both of those specific services omit lots o
617.
by azernik 6y ago
Falcon 9 was government-funded. If Starship sends people or cargo to the lunar surface, it will be NASA-funded through the HLS program. What is dead is the old cost-plus contracting model.
618.
by azernik 6y ago
NASA is not the competitor. How can I tell? Because if SpaceX wins, it's a NASA check they'll be cashing.
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by azernik 6y ago
Given their (paying) customer base, which skews more towards content producers, I suspect it's more likely intended to ease setup for less-technically-savvy users. ie they don't really want your truly-security-critical customer
620.
by azernik 6y ago
The public-facing web site for non-users had damned well better be a simple case.
621.
by azernik 6y ago
Yup! I happen to not do that; part of why I trust Google on this (in the site owner role) is that they're good at making privacy-compromising options clearly-delineated and optional.
622.
by azernik 6y ago
I'm speaking from the perspective of a site, like Backblaze, where web app and the site fulfill two separate functions. There are lots of cool metrics that marketing wants; any code they put into www.backblaze.com is pretty low cost, a
623.
by azernik 6y ago
In a static website, where there are standard tools and checklists and web designers to walk them through it, marketing's lack of technical understanding is less of an issue. And in a B2B web app like Backblaze's and my own, the d
624.
by azernik 6y ago
As long as they don't have the car keys, they can go knock themselves out. Re: the more substantive legal points - there are off-the-shelf solutions (CMPs, for example) and easy checklists for complying in the setting of a static publi
625.
by azernik 6y ago
Google Analytics custom events and Datadog are in fact the only third-party analytics code I run in my app. Tools like GA that gather less-identifiable user behavior info are borderline in my book between technical and marketing; and I ho
626.
by azernik 6y ago
Well, here is where my hot take and general principle needs some nuance :-P > The proposed solution you mention would include plenty of folks who don’t convert. The one bit of data I currently have going from the app to corpweb analytics
627.
by azernik 6y ago
Which is why it has to be a two way street - when it comes to the product, specifically its security and performance, engineering needs to absolutely own the thing.
628.
by azernik 6y ago
One easy way to avoid this kind of mistake in your own product: make a clear distinction between your publicly-facing web site ("corpweb") and your web app for logged-in users. Preferably, they should be served from separate infra
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by azernik 6y ago
> - Is GitHub confident that they identified all leaked user sessions? Given that they revoked all current logins, rather than just the affected ones, I assume that they have no way to tell which sessions were affected.
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by azernik 6y ago
That was not their mission. No contemporary source says so, not even the pro-Spartan ones.

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