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by mbreese 2y ago
Yeah, if I have a stuck output (that doesn’t include a date), I’ll sometimes hit return, and add `# 12/23/24 10:37` and hit return again. That way I know when I last looked at it. This tool might be nicer, but I’m not sure if know
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by mbreese 2y ago
> home-grown scheme slightly worse and more brittle than conda I think you might be surprised as to how long this has been going on (or maybe you already know...) . When I started with HPC and bioinformatics, Modules were already wel
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by mbreese 2y ago
I wish you luck with tracking down versions of software used when you're writing papers... especially if you're using multiple conda environments. This is pretty much the example used in the article -- version mismatches. But, I t
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by mbreese 2y ago
Maybe it's useful when trying to justify solar adoption. If you have control over some level of panel allocation, you could use something like this to explore where you'd want to put panels first -- answering the question of where
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by mbreese 2y ago
Many years ago at $WORK we had an in house IRC server (pre-Slack). It was well archived and logs were easily searchable. It was a pretty easy setup. And for IRC, I think this is a good compromise between "everything is public at all ti
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by mbreese 2y ago
I used to have a rule on my firewall to redirect all internal 53/udp dns traffic to my local DNS server for just this reason. But with DoH, there’s really not much one can do to ensure a device is behaving without completely null routi
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by mbreese 2y ago
The hype cycle for Segway was insane. Ginger (code name) wasn’t just going to change the world, it was going to cause us to rethink how cities were laid out and designed. No one would get around the world in the same way. The engineering be
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by mbreese 2y ago
Arguably, it would be a better comparison if the Tesla was restricted from highway driving. I understand the letting the car figure out its own route, but I’m more interested in seeing the Tesla navigate city streets.
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by mbreese 2y ago
This question shows how far we’ve travelled from the original concepts of sending/receiving/viewing email. I just found it funny that you said “regular HTML client”, as if that was the default interface for email. Originally, it w
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by mbreese 2y ago
> from just the sequence and no other data This is my real question with these... we already have a ton of other data for genomics. So, many of the important regions are already known and studied. And really, the functional importanc
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by mbreese 2y ago
An oncologist I know was fond of saying that we cured mice of cancer ages ago... cancer in humans is much more complicated.
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by mbreese 2y ago
Assembly? Ha! In my day, we would have considered ourselves lucky to have had assembly, let alone a C compiler. No, we had to bootstrap our computers using switches and paper tape. You probably want a terminal too! In all seriousness, the b
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by mbreese 2y ago
I had to do the same with my 3 when I got it years back. Now people also get confused when I have my fog lights on (but that’s rare given how annoying difficult it is to find the setting on a touchscreen while driving). Actually calibrating
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by mbreese 2y ago
Isn't that what this post is about? Creating a ChromeOS Flex VM that can then run in Proxmox?
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by mbreese 2y ago
As far as I know, most of the tumor microbiome claims haven't held up very well. For example, the 2020 Nature paper "Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancer diagnostic approach" was retracted this past year [1
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by mbreese 2y ago
It’s overkill for this audience. HN is pretty forgiving of spelling and grammar mistakes, so long as the main information is clear. I’d encourage anyone that wants to share a comment here to not use an LLM to help, but just try your best to
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by mbreese 2y ago
My thinking is that you can think of Starlink satellites as LTE towers that just happen to be ~350 miles away from your phone. It happens to work because while they are far away, the satellites have a very clear line of sight (directly down
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by mbreese 2y ago
I think what the original post was referring to was using their home (dynamic IP) network instead of a public VPS/dedicated server. That’s what I used to do — I’d use Cloudflare’s dynamic DNS to keep my home IP up to date and have a de
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by mbreese 2y ago
So, I’m not entirely sure if I follow you here… How would one use a language model to find a document out of a corpus of existing documents? As opposed to finding an answer to a question, trained on documents, which I can see. I mean answ
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by mbreese 2y ago
I think it’s more analogous to Minio’s discontinued proxy mode. This is where you’d talk to minio locally (using whatever interface/protocol) and it would act as a local cage for S3 objects. If you wrote to it, it would propagate the
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by mbreese 2y ago
Western Governors University But they rarely use the full name, even on their own site.
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The Raspberry Pi CM5 Is Weeks Away?(bret.dk)
3 points by mbreese 2y ago|2 comments
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by mbreese 2y ago
> Hetzner, OVH or even DO aren't even close to offering what AWS offers But I think the argument is - do they need to be? How much of the services of AWS (Google/azure/etc) are really needed by the majority of customers?
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by mbreese 2y ago
Many arguments here have been from the Redis point of view (and are quite defensive). Of course Redis has niches where it is the better choice. But that’s not what I thought the point of the article was. I think the main argument from the a
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by mbreese 2y ago
And I think this is the main use case they were looking for. If you have a web app where each request is a separate process/call (not uncommon), and you don’t have a good shared global state, Redis is a great tool. It is an in-memory d
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by mbreese 2y ago
How much overlap is there in the “serverless database that starts fast” group and the “might have a query that runs for 60 sec” group? If you’re running queries that are that complex, wouldn’t you be better served with a different database
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How Can MySQL Catch Up with PostgreSQL's Momentum?(percona.com)
3 points by mbreese 2y ago|0 comments
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by mbreese 2y ago
And here I’m surprised there are people, supposedly in tech, that don’t just auto hit ctrl-a or ctrl-e (or ^ or $ or A) to get to the start/end of lines. To each their own, I guess.
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by mbreese 2y ago
In general, I liked XML. But the entire system seemed fragile. Parsing and validation were great. It was a great system for ensuring your data matched the schema. But if it didn’t, it seems like it never failed gracefully. As in, you’d be u
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by mbreese 2y ago
I’ve been starting to see a shift in my use of ChatGPT. Over the past few months, I’ve started using it more for “knowledge” questions (eg: Can you give me a list of genes involved in disease X?). Where before I would have used Google for s

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