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by zbjornson 20d ago
Rather, "there is no evidence to show that using insecticide to kill mosquitoes inside aircraft cabins is effective in preventing introduction and spread of mosquito-borne diseases." https://www.epa.gov/mosquitocon
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by zbjornson 1y ago
"Google Fi users are not subject to T-Mobile's collection and sale of app data." From the first expandable question on https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6181037?hl=en#zippy=%2C... .
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by zbjornson 3y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | UTC-4 to UTC-9 ish | Remote Seeking a web test automation engineer with in-depth knowledge of Cypress, Mocha and API testing (Supertest) (all JavaScript/TypeScript). Prefer knowledge of fuzzing, nice to have knowle
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by zbjornson 3y ago
Quite a letdown that the solution for a web-based spreadsheet is for users to install a local backend. Might be a case for edge computing even. > WebAssembly has a single contiguous, linear memory space shared by all dynamic memory alloc
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by zbjornson 3y ago
California residents, here's the data deletion form: https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request#california
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by zbjornson 3y ago
It turns out that collision among egg farmers is likely the actual cause of rising egg prices -- not avian flu or CA's new cage law. https://modernfarmer.com/2023/01/record-breaking-egg-profits...
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by zbjornson 4y ago
This is not quite right. I don't think any other pharmacy tests what they dispense. It's expensive, difficult, and the FDA doesn't seem to appreciate that their risk management strategy is being second-guessed. They recently
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by zbjornson 4y ago
It's been built-in since December to Google Workspace premium tiers: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/12/format-displ...
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by zbjornson 4y ago
Medical appointment reminders and other medical communications have a special cutout in the TCPA, including reduced consent requirements. They annoy me too though; they're redundant with my calendar reminders. The feedback SMS might no
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by zbjornson 4y ago
"Virtual kitchens" (ghost kitchens) are encouraged by doordash as a way to diversify and boost revenue and stuff: https://get.doordash.com/en-us/blog/virtual-restaurant-brand They seem to be used frequen
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by zbjornson 4y ago
On the contrary, it could be easily mistaken for herpes, molluscum, warts, syphilis, acne, insect bites... This outbreak doesn't usually have the severe rash that's characteristic of classic monkeypox.
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by zbjornson 4y ago
CellCarta (formerly Primity Bio) | USA and Canada | Senior Front-End or Full-Stack Dev | Remote Our team builds a high-performance bioinformatics data analysis SaaS application that researchers use to analyze millions of single cells and cr
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by zbjornson 5y ago
They did. We got personalized emails for each account showing the effect on each project.
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by zbjornson 5y ago
I feel the opposite. Everything I've used in GCP, I've understood and appreciated the design decisions behind. Most things I've used in AWS, I've wondered why they shipped it that way. Examples: * High-availability HSM K
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by zbjornson 5y ago
This is an intervention study, not a double-blind, placebo-controlled RCT. Patients knew they were getting ivermectin and the control group knew they weren't. With an effect that small (1.2% vs 2.0%, p=0.024) and only in >40 year-ol
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IRS working with startup ID.me that stores 'inferred citizenship' of some users(businessinsider.com)
2 points by zbjornson 5y ago|1 comments
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by zbjornson 5y ago
They're showing inhibition at 100 ug/ml, but it looks like high doses result in serum CBDA concentrations in the low 100s of ng/ml [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7498943/
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by zbjornson 5y ago
CRCs have the awesome ability to be composed, and are many times faster to compute than SHAs with the best hardware acceleration.
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by zbjornson 5y ago
PerfkitBenchmarker has a boot timer like this (time to SSH) that works for all major cloud providers. https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker
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by zbjornson 5y ago
You could pad the input as you said, which avoids a "tail loop," but otherwise you usually do a partial load (load <8 elements into a vector) and store. Some instruction set extensions provide "masked load/store"
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by zbjornson 5y ago
Shameless plug: I made bson-to-json for more or less the same purpose with MongoDB: converting the raw BSON response from the DB directly to JSON strings. Saves lots of CPU cycles and GC pressure. https://github.com/zbjornso
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by zbjornson 5y ago
We have no idea how many drugs would work in humans but are not being considered because they don't work in animals. If we assume it's about the same as the number that work in animals but don't work in humans, we're mis
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by zbjornson 5y ago
CellCarta (formerly Primity Bio) | USA and Canada | Senior Front-End Dev | Remote Our team builds a high-performance bioinformatics data analysis SaaS application that researchers use to analyze millions of single cells and create visualiza
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by zbjornson 5y ago
CellCarta (formerly Primity Bio) | USA and Canada | Senior Front-End Dev | Remote Our team builds a high-performance bioinformatics data analysis SaaS application that researchers use to analyze millions of single cells and create visualiza
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by zbjornson 6y ago
FTA: "This post aimed to cover a scenario where the cost of compression, in both compute resource and time-to-build, was significantly outweighed by the savings it would make."
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by zbjornson 6y ago
Moderna's phase 3 includes preliminary data on a single dose, and it appears 80-90% effective at/after two weeks. See table 15 on page 28: https://www.fda.gov/media/144434/download https://w
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by zbjornson 6y ago
That approach is called heterologous prime-boost, and it's likely being tested for the Oxford/AstraZeneca + Pfizer combo and the Oxford/AstraZeneca + Sputnik V combo to try to increase potency (not to increase supply). It&#x2
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by zbjornson 6y ago
You quoted the worst of the four models that they evaluated ("This model was the least parsimonious model we evaluated"), and only part of that model even. They're not pushing that sole hypothesis; they were testing to see
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Estimated transmissibility and severity of novel SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern(cmmid.github.io)
1 points by zbjornson 6y ago|0 comments
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On the Threat of NPM Vulnerable Dependencies in Node.js Applications(arxiv.org)
1 points by zbjornson 6y ago|0 comments

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