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by drvdevd 9y ago
You’re getting downvoted a bunch here, but I believe your basic point is valid. To take it back to the GP: SGID bit and other such OS and/or filesystem specific semantics are not the best measurement of someone’s overall UNIX underst
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Before I jumped back on Hacker News here, I browsed Twitter. I set a timer for 7 minutes. I closed the window after 7 minutes. It was slightly painful as it was just enough time for me to get interested. Hacker News is not perfect either, b
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by drvdevd 9y ago
IMO coding out of sync is one of the main useful functions of all modern DVCS systems. Coding together can be useful or fun, I'm sure, but I've noticed that other people don't enjoy my coding style very much in a group settin
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by drvdevd 9y ago
You mean roughly: fused_hyphae = (A+B) ^ (C+D)?
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by drvdevd 9y ago
The title in Nature: “Programmable base editing of A•T to G•C in genomic DNA without DNA cleavage” A brief description of what was accomplished (a modification of cas9): “We evolved a tRNA adenosine deaminase to operate on DNA when fused to
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by drvdevd 9y ago
If you rely on logging as a “high priority” in your security architecture, then it follows that reducing noise is of parallel importance. Personally, this is why I change SSH ports every time on a public service and add extra firewall rules
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by drvdevd 9y ago
This is an interesting take, but I think part of what makes us human is our inability to disassociate our “domain knowledge” from our sense of self. Much domain knowledge is in some sense innate or even subconscious, picked up in the field.
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Indeed the author even: 1) recommends Django or Rails for CRUD apps 2) mentions a lack of frameworks in Go as a negative It's a good article and not a rant about which language is "better"
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by drvdevd 9y ago
The Mythical 6000-man Month.
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Well, yes you’re correct, there are associated complexities I’ve glossed over. My point however is simply that all of these complexities only really need to be solved once by an expert or team of experts such that non-experts can then uti
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by drvdevd 9y ago
I’m not going to look for references right now, but there is current research into the anti-inflammatory effects of classical psychedelics. Anecdotally, it has been speculated by researchers that it is in fact this effect that produces
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Obviously this is true. There’s much that goes into industrial synthesis that someone with a setup like his at home just can’t currently reproduce, and safely. What I find most dubious about the article is the lack of attention to synthetic
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Seriously. Can anyone here explain what value they’re currently adding?
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by drvdevd 9y ago
We’re entering an era where the public will start to become more interested in technical Scientific publications generally, IMO. At some point the “prestige” afforded by research gatekeepers will reach a point of diminishing returns for pro
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Right. Centralization is a physical fact of the Internet as we now know it. AFAIK though, DARPA wanted a design that could survive nuclear war due to its' distributed nature. Has the Internet and in particular TCP/IP, been succe
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by drvdevd 9y ago
"real time" PCR and other such techniques could make (will/is) something like this feasible... but you wouldn't need to get pinched or poked. It could probably extract DNA in real time from your sweat or breath. But then
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Nice. I was just reviewing some TCP fundamentals with my friend for his class, specifically sliding windows and window control, etc. It's as if they took what we were just reading in a compsci textbook for class and directly monetized
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Glad I'm not the only one... on all points -- love watching this stuff on Youtube also!
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Thus making you a 1x Data Scientist because your result can only be demonstrated once? ;)
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Biology, or the Drugs Win the Drug War (2010)(quinnnorton.com)
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by drvdevd 9y ago
In theory, one could make an amoeba play piano somehow, if we think of a piano broadly speaking as just an array of notes with various associated variables (pitch, force, etc). I'm thinking... using chemical signals of some sort to f
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by drvdevd 9y ago
I hadn't even considered that point of view ... quite interesting. EDIT: I have to say, I bet this happens quite often in fact, especially with software.
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Interesting! Thanks for the concrete example. It's bad enough trying to convince managers as to the specifics of why some product doesn't work for your project.. even worse when said product has great marketing.
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by drvdevd 9y ago
Could you elaborate a bit? I'm not affiliated with IBM or anything, just curious what you were looking for and what was missing.
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by drvdevd 9y ago
You could in theory have a zvol exported from a ZFS pool on FreeBSD to Linux via some remote block dev protocol. iSCSI comes to mind, as it would have to be cross platform. Then slap ext4 on top of that in Linux. The idea feels "jank
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by drvdevd 9y ago
I'll add that ZFS is also quite concerned with write patterns IIRC, and thus wear leveling. The author of the article seems to assume we should all be trusting SSD or "hybrid storage" firmware to properly handle this sort of
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by drvdevd 9y ago
made my day. Also, I feel a lot of work went into making this... impressive
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by drvdevd 9y ago
I find this point to be very insightful, thank you. Hits the nail on the head of what I think is happening as well. I think this has changed politics in fundamental ways that the public is not yet ready to understand.
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by drvdevd 9y ago
One of the more interesting lines of political inquiry that I think has arisen lately outside of HN, is the question of the actual true affect "hacking" (and I don't just mean in the Security sense -- I mean in the Hacker N
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by drvdevd 9y ago
These seem like such simple obviously good ideas ... it's kind of baffling to me that I haven't heard them mentioned before.

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