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by i_k_k 11mo ago
I always wanted to ship a write-only database. Lightning fast.
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by i_k_k 1y ago
Huh - I guess it is. I didn't know that! I guess that's why the world needs so much of it. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.19.633714v1
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by i_k_k 1y ago
Plants build three-carbon sugars during photosynthesis by fixing a CO2 molecule onto a two-carbon chain with an enzyme called RuBisCO. In a typical "C3" plant, this happens relatively directly. But RuBisCO can screw up and fix an
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by i_k_k 1y ago
Love it!
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by i_k_k 1y ago
I’d agree - but is it? Where I live (not a top-ten US metro area) we also have Lyft and a number of traditional cab companies. Uber is big, but by no means a monopoly.
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by i_k_k 1y ago
I’m not a huge fan of Uber’s corporate policies in general, but help me understand what’s wrong with this. Isn’t this what any company would do: maximize revenue from customers while minimizing expenses to their suppliers? Most businesses d
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by i_k_k 2y ago
One data point: I’ve taught a few times at a community college here in the US. Obviously, that’s through an established institution. It paid about $7k for a ten-week course.
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by i_k_k 2y ago
It's worth mentioning that while some parts of law can be really arcane (parents, terms of service, etc.), Supreme Court decisions are generally pretty readable.
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by i_k_k 2y ago
If Halide were an alarm clock, the explanation would be wholly unconvincing: the rejection only seems silly if you know what Halide is. “This is a camera app”, might be a better explanation.
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by i_k_k 2y ago
A good argument for restricting voting to actual attendees.
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by i_k_k 2y ago
There’s something missing here. From what the Hudson Rock article shows, they were able to use an SE’s creds to access their demo account. This is not a customer account and shouldn’t (but of course could) contain sensitive info. It’s not
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by i_k_k 2y ago
LEGEND is the follow-on project. https://legend-exp.org/
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by i_k_k 2y ago
This is simply not correct. Selipsky did not found Tableau by a long stretch. He moved to Tableau from AWS, where he'd been for 11 years, and then went back five years later.
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by i_k_k 2y ago
I don't know how to test this in an experimental way because I don't know how to make it repeatable. I can say anecdotally that I've used non-software patents to figure out how to level a door via its hinges, find out how Pop
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by i_k_k 2y ago
One goal is to encourage inventors to publish their work, rather than hold them as trade secrets, so that others can learn from them -- and get eventually copy and extend them. I've read a fair number of patents, both in and outside of
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by i_k_k 3y ago
See the footnote on page 1: “Hereafter, we let n and m refer to the number of non-compactified space and time dimensions, or more generally to the effective spacetime dimensionality that is relevant to the low-energy physics we will be disc
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by i_k_k 3y ago
Well, duh: they needed to make sure to run the script twice.
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by i_k_k 3y ago
When I was in college, I had to take an assembly language course. It was on MIPS: 32 registers. One assignment said, roughly: - Read ten numbers into an array. - Sort the numbers into the array. Nothing said I needed to read the array, so I
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by i_k_k 3y ago
From the authors’ website: “You can't buy a hard copy of the 8th edition, but instead can rent (and then choose/pay to keep the hardcopy if you want a hard copy book). You can rent a copy or subscribe to Pearson+ from our publishe
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by i_k_k 3y ago
So this means it can actually do things now, at least in principle, right?
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by i_k_k 3y ago
But may I take ducks home from the park?
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by i_k_k 3y ago
And India actually suspended Al Jazeera for the same reason. https://time.com/3832585/india-al-jazeera-suspended-kashmir-...
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by i_k_k 3y ago
Well I’ll be. Now how ‘bout a simple, quality bike? :)
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by i_k_k 3y ago
Off topic, but does anyone make simple electric motorcycles? You know, a frame, battery, motor, etc., but without a connected app and all the goo that comes with it.
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by i_k_k 3y ago
“According to a Kobe University statement, this study marks the first time that researchers have witnessed prey quickly and actively escape the body of its predator after being eaten.” I present my favorite video of the rough-skinned newt “
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by i_k_k 3y ago
Another problem is that much of the industry sees getting into management as a promotion. This is something that Microsoft tried, at least, to get right: pay/rank was mostly divorced from job function.
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by i_k_k 3y ago
Neither really makes sense from a statistical perspective: your number is effectively the true value, and there is no repeatable measurement process you’re evaluating. Your use of the non-statistical meaning of “accurate” as “free from erro
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by i_k_k 3y ago
Sadly, it really sounds like it isn't. It was amazing.
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by i_k_k 3y ago
Because government, and the tax dollars that support it, are how we, as a society, take collective action?
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by i_k_k 4y ago
Ironically, they're killing the killer feature. Security when possible, but with a trivially easy-to-use fallback was what let me get others on the platform.

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