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I have microbiology and electrical engineering degrees. Started a PhD (microbiology and immunology) and washed out with a masters to go into the dot com boom.

There is so much potential for biology to be engineering, but the reality is you can spend your whole life studying one tiny aspect of something esoteric. You can spend your whole life trying to find one amazing cure (or not).

Biology is great if you are interested in learning how the world works, but not so great if you love to create new things.

Even with medicine you are essentially a mechanic for humans instead of cars and the technology improves a lot slower.

I considered doing bioinformatics, but there was essentially no way to make money because grad students were doing everything for 12K/year.

One great thing about biology is that it is easy to understand because everything makes sense and "works" like you think it should. Human created systems often times dont make sense at all.
Dependency resolution and separation of direct and transitive dependencies is why I started using Poetry.

https://python-poetry.org/
Reminds me of The Vital Question by Nick Lane. I highly recommend this book. I had that same sensation reading it: "Man, why was high school biology so boring when it could have been like this?!"

It's about the role of energy in the emergence of life (pre-biotic -> single-cell -> multicellular -> animals). You'll see some chemical names, but it also tells interesting human stories too.
> Prisoner's dilemma does no one good.

The problem is the prisoners didn't put themselves in prison – they find themselves there as a consequence of international politics and must play the game to the best of their abilities
Wonderful to hear it’s had such a positive impact on your life. What part of the experience made you decide to learn about genetic engineering?
Overseas junkets.

If you are paying for all of it, put the money into the trip over the conference.

Find something community driven so the conference bit was cheaper and it's a good group of people.

Infosec conferences used to be value for money and looked good in interviews. Mix of 3 letter to government to professional to amateur to blackhat people to hang with.
Point taken, though that article also says "Hershey and Chase concluded that protein was not likely to be the hereditary genetic material. However, they did not make any conclusions regarding the specific function of DNA as hereditary material, and only said that it must have some undefined role."

Arguably, my general point still holds, though with an expanded cast of characters.
I upvoted you. I have had people downvoting me as well for sharing an experience with Lenovo where they took about 100 days to repair my motherboard within warranty period. Sigh.
I'd like to distinguish what this article is talking about, which is the government blocking actual websites, against moderation on private social media websites and platforms.

I don't mean that the latter is not necessarily a problem or not, but we definitely should not be mixing up our thoughts and impression of one with the other, they are very very different in nature.
the latest version of openemr is supporting FHIR resources very well. The API is well documented too.https://github.com/openemr/openemr/blob/master/API_README.md
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"The market" sucks in situations where bargaining power is unequal, the participants don't have all the information and transaction costs are very high.
The teams I've managed, every person has to rotate thru every role, eventually. Not just some tasks. The actual role. Be the SQA person in charge of acceptance testing. Write some code. Go out on sales calls. Proofread some copy.

Quickly pops people out of their focus on local optima, to better see the whole.
Perhaps my confusion stems from how completely orthogonal this point is to the discussion of a contract not being upheld.

Even in a hypothetical world where all "Imaginary Property" is completely free as breck imagines it could be, people may still choose to pay me for developing the robot kitten book. And if I have a contract with you that stipulates I get $9 from that money and you get $1 from that money, I would need to pay you.

If breck has no sympathy for this person who is allegedly being screwed over by Disney, then he also has no sympathy for almost all writers, painters, photographers, and other artists in the world. Also, most programmers, since even the most popular open source software licenses still introduce restrictions with the threat of punishment. I'm sure breck publishes all of his code in Zero-Clause BSD, but that is categorized as "Other" (< 1%) when it comes to most popular github licenses, so there sure are a lot of unethical githubbers.

So we've learned that breck has, basically, no sympathy for anybody. That's not a very interesting life philosophy in my book, and one I don't actually buy, which is why I was inquiring about the details of his viewpoints.
> Make a downloadable Ubuntu ISO with drivers and firmware integration available that works as a fully functional alternative OS

If Apple were to do it, it would make a lot more sense to release a version of Darwin with all the drivers.
Yes, the satellites should know 6mo in advance. UTC is still a head ache though.
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Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it often enough that I'm starting to wince when I see your username.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Rather than delving into whether additional assumptions is related to the complexity of a theory, which I think is a largely pedantic debate, I think we don't disagree as much as you perceive.

