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by glenvdb 7y ago
Let them eat cake.
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by glenvdb 7y ago
One of the best working periods of my life was when I was studying part time and working full time. I'd take one day a week to attend lectures/practicals, go to my day job the rest of the week, and study at home nights and weekend
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by glenvdb 7y ago
If you're on a Mac could you just use Flux or Night Shift to achieve the same result of removing all blue light from your display?
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by glenvdb 7y ago
> while peptides usually are too short to have a defined fold. That's not strictly true. My PhD project has looked at an entire class of peptides that are known to fold in to alpha-helices when bound to a cell membrane e.g. https:&
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by glenvdb 7y ago
In an earlier iteration of the web page they had really cool examples of controlling sliders, radial dials, panning surfaces, highly specific pinch gestures etc. All of those have been removed and now it's just waving. It's cool t
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by glenvdb 7y ago
> OTOH the amount of "information" needed to perfectly simulate a cell is probably unbounded. Just a corollary of the fact that we currently don't know how to perfectly simulate reality. This is a very good point. The &#x2
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by glenvdb 7y ago
Spotify bought Gimlet? Wow. I haven't listened to podcasts for a while. Sounds like a lot has changed.
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by glenvdb 7y ago
I've been thinking for a while that the podcasting business is ripe for disruption in terms for revenue models. From my understanding, podcast creators have to track down and get potential sponsors to sign on (if you're lucky and
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by glenvdb 7y ago
I know someone who likes to create a fractal generator when learning a new language. He says it gives you a bit of exposure to the strengths of quirks in the language from implementing algorithms, working with data structures, and displayin
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by glenvdb 7y ago
Before reading the article I thought this was going to be PR for a grant/fund of philosophy research.
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by glenvdb 7y ago
If the dev truly understood where he wants the game to sit and why he wouldn't have compared it to Baba is You.
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by glenvdb 7y ago
I think the problem is that the game is in Uncanny Valley. It's trying to achieve a certain level of detail/realism, but it's falling short of expectations. This might be completely intentional, to evoke a feel for games from
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by glenvdb 7y ago
The overall amount of water on the planet and the annual rainfall isn't the same thing as water availability.
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Programming Language Rankings: June 2019(redmonk.com)
4 points by glenvdb 7y ago|0 comments
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by glenvdb 7y ago
It's a bit "kid-ish", but I've seen it work effectively at combating what you're talking about. Have some kind of object that a person holds while they're talking. While the person is holding the object no one
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by glenvdb 7y ago
As someone who grew up on games during the GameBoy and N64 era, I have fond memories of gaming and want my son to grow up with gaming in his life. But in my "old man yells at cloud" state of mind, I don't want him to grow up
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by glenvdb 7y ago
This made me realise that by the time my 2 year old son is old enough to watch adult movies, movies from the decade I was born will be entering the public domain.
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by glenvdb 7y ago
I really think we're just at the beginning of utilising the the seas/oceans of this planet. Between things like this and seasteading with floating cities and farms, the world is going to look very different and we're going to