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This is about molecular biology, which is only one of many branches of biology.

The biggest books I ever bought were those on molecular biology and biochemistry. Huge and weighing several kilos. Until then I did not know that it was possible to produce such large paperbacks at all. Some of these books are also among the best I have ever seen in terms of design and didactics. This is also necessary because the area is so big that you can easily spend several lives with it.

I agree with the author that molecular biology is neglected in school or is often not taught in a very motivating way. But this is true for many fields of knowledge, not only for molecular biology.

My entry into the field was when I did a PhD in molecular biology and biophysics after ten years of professional experience as a computer scientist. That was almost twenty years ago now, and I still have the feeling that I'm only scratching the surface.
Damn bro. That's like $0.25/phone!
Sending Tim Cook my thoughts and prayers.
HiDPI displays is what I see mentioned the most. But when you then ask if fractional scaling works on Wayland, the answer is "yes, but it doesn't work for any app you actually use".

If all you want to do is download a "demo" terminal, and put it in a HiDPI display, and enable fractional scaling, to show it to your friends, then yes, this works.

If you want to get some work done on any app (a text editor, web browser, ...). Then its worse than Xorg at the moment.
You have this completely backwards.

Tanks are deathtraps in cities. Attackers trap them with obstacles and then attack with RPGs. See the footage on YouTube in Chechnya or Syria.

In the open battlefield as in Iraq 1 (especially) and 2 they were very effective although of course airpower is the key factor.
As an "old fart" that has used just about every operating system for the past 30 years (OS/2, BeOS and Linux included), i switched to Macs around the time OS/X was released.

Besides the "keyboardgate" on recent Macbook Pro's, i don't really have any complaints about the hardware. Maybe it's getting worse, but still way ahead of the generic PC vendor quality. I have a 2009 MBP that still sees daily use, and still fulfills a purpose (not it's original one). I can't say that for any of my regular laptops. Just a simple thing as the touchpad. On my Mac it "just works" as i expect it to, and rarely gets in my way. I've yet to meet a generic PC touchpad that doesn't annoy me in 30 seconds or less.

As for the software. I can't really say it's gotten worse. I rarely experience crashes on my Macs, and kernel panics has been maybe 3-4 times in a decade. Most of the time i open up my Macbook, do "stuff", and close the lid again. It auto installs software updates whenever it's charging and not being used, and automatically reboots and resumes whatever windows i had open (minus terminal windows), so from a user perspective i never reboot it.

It integrates well with my iPhone, Airpods, iPad, and even Apple TVs. Yes i'm aware competing technologies exists, and individually they may even perform better, but they don't integrate fully with each other. As for Apple, it "just works".

Apple may be a popular target, but they're still a lot better than the alternatives, especially if you're dug in deep in their eco system.
I'd love to see a Mac restart for those who actually work with and on the computer. – Think NeXt for the 2020s.
The parent is not talking about inheritance. They are talking about specificity.
Reminds me of this:

Here are the color names most disproportionately popular among men:

* Penis

* Gay

* WTF

* Dunno

* Baige

https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
Agoda is owned by booking.com.

Do you consider AirBnB to have more personalized service?
The facts he stated were all Russian justifications for the invasion.
I do not know why Google blocks pro-russian sources, but I know why I'd blocked them, if I could. They are not "pro-russian", they are all "pro-Putin". Any "pro-russian" source that is not "pro-Putin" will become "anti-russian" in a short time, because of activity of other "pro-russian" sources. They just forcibly stick "anti-russian" label on such a source, and here we are. Putin do all he could, to draw an equality sign between "Russia" and "Putin". And it works. Now no media needs to do nothing, "anti-russian" label sicks to any "anti-Putin" media all by itself. I know this, because I'm russian, I'm anti-Putin, and I tried to find a "pro-russian" and "anti-putin" source. I tried and failed. There is not such thing.

