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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
OK but even Apple lets you toggle automatic updates on or off.
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
The change that has been studied is a naturally-occurring 32 base pair deletion of the CCR5 gene (see https://www.google.com/search?q=ccr5+delta+32 ). In the literature, this allele is called CCR5-Δ32, and it modifies the ex
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
The gene CCR5 encodes for a protein that one strain of HIV uses to enter cells. These kids may (depending on how accurate the editing actually was) have reduced susceptibility or even immunity to _that strain_ of HIV. However, this CCR5 mut
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
> All that being said, what the guy actually did doesn't make much sense. HIV isn't top priority concern for anybody apart from poorest parts of Africa. You can protect against catching it pretty effectively. Correct. It makes
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
The three Russian astronauts in question are all graduates of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and its colors are yellow and blue. According to the Denver Post ( https://www.denverpost.com/2022/03/19/l
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
Or simply offer to make the lawsuit go away for his silence.
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
> What does it mean to be one? That it will eventually get killed. > What should I understand from the presence or absence of this disclaimer? That it will probably last longer. Open-sourcing helps here too obviously.
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
There was a new RFC published a few months ago to address this use case. It defines a new HTTP method QUERY, which is defined to be safe & idempotent like GET and explicitly allows a request body like POST. See https://www.ie
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
May?
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
There are a total of 5 gotos in the codebase¹. That's not bad for a chess engine which is heavily optimized for runtime performance above all other considerations. ¹ https://github.com/nmrugg/stockfish.js/sear
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
Setting value judgments about this stuff aside, I'm laughing just thinking about the logistical & administrative nightmare that would result from an admissions department actually trying to verify student-provided race & ethnic
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
Not a language in the way you mean, but TeX did this a while back.
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
Their "free" plan says you can > Create up to 12 cards per month Does that mean you can create 12 in January, 12 more in February, etc? Or is it capped at 12 total?
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
> We also spent a bunch of time on the phone with TWC directly, and they had no account in our name or any history of our account Best part of this story
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English and Irish peerages created by mistake(en.wikipedia.org)
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
This is kind of funny to see after reading the Tech Review's piece on Watson Health from 4 years ago ( https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/06/27/4462/a-reality-c... ). They were wrong on the outcome
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
> Basically getting paid at the same rate rather than an increased rate is repairable harm (by paying money if the nurses win), forcing downtime at their clinic is not. There is "downtime" at the old place either way, since the
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
The headline is wrong. She pricked her finger in 2010, started experiencing symptoms in 2017, and died in 2019.
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
> Well the pilots are dead in a lot of incidents so it's kinda moot? It's not moot because most occurrences don't result in death. Occurrences are investigated both to establish fault (which can and does sometimes result i
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
Yes. The pilot in command is ultimately responsible for the operation and safety of the aircraft. See https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html... for more information. Having said that, ai
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
> it was the school that cost me the position Can you elaborate on this?
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
One thing you might try is to apply to grad school for an (online) master's in CS, if you can make that work in your situation w/rt admission and cost. The degrees and coursework from the reputable universities in the US are ident
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
I grew up in cities and suburbs, a child of television and computers. When I went to basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma - the middle of nowhere - and we camped out in the field, that was the first time I saw what the night sky really loo
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
Why bother? Recent salaries for SWE and SWM are already on levels.fyi: https://www.levels.fyi/company/HelloFresh/salaries/ Sidenote: I live in Austin and I get their spam in the mail all the time. I had no id
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
That's the key feature of the design - there is no _real_ optical viewfinder because there is no mirror & pentaprism, which would be needed to redirect the incoming light from the sensor to a viewfinder. Some mirrorless cameras hav
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
Right. Humble wasn't originally about maximizing profit, it was about getting games from creators to people without any bullshit, and giving money to charity.
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
Original announcement: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-rtx-laptop... As far as I can tell, the benchmarks are done with software packages^ that support a GPU rendering path for NVIDIA chips
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
Humble was bought by IGN in 2017. Some MBA guy there thinks they can net more by "streamlining" the service to just the dominant platform.
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
I hung a pihole with everything blocked ( https://pi-hole.net/ ) directly off my router, and I (probably somewhat redundantly) also use a hosts blocker ( https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts ) on my non-ph
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by daniel-thompson 5y ago
This has become a huge part of my life since having kids. They're wonderful, and they need a lot of attention, which I'm usually happy to give them. But they do often interrupt me, and that makes it hard to get into anything deep

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