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by ackfoo 9y ago
Pre-publication press release. Full text of article not available. How good was their control group? The press release says they used mice that had previously been edited with CRISPR/Cas9 and found off-target mutations, most of which w
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by ackfoo 9y ago
Treat data as data. Taking the Subrip format as an example, everything starts out fine so long as there is good bounds checking on the purely textual data. Then, however, some dipshit decides to extend the format by adding tags for things l
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by ackfoo 9y ago
It happened to me about a hundred times during the course of reading that article on an iPad with latest IOS. Very difficult to make it to the end. My guess is bloated active content in support of advertising.
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by ackfoo 10y ago
Why not? Mainly because it isn't finished and has a culture of not explaining anything. When man pages start with a few practical real-world examples, I'll think about it. When some of the more experienced Linux devs figure out a
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by ackfoo 10y ago
What an odd reply. I have placed airways in helicopters and Piper twin-engine aircraft that were serving as air ambulances. Those are far more cramped than a commercial airliner. Control of the airway can make all the difference when things
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by ackfoo 10y ago
What you need to understand about this study is that radiation poses a particular risk to structural tissues. A structural tissue is anything where function is dictated by form, such as the cardiovascular system or the nervous system (whose
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by ackfoo 10y ago
I used to love to go out at night with my 10" reflector and see a point of light magnified to... a point of light. For variety, I would look at binary stars to see... two points of light. Sometimes, I would search for nebulae and galax
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by ackfoo 11y ago
Idiotic article. The value of a stethoscope comes not from the low-tech, lo-fi sounds that it picks up, but from the enormous knowledge base built up over hundreds of years and billions of examinations that allows a doctor to diagnose, say,
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by ackfoo 11y ago
Hatches with ladders down to the ground? Great way to increase cost and diminish reliability exponentially. Let's put a failure point every [n] meters. Notwithstanding, this is a distraction from the biggest problem, which is that a de
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by ackfoo 11y ago
I found a USB Cellular data adapter in the trash and plugged it in to my MacBook Pro, which instantly shut down. Rebooted, and the USB port did not work. Shut it down and left it for half an hour, and, yay, all working again. Disassembled t
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by ackfoo 11y ago
The disordered thinking of schizophrenia invariably reflects the cultural biases of the individual. Pruning, if that is a cause, must affect the filter that allows most of us to reject the thousand crazy ideas that pop into our heads each d
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by ackfoo 11y ago
In the beginning, there was nothing. But it was a very active kind of nothing that, because of the Uncertainty Principle, allowed bits of energy to be borrowed from nothing, leaving behind holes as a sort of IOU. The likelihood of a virtual
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by ackfoo 11y ago
It would be so helpful if the author would make a simple statement at the beginning of the video about what this does and why it is useful. Over ten minutes into the video, we have no idea. Read the project description on Github, still no i
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by ackfoo 11y ago
Southeastern Brazil sits most directly under the SAA, which increases background levels of ionizing radiation for those in the geographic area. If there existed a map of these Li-Fraumeni variant cases, which it seems there does not, it wou
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by ackfoo 11y ago
"four exhibited some degree of cerebral amyloid angiography" Wow. Neural tissue spontaneously developing its own angiography. Amazing. This is why reading a news article about a scientific paper will give you Alzheimer's, or
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by ackfoo 12y ago
The problem with speed limits is that people think they are a license to go that speed, or a little faster, regardless of the conditions. Americans are nearly universally useless at slowing down for things like ice, heavy rain and fog. They
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by ackfoo 12y ago
While it is impossible to reduce chaotic systems to individual factors, and it is likewise impossible to predict the effect of an individual factor upon the system as a whole, it is certainly possible for one factor with a global effect to
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by ackfoo 12y ago
Anyone who has lived off the grid understands that an inverter is the least efficient solution to the problem of running consumer devices from a DC source. We laugh at the newbies running an inverter to supply a laptop PS that takes AC righ
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by ackfoo 12y ago
Tested just now between an iPad3 and an iPhone5. Breathtakingly unusable and flaky as hell. Requires you to pick a bunch of chat categories at startup, which is ridiculous if you only want to use it in nearby mode. Could not see the other d
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by ackfoo 13y ago
Yes, but that boundary is rather arbitrary. Humans require a pressure suit above the Armstrong Limit at around 19,000 metres, so by a more meaningful definition of space as "a place where you need a space suit", this trip qualifie
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by ackfoo 13y ago
I recently spent four days in hospital on IV fluids after a bad restaurant meal. Here's what I learned. 1) Most restaurants are primarily in business to make money, not to provide high-quality healthy food. 2) Much of the food served i
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by ackfoo 13y ago
What on Earth would I do with an armored personnel carrier?
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by ackfoo 13y ago
Pure damage control. Steve Jobs had a brain and a backbone to go with it. Not sure the current crop do. I hope they find someone with vision and an expiry date to inoculate Apple against the stupidity of business people.
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by ackfoo 13y ago
Money has no country.
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by ackfoo 13y ago
The real problem here is a technical one: Apple needs to be more vigorous about refusing to register app names to other vendors that are too similar to existing names. That would solve 80% of this. I came up with an app name and registered
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by ackfoo 13y ago
People have largely missed the salient points of Elon's proposal: 1) If America cannot understand the potential and purpose of innovative technology, it is doomed to slide into socio-economic, scientific, and technological poverty. The
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by ackfoo 13y ago
Nice for prototyping, but it needs a button to generate the native code. That would be truly useful.
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by ackfoo 13y ago
Get out. Forget your business; you can make a new one somewhere else. Any life elsewhere is better than a life in a country filled with morons who believe an obvious lie like Islam and order their lives by it. When you get out, dedicate you
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by ackfoo 13y ago
Manufacturing was outsourced to China starting in the 1990s, resulting in a flood of cheap consumer goods. Inexpensive labour means artificially low prices, which means in turn that most consumer goods are not worth repairing because the co
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by ackfoo 13y ago
Get a better name, dood. Also, try writing something other than dogfood, meaning some elaboration of software for an established, crowded market of which you have no specialized knowledge or expertise. 'Course, that would require you t

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