> not something that needs to be explained

I agree, and I'm saying that Sabine is discounting the same tool that you used to reject my hypothesis. That is my point. If there is an explanation for BHIP that does not introduce any new assumptions or very small assumptions to existing theory, that lends it credence even in the absence of direct observations of black holes, just as we lack direct observation of gravity 1000 years from now.
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Kaiser spent $4 billion on implementing an EMR with Epic, after abandoning their own project developed with IBM. Imagine if that kind of investment was directed towards a open source consortium. I realize these kinds of projects are incredibly complicated to do correctly even for a single customer, but the benefit of a shared medical record nationwide would be enormous.
The phone doesn’t magically just work the way you want it to, and the functionality you personally desire doesn’t come without trade-offs and consequences to Apple, to other developers, or to other users.

You’re saying that because you bought a single iPhone that Apple now essentially reports to you. That YOU get to decide how Apple spends millions of dollars in its R&D, and that you get to decide how their software should function.

What makes you their master just because you freely chose to buy a single unit of a device from them? A device that, by the way, has sold billions of units.
It’s just about money. The entire dealing was unneeded and seemed driven primarily by the need of corrupt officials to get paid. Makes perfect sense that they spied on officials, likely some where made to fall in line using intelligence instead of bags of money and promises of extravagant consulting jobs later down the line.
I have found that educational osmosis becomes less effective over time as I fill my head with bits of information. I have to exert more pressure learning to cause the information to travel across the barrier into my mind.

This also explains why you start to feel stupid after watching too much television, the osmotic action is working against your self interest.
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Your point was that throttling is better than not working.

But that's a false dichotomy.

Rather than throttle. You can show less charge. It's what other phones do.
Untrue, here in France I regularly use MMS. There are 1000 different messaging apps, some are on whatsapp, some are on telegram, some are on "new thing".

But MMS works with anybody with a phone, and you don't even need a good internet connection.

For a quick picture, a contact card or a small voice message, it's great.
If you want a reason, efficiency of maintenance and RD departments.

If everything works exactly like iOS you save $$$$$$$, added benefits you can charge enterprise licensing fees to get access to your sdks and dev tools. And if you have e.g. a luxury market cornered you can command those sorts of prices.

This is exactly Apple's playbook, I don't know why anyone would expect them to do anything different...
That's a bit advanced for the stage it is at now, but it is on our roadmap. We realize that skin tone and hair color play a big role with the colors of clothes, and plan to integrate it down the road.
A very underwhelming and superficial discussion about how they may be phenotypically similar to ancient varieties genetically they have undergone just as much change as any other species. Obvious to anyone with a highschool biology level understanding of genetics.
How can evolution not happen in a system where you have random mutation and some selection pressure?
>“When the United States repealed net neutrality, they created an environment in which it would be easy, from a technical standpoint, for ISPs to interfere with or block internet traffic,”

I don't really see how this is true. Net neutrality made it possible for companies to implement the ability to block stuff (but not actually block stuff)? Wasn't it always technically and legally possible for companies to block stuff, sometimes even required? The very next paragraph mentions child pornography or pirated content.
> ...starting today we’ll begin slowly rolling out ads on a limited number of videos from channels not in YPP. This means as a creator that’s not in YPP, you may see ads on some of your videos. Since you’re not currently in YPP, you won’t receive a share of the revenue from these ads, though you’ll still have the opportunity to apply for YPP as you normally would once you meet the eligibility requirements.

- https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/83733719
Why is this downvoted? It sounds great to my untrained ear. You could even use TAI for user-facing timestamps (to get consistent arithmetic) and then convert to UTC only in the end before displaying the date!
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I spent some time with vscode to install all the correct extensions properly. And for me back is currently on par with Jetbrains tooling, with the added benefit that vscode is faster.
Come now, this is only an enhanced form of prisoners dilemma, where the prison guards do a side hustle helping prisoners rat each other out, in exchange for a "very small" commission. Everyone spending money on advertising is a strong Nash equilibrium, but it is not the optimal solution.

If everyone spends money on ads, a single actor choosing to not spend money on ads would (probably) see a loss. And in this case, you have a centralized actor (ad companies) spending a lot of resources telling everyone this fact.

But if everyone decided to not spend money on ads, everyone (except ad companies of course) would see a win.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're trying for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> And yes, at the point where the throttling was taking place, the battery wasn’t defective.

Sure, but if I decide I really need a top-shape battery, and I go into an Apple Store and offer to pay full retail price for a new one, shouldn't they give it to me? GP says they were refusing if the battery was above a certain threshold (but low enough that performance adjustments were kicking in.)
Therapists don’t generally give advice.

