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by kurthr 3y ago
That's "bunnie" Andrew Huang. He's great and been working on this for a long time!
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by kurthr 3y ago
Cameras similar to this have been around for decades, but they weren't as automated, and they were more expensive since they had longer Depth of Field for research purposes. But fundamentally, putting an IR back (or front) illuminator
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by kurthr 3y ago
This drug was approved after Phase II trials largely failed and a second review panel was convened to override the first. Now it has failed again in Phase III after being given to many hopeful patients at great cost. The last lines rang tru
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An ALS drug fails, again(science.org)
137 points by kurthr 3y ago|133 comments
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by kurthr 3y ago
The article isn't much longer than the taster: https://web.archive.org/web/20240208152121/https://www.econo...
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by kurthr 3y ago
There are a lot of gains (both cost and performance) to be made here, but it's not "low hanging fruit". This is not the scaling of yesteryear, and the importance of design/testing/reliability and yield are really go
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by kurthr 3y ago
There was a time in the 80 and then 00s when this was the case, when big steel/auto was laying off, but it hasn't really seemed like that for decades. That was globalization (Japan then China and the rest of Asia), but now it feel
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by kurthr 3y ago
Even if all the computers can do is ask the right questions and it takes a big research project to figure it out, that would be an improvement in productivity. I actually think it will come from the other direction. That people will get bet
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by kurthr 3y ago
Wax paper and parchment paper (often silicone impregnated) are already huge established businesses. The amounts used in other products in already substantial.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Please Justify at least 2 points: (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Seriously, think about what "just" war and multiple % civilian
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by kurthr 3y ago
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-02-04/ty-article-opinio...
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by kurthr 3y ago
Yeah high frequency sound is a good analogy. Starlink is in the 11&40GHz region with wavelengths measured in cm which is about the equivalent to 20kHz. The other really annoying thing about radio waves is that even relatively long wavel
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by kurthr 3y ago
If your election integrity relies on Facebook, YouTube, or even DNS to be up... there are bigger issues. Actually, if all of them including Xitter went down, maybe things would get better? All the sunlight photons might get sucked in by too
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by kurthr 3y ago
And I assumed it would be DNS again . Would referral traffic cause issues like this?
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by kurthr 3y ago
I just found the continental axis theory kinda weak when describing Europe, because both the trade and the cultures were dominated by the presence of the seas (Celtic, Mediterranean, Black, Caspian) that connect it all from England to Franc
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by kurthr 3y ago
I agree and it is interesting how long it took. I've heard arguments that it was the disillusionment of WWI that really kicked it off, but I wonder how much the photographic horror of war was part of that.
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by kurthr 3y ago
They were, if you were born in 1993?
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by kurthr 3y ago
TIL about the Rømer and Réaumur temperature scales which are why Rankine is not just °R but °Ra. I guess everyone was doing it back then! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8mer_scale
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by kurthr 3y ago
Hah, I left actual silicon process engineering a long time ago, but I worked on the early 68020 at 2um and then early submicron in R&D. That was 40 years ago and the process now 1000x smaller (1 million more transistors). It's pret
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by kurthr 3y ago
If it's either 36C or 36K at night, you've made a bad decision on where to live.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Are you saying that most light olive oil isn't olive oil? I guess it's possible, but there's profit without doing that too. All the research I've heard (eg 80% fake) is for EVOO. I guess it could be like the subway fake
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by kurthr 3y ago
Yeah, there's olive oil for sprinkling on a salad or sauces where you're going to smell and taste it, and then there's cooking oil. I'd happily spend a fair bit on a small quantity of the former (Extra Virgin) from a loc
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by kurthr 3y ago
Ok, so the answer is marketing, but there's a long story. There were so many failures of X-ray lithography that it was easier to name it EUV. Sorta like you don't have nuclear MRI for medicine. They choose to emphasize the 3D Imag
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by kurthr 3y ago
If both of you aren't on the lease, alternate between the two of you. At least you won't have to move very far. When I was just out of school I did this in a large complex with my wife more than once (we had different last names a
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by kurthr 3y ago
Unless you have a lot of wear on your tires, or you're driving an AWD, it's unusual to need to replace more than 2 tires. The argument on AWD is that it might cause more expensive increased wear on the AWD system in off-road condi
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by kurthr 3y ago
The application of Noether's theorem in this case refers only to the energy integral shown (KE = ME - GPE for 2D Kinetic Mechanical and Gravitational Potential Energies) over time. It's really only for that particular 2 body 2 dim
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by kurthr 3y ago
Best solution I've seen so far is to make the publisher liable for "generative" content, if they can't point to a human creator. Also, prevent any copyright protection unless you can point to a transformative human creat
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by kurthr 3y ago
That should be x0.7 or /1.4 since it's sqrt(2).
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by kurthr 3y ago
Clouds can also form during the start of an eclipse, especially near a coastline or ridgeline where humidity is near dewpoint before temperatures fall. This describes how thermally driven cumulus clouds disappear. However, I'd also say
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by kurthr 3y ago
They also avoid US customs fees by shipping to groups of customers in just less than $800 packets.

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