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by hliyan 5y ago
I think chromosome selection plays a much larger role in generation-to-generation variation than mutations do (which are rare).
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by hliyan 5y ago
The correct analogy is more like this: DNA in nucleus - source code on disk Messenger RNA - source code in memory Ribosome - JIT compiler Protein - tiny running program, think unix utilities. Also, not saved to disk. There is source code fo
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by hliyan 5y ago
I speak a non-European language and my experience is exactly the same. Swearing in my native tongue just sounds extremely vulgar. Swearing in English - no problem.
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Why most agile scaling frameworks are a fad(medium.com)
6 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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Apple M1X vs. M2 chip: What we know so far(tomsguide.com)
4 points by hliyan 5y ago|2 comments
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Pay secrecy: Why some workers can't discuss salaries(bbc.com)
2 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
I've only obliquely heard of REBOL. I looked at this article (linked from the Red documentation) about GUIs. You're spot on: extremely terse but readable - http://www.mycode4fun.co.uk/About-Red-Programming
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by hliyan 5y ago
These were the most telling statement in that article for me: "[The] sexual and cultural revolution that began in 1963 or 1968... has ended and, as all revolutionaries must do after storming the Bastille, they have built Bastilles of t
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by hliyan 5y ago
I would suggest that consciousness is a faculty that is independent of thoughts, emotions or sensations. I can think of instances where I was aware of myself in the absence (or at least greatly reduced levels) of thought, emotion or sensati
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by hliyan 5y ago
I speak and read Sinhala fluently. I can't speak to origins, but one thing that struck me the first time I learned a little Latin was the similarities: queen: latin = regina. sinhala = regina. tooth: latin = dente. sinhala = danta. nos
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by hliyan 5y ago
Sri Lankan here. I'm probably going to catch some flak from enthusiasts for this, but what you see in this article is essentially a modern recreation. As far as I know, nothing except the name itself has survived antiquity (if this act
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In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time (2018)(theoutline.com)
36 points by hliyan 5y ago|23 comments
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Some Chinese shun grueling careers for 'low-desire life'(apnews.com)
7 points by hliyan 5y ago|1 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
> Why is that surprising to you? CoPolit doesn't actually know how to code, it just generates symbols that match learned patterns. Idea: make Copilot test-driven. You provide a function invocation and an example output, and it searc
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by hliyan 5y ago
> all the people who worked hard for the delayed gratification of their long-term planning get penalized and have to pick up the tab for the people who spent 4 years partying without any concern about cost of their education or lifestyle
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by hliyan 5y ago
Copyright is going to get very muddy in the next few decades. ML systems may be able to generate entire novels in the styles of books they have digested, with only some assist from human editors. True of artwork and music, and perhaps event
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by hliyan 5y ago
Agreed. What I think most people mean is that they can't recall events from those ages at will. Neither can I, but certain triggers can bring back a handful of vivid memories of events from when I was between 3-4 years old. For example
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by hliyan 5y ago
Step 1: Talk to a therapist! Step 2: Take it from someone who was were you are at 23, but now 42: effects of early life disadvantages, disasters and even seemingly set personality traits (I'm an INTJ) disappear or smooth out over time.
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by hliyan 5y ago
> you seem to have no concept of what suffering actually is The irony of this statement with regards to OP is astounding.
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by hliyan 5y ago
Much of this makes perfect sense, but: can a wealthy person be trusted to make decisions (or advocate policies) that affect the entire world population? Because his thinking will be influenced by how the world affects his wealth. But he wil
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by hliyan 5y ago
I hope to god you're right. But, a counterpoint from an adjacent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27620036
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by hliyan 5y ago
No-ad services are no longer possible. The very fact that you are willing to pay for a service signals advertisers that you have purchasing power. The more you pay to keep ads out, the more advertisers will pay to put them back in. This wil
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by hliyan 5y ago
I always worry around this type of mess-of-wires setups, especially if it's in cramped space where an errant elbow can dislodge something. Shouldn't there be covers on these things?
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Abenics: Active Ball Joint Mechanism with 3 DoF based on spherical gear meshings(youtube.com)
3 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
Agreed. This is the most credible article on the subject I've seen to date. The last one I came across [1] was written by what looked like a smart and dedicated person going through some impressive mental gymnastics to arrive at this g
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by hliyan 5y ago
Don't know about stocks, but I'd really like this interface for a regular news site: good, bad, event, sector, country (the country interface looks particularly nice). And then use labels to indicate type of news (instead of stock
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by hliyan 5y ago
The part that appealed to me the most: unlike other apps where you have to select from a list of integrations, you can literally craft a HTTP request like in Postman to get data from any API: https://getradar.co/docs/ad
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by hliyan 5y ago
This is why the letter of the law is so important, paradoxically. It is never good to have unreasonable/archaic laws in the book and have law enforcement look the other way. Since almost everyone ends up breaking them, it allows law
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by hliyan 5y ago
QA very probably caught it, did a refresh (thinking that it's a problem with their test setup, as it is frequently the case) and then went about testing.
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by hliyan 5y ago
Same here. 100-slide decks open without a problem for our entire org. And drive search is spot on 99% of the time. There are other issues, but these aren’t it.

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