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by mnw21cam 1y ago
I do research into neonatal diabetes, which is a 1 in 100,000 genetic disease. We're entirely state and charity funded. We have had a grant for many years to do genetic analysis on anyone from around the world who fits the criteria (
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I'm a scientist and a scholar, and I am right now living in a HMO with some lovely/interesting/weird housemates while I sort out my horrific divorce and fight through the courts to get my house that I own back. For legal reas
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Moreover, we have tax breaks encouraging a home owner to rent out a spare room or two. (Though if the home owner is living in the house, the renter's rights are much less and there isn't the same level of regulation as if the owne
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No, that's not the point. Whether someone is a terrorist is subjective. Russia could (and likely would) define their opposition leader as a terrorist. My point is that if Russia were to conduct a bombing on US soil, regardless of who i
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Let's imagine that a political opposition leader from Russia were to take refuge in the US. Now imagine that Russia performed a "surgical strike" bombing in the US to kill what they viewed as a terrorist leader. Can you imagi
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Most LCD displays will do hardware scaling when given a resolution lower than the native resolution.
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Lead-acid car batteries are designed for high short-term current supply, for starting engines, not longevity. You can buy deep-cycle lead-acid batteries that last much longer, on the order of over ten years. Moreover, lead-acid batteries we
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Solar panels are already at least 20% efficient (most are better than that). I don't think they'll improve much beyond 30% within the next 20 years. Your 20x aspiration is of course technically impossible.
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Agreed. You can increasingly over-provision the solar generation to reduce the proportion of time when you will need a fossil fuel generator or grid input, and install lots of battery to allow the system to smooth over multiple dull days. B
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That's not true. From the article, type 2 is more familial than type 1, but not all of that association is genetic. As a more concrete demonstration, the type 1 genetic risk score (GRS) has good predictability of the risk of someone
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Agreed mostly. It's a great test. There is a slight complication because it depends on the amount of glycation "damage" that the red blood cells receive over their lifetime of a few months, so if a patient has a condition tha
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"kW per hour"
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Just a minute while I cringe at the units.
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My reading of the article is that they had a court order telling them to close down the original account, but they seem to be shadow-banning the new account without one.
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The copper was widely used in the OS not just to change the entire colour palette half-way down the screen - it could change the display resolution half-way down the screen, along with other things such as the colour depth and memory loca
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Note that in many engines, vacuum is provided by a separate vacuum pump, which is driven by the rotation of the engine or rarely by an electric motor. This is always true for a diesel engine (because there is no intake manifold vacuum) and
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
Right, that's traditionally been because the X server has typically had a fairly large footprint, and therefore has been very attractive for the oom killer. But in the last 15 years or so, some heuristics have been applied to deliberat
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It's also because a filesystem is much more likely to have consecutive parts of a file stored consecutively on disc, whereas swap is going to just randomly scatter 4kB blocks everywhere, so you'll be dealing with random access rea
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That's not true. Without swap, you already have the risk of thrashing. This is because Linux views all segments of code which your processes are running as clean and evictable from the cache, and therefore basically equivalent to swap,
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Install earlyoom or one of its near-equivalents. That mostly solves the problem of it freezing up the system for long periods of time. I haven't personally seen the OOM killer kill unproductively - usually it kills either a runaway cul
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by mnw21cam 1y ago
One alternative would be to set up a VPS, run VNC on it, run your browser on that to access the various web sites, and connect over an SSH tunnel to the VNC instance. Then it actually is an interactive ssh session.
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We also have this rather unusual energy market where the price for energy is set by the supplier with the highest price necessary to meet demand at any particular time, and all the suppliers get paid that price. Most countries use a syste
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It wasn't pitot tubes that had the hardware problem, it was the angle of attack sensor. The software was poorly designed to believe the input from just one fallible angle of attack sensor.
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There are plenty of "car allegedly accelerated by itself" incidents, and usually the root cause is the driver mistakenly pressing the accelerator pedal when they think they're pressing the brake pedal. And then swearing blind
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Though this XKCD might be even more relevant: https://xkcd.com/2030/
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Agreed.
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The heat in the oven will slowly leak out into the rest of the house, so the home heating system of the right now already uses that. The fridge example is much more relevant though. If you could get the hot-side radiator part of the fridge
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It's also the fact that a large portion of the power used by a data centre is actually spent on cooling, so anything that will make that more efficient is a cost saving.
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There certainly have been issues with drivers. It'd be nice to know in advance if that's the case with any particular system.
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I have a 7.5 year old Asus Zenbook UX305CA. It was the perfect laptop for my use case, given I run all heavy stuff on remote servers. 3200x1800 HiDPI screen, 8GB RAM, no fan, rigid aluminium construction (so it feels high quality), and

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