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by el_oni 6y ago
I attended a talk by GSK and there was part of the talk about security. They don't allow usb devices to be plugged into their analysis computers. But every year they get an intern that tries to charge their phone from the PC USB. Somet
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by el_oni 6y ago
It makes sense, the game devs saw how well the FnF movies did and wanted a slice of the pie. It worked out so well because it gave people a way to experience car modding and illegal street racing in their own living room. If people are gett
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by el_oni 6y ago
I danced latin and ballroom during my masters and first two years of PhD. I never knew i would have that level of coordination. Then I danced salsa and butchata when I moved university and it made me much more sociable. Whether or not its t
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by el_oni 6y ago
Its nice to know im not alone in this. With lockdown and writing up my thesis, there is no forcing function other than myself. Its been hard to adjust to forcing myself to write and do the hard stuff.
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by el_oni 6y ago
I relied on "the fear". My levels of motivation were poor when i had weeks until my deadlines. But when they started closing in "the fear" would motivate me. I think that's why writing my PhD thesis is taking so lon
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by el_oni 6y ago
It has a weird 80s-90s aesthetic that I can watch for hours. He got me back into electronics when he was talking about the NA electrical system, and bashing ring circuits
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by el_oni 6y ago
Yeah, and the only way to get better at writing stuff up, is to write stuff up.
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by el_oni 6y ago
My other wonder was how long it took to go from "i've got this camera" to "i've written this software". I imagine it's on the order of weeks. Which means you could probably do a daily journalling exercise.
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by el_oni 6y ago
Absolutely. I found myself wondering while reading the article what the guys notes look like. Does he screenshot everything and bullet point as he goes along? Or does he hit a logical stopping point and write up what worked from A-B, B-C et
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by el_oni 6y ago
The RGB makes ML models train faster
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by el_oni 6y ago
According to the highlights of this 2011 study[0], compliance is around 50% for drugs. I don't know if this is higher or lower than i was expecting to be honest... [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/
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by el_oni 6y ago
I wouldn't say that they are uninformed, just that they are informed by the literature. And unfortunately the literature surrounding diet is awash with special interest groups, small sample sizes and dodgy statistics. While clinical t
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by el_oni 6y ago
> reversed his T2 diabetes and lost quite a bit of weight doing keto. His doctor had advised meds to “manage” the disease. My assumption there is that compliance for meds is probably better than compliance for huge lifestyle changes (suc
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by el_oni 6y ago
I'm not sure I got across what I mean. Ones target should be shipping features. If you use 10k LOC to get a feature out, or 500 lines of more concise, optimised code, what matters is the feature. If you have LOC targets to meet you are
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by el_oni 6y ago
It reminds me of a pycon talk [0] which, while i dont agree with the whole thing, has the message "we ship features, not code". That also reminds me of "when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". L
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by el_oni 6y ago
From a bio perspective, it sounds like a great idea. From a squimish perspective... it sounds like something from a horrendous distopia. I just have visions of rows of human shaped tissue cultures. A less horrendous version could be culture
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by el_oni 6y ago
I am aware. And that is progress that is good for humanity. However air quality is decreasing and global temperatures are increasing. A century from now we'll be losing a truckload more babies Its like we rose to the top of the bell cu
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by el_oni 6y ago
Im sure nations are very happy with increasing GDP, and im sure families are happy to receive 5c/h manufacturing clothes for a multibillion dollar multinational corperation. Just because their lives are better doesnt mean we are doing
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by el_oni 6y ago
Thats such a selfish outlook. The same outlook that leads to overfishing, soil erosion and monoculture agricuture. We think we are optimising for human welfare and happiness whilst simultaneously destroying our ability to give future genera
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by el_oni 6y ago
You're not wrong, but at the same time, our western lives have lead to the exploitation of both the people and the resources of less economically developed nations. It seems our geographic removal from that exploitation leads to an emo
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by el_oni 6y ago
That's a rather fallacious argument. 6.9bn people never existing != killing 6.9bn people. And the hosting of those 7bn people has caused irreperable damage to ecosystems. Why are you so happy for the extinction of entire species, but n