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See Ian McGilchrist’s 2009 book The Master and His Emissary : > McGilchrist digests study after study, replacing the popular and superficial notion of the hemispheres as respectively logical and creative in nature with the idea that the
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That’s interesting and makes sense. SAP introduced HANA NLS (nearline storage) based on Sybase IQ to address your use case (I think). HANA HTAP is in-memory while IQ works with shared storage clusters so it’s ideal for offloading massive am
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SQLite is ubiquitous as an embedded database in client-side apps, especially iOS and Android. This ubiquity and simplicity make it a viable alternative to PostgreSQL during development. This is why all popular ORM/QueryBuilder framewor
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Traditionally, many OLTP operational databases are connected via ETL to an OLAP data warehouse; they are not mutually exclusive. PingCap is the company behind TiDB, an HTAP NewSQL engine that competes with CockroachDB and YugabyteDB; the OP
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I found this defense of Myers Briggs Type Index (MBTI) against the Big Five [1] OCEAN personality traits helpful. Neuroticism is a useful measure but has negative connotations that requires self-disclosure and, therefore, less likely to be
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Naming things is hard. My purpose was to emphasize the need to juggle the two definitions when assessing the article. We need a better word for the deployable unit of code that the OP calls a “module".
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I’m ok with the language used. It’s more of a theme throughout the article that I’m concerned about. Palm oil in cow feed can impact the dairy industry and it can impact the properties of the product; I want to understand both types of impa
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> Adding palm oil-based energy supplements to cow feed is a decades-old practice said to increase the milk output of cows and increase the milk's fat content. > Little research has been done on the true impact of palm oil in dair
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> IMO this is a confused take on modularity. You are restricting the scope of what we call a “module” to language runtime modules while the OP has expanded the scope to include things like network tiers and processes with an IPC interfac
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TL;DR: during lucid REM sleep, patients with extra EEG probes around the eye socket can make detectable left to right eye movements that can be repeated to communicate numerical values (e.g. 2) in response to verbal questions like “eight mi
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I suspect that viral shedding reinfection with mild symptoms or total absence of symptoms is responsible for “silent super spreaders”. Recovered or vaccinated individuals will need to be extra vigilant. This is really the time for near-dail
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> I want to respond to four main negative claims in the article > 1. The article tries to connect me to Charles Murray and The Bell Curve > 2. In their litany of reasons I am bad, the Times says I compared some feminists to Voldemo
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Everything Is Buggy is the 4th instalment of Steven Sinofsky's [1] serialized book Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution [2]: > Hardcore Software is a first-person account of what I saw at the PC revol
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I suspect macOS Virtualization [1] will be addressed with software updates rather than new silicon. Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) transitions incur tradeoffs and the mobile-like SoC architecture of the M1 has to make hard decisions abo
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The NYTimes precipitated the Slate Star Codex controversy [1]: > Slate Star Codex was launched in 2013, and was taken down by its author on June 23, 2020, due to fears of having his full name published in an upcoming piece by the New Yor
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The Feb 07 flood in India [1] was first thought to be a burst glacial lake but: > Other reports have suggested that satellite images imply that a landslide may have triggered the events... In satellite images, a 0.5 mi (0.80 km) scar is
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> My philosophy isn't to wait for /better/ hardware, so much as to wait for /tested/ hardware. The M1 is essentially what would have been the A14X for the iPad. I don’t consider it first-gen technology. macOS for
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This Atlas Obscura article asks: > How did this medieval civilization thrive in an environment that would be challenging for us even today? Speaking of the 9th-15th century Khmer Empire [1] in Southeast Asia. > The answer, say archaeo
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My key takeaway is that the ratio of saturated:unsaturated fat in the diet does control the concentration of serum cholesterol but any ratio between 1:0 and 0:1 (provided you get enough essential fats) is perfectly normal and does not impac
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You can do it at home with a standard blood pressure monitor with an arm (brachial) cuff but not a wrist one. Ask your GP.
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PROBLEM #1: High saturated fat diet correlated to high serum cholesterol ANSWER #1: Serum cholesterol is transferred back-and-forth between the blood and cell membranes to maintain a constant cell rigidity; normal behavior PROBLEM #2: High
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The elephant in the room is that AWS Babelfish could be a viable alternative to PostgreSQL. Babelfish is currently a fork of PostgreSQL that is compatible with Microsoft SQL Server’s TDS wire protocol and T-SQL language. The article propose
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The paper details the limited dispersion characteristics of this species. I don’t think that many evolutionary biologists are aware of the pelagic larval stage of many, but not all, reef fish. It has interesting implications such as finding
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> It follows British media regulator Ofcom revoking state broadcaster China Global Television Network's (CGTN) licence to broadcast in the UK. > The commercially-funded BBC World News TV channel broadcasts globally in English. In
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Wintel vs. MacArm: Intel throwing its marketing might against Apple indicates a fear of an exodus from Wintel. Remote work has increased demand for laptops during the pandemic. We may have entered a phase similar to automobiles where brand
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The paper Genetic relatedness in social groups of the emerald coral goby Paragobiodon xanthosoma creates potential for weak kin selection [1]: > We found that estimated pairwise relatedness among individuals within groups was significa
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Bill Joy [1]: > an American computer engineer and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003.
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> In 1956, MIT electrical engineer Dudley Buck published a description of a superconducting computer switch called the cryotron. The device was little more than two superconducting wires: One was straight, and the other was coiled around
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The paper SARS-CoV-2 infection is effectively treated and prevented by EIDD-2801 [1] comes out of Ralph Baric's lab: > Here we used a single experimental platform based on human lung-only mice (LoM) to demonstrate efficient in viv
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TWiV #715 @3m14s [1] discusses the paper Hydroxychloroquine-mediated inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 entry is attenuated by TMPRSS2 [2], including the wonderful Figure 1. TL;DR: Hydroxychloroquine worked in the lab with cells that have ACE2 but

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