When a media use any material to promote it's propaganda ideas, doesn't bother with truth, use any dirty trick to mock opponents, it should be blocked.

But if Google blocked such dirty media, then what is to remain? Only "anti-Putin" media, which is all marked as "anti-russian".

I repeat: I do not know, why Google blocked "pro-putin" media, maybe due to reasons I described above, maybe because of order from a masonic lodge or from USA government. But the result is the same: all that is not blocked is "anti-russian".
You can find English teaching jobs around the world at: https://www.esljobcafe.com
There are also online ESL jobs posted.
The problem with therapy's Perpetual Present
I can't remember the name, but I'm sure that on the early 2000s I had an app on my Windows mobile device that interfaced with a website that did just this. At the time I did it without thinking about it twice. Now I would not give them my contact data even if they paid me. Google already has it, Facebook and Linkedin already have it - and unfortunately I have no way of getting them to realistically remove that information, but for sure I don't want yet another corporation to get all that info.
The yearly fee is NOT to pay for any costs; the fee is a tactic to keep low-effort spammy app developers out, and therefore to reduce the load on the review team. The $99 fee does not cover the costs and expenses that Apple does and has done for you as an app developer. Dropping it would not affect their revenue directly, but it would open up the floodgates of random app submissions.

One could argue that the Mac hardware itself that you need to develop iOS apps is a similar barrier to entry though.
I didn't know that, thanks. I will check it out specifically for postgresql I see - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/sql-createfunction.html
Slack's iOS app is written in Obj-C and Swift[1]. I think the author's suggestion was that the macOS desktop app built with Electron will become obsolete because the superior iOS version will be able to run on macOS.

[1] https://wiredelta.com/how-was-slack-developed/
The Art of Conducting Performance Reviews – Our Approach
USA did not send his young men to die at Easterner border, despite the guarantees of safety for Ukraine. Ukraine exchanged nuclear weapons for guarantees of safety (Budapest memorandum) by RF, GB, and USA, and then screwed.
I understand it as a music producer because of Logic, but I don't understand it as a developer. At all to be honest.
Why They Call It a Weakly-Ordered CPU
And it is likely still orders of magnitudes easier than actually living on Mars. So you'd expect that long before a Mars mission is feasible/desirable Antarctica would be colonized.
Seems to be listed on the site: https://devgarden.macalester.edu/projects/1
Americans won't know this history. They also don't know that weak countries prefer to remain neutral rather than join NATO. Joining NATO also makes you a target. US tried hard to get everyone to join, including a fair bit of meddling in nation politics.
Despite this neither Finland nor Sweden are in NATO.
"Client enters therapist's office. Therapist asks them how they're doing. Client describes various issues from the past 1-2 weeks, many of which are recurring (e.g. procrastination, indecision, etc). Therapist validates client's feelings, asks probing questions to explore them, supports where the client is right now. Client has plenty to say about these things, speaks their mind.

This easily absorbs the therapy hour. Client leaves, not exactly dissatisfied but not exactly satisfied, either.

... the therapist (being a therapist and not some kind of “accountability coach”) is not expected to hold the client to these in any important way. Instead, the client can crop up afresh each time with feelings new or old, accomplishments and failures of any kind, and be accepted all the same.

This is therapy's perpetual present."
My school teacher also told us that anonymous, blank slate characters are often used to represent everyone, or the reader. This is what most people don't get about the Doom Guy or Gordon Freeman. If you try to fix it, you're actually breaking the quality.

This is highlighted in this video:
"I Hate Immersive Sims" a.k.a. "Why is Half-Life 1 so compelling".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HByDGHl7PNc
I've been playing Ultimate Doom again and it's incredible how tight the experience is, the level design, the difficulty progression (of course I'm playing in Ultra Violence). I'm using the GZDoom frontend and I didn't have to configure it either, it automatically detected the WADs from the GOG installation folder.

