webdevatlurk

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by webdevatlurk 6y ago
This seems really nice as a sketchpad for small flowcharts. I'd definitely use it to map out a small piece of work, because I'm terrible at laying out flowcharts on scrap paper without wasting space or painting myself into a corne
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by webdevatlurk 6y ago
The breakdown of interest by subregion is... unsurprising.
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
I think people here (USA) see the news out of China/Italy and think it's not that bad here, without realizing we're 1-4 weeks away from starting to see how bad it will actually get.
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
Thanks. Didn't know this existed.
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
Seems interesting, but I can't read that without paying, and I probably lack the background necessary for it to be understandable.
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
Heh, It makes more sense if you think about it medically. Like, the gain or loss of function in a limb or organ. For a virus I suppose this would be function in reproduction.
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
From the Wiki page for Furin > ...must be cleaved by furin or furin-like proteases to become fully functional. Anthrax toxin, pseudomonas exotoxin, and papillomaviruses must be processed by furin during their initial entry into host cell
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
The phrase "gain of function" seems to mean the virus differs in some way that makes it more contagious or deadly.
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
The kind of tank design that appeared in World War I. They were designed to cross the cratered wastelands and trenches created by the fighting. The crews fought from gun ports and mounted cannons/machineguns, rather than a rotating tur
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
> Soviet tractor quality wasn't that bad, especially considering they shared a lot with tanks. Fun fact: The first tank (turreted, not land-whale) was based on a tractor design. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
This sounds like the seismological equivalent of bloodletting, and would be about as effective.
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
I have no idea if molten salt reactors are as awesome as this website represents them to be, but I thought the following point was interesting: "light water reactors can use only about 4% of their available energy." They're c
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
My favorite example of this is the time it was used it to inject flappy bird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
It's well documented in numerous reports that: 1. The position and size of the upgraded engines for the 737 MAX caused the plane to tend to pitch upwards, which could cause a stall. 2. Boeing was concerned designed MCAS to automaticall
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
It's interesting to me that the system would be designed to detect that a sensor is feeding it bad data, then go back to trusting that input after it had been determined to be bad.
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by webdevatlurk 7y ago
> Why would you want the IRS to duplicate this effort and compete with these companies? Is tax collection not a function of the government? I'd rather my taxes fund a free, easy tax filing system than pay fees to rent seeking middle
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by webdevatlurk 8y ago
@SarahTaber_bww is a really good twitter follow for people who want to learn interesting bits about agriculture & tech.
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by webdevatlurk 8y ago
I think they mean we should prefer using stripped down base images, then installing ONLY what is needed for your application/ci+cd tasks to run.
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by webdevatlurk 8y ago
This is a fun read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scan... Edit: looks like somebody already posted it while I got distracted reading it.
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by webdevatlurk 8y ago
I eagerly await the day when all my games are electron apps that break because they can't load an old version of libnode.
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by webdevatlurk 8y ago
I used thefuck for a little while, but have removed it since I found this gist https://gist.github.com/robmiller/6018582 The `git publish` alias eliminated the vast majority of my thefuck usage.
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by webdevatlurk 8y ago
You should give it another go. I think Chris Thile is doing a great job carrying the show forward. They still do all the radio skit acts, but they've mixed in more live music. The name of the show has changed to Live From Here for anyo
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by webdevatlurk 8y ago
> They might be a good answer for newbies that want to spend 100$ on a stock for the first time, but for anything else I will stay with Ameritrade. Thanks I don't think you're their target audience. Their marketing materials sa
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by webdevatlurk 8y ago
Finally made an account to post in this thread. I'm rather early in my career doing mostly Ruby, Python and JavaScript things. As you might expect, I consume mainly Ruby, Python and JavaScript related talks. The first two talks that re