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by mbreese 2y ago
Why do you think I wanted to add hashes and encryption at the block level? :) I’ve had to do similar things in the past and it’s a great side-feature of the format. It’s a horrible feeling when you find a corrupted FASTQ file that was compr
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by mbreese 2y ago
In bioinformatics we use a modified gzip format called bgzip that exploits this fact heavily. The entire file is made of concatenated gzip chunks. Each chunk then contains the size of the chunk (stored in the gzip header). This lets you do
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by mbreese 2y ago
As far as I know, the main use while driving is reading signs, so the rest of your vision is good enough to drive, but you might need the bioptic to read a street sign for navigating. I never really thought of them for lectures, but that’s
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by mbreese 2y ago
Even when this paper was published, errors due to Excel mangled gene names were well known for at least a decade. Somewhat recently, some of the more error prone genes were renamed to accommodate Excel. (Ex: SEPT7 -> SEPTIN7)
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by mbreese 2y ago
There is a iOS app that acts as a client to specifically connect to code-server instances. It removes the chrome from the web browser and makes things like copy/paste easier. IIRC, it was much more pleasant than the PWA version (but it
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by mbreese 2y ago
For iOS I’ve been using iSH. It’s on GitHub (and the AppStore) and is an Alpine Linux shell for iOS. It provides no creature comforts for managing SSH connections, but does drop you into a pretty standard Linux shell. I believe it’s a stock
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by mbreese 2y ago
You mean, you didn’t enjoy the “spill resistant” membrane keyboard? I was trying to describe it to someone a few weeks ago. The best I could come up with was that it was like trying to type on a microwave or stove panel. But not a glass one
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by mbreese 2y ago
I meant specifically the time in the late 80s when investment in AI collapsed because it was overhyped and caused the downfall of Lisp Machines. The AI field itself kept moving forward, but investment and grant funding was cut to almost not
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by mbreese 2y ago
More like the AI winter from the late 80s.
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by mbreese 2y ago
Look, I’m all for getting away from naming things Microsoft Enterprise Work Application for Students and Home Deluxe… but I think they may have gone a bit too far in the wrong direction.
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by mbreese 2y ago
The title of the post here says “thousands” and the original preprint says “widespread”. 2400/8515 is a pretty significant fraction. My guess is that the metadata was stripped out of images in the publishing workflow. You don’t necessa
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by mbreese 2y ago
They aren’t talking about metadata records from a photograph. I believe they are referring to information that’s included in the image itself as a banner overlay. In the link, it’s the box at the bottom of the image with the date, scale, se
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by mbreese 2y ago
One side is theory and the other practice. In theory, there is a clear difference. In practice, it’s a bit fuzzier. (Yes, I know the original saying is that “in theory there is no difference, but in practice there is”… but this worked bett
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by mbreese 2y ago
How many of the new games (that looked better) had better circuitry on the game cartridge? I didn’t have a Sega (NES!), but cartridge systems could potentially have a lot more options to work with than the base system. For example, the Poké
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by mbreese 2y ago
> There are orchestras everywhere And they can all post videos of performances on YouTube. You don’t even need to have an orchestra perform a work for an extended time before you can find an audience. I would think that this would make
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by mbreese 2y ago
> What I found better about it was the algorithm-free browsing experience. Not algorithm free, just a different kind of algorithm. Probably a mix of marketing and manual curation. Video stores (at least good ones) would be organized fo
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by mbreese 2y ago
FWIW, the British History Podcast does a pretty good job of covering Scotland and the migration of people through this period. I actually don’t know how good it is, but I do at least remember all of the names and places you mentioned. :) Th
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by mbreese 2y ago
Probably because they saw what happened with Apple TV (the device), Apple TV+ (the service) and TV (the app). That's a whole headache I think Google is (wisely) trying to avoid here...
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by mbreese 2y ago
The new (Google TV Streamer) device seems to support Matter as a protocol, so maybe there is more hope here...
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by mbreese 2y ago
True, but at that point, what does the "Chrome" part of Chromecast mean? It made much more sense when the device was tied to a browser, and then (kinda) apps on a phone. Once they added a remote, I think the writing was on the wal
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by mbreese 2y ago
How much of this is an "end" to Chromecast and a rebranding of Chromecast to "Google TV Streamer"? It seems like the bare-bones experience of a Chromecast being tied to a phone (or browser) is getting replaced with an Ap
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by mbreese 2y ago
Specifically, it's the most compelling competitor that isn't included in the default iOS search engine list...
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by mbreese 2y ago
I think the answer is due to money and pride. My guess is that the issue is billing and international relations. Code shares aren’t (often) between airlines that are from the same country. So, if you have a requirement to fly a particular f
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by mbreese 2y ago
> Why Did You Do This? > I used this project as an opportunity to learn about Rust and FUSE file systems. I also think it's hilarious. > Visitors interested in the code should note that this is an irredeemably messy codebas
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by mbreese 2y ago
But if we could more easily find primes, the search space for finding those prime factors would be significantly smaller. In my mind, it’s not a question of easy vs hard… it’s a question of fast vs slow. The default algorithm for finding pr
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by mbreese 2y ago
I know nothing about this specifically. To me, it makes sense if you think about just how big these fields are and how slow of a process it is. Changes that take place slowly over a large area are more likely to cause shifts that seem relat
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by mbreese 2y ago
I think this is a good point. At what point do business practices (co-mingling) remove any sort of liability protections (if they exist) here? Is Amazon just an intermediary if they don’t keep good from different vendors separate? I think t
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by mbreese 2y ago
That’s still a fine of 1% of revenue, which seems like a small percentage, but is still a sizable hit. It’s enough to make investors notice, but probably not substantially if it is a once-off event. If it isn’t a one-off event though and st
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by mbreese 2y ago
Or planes taking less efficient routes or flying at faster speeds to “make up time”.
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by mbreese 2y ago
My guess is that the LLM was directed to be enthusiastic about the position.

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