I am _really_ enjoying it, even though I did play it in my teenage years already. Stoked to play Doom II for the first time when I'm done.
Did Google promise that? I thought that was only for Pixel devices until Pixel 3.

Disc: Googler.
I want to love the litex components but I have only ever had problems with them. Never gotten liteeth or litedram to work.
HPC Green500 November 2020 results
Only up to a small amount yearly now. It used to be everything but they changed it a decade ago.
I really shouldn't reply but I really can't leave this unaddressed.

> But you agree that it would increase the developer split. Thats good enough for me. Glad you agree that it would increase the developer revenue split.

I never agreed. Please don't put words into my mouth. It is soo disingenous. I haven't done it to you so don't do it to me.

As for the rest of the points. You aren't accepting the reality of the situation. It will benefit nobody other than EPIC which have a money printer called fortnite. EPIC doesn't care about other developers it cares about itself,. Nobody will benefit from this in the long run other than EPIC and the other huge companies. But you keep on talking about the theorectical benefits, it is the same sort of mental masturbation that GPL zealots engage it. It is mostly pointless and doesn't address reality.

Also your concern trolling for the devs is cute. I imagine the vast number of developers are fine with the current revenue splits on storesm, unless you prove otherwise all you are doing is concern trolling to avoid the real issue.

As for future court rulings about "anti-competitive" practices. We will see. You and I don't know what will happen.

The 70/30 split which I was originally replying to is not anti-competitive or unfair. It is a normaly split and I will keep on re-iterating this because people on here because they are ignorant think it is unfair when it is perfectly normal.

As for app stores. More app stores won't benefit the consumer or the developers in the long run as I don't think the vast majority of Apple users will use anything other than the official App Store. You can claim theorectically it will be better but in practice that won't be the case. It will be a pyrrhic victory at best.
HPC Top500 November 2020 results
They use signal.
One should only trust named, identified sources. The age of anonymous sources in mainstream media needs to end, because an anonymous source is not a source.

Yes, sources should be protected. But there should be mechanisms in place to protect sources who identify themselves that do not require the gullible public to just believe what they were told, because an authority said it was okay to believe something an anonymous person said about something.

Maybe this is something that the crypto/cert folks should address - a means of verifying that a source has been properly and adequately identified, without revealing the details required to target that individual for harassment/assassination/etc.

A media clearing house for sources, or a blockchain ...
> One can literally do the entire physics undergrad curriculum using GA without breaking a sweat. Trouble is, you’d have to learn some basic algebraic theory and that’s a hard sell for people who are already afraid of math because “it’s too abstract”.

How many of those people go through an undergraduate physics curriculum?
> Programming computers and being good at math does not prepare you at all for understanding this stuff!

This is something that lots of people, and especially people in the tech industry, keep forgetting. They go ''well i can calculate partial differential equations, did a course on topology ánd created an api based on open data, how hard can this 'biology' actually be???'' and then it turns out that yes, it is hard.
> but even in the very definition of feudalism it's feudalism:

Except there is no “holding of land in exchange for labor”, the only concrete element of the description you quote.
And Ion Fury, built on the venerable Build Engine of Duke Nukem 3D fame.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/562860/Ion_Fury/
I don't know how to name my function
Geopolitics are an interesting thing. It's also interesting how 2 regimes with totally different ideologies ended having similar borders (Imperial Russia and the USSR).

> Russia isn't threatening anybody in western Europe

Those poor schmucks not in Western Europe can just be thrown under the bus like the last 2 times, right? :-)
The new Windows Terminal app is nice, the overall feeling is not as crashy as it used to be, WSL is alright, Docker is alright, they are shipping openssh... Not perfect but macOS is hardly perfect too (and arguably more opaque when things go wrong).
As a happy Apple user I completely disagree. You can just use their products as they intended and it works well. If you run into limitations, there are alternatives. My kids love gaming on the Apple TV and iPad. And if they want to play a blockbuster game, they use a console. I can't think of other limitations I ran into.

