milksteak42

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by milksteak42 6y ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."[1] These coding challenges used to be a very good measure of ability, but now applicants are just memorizing the most common problems for each company. We're
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by milksteak42 6y ago
That's nothing. One of the largest banks in North America (BMO), limited passwords to 6 characters. Worse, for compatibility with telephone banking the characters were mapped to digits. That means there were only 1,000,000 possible uni
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by milksteak42 6y ago
Well, Apple has Braeburn Capital but they're probably much more risk-averse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital
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by milksteak42 7y ago
Yes, most have a low-temperature cycle and the rest can often be configured to include the option.
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by milksteak42 7y ago
I don't buy it. A crisis that causes the world's countries to isolate themselves from each other does not stimulate cooperation. In fact I'd argue the opposite - it highlights the downsides of a cooperative world with open bo
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by milksteak42 7y ago
This article is a bit - or maybe a lot - callous, but it makes some good points. Shutting down the economy is not free of human costs. People will lose their livelihoods and some will lose their lives to the coming recession. Where I disagr
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by milksteak42 7y ago
It's worth nothing that this machine is very low throughput - the larger one only takes 4 samples and you have to use their proprietary disposable cartridges. edit: as pointed out below - the largest of the machines has 80 slots and co
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by milksteak42 7y ago
It's mostly a commercial decision. Reagents have very high margins and recurring revenue is more attractive than large one-time purchases. Illumina does this with genetic sequencing as well. edit: There are some informal standards like