michaelhoffman

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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
HyperStudio was popular in education.
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
I started using a snap to run Emacs 28 on my Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS system. The snap is maintained by a Canonical employee, and I like it better than any of the other ways I have used to get more bleeding-edge versions of software in the past,
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
I wouldn't call her "professional"
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Methyl-sensitive transcription factor motifs with expanded epigenetic alphabet(biorxiv.org)
2 points by michaelhoffman 4y ago|0 comments
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Epigenetic misactivation of developmental enhancers drives SOX2 overexpression(biorxiv.org)
1 points by michaelhoffman 4y ago|0 comments
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Motif elucidation in ChIP-seq datasets with a knockout control(academic.oup.com)
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
That legislation has already been passed. The Federal Tort Claims Act has been the law of the land for 77 years.
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
What do you think the "very specific process" involved for the federal government waiving immunity to tort claims? I assume that is what you mean by "waive torts" which is a phrase that doesn't really make sense. Si
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
If you read the linked article, you will find that the United States has laws that waive sovereign immunity for torts committed by people acting on behalf of the federal government. Which is what I assume would be alleged here. That doesn&#
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
He is saying that the design of errno is a flaw and that errors should be returned via other means. Not that you can safely ignore errno.
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
Static Pelican site hosted on bitbucket.io. I'd use GitHub Pages if I were doing it today.
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
I used to host my blog on Medium because it was the easiest way to get a simple, attractive blog available with a minimum amount of work. Then they started adding various annoyances, which I'm sure they thought would help with financia
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
X means you paid with a credit card. M means you paid with cash ("money").
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Community consensus on core open science practices to monitor in biomedicine(journals.plos.org)
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
I use a Kinesis Advantage2 keyboard that has Ctrl, Alt (Meta for Emacs), and Win at the space bar. Some ergonomic setup like this is going to work much better than the usual suggestion of remapping CapsLock to Ctrl.
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
There are a lot of talks that aren't good. (Not in any way saying this is one of them.)
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
Setting it to less than 1 sounds horrible!
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
Over 40 years ago is definitely "at or before" Emacs 24.1. Specifically before. As far as I can tell, the "probably introduced at or before" info comes from finding a symbol's first appearance in NEWS. So if there w
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
> *now also reports the number of sentences* Emphasis added.
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
> Please, never ever throw away working kit. Someone will always take it… Unless it's a CRT monitor. No one wants those.
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
If we're trading anecdotes, I certainly replaced my Palm with a smartphone. In fact, my first smartphone was a Palm. Anyway, I don't think the Palm Pilot was a dead end. It's hard to see it not influencing Blackberries and sm
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
I don't understand this comment. Are you saying that the university doesn't benefit from a development operation? That this person's listed accomplishments are not relevant to being hired for this role?
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
If you do a Google image search for [bible] and look at typical layouts used, I think this might be apparent. Less obvious is that bibles are often printed on thin paper to fit a big document in a small space, so having things line up on on
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_(graphic_design) TeX usually tries to adjust the space between lines so that a single typeblock is more visually appealing. Unfortunately, doing this adjustment independently for side
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
Hats off to the author for providing 482 lines of documentation (sloc) to accompany it!
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
Here in Ontario: > Every person who is not a holder of a licence or a temporary licence and who, > (a) uses the title “professional engineer” or “ingénieur” or an abbreviation or variation thereof as an occupational or business desig
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Cell-free methylome quantification with synthetic spike-in controls(cell.com)
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
I still log into Facebook pretty often, but most of my posts are no longer actually shared with friends, so I hardly ever make them anymore. What's the point of posting something almost no one will see?
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
I appreciated this: > Personal note from Richard Stallman: Eating with hackers at a fish restaurant, I ordered Arctic Char. When my meal arrived, I noted that the chef had not signed it. So I complained, “This char is unsigned—I wanted a
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by michaelhoffman 4y ago
Yeah despite my complaints about LACK above I have had only good experiences with the IVAR stuff, made out of real wood.

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