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by morvita 3mo ago
Antibodies on this scale are not _produced_ by animals. The way these things work is an antibody that binds to a specific target will be _discovered_ by immunizing animals and then screening it's blood or lymph nodes for antibodies of
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by morvita 1y ago
Isn't that exactly what they're doing here? My understanding is Deno is asking the courts to invalidate Oracle's JavaScript trademark, making it a generic term in the public domain. They are not asking for the mark to be re-a
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by morvita 2y ago
It worth noting that the power of the neural engine doubled between the A16 and A17 chips (17 vs 35 TOPS, according to Wikipedia), while the A15 to A16 was a much more modest increase (15.8 to 17 TOPS). So it does seem like they started pri
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by morvita 2y ago
Unfortunately, since 2013 Opera is also built on Chromium. They dropped Presto a long time ago.
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by morvita 3y ago
The article says this system in Vancouver has 300% efficiency, so seems like a problem that works a lot better at scale.
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by morvita 3y ago
There's power in bargaining as a collective, whether you're a collective of ten or ten thousand. Either way, it helps with the power imbalance between employees and management.
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by morvita 3y ago
Good news, Apple just announced they'll start supporting RCS next year. https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/breaking-apple-will-...
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by morvita 3y ago
I've stopped using Uber in my city (Vancouver) and gone back to traditional taxis because they're providing a more reliable service at equivalent or cheaper prices. The last few times I've tried to use Uber, immediately after
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by morvita 3y ago
Interestingly, there appears to be some localization with that page. I'm in Canada and see: hello :maple leaf: -> bonjour :fleur-de-lis:
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by morvita 3y ago
That's funny, I tried Go for Advent of Code last year and got through the first 10 days or so without any real difficulty, having never written a line of it before. Just as there are different spoken/written languages and people f
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by morvita 3y ago
I've heard so many people say that Ruby is really easy to pick up and work with and for some reason I've had the exact opposite experience. I have tried to learn Ruby at least three or four times and I bounce off it every time. Th
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by morvita 3y ago
The relative costs didn't change for me significantly, I was paying 2600/month USD in rent in the Bay and 2700 CAD in Vancouver, so while it was a significant paycut if you look at the value in USD, the day to day wasn't noti
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by morvita 3y ago
I really liked San Diego when I visited, if I was going to return to the US, I'd seriously consider San Diego.
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by morvita 3y ago
I am a US citizen who moved to Vancouver from the Bay Area three years ago. I took a small pay cut when I moved (from ~135k USD to ~125k CAD, after a few years of raises I'm over 140k CAD now), but certainly not cutting my salary in ha
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by morvita 3y ago
My mother was a teacher before she retired to a different state than she'd worked in. She now has to file income taxes in the state she receives the pension from and the state she currently lives in each year.
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by morvita 3y ago
It's worth noting that roughly half of Canada's population lives in the Quebec-Windsor Corridor [0] (the land between Quebec City, QC and Windsor, ON). This region is really the Canadian equivalent of the Boston-Washington corrido
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by morvita 3y ago
This is why the lifetime of the creator should have nothing to do with copyright terms. All works get a fixed term of 20, 30, whatever years, if the creator dies before that term the rights can be transferred via their estate.
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by morvita 4y ago
I did a PhD and Post-doc in computational chemistry (focusing on quantum chemical simulations) in the late 2000s/early 2010s and nearly all the software I used was written partially or wholly in Fortran including Gaussian, Q-Chem, Quan
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by morvita 4y ago
Which is also based entirely on their market dominance. I'm 100% convinced Google continues handing millions of dollars a year to Mozilla so Google can point at Firefox as competition when the regulators come knocking.
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by morvita 4y ago
I am pro-union and acknowledge that some unions will protect workers that don't actually contribute to the business, but I think we need a source on unions that drove companies into bankruptcy. That's a pretty extreme case that ne
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by morvita 4y ago
I actually don't see anything in the OP's comment to indicate whether they are pretending COVID has gone away or accepted that it has become endemic, it's clear that we both interpreted their statement through our own biases.
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by morvita 4y ago
Given that the EU and US are both seeing around 100,000 new cases daily, no, I don't think the world has moved on. In the US and Canada (can't speak to other countries), we've collectively agreed to pretend that COVID has jus
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by morvita 4y ago
In my last two jobs, one in the Bay Area and one in Vancouver, my usual schedule has been arrive at 9, take a 45-60min lunch, leave at 5 and I've never had anyone tell me I'm not working enough or producing enough output.
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by morvita 4y ago
I've been seeing this problem too at $JOB. Amusingly, the people on my team that use Firefox don't have these issues, but the Chrome users are seemingly losing the ability to screenshare daily.
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by morvita 5y ago
I actually ran up against this exact problem of IDEs being ubiquitous in the JVM ecosystem at a previous job. The company had just released a new SDK to access a data repository. Since it was a brand new library, they only had Java/Sca
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by morvita 5y ago
In Canada, British Columbia is using the SMART Health Card as well. Don't know if any of the other provinces are.
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by morvita 5y ago
I'm not sure how Quebec's system works, but BC's vaccine cards are based on the SMART Health Card [0] standard. The validation app they've put out is open source [1]. I haven't looked at the validation app's co
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by morvita 5y ago
This maps to my experience (and preferences) well. On my current project, we have a Django backend with a Typescript/Vue.js frontend. I enjoy doing API access and data modelling code in Typescript, but will work to avoid picking up any
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by morvita 5y ago
Order-preserving dicts were added as a side effect of an optimization in CPython 3.6 [0]. They were considered an implementation detail of CPython in 3.6, it wasn't until Python 3.7 that is was declared an official part of the language
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by morvita 5y ago
Python 3.5 was declared end of life in September 2020, so it makes sense for library developers to drop support for it as well. Something like Flask 2.0 may work in Python 3.5 (I haven't tested it myself), but it isn't worth the d

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