derekja

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by derekja 5y ago
my makerspace in victoria, bc runs classes on dna barcoding for fungal identification. About $12 per id when all is done.
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by derekja 5y ago
I don’t see any support for alternate projections. For my raster-based dataset (satellite data) of polar regions I don’t see any benefit over my current openlayers approach. Looks great for vector-based 4326/3857 projected data, though
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by derekja 5y ago
I have a fancy microphone, but when I’m away from home in a low bandwidth situation I often phone in audio to zoom because it lags less. Lagging video and non-lagging audio seems to bother people less than both lagging.
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by derekja 5y ago
if they get to that point I’d say it was worth their time!
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by derekja 5y ago
wow, this is pretty cool!
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by derekja 6y ago
openSCAD perhaps?
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by derekja 6y ago
I'm really enjoying your product! I'm a post-doc mentoring a team of CS students and being able to give them transcripts of our discussions has really helped keep them on track.
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by derekja 6y ago
wow, is that web site ever broken on mobile. Thanks for mentioning, though, I’ve been hunting for something like that.
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by derekja 6y ago
more likely you carried on a conversation you don’t remember. I came out of a procedure and the doctor came out afterward to talk about the results and mentioned things I had absolutely no memory of telling him!
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by derekja 6y ago
good. Was initially weird to be back in classes at 38 with people half my age. A decade of msft experience set me up really well to plan my own course, though, where some of my classmates basically had their course set by their supervisor.
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by derekja 6y ago
Marc had some great suggestions for me when I was last doing a resume update. I haven't used his new service, but can vouch for his knowing about resumes!
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by derekja 6y ago
Had a manager at Microsoft that made me do that. Thought it was really weird at the time, and certainly wasn't anything like a company policy, but here we are 20 years later. It's a story I tell my reports all the time and it just
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by derekja 6y ago
I didn't see anything unreasonable in the article. Turning off issues might be easier than ignoring them, but if they are useful for some other reason I don't see the controversy over ignoring them.
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by derekja 6y ago
Hehe, while you are usually quite correct in that spelling, in Carmack's case "free reign" may actually be more appropriate since he exercises pretty much sovereign power there!
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by derekja 6y ago
Well, actually I'm in a long-term polyamorous relationship and my partner keeps telling me to go do this because I haven't felt much like dating this year!
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by derekja 6y ago
That video was great, thanks.
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by derekja 6y ago
shh, don’t tell people the secret! :-)
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by derekja 6y ago
I think “say goodnight to insomnia” is most likely the one they mean.
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by derekja 6y ago
Two words: regulatory capture
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by derekja 6y ago
That's great! I'm glad to see any competition in the space. When I first tried Lyrebird a year or 18 months ago the quality wasn't great. It was OK and I could hear a resemblance to the voice it was meant to create, but there
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by derekja 6y ago
I've often wondered if it re-sorts, though. When I press more I frequently see postings that I've already read. Not a big deal!
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by derekja 6y ago
UI issues for sure, but the product is great. I have computers in 3 different organizations and the ability to tie them into a coherent virtual site so they can all talk to each other is amazing. I no longer have to worry about having forgo
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by derekja 6y ago
nice, but what is the benefit over zerotier? Seem to provide very similar end results..
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by derekja 7y ago
yup, I'd be interested in that. Working remotely currently so can make most times work!
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by derekja 7y ago
hmm, you're right 3" is hard. I find a number of relatively expensive 3.4" ones on aliexpress, but nothing 3". All sorts of cheap 1-2" ones.
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by derekja 7y ago
Wow, don't know how I missed that book. Looks great!
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by derekja 7y ago
I have a PhD. The piece of paper hangs in my bathroom so I can look at it while I shit. It was a personally fulfilling experience that taught me a lot about academic research and and is almost completely divorced from the practice of softwa
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by derekja 7y ago
Where are you located? A lot of places now have community biology labs in makerspaces that are doing really fun things. Start here: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Hackerspaces Not all of the places on that list will have bio
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by derekja 7y ago
I agree. Although the tech isn't there yet, it's rapidly coming. Whether the breakthroughs are two years away, or ten, or fifty they are coming. And discovery is accelerated by AI in looking for the solutions in biology. China is
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by derekja 7y ago
Since both linkedin and github are owned by microsoft it seems kind of pointless for them to compete.

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