vallismortis

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by vallismortis 1y ago
It was centered half a mile from Berkeley Lab at 2:56am, on the Hayward Fault. Knocked out the elevators in my building and one other building, but other than that no obvious issues. We've been told to be on alert for anything that loo
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by vallismortis 2y ago
For what it's worth, there was an earlier "Cyber Cafe" just off the campus of Michigan State University in the early to mid-90s called Emerald City Cafe. They had 128k ISDN connections to MichNet/Merit by 1994 (when I st
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by vallismortis 2y ago
Do they have any 2003 Explorer Sport Tracs down there? Because they have the only 1L2Z-3551729-AAPTM parts remaining in existence that haven't been destroyed by sun damage. It would save me a lot of time on this project: https:/&
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by vallismortis 2y ago
I love XSL. There are some problems that it is absolutely stellar at solving. NCBI recently changed their JATS schema. No need to change any code, just modify the stylesheet and everything hums along as if nothing changed.
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by vallismortis 3y ago
Nevada, seriously. This is an 'electronic craps table' where the House controls _literally_ all aspects of the game, and the players are being prosecuted for 'playing wrong.'
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by vallismortis 3y ago
Twenty years ago, I moved from Michigan (a state that uses fluoride) to Mississippi (a state that doesn't use fluoride). My dentist at the time told me that I was going to end up with tooth decay if I stayed down there for more than a
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by vallismortis 5y ago
This is exactly the conversation the wealthy want us to have. A buddy of mine left a job recently. He worked in IT security for a plastics company that you would all recognize. In his last month, he had a meeting with one of the VP's,
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Every encounter with AT&T has felt like a scam to me. I tried a mobile hotspot two years ago on a 14 day free trial. One bar of signal, so I returned it the same day I received it. It took them 14 days to "process" the return,
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by vallismortis 7y ago
I've never seen the Wright brothers beaten up like this. One brother died trying to improve their invention, and the other died in extreme poverty in a small apartment after suffering from a car accident for years. He had received tons
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by vallismortis 7y ago
I've had really good experiences with Better World Books. However, I do wonder how they source some of their stock. I've bought several books from them that have historical value and never should have left the Smithsonian.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Wow, ageist much? My wind model is F77.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Ok, you're crazy. The GPL licensing issues alone would be a nightmare for them, and possibly unsolvable from their business perspective.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Welcome Manna. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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by vallismortis 7y ago
I'm still not - um - disabling, ah, hyperthreading, because, I'm paying for, ah, 4 cores on a 2 core ah, processor.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
A lot of produce is already molding by the time it gets to the shelves, it just isn't visible to the consumer. I would love to see that problem fixed.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
That won't fix the problem. The NHC uses an ocean model, but the transition across Florida requires the application of a hybrid land/water model, which results in a large divergence when the results of the different models are com
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Two great examples are the goo.gl URL shortener and the custom site search widget. These two services actively break parts of the internet when they stop working.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
I once received a book in the mail that contained about half a dozen live scorpions in it. The environment isn't as hostile as you might think.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
I have a library of old (1870's-1930's) books on bacterial and fungal taxonomy, and I'm cautious not to breathe too deeply when I handle some of them. Many of these may have been used in non-sterile microbiology labs, likely
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by vallismortis 7y ago
One step further (multi-layer Manhattan distance) will also get you optimal DNA, RNA and protein sequence alignment (Myers, Gotoh and others, 1977-1981). The edit path (often discarded) can be repurposed for simulating RNA and protein foldi
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by vallismortis 7y ago
It has been a part of every budget proposal since 2017. It was only removed from the FY2020 list this past March as part of a deal to get the budget passed: https://lahood.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/laho
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by vallismortis 7y ago
https://www.pjstar.com/news/20170523/trump-budget-calls-for-...
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Maybe publicizing these outages is the main reason the post-mortems are made available.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
I find the post-mortems helpful. I don't want to make the same mistakes with my infrastructure, and it gives me something to reference when, for instance, the upper management decides they want to migrate to one of these services.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
This works for eBooks too: k2pdfopt $* -dev kpw -mode fw -wrap -hy -ws 0.375 -ls-
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Fair point, I deleted the sentence.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
This collection has been in place since before World War II. As soon as the freezers are unplugged, there is no going back.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Surveys, yes, but also corroborated by interagency reports, many of which are behind schedule do to a prolonged federal shutdown in December 2018 and January 2019. Some offices have been behind schedule on reporting since returning to work
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by vallismortis 7y ago
I was going to cite the USDA as my primary example. I have been hearing a lot of this from ARS, FSA and NRRL, and although their specific problems are different there is a definitely a common theme. The USDA NRRL type culture collection is
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by vallismortis 7y ago
The top level of US federal agencies has been a skeleton crew since 2017. Much of the reported data was supposed to have been provided by agencies which have been hamstrung due to a lack of leadership in appointed positions. Whether intenti

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