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by biofox 2y ago
The challenge is getting software engineers to learn and use UML properly. As a discipline, we seem to be in a perpetual state of reinventing the wheel, when we have plenty of mature tools and established best practices that people don&#x27
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by biofox 2y ago
I wish there were books like this today, that could lead a kid from knowing virtually nothing to a graduate level understanding of computer architecture, digital storage, logic and set theory, graphics, mathematical modelling, networking, n
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by biofox 2y ago
Without wanting to mud sling, this has not gone through the usual oversight and review committees that something like this usually would, so I suspect it hasn't been planned out and costed (much like other recent policy announcements).
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by biofox 2y ago
Hundreds of high-ranking scientists left Germany in the 1930s. The exodus had nothing to do with Operation Paperclip. https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/5299/The-scientific...
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by biofox 2y ago
Making any changes to the core language is a sensitive thing as it inevitably imposes new demands on compilers, a learning curve for all users of the language, and risks breaking compatibility and introducing unforeseen issues that will nee
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by biofox 2y ago
This is a refreshingly balanced take, which seems to frequently get lost in discussions. The more I think about policy, the more it resembles a multi-objective optimisation problem.
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by biofox 2y ago
There have been several incidents of underwater sabotage in recent years, and I can't recall any previous action being taken, so this is a welcome change.
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by biofox 2y ago
Afraid not. I don't have much of an online presence, so didn't think to write anything.
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by biofox 2y ago
You will likely raise a flag somewhere if you publicise what you are doing, but I highly doubt there would be any issues if you're working on this in private as a hobby. As for chemicals, I can personally vouch that it is a terrible id
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by biofox 2y ago
This is concerning, but not worth panicking about yet. The person had direct contact with infected birds, so there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission. For those wanting to learn more about bird flu, and flu in general, I highly r
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by biofox 2y ago
I thought Washington Post
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by biofox 2y ago
Depends on your philosophic position on taxonomy. If you wish for it to capture inheritance and lineage, then I agree, but it is equally valid to view it as a relationship of similarities and patterns (similar to design patterns in programm
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by biofox 2y ago
Didn't even notice that change until you pointed it out. I hate it.
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by biofox 2y ago
This is better than what most of my MSc students produce
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by biofox 2y ago
Maybe I'm just getting old, but Windows XP was the last version of Windows where usability and UI consistency seemed to be central to the design. The menu bar was in the same place in every application. Short-cuts were consistent betwe
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by biofox 2y ago
Counterpoint: Vaccines work, but far too many people think that COVID vaccines contain Jewish-made GPS tracking devices that act as micro-antennae to allow Bill Gates to sterilise them using 5G.
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by biofox 2y ago
I believe this approaches some of the ideas put forward for the forerunner of UNESCO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_on_Int... Personally, I dislike idea, as competition can be a powerful motivat
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by biofox 2y ago
I feel like if we stopped trying to reinvent the wheel, and senior devs had 12-15 to master one version of the wheel, things would be much better.
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by biofox 2y ago
I have known a several people who made the jump from Computer Science to Biology at graduate school. Usually, it's either via genomics or neuroscience (as in Hassabis' case), where there is a large need for people who can do data
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by biofox 2y ago
My body disagrees.
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by biofox 2y ago
Most of the time, HN is that quiet corner. I just hope it stays that way.
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by biofox 2y ago
As a male scientist and engineer, I am also on antidepressants :(
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by biofox 2y ago
Love Web 1.0 sites. Submitted to https://wiby.me
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by biofox 2y ago
The proof she presents in Part 2 (t=15:00) on software changes propagating through a system is perhaps the best theoretical justification I have ever seen for Object Oriented design principles and encapsulation: https://youtu.be&
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by biofox 2y ago
Thank you!
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by biofox 2y ago
Fascinating! This is a completely new area to me. Can I ask what the advantage of this over "classical" biosynthesis pathways, where precursors float from one enzyme to another?
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by biofox 2y ago
The impressive thing about this is not the size -- making long peptide chains is easy -- it's the fact that this can be consistently folded into a useful structure, without misfolding or aggregating. I have to wonder how much of the st
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by biofox 2y ago
That is an impressive achievement. Kudos, my friend! There is still hope for me then? :)
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by biofox 2y ago
As a ex-hacker who left the scene to wear a suit and become a "grown-up", this is refreshing and much more palatable vision of the community that I wish I had seen more of when I was younger: `` Hackers should not think of themsel
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by biofox 2y ago
Churn in the software world is out of control, and I have no idea why we accept it.

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