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by etaoins 5y ago
Genomes are sequenced when they're both accessible and are of scientific/economic interest. This results in an overrepresentation of: - Humans and their pathogens - Economically important organisms (e.g. crops and farm animals) an
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by etaoins 5y ago
Right, the furin cleavage site seems to have occurred independently in SARS-CoV-2 or one of its undiscovered close relatives.
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by etaoins 5y ago
That’s still incorrect. MERS is a Betacoronavirus and has a furin cleavage site: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/111/42/15214.full.pdf Furin clevage sites haven’t been found elsewhere in SARS-Cov-2’s S
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by etaoins 5y ago
Using the number of BLAST hits as the basis of an argument is about as reliable as using the number of results when searching for a string on GitHub. Without further analysis of the specific sequence and its biological context it can be hig
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by etaoins 5y ago
That’s not correct, furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...
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by etaoins 5y ago
Nuclear weapons do not have situational awareness. They’re intended to be used as part of a larger deployment system with a human in the loop. There’s no threat model for them that includes self-arming when mysterious aircraft approach thei
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by etaoins 6y ago
Existing Intel software (with potentially broken version checks) will work on ARM Macs under emulation. Once they rebuild with the new SDK they'll get the receive the correct version.
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by etaoins 7y ago
That converts miles to approximate hectometres.
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by etaoins 7y ago
The T2 chip is a derivative of the A10. It has similar power requirements to the SOC in modern iPhones. They could probably use a cut down derivative of the W2 chip used in AirPods with the audio codec etc. removed. I’m guessing phone batte
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by etaoins 7y ago
The way I’ve approached it in my compiler [1] is that garbage collection can never occur while Lisp/RFI (Rust function interface) code is executing. Once the program returns to the event loop GC can occur with a small number of known r
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by etaoins 7y ago
You’re not parsing XML at that point. You’re parsing a text based data format that looks superficially like XML. This can work if you strictly control the encoder but it’s not generally interoperable.
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by etaoins 7y ago
The flip side of time dilation is Lorentz contraction. As you approach the speed of light objects in your direction of motion will become shortened from your frame of reference. For example, there are particles from cosmic rays that should
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by etaoins 8y ago
This is a concern but it usually works for two reasons: 1. Most firmware is sufficiently broken that Linux drivers are already hardened against devices being brought up in arbitrary states. 2. kexec walks the device tree to shut down all de
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by etaoins 8y ago
iOS 11 removed support for 32bit applications. Because the iPhone X requires iOS 11 I’m not aware of any way to run 32bit code on A11 processors and above. A32 support is likely already gone at the hardware level.
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by etaoins 8y ago
There is Barycentric Coordinate Time which is the time from a hypothetical clock at rest at the centre of mass of the Solar System. This is easier to calculate across spacecraft than an Earth-centric time would be. However, because it'
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by etaoins 8y ago
Presumably this would interact poorly with FaceID’s attention aware features. iOS periodically activates the front facing camera while unlocked to determine if you’re paying attention to the phone. This influences automatic screen dimming a
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by etaoins 8y ago
Approximately 90% of billionaires are male. It seems to have quite a lot to do with gender.
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by etaoins 8y ago
This quote was inside a list of negative experiences with WKWebView. It wasn’t intended to be positive.
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by etaoins 8y ago
You can’t set FS/GS from user space on x64-64 until the FSGSBASE instructions were introduced in Ivy Bridge. The kernel only needs to be involved as its privilege is needed to set the register; the kernel doesn’t “know” that they’re be
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by etaoins 8y ago
Vietnam has 95 million people and a larger economy than Greece. I would consider it a major country.
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by etaoins 8y ago
It's contributed to the open source ARM desktop/server community quite a bit. While ARM has had first class support in for embedded and mobile for a long time people weren't really running X11, Gnome, database servers, etc. A
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by etaoins 8y ago
It's being mentioned more during product launches than it used to be. For example, Apple heavily promoted the iPhone XS's 7nm SOC where previously it wouldn't have been mentioned. I would guess this is due to other vendors st
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by etaoins 8y ago
Changes to the language spec do not have to be backward incompatible. 8 of the 11 Go 1.x releases have had changes to the language spec.
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by etaoins 8y ago
Another use case is dealing with tokens that assume globally synchronised clocks such as JWTs and Kerberos/Active Directory. Ideally all clocks would be perfectly synchronised but things happen. For example, you might have one containe
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by etaoins 8y ago
TMSC’s 7nm is in volume manufacturing. It’s used for the A12 SOC in the latest iPhones.
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by etaoins 8y ago
This is an instruction specified in the ARMv8.3‑A instruction set. It was specified and designed by ARM, not Apple. Apple is merely the first to ship silicon implementing v8.3-A.
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by etaoins 8y ago
Apple had a very similar bug in the initial release of Snow Leopard: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-acknowledges-snow-leopard-da...
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by etaoins 8y ago
It’s a slightly simplified version of Cargo which itself is an evolution of what yarn/npm/sbt/etc are doing. This is explicitly called out in the vgo paper. It only seems like a revolution because the previous situation in Go
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by etaoins 8y ago
In semiconductor fabrication “process” almost always refers to the manufacturing process, not the design process.
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by etaoins 13y ago
I made a simple tool to upload a local directory to S3 called s5tool ( https://github.com/etaoins/s5tool ). It's useful for managing static sites such as the one mentioned in the article. As a bonus it will attempt to pre-gzip assets for fa

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