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by snitty 3y ago
>The main reason I've switched to Linux was because it was an operating system that was so transparent, so (relatively) simple to debug and experiment with… >However, [Free/Open BSD] have shortcomings of their own, mainly be
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by snitty 3y ago
Compressive maintenance rather than percussive.
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by snitty 3y ago
Years ago I heard some random guy talking about how he wanted to skydive with a paintball gun and shoot at the ground as he was in free fall and my first thought was, "I bet he could end up getting hit by his own paintballs." I di
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by snitty 3y ago
>If scientists are going to complain that's its too hard or too expensive to replicate their studies, then that just shows their work is BS. 1 mg of anti-rabbit antibody (a common thing to use in a lot of biology experiments) is $22
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>and applications (like levitating a train) require too many amps for our poor wire to remain a special wire. (Most super conductive materials lose conductivity when amps are too high). I was wondering if there was a current limit on sup
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by snitty 3y ago
YBCO superconducts as high as about 93K, so we're talking 17K difference. Which is useful but not wildly so. LN2 boils at 77K, for reference.
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by snitty 3y ago
There's a wild book from 2006 called Overdose (by Richard Epstein), that makes a more or less libertarian argument for deregulation of the drug industry. What the book misses is that before the FDA and the Pure Food and Drug Act is tha
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by snitty 3y ago
Ooooh, I'd forgotten about that one. Thanks!
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by snitty 3y ago
I just open a file stream and write the hex straight to the storage device. Anything else is cheating.
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by snitty 3y ago
I learned Forth when it was the only language that had an interpreter than ran on PalmOS. So you could write and execute it on your PalmPilot while you were bored in class in the 90s.
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by snitty 3y ago
6-7 year is not at all unusual in the sciences, at least in biological sciences. 7.5 is _very slightly_ longer than usual.
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by snitty 3y ago
I cannot unzip the download on a Mac…
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by snitty 3y ago
And like 90% of E. coli genome is protein coding. I intentionally wasn't limiting it to humans because humans make up a very small portion of total DNA in the world.
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by snitty 3y ago
I learned C++ in the late 90s and didn't touch it until recently and all the new stuff basically melted my brain. It feels like a different language now.
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Can you elaborate on that? A significant portion of DNA in organisms literally encodes for protein sequences. It also has functional parts (binding sites for proteins, promoter sequences). Some RNAs are not translated because the RNA itself
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by snitty 3y ago
RISC-V is already gaining steam in embedded systems. Apple, for one, is replacing some embedded ARM cores in their products with RISC-V cores. As others have pointed out, we've got SBCs aplenty, and the first laptop systems are coming
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by snitty 3y ago
That makes sense. I initially read it as "absolute value." Which, admittedly, doesn't make sense for an array, but is a reasonable interpretation at first blush.
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by snitty 3y ago
>function Gcd(a:nat, b:nat) : (g:nat,x:int,y:int)) I hope this is a typo. Otherwise it…requires an unmatched close paren? That's a new level of cursed syntax. EDIT: Also, is |array| a common way to get the length of an array in lang
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by snitty 3y ago
DSL == Domain Specific Language?
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by snitty 3y ago
>They're paid to solve problems in lawspace, not in the real world. Crime, family law, wills, industrial espionage, bankruptcy, insurance disputes, personal injury… Shame there aren't any lawyers who help folks out with the rea
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by snitty 3y ago
Lots of firms (usually bigger ones) use version control internally. But it can be a mess to try to get two or more firms, their clients, etc., all to use version control, let alone the same system. Pretty much everyone uses track changes in
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by snitty 3y ago
Didn't expect the RaspberryPi YouTube guy…
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by snitty 3y ago
Remarkably few people whine about the use of VW branded parts that are used in VWs, that also show up in Audis, Porsches, Lamborghinis, and Ducatis. (Mostly because it lets them buy replacement parts at a fraction of the price than if they&
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by snitty 3y ago
To the best of my knowledge that hasn't been tried. Among other things, fatal crashes typically occur at speeds over 2x those of car crashes. There's no meaningful ability to emergency brake before a crash, and many small airplane
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by snitty 3y ago
Lordy this is dumb. There's been exactly one recorded instance of a lawyer using ChatGPT in a brief and not checking it. This isn't a meaningful problem.
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by snitty 3y ago
One thing that nicely threads the needle between "he's just a witness in the AG" and "he was sued by amazon in a separate matter," is if he lives in a state other than California, and Amazon had to file a special ma
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by snitty 3y ago
>It's much easier to build highly efficient hydrocarbon power stations - typical efficiencies range from 40-60%. Just to expound on this. Power stations turn fuel to heat, and heat to electricity via steam turbines. In ICE cars, tha