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by v8xi 3y ago
From FAQ: [Q] How long have users been exposed to this vulnerability? [A] At least nine years. The affected processors have been around since 2014. Amazing how these vulnerabilities sit around unnoticed for years and then it takes two w
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by v8xi 3y ago
this is called cold welding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding
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by v8xi 3y ago
Earlier this week I was reading about Hassan-i Sabbah and stumbled upon an interesting, relevant factoid. Hassan-i Sabbah's militant group was known for taking drugs (hashish) as well as the targeted murdering (assassinations) of key f
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Original Antigenic Sin(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by v8xi 3y ago|1 comments
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by v8xi 3y ago
That's the right approach. But, as the other commenter pointed out, there are a number of complications which mostly center on the inability to distinguish cancer from self. Many of the mutations that make cells cancerous are not expre
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by v8xi 3y ago
Before people get too ahead of themselves - the CAR-T (Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell) technology used here is super hot right now and works by reprogramming the immune cells (via genetically engineering a new recognition domain into them
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by v8xi 3y ago
Just posting a few of my favorite accounts for following updates on the Russia Ukraine war: https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki https://twitter.com/wartranslated https://twitter.com/Tendar htt
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by v8xi 3y ago
One of my first thoughts when GPT-3 came out was that the value of "curated gardens" of quality data (wikipedia, SO) is going to become immensely more valuable because of this problem. If you pollute the source of training data it
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by v8xi 3y ago
I don't think you understand how the 99% live
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by v8xi 3y ago
I'm no expert, but probably because coding on Windows is a PITA, consumer Linux is unreliable (relying almost entirely on open-source - a great thing but doesn't have the same driving force), and Mac runs a Unix operating system.
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by v8xi 3y ago
If companies try to hash the direct and referral link into a single link (or use a redirect link). Apple could visit the site internally, return the actual, tracking-free webpage, and forward that to the user. This would mean the referral l
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Wild Weasel(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by v8xi 3y ago|0 comments
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by v8xi 3y ago
DuckDuckGo Browser gives you a "~".
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by v8xi 3y ago
More like James Crowmer
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by v8xi 3y ago
Reminds me of this article which talks about how the introduction of the 'western' diet corresponded with a systemic deterioration of societal health: https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/06/04/the-mode
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by v8xi 3y ago
If your definition of food extends to everything, then yes. In all of these products (and lab grown meat) you take low-value starter materials and make them food through microbial processes. Without yeast we wouldn't really be eating w
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by v8xi 3y ago
You could blame him for not changing the culture, but Google has a long history of killing off new products that precedes 2015
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by v8xi 4y ago
Protillion Biosciences | protillion.com/careers | San Diego, CA | Full time onsite Having just raised an $18M Series A led by ARCH Venture Capital and Illumina Ventures, we are changing how antibody-like drugs are discovered and engine
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by v8xi 4y ago
I remember reading how MS Word formatting is such an utter PITA because of required backward compatibility going back to the first version(s) that were just done terribly. I wonder if it might be this way in all their apps
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by v8xi 4y ago
One thing to keep in mind with melatonin supplementation is that the doses are like 10x++ higher than what is ideal. An informative read on it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...
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by v8xi 4y ago
I've heard that certain people will use lucid dreaming to solve problems. Basically ask themselves to come up with solutions to things they are working on. Salvador Dali (and other famous people using similar methods) apparently used t
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by v8xi 4y ago
Except you forget that when democracy was first unveiled only white, land-owning males could vote because they supposed that they were educated and self-interested enough to make good decisions. The founding fathers were well-known to not t
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by v8xi 4y ago
This really does not sound like you're familiar with the necessity of regulation at all. Yes an individual should be media literate, just as corporations SHOULD practice fair competition and people should not invest their life savings
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by v8xi 4y ago
Would love it, too. But at this stage locking it up behind a corporate paywall is probably better IMO - at least until governments around the world are prepared to address a tsunami of misinformation, fraud, and abuse that these systems ena
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by v8xi 4y ago
Finally! I use pandas all the time particularly for handling strings (dna/aa sequences), and tuples (often nested). Some of the most annoying bugs I encounter in my code are a result of random dtype changes in pandas. Things like it au
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by v8xi 4y ago
Living in the Bay Area, I adore the tall grasses growing on the eastern foothills - you get a nice close-up taking e.g. I-680 to Livermore - and would love to replace much of my yard with the native grasses, but I don't even know where
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by v8xi 4y ago
That's what they seem to hint at in the final sentence. > "Suggesting to the study authors that city life in Milan has provided a stable environment for thousands of years" This does throw a wrench in prevailing thought th
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by v8xi 4y ago
For $19 you might be able to get the elastic band, but this is Apple we're talking about...
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by v8xi 4y ago
Insulin being a protein (which all look ~similar spectroscopically), it is not possible to measure in a no-prick format as you need physical access to it for separation/measurement (e.g. via antibody-like molecule or activity assay)
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by v8xi 4y ago
add sweat ion concentration(s) to the list!

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