Coaches do that.
No, the company has voluntarily entered into a contract to only hire through the union. They could have not entered into such an agreement but voluntarily chose to do so, and nobody was mandated to join a union, as all job offers are also voluntarily accepted.
Why would the company have to pay a few extra vacation days? It sounds like a temporary shift of personnel where somebody was out of their normal department but they were still working for the company. That's just a Tuesday not a vacay.
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You know in some places they will forget the conversion so you'll have weird cases that are off by 37 seconds.
Sheesh, 7g is no joke. How “hard” was your trip?
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Oh totally. I went in there with an open mind, thinking maybe I was wrong about the imaginary property thing. I came out of there more certain that imaginary property laws are bad, however I also came away greatly impressed by all the people there (many who worked there way there from some of the most destitute places on earth, so who am I to say they shouldn’t buy that Tesla because it’s money from imaginary property laws?). I have been secretly confused about Microsoft’s strategy the past 6 or 7 years under Satya. The embrace of Linux, open source, GitHub, vscode; it seems Microsoft is sprinting away from depending on Imaginary Property laws, but that was traditionally the source of their enormous profits in the 90’s. I don’t claim to understand what’s going on at the c-level (those folks are way smarter than me), but it does seem like there is a new game plan. My first week in 2014 people were laughing at me for getting Ubuntu on my machine, and pitching GitHub over SOurceDepot; how things have changed.

But yeah, I felt guilty when I crashed my bike on the way to work; walked over to the on site hospital and got X-rays and a sling without a copay ; got paid $50 while I was there to get a flu shot; grabbed a latte on my way back to the desk; committed a few línea; then clocked out early to head to the pool. Knowing that it’s most likely imaginary property laws paying for the utopia in Redmond. I really hope more people can work at places like that, and I do hope that places like that are still possible without an unnatural imaginary property system.
The article lays out the expectations (and law) of the Danes re hosting the NSA espionage center and ground rules about its non-use against Danish interests, which sound pretty modest.
I had two iPhones with the “balloon battery” problem, after they tested them for speed performance - they reluctantly replaced them even though they were 1 and 2 point Over their threshold even though the batteries were clearly pushing the screen out of the body...

Would this count in this case although this was san francisco
Do you always know what the legacy behaviour will do though? Nobody stops you from solving this in a more permanent / explicit way: clone repo with too strict version bounds, change it, install from your branch.

The "--force" / legacy option can't tell a difference between "broken solution that will work for you" and "broken solution which won't".
Okay, my bad. So the USA does intercept network traffic and communications with them but does not have HUMINT against them.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-emirates-spying-insig...

So the NSA monitors the UAE comms, but the CIA does not.
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A book I loved when I was first learning is called “Unraveling DNA” from 1988. I remember it reading like a detective novel, as back then the folks writing were mentored by the OG molecular biology folks. It can be yours for only $4 https://www.amazon.com/Unraveling-DNA-Maxim-D-Frank-Kamenets...

“A genetic switch” is another fantastic unraveling of a single virus. If you like diving into like a framework and learning piece by piece how it all works slowly, that is a GREAT book. For a while this was my favorite book.

https://www.amazon.com/Biology-Viruses-Bruce-Phd-Voyles/dp/0... This book started my career. The first chapter, specifically, started my career. It got me hooked, not sure why. You can learn about other WILD things viruses do there too!

On the experimentation side, try a transformation kit https://www.the-odin.com/colorbacteria/ it’s $30, and at least you’d be able to tell friends and family you’ve genetically modified life before. That is a nice intro into synthetic biology. This is how I got started.

On the bioinformatics side, miniPCR has some nice kits to go barcode environmental strains. I personally hate doing PCR and don’t care about barcoding, so I’m biased here. I’m much more of a synthetic biologist, so bioinformatics study is only relevant to me in context of the things above.

I’d probably buy some books + the transformation kit and then see what interests you from there. There are a couple things that are 1 step away from transformation kit plus some learning, which is why I recommend that path.
Why would I want the phone to turn off sooner?
Tailoring Google search queries feels so much like writing Regular Expressions.
It's not often you read headlines about the NSA actually doing what they're meant to do. I'm glad to hear they still find time for real work, not just spying on everybody's dick pics.
You should add PS5 and Xbox to this.
Scanning through the list of episodes now, and it looks promising. I’ll definitely try it out, thanks for the link!
It was difficult and I wouldn't recommend it for newcomers.
Synthetic biology is pretty good for creating things. Agree with other points tho
There is a substantive difference between a computer and a phone; only one is carried with you every single second of the day. Until you account for the drastic difference in how they can be used, it's pretty hard to equate your experience with a computer to a kid's experience today with a smart phone.
I assume you do draw the line at some point, below which you would consider a discipline a fake subject. Where do you draw that line?
>Yes, with financing there’s a trade off. In exchange for paying interest, you have the item that much sooner.

