AstroDogCatcher

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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Yes. First experienced TMJ pain as a teenager and almost overdosed on painkillers while trying to get rid of it at 3AM. Still recurrs about 2-3 times per year, but I've now learned to feel it coming on much earlier and start loading up
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Thanks - fascinating stuff. I'm now even more convinced I want to give it a try, but I think I'll play around with public data and tutorials before leaping into home sequencing.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Interested outsider here; I work with a lot of HCLS research customers but don't have a biology-related background. Can you explain the problems with the Nanopore sequencer accuracy in more detail? Basically, I was wondering if I could
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Exactly the same situation in the UK - snow is common but rarely persistent enough to justify the infrastructure investment to deal with it. Also, having an excuse to combine moaning about the weather with moaning about our inept government
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
As a recent Mac adopter after spending 10 years as a Linux user, Homebrew is exactly what I need it to be. Linux OS package managers are, almost by necessity, full of outdated packages which are not the versions I want to use for day-to-day
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
In a cloud setting, I guess having user /home dirs on separate volumes from the root disk and having them relocatable is a reasonable analogue. The real issue is that much like the pen drive thing, absolutely no-one actually does this.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
The key difference is that one of these things has the backing and approval of recognized governments who also control law enforcement, while the other is just some guys on the internet. I'm not so sure "finding a pre-existing bit
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Suggesting the explanation provided is insufficiently clear, no?
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Julia has some nice ideas but it is time for a do-over as a fully open language (ie without the commercial backer actively upselling in their mailing list), and with the "time to first plot" and package management problems address
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
The latter - the results are astoundingly bad. You should remove that demo ASAP.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I just tried the demo sketch thing on the Gradio site and it wasn't able to correctly interpret a single digit I tried, even after 6 or 7 attempts with different values. Serious question - is this a spoof site? I find it hard to believ
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
At this point I think if you desperately need MS Office, MacOS is the way to go. I will never buy a Windows machine again, and being forced to use it in a work setting would be a deal-breaker. Fortunately at this point even MS isn't st
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Perhaps we should put computers inside each businesses location, to minimize the blast radius of any specific outage and make people take responsibility for their own stack.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I am mildly opposed to technology advocacy actually, but that is besides the point. Dev advocates are paid to market software and tools, and everyone knows their inherent bias and can factor it in when assessing their claims. When someone i
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I understood you perfectly; I simply don't agree. Your model for decision-making bears no resemblance to reality at Amazon or anywhere else.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
This is nothing to do with one-way/two-way door decisions, you are conflating that concept with an understanding of "unintended consequences" in order to take a cheap shot at Amazon. Ordinarily I'd enjoy that as much as
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I am mostly indifferent to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, but strongly opposed to people shilling for them. I see no evidence thus far for bitcoin being anything other than a vehicle for speculation; just one more form of gambling
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Bitcoin being legal tender in certain places seems like more of a negative indicator on those countries, rather than a positive indicator for bitcoin.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I'm a regular employee but at a professional services org - you basically described how I generate my timesheets. The main difference is that at the end of the day I try to just stop when I have "enough" hours, since I don&#x
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
For some customers, I imagine this will start off as an emotionally-driven request...until they see the price.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
The Julia crowd really need to hang less value on the REPL - people writing serious production code don't use one, and scientists using Python have moved on to notebooks. At this point, having Julia be so focused on the REPL is a weird
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I'd flip that meme slightly; it is true that scientists write shitty code...but it turns out computer scientists do exactly the same, and with less humility.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
100% agree. Getting an M1 Mac has solidified this feeling for me too; I still want to be a Linux desktop user on philosophical grounds and will never go back to Windows, but as I age I have rapidly lost interest in tinkering and now want it
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Feels like this exists mostly as a prop for immature CS students to "impress" people with.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
If compliance is an issue, I doubt whether there is such a thing as a "suitable substitute". Certainly none of the commercial applications I interact with accepted CentOS as an alternative to RHEL, so they certainly won't all
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
> If you want to make Ubuntu as nice as MacOS I think you need a private company willing to spend money and time in a concerted effort to get it to that point, which IMO won't happen. Canonical employees would like a word with you.
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I've never met two people I'd describe as equally competent across the board, so it seems like an irrelevant exercise. We have also not touched on what personal growth and emotional maturity a person can gain in a few months away
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
I don't really disagree with your point, but personal experience tells me that inherent competence and motivation have far more impact on the value an employee can deliver than raw experience (on the timescales of weeks or months, whic
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
Evidence from the other half of the population suggests they are correct. Mandatory leave is probably going to be deemed too heavy handed, but much more non-transferable use-it-or-lose-it time off should be available so that people feel inc
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by AstroDogCatcher 5y ago
+1 to this; also an AWS employee, also use other VPS providers for personal projects (Hetzner and Vultr). Don't need the full breadth of AWS services to tinker with Caddy and Tailscale, but more than that I simply follow the practice o

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