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by dekhn 1y ago
Are you referring to this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail#Impacts_on_climate I think that's considered an actual legitimate scientific phenomenon.
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by dekhn 1y ago
tar does not have an index.
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by dekhn 1y ago
I really enjoy this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WristwatchRevival He takes watches that need repair, disassembles them to basic components, washes them, and then reassembles and tunes them, replacing any parts that ha
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by dekhn 1y ago
no, if I can see the object rotated then I can visually compare features. It's mentally rotating an object which I can't do easily.
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by dekhn 1y ago
What you're saying makes absolutely zero sense from a modern DNA research perspective.
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by dekhn 1y ago
(CERN does a ton of cool electronics design, I didn't realize how much modern physics is electrical engineering).
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by dekhn 1y ago
start and stop codons are not as clear cut as you're implying (there are often several start sites), and variable splicing adds a bunch more stochasticity.
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by dekhn 1y ago
I took some sort of IQ test when I was a kid and there was an entire section that was "if you rotate this object around that axis, it matches which of the followin g options". Try as I might, I can't picture this in my head
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by dekhn 1y ago
I've written code like this to work with overlapping genes. While most genes exist in a genome with spacers between them and their neighboring genes, sometimes you get pairs of genes which overlap, and there seems to be some interesti
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by dekhn 1y ago
That's precisely what the letters said: that federal funding was contingent on following the policy outlined in the letter. Here is one of the letters: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files
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by dekhn 1y ago
This is open to debate. Some endowments are intended to be spent directly, and not everybody agrees that spending some fraction of the endowment curses the university to oblivion. Some financial policies can be suspended (they are not abs
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by dekhn 1y ago
This is not a productive point to make in this thread.
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by dekhn 1y ago
The document was carefully written to look innocuous and reasonable (unlike most Trump communications). However, a close reading indicates that it's a clever trap that gives the government a great deal more power and oversight. Combi
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by dekhn 1y ago
No. For example, in science most scientists just look where the streetlight is, but a small number of people build better, stronger lights to search larger areas, and there is a tiny number of people who can mysteriously just find things i
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by dekhn 1y ago
Like you I put an enormous amount of personal free time into software engineering in my career. It had massive benefits that have paid out in many, many ways. Some days, when I wrap up work, I feel burnt out and just watch TV shows or make
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by dekhn 1y ago
You're not contributing anything addition to this thread; I recommend dropping it.
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by dekhn 1y ago
I worked for Google for a while and there was a whole set of banned questions and topics- for example, when interviewing, I was told to never ask where somebody was from- that's discriminatory. Originally I assumed all of this was good
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by dekhn 1y ago
Endowed funds are restricted- the donors can place constraints on how they are spent. They are not fungible and cannot reliably used to pay for a wide range of things that are currently paid for by federal funding. Personally I would love
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by dekhn 1y ago
There was an Obama "Dear Colleague" letter (actually, 3 of them) that I think at least partially qualify as unilateral and ideologically motivated. Yes, every new administration can attempt to impose their will on institutions of
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by dekhn 1y ago
I flagged this because it appears the system is not actually open-source using the common understanding of the term.
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by dekhn 1y ago
In biology, cause and effect do not work the way they work in other fields. Effect is highly context-specific and things often work in the opposite direction than you might assume.
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by dekhn 1y ago
Note also you can use webrepl, which exposes MicroPython's REPL as a web page. It's not a real replacement for termux, but it is still quite useful- I often deploy ESP32s running Micropython around my workspace but they aren&#x27
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by dekhn 1y ago
In my program and many others, the masters is not directly part of the PhD program, but is what they give you if you fail your qualifying exams and leave early (AKA "a gentleman's masters degree")
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by dekhn 1y ago
Bart was my intern at Google (working on drug discovery) and I asked him about this. I think he ended up leaving the blockchain company (possibly scammy or just not technically strong) and returning to drug discovery. He was one of my stro
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by dekhn 1y ago
Good or bad? I don't know. It just seems inevitable.
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by dekhn 1y ago
I just have to say that I consider this an absolutely hilarious outcome. For many years, I focused on tech solutions that eliminated the need for a human to be in front of a computer doing tedious manual operations. For a wide range of ac
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by dekhn 1y ago
If I read the web page, they don't actually use that as a solution to shortening a red - IMHO that has a very high safety bar compared to the more common uses. But I'd be happy to hear this is something that Just Works in the Rea
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by dekhn 1y ago
Many years ago I was sitting at a red light on a secondary road, where the primary cross road was idle. It seemed like you could solve this using a computer vision camera system that watched the primary road and when it was idle, would exp
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by dekhn 1y ago
it's just "let's build a space elevator" part 2.
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by dekhn 1y ago
I concluded a long time ago that most of the content of a modern paper is simply unnecessary. The joke often goes: "I only read the abstract and conclusions, and if they agree with mine, I check the methods to see if there's any

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