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by pja 3y ago
23andme looks for specific single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) so it’s completely unsuitable for looking for this kind of DNA alteration that could be anywhere in the genome.
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by pja 3y ago
That is a fantastically weird temp / resistance chart. Would semi-conductor like properties result in something like this - thermal noise pushing electrons into the band gap?
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by pja 3y ago
Who’s taking it seriously? It’s fantastic armchair entertainment.
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by pja 3y ago
Every streaming device manufacturer does this. Roku demands a revenue cut if you want your app on Roku devices, last time I paid for something Amazon Video on my Apple TV Apple forced the transaction to go through Apple Pay and presumably t
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by pja 3y ago
Quality of sleep makes a huge difference to your mental faculties. If you could bottle it, the effect would be a multi, multi $billion drug.
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by pja 3y ago
LineageOS is great, but they can’t fix security holes in device firmware, which includes the graphics libraries which are available to every app. With LineageOS you get OS updates (great!) but are still vulnerable to exploits that target bi
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by pja 3y ago
It seems @zenhack maintained the Haskell bindings as well.
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by pja 3y ago
The metaphor doesn't work all well for tailpipe emissions, but the reality that cars externalise their impact is obviously true for things like congestion, the cost of road maintenance & so on.
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by pja 3y ago
In terms of per capita consumption China and Japan are nowhere near the biggest tea drinking cultures in the world: There's a wide gulf between them & the top three which includes the UK & Ireland. But they in turn trail in the
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by pja 3y ago
In the UK you can operate as a ltd company all you like, but it won’t make a jot of difference if HMRC decides that IR35 applies to your role. An “employer” can structure the contract to avoid IR35, but that’s precisely my point - now the “
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by pja 3y ago
Most European countries have laws that punch through a contractor relationship if it looks indistinguishable from an employee/employer one. So you need a legal judgement that your contract is written appropriately to avoid that It&#x27
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by pja 3y ago
I’m still getting adverts for Brennan thingies online, did they find a way around the court judgement?
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by pja 3y ago
Just post on r/cambridge and/or r/cambridge_uni reddit & ask if a current or ex-student or faculty member would be willing to request it from the stacks & make a copy. There’s bound to be someone who’ll drop in a requ
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by pja 3y ago
Stable Diffusion worked fine for me with Rocm & my RX580 (once I had compiled a custom torch library IIRC). But I don’t know whether it works with the more recent RDNA2 cards.
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by pja 3y ago
Personally I use the official Mozilla releases of firefox & thunderbird & drop them in /opt so that they get updated as soon as an update is released. Otherwise this is good advice.
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by pja 3y ago
The CD images should be downloadable towards the end of the day if previous releases are anything to go by. This HN post jumped the gun a little with the Debian Wiki page: the final official release happens when https://debian.or
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by pja 3y ago
I’d suggest testing over unstable as very occasionally broken packages get pushed to unstable. Testing has a week or two delay, which usually catches such problems.
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by pja 3y ago
There’s a reason that all the drinks containers that Apple showed in their videos on the Vison headset had closed lids and straws. You can’t easily drink out of an open topped container whilst wearing a headset, so without highlighting that
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by pja 3y ago
Depends on the angular resolution of the sensor as well.
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by pja 3y ago
> People argue that humans don't really use our stereoscopic depth past ~10m or so and that's a fair point. The second paper I reference in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=36232198 claims that
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by pja 3y ago
This paper suggests that human vision maintains stereopsis much further out than many researchers have thought: “Binocular depth discrimination and estimation beyond interaction space” https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.as
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by pja 3y ago
Only if that monitor was hooked up to a camera that could dynamically adjust its gain to achieve best possible image contrast in everything from bright sunlight to moonlit night. You’d also lose depth perception entirely, which can’t be goo
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by pja 3y ago
You are making a classic straw man argument of the form: ”I shall take the thing and crank it up to the max & insist that only instantaneous change happen to show how ludicrous that would be”. This is a wildly disingenuous argument! Inc
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by pja 3y ago
IIRC you can put it in B+W mode & it’ll refresh as fast as an ordinary B+W eInk screen. Refreshing colour seems to take much longer for some reason.
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by pja 3y ago
> Is a "boson star" even a confirmed physical construct? No. We don’t even have evidence of a candidate boson you could use to make one.
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by pja 3y ago
Yes: the same design decisions that make these vehicles very expensive to repair also makes them hard to fix at the manufacturing stage since any change inevitably affects every other part of the design. Something to think about when design
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by pja 3y ago
In the UK that would be an instant driving test failure. The moment a pedestrian puts their feet on the crossing they have absolute right of way & it’s on you to stop. If a pedestrian is waiting to cross, you’re expected to stop. If Tes
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by pja 3y ago
In the Netflix web interface there's a per profile setting to turn off that behaviour so you can watch the credits in peace.
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by pja 3y ago
It's a service that one person paid $40+billion for after being forced to follow through on the contract for purchase that he tried to back out of & discovered that he was legally committed to it. Nobody believes that Twitter is wo
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by pja 3y ago
> For historical architectural reasons you cannot currently have more than one user on a “personal” tailnet (such as a gmail.com account). You need either your own domain or a GitHub Organization. Sorry. We will fix this, but not today.

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