biomcgary

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by biomcgary 2y ago
This has saved me minutes of confusion so many times.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
I know someone who is obese, rather unhealthy in other ways, and aggressively resists any proposed change in behavior from their doctor or anyone else. They are pushing to get a wheelchair prescription so that they can be even more inactive
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by biomcgary 2y ago
People donate their bodies to science. I'm not sure that human dissection as entertainment, even if educational, honors the wishes typically associated with that donation. One can learn many of the same things from dissecting other mam
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Glucose and fructose will react non-specifically with proteins in the body, particularly when present in excess. These non-specific reactions are recognized as foreign and/or defective, which triggers inflammation. The apply named RAGE
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Antibiotics and sanitation have dramatically changed the fitness landscape and humans haven't accumulated enough generations in the new landscape to adapt genetically. Natural selection is for reproductive fitness. Before antibiotics,
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Regulations that automatically expire after some time period but require Congress to given an up/down vote would give the regulations greater legitimacy in a democratic system. Congress doesn't need the expertise to write the regu
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by biomcgary 2y ago
This article is perfectly meta and should be read as performative art capping a lifetime of work. i.e., "I am so rich and successful that I can write transparent absurdities that are labeled as such and get lots of nodding agreement.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
That would be my dream. Another comment highlights that Go's memory management may not be a good fit for WasmGC, so we may not get near-native performance, which would be a bummer.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
As a computational biologist, I've used ontologies quite a bit. They have utility, but there is a bit of an economic mismatch between their useful application and the energy required to curate them. You have some experience in this spa
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Probably a reference to Larry Wall's (inventor of Perl language) three virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, hubris ( https://thethreevirtues.com/ )
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by biomcgary 2y ago
I love Sabine Hossenfelder's personal take on the social problems in science ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8 ), which reminded me a lot of my own experience in academic science. She also has some critiques
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by biomcgary 2y ago
Brings back great memories of a house I lived in as a little kid. It had a central vacuum system, which inspired my father's comedic "horror" stories about Ze Vacuum Hoze.
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by biomcgary 2y ago
This a great write-up and similar to an approach that I stumbled upon a few years ago. Have you thought about HTMXing this approach to get away from full page renders?
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by biomcgary 2y ago
For more efficiency than an RTG, slap a Stirling engine on the heat source ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine ). Probably not practical, since the necessary radiators would be huge and it introduces mechanic
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by biomcgary 2y ago
"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."
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by biomcgary 2y ago
In this context, stealth helps with trust and communication. Although that might seem paradoxical, we are initially working with a small number of members reached by word of mouth. We walk members through our data usage policies in person a
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by biomcgary 2y ago
This problem is VERY real and happens in surprising ways. My biotech has a dataset that was collected over several years and we found this pattern of older people having more Vitamin D in their blood than younger people, which is the opposi
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by biomcgary 2y ago
We're still in lite stealth mode, so posting the name on HN isn't the best idea. :-)
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by biomcgary 2y ago
I work at a biotech that does intersecting research (predicting disease risk). We obsess about temporal variation at various time scales and the effects are quite real. We use multiple data planes (multi-omics) to evaluate temporal effects
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by biomcgary 3y ago
Go is my goto language, so it is nice to see a desktop environment using it. Despite my interest, I am curious about the motivation for another DE. Is the primary goal to use Go and/or the Fyne library to create a functional DE? Or, is
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by biomcgary 3y ago
I'm writing this on a BeeLink (running Linux) that I use in conjunction with an M1 Air. It just works for most use cases (but only very light gaming).
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by biomcgary 3y ago
Thanks for the reply. Love your work.
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by biomcgary 3y ago
Is the hot dog vibrating to produce sound or is the sound from hot dog derived plasma? The auditory frequency distortion seems minimal, so I'm betting plasma.
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by biomcgary 3y ago
The origin of Unitarians as a movement is fairly instructive. The Congregationalists (descendants of Puritans, kind of) were hard-core Reformed and determinists with a very strict view of God. They ended up not believing it was possible to
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by biomcgary 3y ago
If you have the right model.
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by biomcgary 3y ago
Think of this in terms of game theory. Some religious communities, e.g., Christianity, explicitly ask for personal sacrifice for community good with compensation to be provided post-death, e.g., eternally blessed life. In game theory terms,
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by biomcgary 3y ago
I prefer water kefir over kombucha. Much easier to maintain than milk kefir and can get really nice carbonation. Tends to be a bit alcoholic though, probably 2% or so.
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by biomcgary 3y ago
kebab-case might be feeling left out of the party.
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by biomcgary 3y ago
Maybe they need to fork a version of C++ that doesn't have all the dangerous features and forces developers to write only safe C++. It could be called C++--.
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by biomcgary 3y ago
I also root for monopoly busting, but worry that the travel and real estate industries are relatively easy sectors to target compared to the real monopoly companies (Meta/Twitter/TikTok, Amazon, Apple's walled garden). The po

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