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by perlgeek 5y ago
> AFAIK it'd take a monumental effort to wipe out a species this way Which is why I suspect this is an early-stage experiment, with the far goal being a gene drive that can locally wipe out a species more efficiently.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
the problem with an approach like this is that it doesn't offer any evolutionary advantage, and so the gene will be lost after a few generations.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
After the 100th clone of the million dollar home page, I would have dismissed the web, if there hadn't been also been hundreds of good/useful/entertaining websites around at that point.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Spotify has to do something against things like this, or else they risk losing their music suppliers. Which is way worse for than losing 0.001% of their customers. (I don't like that it is this way, but you cannot argue from an econo
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by perlgeek 5y ago
I haven't read the whole thing yet, and I'm not really a battery expert, but a battery needs to check really many boxes to be viable in a commercial product. Among these are: ability to mass produce, resistance to mechanical stres
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by perlgeek 5y ago
> I have to wonder what economic chance new battery types have given the massive investment in current tech. Current tech tends to improve at a steady pace. Taking a new tech to production takes some years (somewhere in the 5 to 20 year
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Sure, see https://gist.github.com/moritz/ea14aa095b3bd2e72a5667421808b...
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Lots of small little scripts lying around in bin/, some of them for extracting information or downloading stuff from certain websites, some for small admin tasks. Possibly the most useful for others is a small wrapper around pdftk that
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by perlgeek 5y ago
If you keep it airtight, the crust will dampen from the moisture that comes from the inside. Which storing bread that has a crust worth preserving, I tend to make sure it gets a little air (covering it with linen cloths, for example), and a
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by perlgeek 5y ago
> Mixing: Artisan bread is mixed by hand. Do you really mean mixing, or rather kneading? Kneading bread is very hard work; occasionally I do it for a single loaf, but it really doesn't scale above 1 or 2 loaves. Even artisinal baker
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by perlgeek 5y ago
It doesn't really matter which CA signs a certificate, as long as that CA is in the trust root of all major browsers and other clients. Which is the case for google's CA.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
So, let me get this straight: * It's been deleted for a week already, they estimate they might need two more weeks. Three in total. * They claim to have "extensive backups", and hundreds of engineers working on it. What? How?
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Speculation ahead: It didn't just check if a certificate is valid now , but whether the certificate, intermediary, CA (or anything in the chain) is about to expire soon. It might have needed to poke deeper into OpenSSL than regular us
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by perlgeek 5y ago
I can't help but add my favorite Tom Lehrer quote: "It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Wow, asking institutional investors to hand over some cash to cover the cost of bad security -- that's ballsy.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Usually (but not always) a single, huge file points towards missing structure, missing abstractions, missing boundaries that aid with understanding. If it were a huge, single file, with very understandable modularity within that file, likel
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Video compression uses lossy compression, this one is lossless.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
One was a minimally-invasive surgery that removes old pace maker cables attached to the heart. The alternative would have been to cut up the sternum for a regular open heart surgery. Which is both more taxing on the circulatory system, and
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by perlgeek 5y ago
My impression of the medical system (both here in Germany, and through reports from the US) is that it's very much like everything else: much is crap, much is mediocre, some good, and a very small, excellent sliver. This goes for docto
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by perlgeek 5y ago
> Could end my career. Very unlikely. Stick to good practices. If you are asked to do something that's bad for security, raise your objections in written form (email/tickets). Security isn't only your responsibility; it&#x
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by perlgeek 5y ago
One thing we see over and over again leading to social injustice is the externalization of costs. Examples: * burning fossil fuels externalizes the cost of dealing with climate change * during the housing market crash of 2007, lots of risks
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by perlgeek 5y ago
What's up with all that pointing? Is that supposed to mean anything?
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Use it for marketing. "Even our close competitors use our service!"
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Nice, a language written a pretty obscure language (V) and using a pretty obscure build tool (z). I have a fondness for people using unusual tools for their hobby projects. POSIX shell is a good compilation target if you want to write a non
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Not to mention that reproduction rates both in Russia and in the Ukraine are below replacement levels, so they'll have more land for a shrinking population.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
I'm pretty sure this is illegal under GDPR (it violates the principle of using the least personal information possible).
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by perlgeek 5y ago
I commit often, push to branches until I'm satisfied, and for smaller branches often do squash-merges so all of the mess doesn't show up in the history. Also, I too used "foo" and "bar" as variable names, but s
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by perlgeek 5y ago
Just the other day I learned that my employer is planning the same in Germany (though much smaller scale): https://www.noris.de/wp-content/uploads/NRS1PI817_Rechenzent... (PDF, German).
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by perlgeek 5y ago
https://archive.ph/tvKzW since the original URL doesn't load right now.
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by perlgeek 5y ago
The case against induction cooking: Somebody in my family has a cardic pacemaker. Edit to add: I'm not pro gas cooking, just cannot use induction cooking. It's just not an option accessible to everyone.

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