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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Don't miss proPagate the plant!
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
> Looking back, I see much of the promise of modular software as addressing goals related to project management, not technical excellence. I couldn't find this point discussed elsewhere in the comments. I think this is one of the mo
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
After watching this I went to go check in on my last fort that I played which was about two years ago. Turns out the countless hours I spent herding dorfs in college have left me with an instinctive memory of the key bindings over a decade
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
World peace achieved in such a way might only work when anyone showing the first signs of violence is immediately and collectively targeted for punishment by everyone else. That would suggests that sanctions _do_ work, but only in some stra
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
As JCharante mentions, this statement was offered as a modernization of historical reaction to similar events, not a commentary on the parent comment. In that context the interpretation my statement basically turns on whether you believe th
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
The author of this piece lacks an understanding of how Machiavelli uses the term `virtu` (admittedly a common mistake). This failure to understand `virtu` is why countless political factions all the way up to the modern US Democratic party
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
Discrimination against Asians during the admissions process has been a well known fact inside the academy for over a decade. The fact that this had to go to court is somewhat laughable. The other thread here about the Jews at Harvard is a s
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by hyperion2010 6y ago
I would not have even considered trying to make use of the existing Sanger sequencing machines. This opens up a whole extra set of hardware to increase testing bandwidth. Thank you.
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
You don't have to culture anything (if we did we might as well just give up). We use PCR to amplify a known section of the viral genome. With the oligo production capacity in this country alone we could synthesize enough primers test e
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
This is not a black swan event. How many times are we going to have to go over this?
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
Your logic is off. In the absence of data there is more fear because you have no idea who might possibly be sick. Once you start testing you can bring epidemiological tools online and alert people to possible exposures. If you don't do
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
Get IDT or (other nucleotide synthesis company) to start mass producing the detection primers, and ship them to their whole active customer catalog, they all have thermal cyclers. Then figure out the other reagents needed to locally produce
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
Fun. Here are some sentence that come to mind. Flat surface with bevelled edge and 4 Ionic columns as legs that fade into nymphs at the base. Table with caryatid legs. Crescent wrench that doubles as a corkscrew. Stapleremover.
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
As others have said in other threads, pandemics are emphatically NOT black swan events. Making this assumption reveals a fundamentally flawed mental model which is broken for the same reason global supply chains are -- its time constant is
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
This probably should have gone on the thread about flattening the curve not being enough. But. Where is the core team of 12 people plus 108 collaborators that should have been assembled a month and a half ago to figure out how to retune US
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
The same reason why not testing for the virus doesn't stop its spread. Markets can spread psychological panic very quickly, but a lot of the short term behavior here is based on very short term bets about what other people are going to
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
I love how many people in this thread think that Google's location tracking is the issue here. If you have a phone at all you are tracked. If you drive many newer cars you are tracked. If you go out in public where there are cameras yo
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
> Looks at the contents of his FreeNAS. Damn you got me. This was pretty much the logic that I used. I was sick of having to worry about data integrity and backups, the amount of arcane knowledge required to do it correctly and safely is
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
Anecdote from yesterday. Me staring at merge-pathnames and wondering why everything was backwards from the physical layout of the paths. Ah, it is because the default is optional because of the direction in which the function is usually use
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
I think I need to unpack what I mean by 'really fails' to capture what I was trying to convey. I deal with Python programs running in a number of different environments, and there are some where literally all you have on hand are
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
Sort of. I have a bad habit of forgetting Smalltalk in these kinds of conversations, but that is possibly because Smalltalk images exist in their own happy little worlds. I love working in Smalltalk environments, it is always a mind blowing
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
The only language that I have worked with that realizes that in the real world simple is _always_ a lie, is common lisp. It is the only language that has actually embraced the fact that its designers/committee were not geniuses and pro
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
I have had my doubts about COS's technical foundations and strategic abilities and this and a number of the comments here do nothing to reassure me, especially in light of the glowing stories about dedication to long term sustainabilit
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp which appears to recently have received a reprinting, my copy is from the 40s. Deathworld by Harry Harrison. I've been waiting for some screenplay writer to stumble across this one, and if I had
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
I have so many things to say here, but I think that the kernel of it is as follows. The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin are a gift, unlooked for and unexpected. They are the best founding mythology one could a
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
The snopes entry is pretty good. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
Or the groups or that did the wrong thing simply died, and what we are left with are the accidental randomly distributed beliefs that came about for no reason at all, but happened to be ones that weren't slightly more correlated with d
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
Yes, but you really have to make sure that it is indeed just and accident of history with no other side effects. I can imagine a case where some of the BART tunnels are too short for some trains that run on standard gauge rails, and you don
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
Another point that seems related is the difficulty of call/cc semantics when dealing with changes in state that are outside the semantics of the virtual machine. It seems to me that there is no easy way to avoid cases like described in
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by hyperion2010 7y ago
The aForementioned Article the F is usually something else though ...

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