Is it perfect? No. But the "it just works" slogan is still true enough to relieve me from the duties of a system administrator for my own family, like when we were using Windows. Spending and entire evening reinstalling Windows because the sound card stopped working after an update is not my hobby. I have 3 Raspberry Pi's running in this household and that's enough sysadmin work for me.

Yes it's expensive, but less than you'd think. Try reselling a year old Windows PC. Almost impossible. A year old Macbook? You can sell it within 15 minutes for a good price.
Acquiring the assets without the liabilities makes no sense. Does it legally?
Ah thanks for the downvote, you're very neutral and would make a great Wikipedia contributor. /s

How are the two sites not remotely in the same market? They are literally knowledge bases. Albeit, Golden is focusing more on structured data similar to Wikidata.org and Everipedia.org is focusing more on blockchain related content first with the backend using smart contracts/token incentivization.
> Apple chose #2, which is best for customers, and got forced to pay $113M from it. It's ridiculous.

You're missing out the part where they did not inform the user why their device was being throttled and nor did their internal tooling inform the genius that a simple battery change can fix the issue.
As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever
> It was an invasion and annexation according to international law. That is crystal clear and there is not even any leeway for interpretation about it.

It is always a bit amusing, though also somewhat infuriating, whenever somebody writes something like this. It often is a good indicator of what likely is to follow.

Truly ironic, that the people who (apparently) know the least about international law are usually the first to mention it. Even more that most of these people appear to come from countries that probably are the biggest violators of international laws, by historical track record.

I'm not even going to argue with you, for you rather obviously take personal convictions over actual knowledge. Good luck with that.

Here is a fact for you: the forces/interest behind most of this will come back to roost one day. Maybe rather sooner than you think. One thing I'm pretty sure of: you're not going to like. Don't say that nobody tried to warn you, when it turns out that the joke was always on you.
Qovery – Deploy complex applications, seamlessly
Regarding 3) However, this time it's not solely about tech, but about workflows. Apple was once leading in human-computer symbiosis, now, seeing Big Sur, Apple has become actually bad about this.

(I get that Apple is now a media house, but the Big iOS won't do for all purposes. A computer, and we may say, historically especially the Mac, isn't only about consuming and a virtual kaleidoscope, it's also the universal means of production since a few decades ago.)
News yesterday: Snowden reveals NSA knows everything about everybody.

News today: NSA knows something about someone. *1000
Here is an example from Australia:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/isps-in-au-and-nz...

What's interesting is the Prime Minister made it explicitly legal for ISPs to do this. Couldn't find the exact news on this but a search turned up the following article which is sort of what I remember https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/04/soci-a04.html .
Computers and calculators will not help you if you have no idea what you are doing.
Advent of Code in Haskell: T Minus 16
It systematically abstracts CSS to an atomic subset.

You either take the default configuration with a few tweaks, for example if you are a programmer first.

Or you define a more complete, unique system upfront, for example if you implement a bespoke interface from a UI designer.

If you see emerging patterns that ask for composition, then you can easily compose utilities and give your components semantic class names.

It is a blessing for productivity, performance and maintainability, because it decouples CSS concretions by introducing a light, composable abstraction layer between raw CSS and component/semantic CSS.

Think of it as a lightweight, well defined query builder on top of SQL that you use for safe parameter binding and composability. (The analogy leaks a bit but you get the drift)
If you're a fan of old school FPS, Civvie 11 is a fantastic resource to spend an evening with. His Pro Doom/Blood/Duke Nukem/Daikatana (yikes!) series are an excellent walkthrough/documentary of each game in the series.
I would assume that this boost up would also unlock faster inference as well. With WASM, and quicker inferences could open up new ML use cases
I think that comment just reflects the current thinking that you can have something without putting any effort.
Bitcoin Is the New Gold
Seriously, the fact it's become this easy to collect data leads me to wonder if I should just start an app called "give me your contacts list.com". You give me your data, you get nothing in return, thanks very much.