Except then you want your next item and can't buy it because your credit limit is maxed out. So you have moved your "item queue" forward once or maybe twice, and now have one more rent to pay. You still have to wait for the next item, it's just instead of waiting for your savings to reach $100, you wait for your debt to drop to N - $100 where N is your credit limit.

It makes sense for strategic items, like a house or a car. But doing it on a daily basis is just poor financial planning.

>Alice has to sit on the floor because she doesn’t have a chair.

Motivated Alice should go around garage sales and find a used chair for $5. Or research how to make a makeshift one from whatever she has. Or borrow it from a friend. Or read in a library and eat cheaper food for 2 weeks, and save $100 right away.

All these are problem-solving and prioritization skills, and they are crucial to one's long-term success. And the difference in life quality between America and Zimbabwe is because the previous generations of Americans possessed these skills and applied them wisely. Except now the big players realized that they can make more money off people without these skills, so the popular culture is instead praising impulsive decisions over carefully weighed plans, and pushing people deeper into poverty.
It only fits the startup model if you know what you’re doing, which is in pretty short supply. You can definitely create a shockingly good lab for ~3000 though.
Yep, that I completely agree with. That should not only have been offered, but it should be a user serviceable part.
The money those Toledo Engineers make is spent on Toledo things, not Bay Area things. Therefore, Toledo local economy benefits.
For the Danes to trust spies requires willful naïveté, no? I wouldn't be surprised to hear key Danish politicians got bribed or blackmailed into being so credulous in the first place.
> That’s insane. If this were to hold up then any royalty obligation could be shuffled off to a shell entity?!

Why would this be surprising? If that was hired work (instead of licence for IP) for company A, then IP owner is company A and obligations to author are just contractural payments unrelated to IP ownership. Company A then may sell IP ownership to company B, while keeping contractual obligations to pay for contracted work to author.

It seems not much different to a case when you buy a house from a developer, while the developer is still owing money to contract workers / builders.
If you continue to degrade the quality of this site even further, we will have to ban your account. We've asked you about this more than once already.

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This is a really inspiring comment. I'm an engineering student who's kind of mentally stuck between the worlds of computing and bio. I want to do research in biotech, but I'm having trouble finding the will to do it for some reason.

In a different vein, I've recently started designing a really cheap atomic force microscope, which I plan to open-source, so I think that may be a valuable addition to the bio and nanotech diy community.
What I feel like a lot of people are ignoring here is that this was a speedup from an underpowered macbook line....

They beefed up core caches a bunch, which likely has a lot more to do with the speedups than any special silicon tricks...

People are also ignoring that they have a lot of software infrastructure based around virtualization and auto optimization...its like if the JVM was running at kernel level on a jvm optimized chip with days to perform optimization...of course you would expect that to be blazing fast. Compared to the horror show in Intel land where you have to compile in special support for advanced instructions...
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It's not like Tailwind is SAP or something. It's just CSS. You shouldn't need to re-work your entire process around it.

The custom stuff in our config was mostly the need to create standard styles for components. Eg. button large, button small, etc. to correspond with our design system.

For example, here's tailwind code required to create a button large:
bg-violet-100 text-violet-700 text-base font-semibold px-6 py-2 rounded-lg

How the hell does that help with consistency? You have to copy paste that mess every time you create a new button, and then guess what happens if the button you copied from needed special margin? Try debugging that if something looks wrong. Also try turning that into dark mode.

Now you've got to search through the spaghetti to find what's custom about this button and fix it every time.

You know what's easier? Creating a ".btn-lg" style to fit our design system, and just typing .btn-lg each time. It also has the bonus of making your code actually readable.

Maybe this is solved with the groups functionality in the latest tailwind, but this is just one of the frustrations I eventually developed.
This doesn't actually feel like it's responding to GP, which was actually about how Apple treated the customer and not the realities of batteries.
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A childhood favorite of mine. It seems infinitely more plausible today than when I read it.
Looking forward to getting mine.

While I don't see this replacing my Android as a daily-driver anytime soon (and possibly never), I am very excited to have an unrestricted computer in my pocket :-)

Especially once the pandemic gets under control and I visit coffee shops or hang out with friends again, this will be great for some programming/study on the go :-) Maybe this will finally give me the kick to learn about GTK application development.