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by nick__m 3y ago
While bacteria evolution can't be reversed, the antibiotic resistance usually have a cost to maintain (the fitness cost¹) and without the evolutive pressure cause by the antibiotic, bacteria without those costly genes will eventually d
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by nick__m 4y ago
Completely opposite experience to mine but I see how some work environment/culture could foster that behavior.
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by nick__m 4y ago
I am pretty sure that your "mentor" would be still be the asshole in an office setting too!
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by nick__m 4y ago
>But if you have that environment, why would you be leaving? One possible reason would be: you want to do something else because you are bored (ex: you are tired of transforming baroque rules designed by bussines analysts into code) and
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by nick__m 4y ago
Internet-scale BGP is a nightmare, and it's a miracle that it works so well. But what makes BGP so nightmarish in a private enterprise network? As a software engineer who pivoted to infrastructure, I find that BGP is a lot better than
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by nick__m 4y ago
I am impressed by what's possible, thank you !
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by nick__m 4y ago
9.4 T is quite a strong magnetic field, as it is half the strength of the magnetic field used for plasma confinement in Tokamak Energy’s Demo4 facility. Scaling this technology for human-sized animals will likely be incredibly expensive, bu
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by nick__m 4y ago
Native Instruments Reaktor looks inspired by LabView.
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by nick__m 4y ago
If something is interesting enough to be bookmarked it is surely interesting enough to be upvoted !
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by nick__m 4y ago
A vaccine works by stimulating the immune system with a pathogen-like substance to produce a response that trains it. Ergo, if the immune system doesn't work, a vaccine is useless!
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by nick__m 4y ago
According to The Guardian wood produces more CO2 than other combustible per unit of heat¹. It also produces as much if not more soot than burning coal and a quantity of NOx and SOx comparable to the combustion of natural gaz.² It also produ
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by nick__m 4y ago
I use an ESP32-A1S board for that. I use this project https://github.com/pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools/ and the platformIO vscode plugins. Have a look at this example to see how easy using that library is : ht
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by nick__m 4y ago
Your post is almost correct but strep is Streptococcus Pyogenes, it is a gram positive bacteria and it is usually treated with PenVK.
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by nick__m 4y ago
1G$ = 1 000 000 000$
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by nick__m 4y ago
Elite institutions like MIT, Yale, Stanford, Princeton and Harvard do not need more donations. Look at the worth of theirs endowment funds at the end of 2021 : Harvard 53G$ Yale 42G$ Stanford 37.8G$ Princeton 37G$ MIT
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by nick__m 4y ago
I was a big Matrox fan, mostly because I knew someone there, and was able to upgrade their products at a significant discount. This was important for me as a teenager whose only source of income was power washing eighteen-wheelers and their
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by nick__m 4y ago
It was already know that the peptide fragment CCK-4 reliably causes sever panic panic attack when administered in doses of 50 μg. And CCK4 is fragment of an hormone produced by the duodenum. If the small intestine can trigger a panic attack
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by nick__m 4y ago
Transmeta tried that approach, but it wasn't enough of a competitive edge for it to prosper.
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by nick__m 4y ago
making a tubescreamer replicate is a great first PCB project !
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by nick__m 4y ago
a thé gafam : it use to taste really good but now it taste awfully bad, yet we cannot stop drinking it!
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by nick__m 4y ago
why completly ban the exterior lights when restricting the type, direction and power of the lights is enought to qualify for a region to be designated as a IDSR by the International Dark sky Association. For pratical exterior lighting tips
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by nick__m 4y ago
Your preferred model is the one in my CX5, I selected a lower trim level especially for those knobs! It also gave me a good reason to spend a weekend with my dad to sound proof the car and upgrade the audio.
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by nick__m 4y ago
you reminded me of some John lenon comment on ego death : I got the message that I should destroy my ego and I did, you know. I was reading that stupid book of Leary’s; we were going through a whole game that everybody went through, an
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by nick__m 4y ago
That new central console still looks designed with driving in mind: https://www.mazdausa.com/siteassets/vehicles/2023/cx-5/vlp/g...
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by nick__m 4y ago
here ChatGPT awnser to the prompt in quotes: Both 1 kilogram of nails and 1 kilogram of feathers weigh the same amount, which is 1 kilogram. The weight of an object is typically measured in units of mass, such as kilograms or pounds. In thi
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by nick__m 4y ago
The ESP32-A1S is a fun toy to program with that lib https://github.com/pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools on that cheap kit: https://docs.ai-thinker.com/en/esp32-audio-kit
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by nick__m 4y ago
Actually reading printed copies of those documents would be the penultimate busy works, so much that it would quickly become uberablingly alienating!
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by nick__m 4y ago
Sorry, I missread the Github annonce and incorrectly interpreted it.
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by nick__m 4y ago
It dosent goes against what you said but chatGPT is also usefull in nontechical domains I asked it if it could help with my anxiety regarding to my first therapy session it gave me an actionable 6 steps plan to help me reduce my anxiety by
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by nick__m 4y ago
I prefer that tool be adapted to be more resilient and not depend on github particular implementation.

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