chubs

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10 giorni fadiscuss

Layman, so bear with me. I'm wondering where they got the amino acids and proteins from? I was under the impressino that cells needed them to be "homochiral" to function, and the artificial 'built from scratch' amino acids are 50:50 of each chirality. In my reading of the NYTimes simplification of this story they mention that the genes were "borrowed from a virus and the ubiquitous microbe Escherichia coli". Mainly just curious how far they managed to get to the 'from scratch' goal. Or is what they've done a bit more of an assembly of bits and pieces? Cheers all.

23 giorni fadiscuss

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I go to church. Everyone has 3 kids. Thanks for bringing it up!

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I remember reading that in certain areas/communities in the USA, it's pretty close to 50:50.

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What if computers simply rendered 300dpi PNG files and sent that to the printer?

2 mesi fadiscuss

Oh good point, I didn't think of transitive dependencies. A lot of languages i've worked with unfortunately have a 'do not check in the lockfile' culture, and a common 'blow away the lockfile when the package manager gets stuck' workflow, so that does concern me. Perhaps Cargo is better than average though, and the lockfile never needs nuking, providing this safety. This sounds like a good reason to check in the lockfile! Thanks for the response.

2 mesi fadiscuss

I recently ported an old brickout clone I made to Sokol (a C header-based game library). The whole executable is 500kb (macos), surely could be smaller with eg symbols stripped, and it has a whole 3d engine (not that i'm using much more than one custom shader to blit the screen, but it is using 3d engine infrastructure nonetheless). I was impressed that in this day and age such efficiency is still fashionable in some corners. The whole game is about 2mb zipped. Are shameless plugs allowed? If you're curious have a peek! github.com/chrishulbert/brickwarrior

2 mesi fadiscuss

To mitigate supply chain attacks like this, I've taken to specifying exact versions in my Rust cargo.toml, and when importing new crates, select the previous-to-latest version. Is this a reasonable mitigation? It bugs me that Swift deprecates the concept of specifying exact versions, it actively pushes you towards semver which leaves the door open to this.

3 mesi fadiscuss

"All I could think about was how bored I would eventually get" I used to wonder this. I read the religious answer to this relies on the concept of infinitude: what if an infinite god can invent an infinite number of exciting new... things to do?

3 mesi fadiscuss

The traditional concept of an 'embodied' resurrection (as opposed to ghosts playing harps) makes me lean towards: yes (eg the gut is part of the body). Who knows though, it's a fun question!

3 mesi fadiscuss

I believe you resolve it by the concept of spirit/body dualism, where your body/soul degenerates but the spirit is still fine.

3 mesi fadiscuss

Holy moly, that guy in the reddit post needs to see a dermatologist asap and figure out why their skin is emitting acid.

4 mesi fadiscuss

I don't understand: Who's lending the $2B in situations like this? Wouldn't they be worried that the above situation (company gutted, then going down the drain) is going to play out and they won't get their $2B back? Or is that the root problem with this whole YC submission: banks are being hit by defaults because of this exact problem?

5 mesi fadiscuss

BMW resale values make it very clear: these cars are actively hostile (in many many ways) to their owners the second they go out of warranty. Pity, their interiors are lovely. In the long term, is this strategy going to work out for them? I won't buy another one. I know... anecdata :)

8 mesi fadiscuss

I believe this is already what happens with Volkswagen - recently I had my brakes replaced by an independent mechanic, and they had to charge me $50ish for some software lock as part of the process.

8 mesi fadiscuss

Is it worth mentioning that there are almost countless Chinese EV brands nowadays? I wonder if Apple was really trying. I’m sure it’s difficult, of course, but it seems like every week there’s a new car manufacturer. To quote Clarkson ‘how hard could it be’ ;)

8 mesi fadiscuss

Also reminded me a lot of simcity 2000. Congrats, it's very neat!

9 mesi fadiscuss

I wonder if this would be suitable for drone delivery of small groceries, to keep the drone high enough that people don’t have to hear the noise.

10 mesi fadiscuss

Anyone know if this or similar devices can display information sent from some code I write in, say, rust without drivers or libraries (eg should not be too complicated to write to) on macOS? Could be a lot of fun to be had!

10 mesi fadiscuss

I largely agree with you. I used to work at Cochlear (hearing aid implants) - their "headphone" equivalents actually had neatly replaceable batteries 10 years ago, it's doable! Larger than airpods, to be sure, however i'm sure Apple could shrink them nicely. But... would anyone want the ability to replace batteries? I wouldn't know. I suspect most people misplace them before the batteries go bad.