Besides, I'm still bewildered it's legal to even collect contact data without that contact consenting to the exchange of that information.

If I give $person my $number, I do NOT consent to 50 $people getting that data (Google et al). I no longer even have a reachable phone number since it's not worth the privacy trade offs as that data is no longer under my control. At least emails afford a bit better control.

We need to majorly rethink how data is exchanged between user and service, and if a smartphone has APIs to access contact information, they're smart enough to let me know which person uploaded my PII (so I can cuss at them!).
As others have pointed out to varying degrees, everything you highlighted happens at the discretion of the government. Doing nothing does not imply a lack of engagement it simply means that the government sees no reason to act.
Modern Tanks have a high resistance against RPG's, you can read for yourself.

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/Primer-on-Urban-Op...

>In the open battlefield as in Iraq 1 (especially) and 2 they were very effective

That was artillery and aircraft's, mostly NOT Tank VS Tank.
I regularly use both a Mac and a Windows machine, and I can't overstate that I've had the absolute opposite experience: Windows is a stale, stagnant, consistently shitty OS whereas my experience with MacOS has gotten slightly better.

I also have many phones as a result of work, and have preferred Android for years — but recently decided I prefer the iPhone for my personal phone.

I'm surprised by it, in a way, but Android flagships leave a lot to be desired lately.
Times have changed. A big German army isn't the thing anyone in 2020 worries anymore.

The last times they worried, Germany was 10% of the world economy and growing fast and Europe itself was probably 50% of the world economy (probably more considering all the territories). Now Germany is something like 3% and Europe is at 20% and going down.
Ask HN: What are the (software) opportunities for coming Green Revolution?
So, assuming it is not too late for civilisation no matter what, the world has to spend the next few decades rebuilding its energy production and consumption to be carbon neutral (whilst also mitigating the climate changes that all that won't stop).

And I am trying to foresee where the main disruptions will take place, and if an old fogey with occasional keyboard skills can do something useful and build a business.

The obvious areas like battery technology seem to involve levels of physics knowledge out of my reach.

But some "second order" areas spring to mind

- Solar farm management software
- Fleet management transition software
- Home boiler - hybrids and replacement

Any other thoughts?
What does “:-“ mean?
Your reply can be categorized as “ad hominem” I believe?
Want to get censored on HN?

Try to discuss America's war crimes, or its contributions to the Yemen genocide, in any HN thread where such discussions are actually relevant.

This is a case where the evidence is clear and available to anyone who cares to find it, but the society is unprepared and unwilling to allow the discussion to be had.

The most effective way to get a subject ignored by any particular society is to promote the collective will into self-censoring in its sphere.
I've been pleasantly impressed by the Ryzen-based Thinkpad. It feels solid, unlike the Dell XPS I've tried in the past. I'm not particularly mobile anyway, at the moment, and I have a dedicated room for working from home, so I'm just tempted to get a desktop next.
I'd rather they just consumed the battery of my 4 year old iphone 4, until it was useless.

What they did was practically make my iphone 4 useless, forcing me to abandon the phone due to an OS upgrade.

This single experience re-defined my relationship with Apple. Much more than the butterfly keyboard fiasco.

I certainly don't buy the "good faith" invocation.
Apple RAM is not ordinary RAM
That makes sense. I hope the development of Risc V will be akin to what Arm is to Intel now in near future.
I am thinking I am probably still going to buy Pine phone just to support the developers even if I won't be using it.
Phone with Display Extending like a Scroll – Oppo X 2021
> Leap seconds were a terribly misguided idea.

I prefer dropping leap seconds, but I wouldn't call them misguided. UTC and leap seconds come from maritime celestial navigation, where tracking rotation is actually important. Civil time then just piggybacked on that, which at the time probably was perfectly reasonable solution.