erisian

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by erisian 4y ago
This project makes me feel sick.
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by erisian 4y ago
I'm not sure this is a huge issue if you set up user expectations adequately. Just like JoeAsshole@gmail.com isn't the same account as JoeAsshole@hotmail.com. A workable alternative would be using a pubkey fingerprint with an muta
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by erisian 4y ago
It's a bit of a stretch to compare software overriding intentional input from the driver to the introduction of seatbelts.
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by erisian 4y ago
Also of interest: Widmanstätten patterns. You'll see it on some ancient meteoric iron work. Looks pretty cool.
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by erisian 4y ago
Fuck no. I had to deal with a rental that had driver assist technology and it damn near killed me. There was a boulder on the road around a blind corner and the car fought me trying to swerve out of the way, I barely avoided it. Imagine aut
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by erisian 4y ago
Cool story I heard about Be once: the engineers could override their managers and had final say.
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by erisian 4y ago
The worst I can say about .io is that it's a fad TLD for software projects from about 10 years ago. The best I can say about .io is that nvim uses it.
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by erisian 4y ago
Fun fact: mass extinction events in earth's history coincide with worldwide coral bleaching events.
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by erisian 4y ago
I'm so sorry. My mom was diagnosed a few years ago and she got preyed on by snake oil salesmen to the tune of 6 digits. The money doesn't matter to me, but people are really fucked up. I can recommend Duke's neuro-oncology ce
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by erisian 4y ago
Not CAR-T or CRISPR AFAIK, but there's been some recent breakthroughs with getting treatments past the blood brain barrier, and promising glioblastoma treatments are in the pipeline as well. This is just what I've seen on the inte
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by erisian 4y ago
Pharma typically spends a lot more on marketing than research. In fact, there is little to no correlation between research costs and the cost of a drug. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5559086/