Amazing! The 2009 Lincoln & Joyce paper you cited catalyzes one bond per hour on average. (Doubling time = 1 hour, but only one bond between oligonucleotides needed to double.) OP's Gianni et al 2026 paper connects 45…
Agreed! I learned Perl after trying C; and after struggling with `scanf` (not even getting to tokenization), the ease and speed of `while (<>) { @A = split;` for text-handling made it easy to fall in love. This (in the…
Similarly: "The Mystery of the Red Bees of Red Hook" https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html https://archive.ph/vQkwl
I'm trying to reconcile your numbers with the Wikipedia "Aviation safety” article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety which for 2019 describes "0.5 accidents per million departures" and "40 fatalities per…
Since slugs are cold-blooded, I wonder if it was captured by the (presumably backlit) doorbell touch panel because of the panel's warmth.
Not a lawyer, but liability waivers may not apply if there is determined to be gross negligence or recklessness. Making a reasonably-designed API available, only if connected to an inaccessible network, doesn't sound…
Can confirm. US passport photos want a neutral expression and explicitly say (not in the below page, but elsewhere during the renewal process) not to smile. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app...
Yes! Automobile fuel efficiency is now probably the classical example of Jevon's paradox: some cars are more fuel-efficient; and (therefore?) we in the United States are driving 35% more miles each year in 2024 (3.3e12)…
Nice! One nit: if playing an archive game (from a previous date), when opening the calendar, would you show not the current month, but the month of the game? This would make it easier to go back to other dates.
When I subscribed to Kagi, my block/lower/raise/pin lists were very highly correlated with these aggregate ones. It makes me think that for Kagi customers, search engine rankings optimize for something other than useful…
Would you say more? Which part is the violation - the recording, transcription, storage, scanning of other data, interpretation, or something else? Does it matter if you are in a one-party or two-party (for consent to…
Just going through the numbers: 363 BB tons / (1 ton / cu m) / (1 BB cu m / cu km) is the mass of a 9-km-diameter ice ball, smaller for rockier materials. 363 BB tons / 10 years = 100 MM tons / day. By comparison, Mount…
Interesting, I initially thought this factor was probably negligible, because the cohort was aged "62.8 ± 7.8 years" (either before or after the 7-year observation period). I still think it's small, but perhaps not…
I speculate your comment has been downvoted because you haven’t explained why you’d “like to see generative AI try to reconstruct the full image”. What would be the purpose of that reconstruction? To help visualize the…
This is exactly the right argument. Accepting the lawsuit would give precedent to an insidious combination: Matthew+chilling effect
Interesting! To translate to the language of stock and bond offerings: TicketMaster ~ bookrunner/sponsor; scalper ~ underwriter; The general population cannot participate in IPOs, just like we cannot buy primary-market…
Agreed, the presentation of summarized statistics in the web page seems intended to shock, and it’s hard to reconcile some numbers: According to the Census 2020 Current Population Survey[1]: * There are 44.9 MM…
We can do this passively with corner cubes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_reflector
GE no longer owns or operates the GE Appliances business. Haier bought GE Appliances in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Appliances
This story describes Pajaro, an agricultural community in California with a local water-management agency, the origins of that agency, and how other communities, facing water shortages, are looking to that model.…
Echoing several of the comments here about learning by doing, I think Ben Horowitz’s “Hard thing about hard things” may recommend that too. See section (and blog post) “If you’ve never done the job, how do you hire…
Thanks for posting this. At the dealer last year, I thought it strange when, after I refused the Starlink Security Plus subscription with fee, they offered it “for free”. Starlink Safety Plus is already included for the…
Taking the driver’s license should happen already through the points system (3+ points upon conviction for red light or speeding; 11 points in 18 months to license suspension)[0], but perhaps it’s not enough? I looked…
Wow! I was about to comment: when there are so many unheeded “noise” warnings, it can be easy to miss rare ones and new ones. I remember a codebase with thousands of warnings, and hiding among them were a few with the…
tl;dr: 51 days is the wraparound point of a signed 6-byte counter running at 33 MHz, used to invalidate stale data from instruments.
Amazing! The 2009 Lincoln & Joyce paper you cited catalyzes one bond per hour on average. (Doubling time = 1 hour, but only one bond between oligonucleotides needed to double.) OP's Gianni et al 2026 paper connects 45…
Agreed! I learned Perl after trying C; and after struggling with `scanf` (not even getting to tokenization), the ease and speed of `while (<>) { @A = split;` for text-handling made it easy to fall in love. This (in the…
Similarly: "The Mystery of the Red Bees of Red Hook" https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/nyregion/30bigcity.html https://archive.ph/vQkwl
I'm trying to reconcile your numbers with the Wikipedia "Aviation safety” article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety which for 2019 describes "0.5 accidents per million departures" and "40 fatalities per…
Since slugs are cold-blooded, I wonder if it was captured by the (presumably backlit) doorbell touch panel because of the panel's warmth.
Not a lawyer, but liability waivers may not apply if there is determined to be gross negligence or recklessness. Making a reasonably-designed API available, only if connected to an inaccessible network, doesn't sound…
Can confirm. US passport photos want a neutral expression and explicitly say (not in the below page, but elsewhere during the renewal process) not to smile. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app...
Yes! Automobile fuel efficiency is now probably the classical example of Jevon's paradox: some cars are more fuel-efficient; and (therefore?) we in the United States are driving 35% more miles each year in 2024 (3.3e12)…
Nice! One nit: if playing an archive game (from a previous date), when opening the calendar, would you show not the current month, but the month of the game? This would make it easier to go back to other dates.
When I subscribed to Kagi, my block/lower/raise/pin lists were very highly correlated with these aggregate ones. It makes me think that for Kagi customers, search engine rankings optimize for something other than useful…
Would you say more? Which part is the violation - the recording, transcription, storage, scanning of other data, interpretation, or something else? Does it matter if you are in a one-party or two-party (for consent to…
Just going through the numbers: 363 BB tons / (1 ton / cu m) / (1 BB cu m / cu km) is the mass of a 9-km-diameter ice ball, smaller for rockier materials. 363 BB tons / 10 years = 100 MM tons / day. By comparison, Mount…
Interesting, I initially thought this factor was probably negligible, because the cohort was aged "62.8 ± 7.8 years" (either before or after the 7-year observation period). I still think it's small, but perhaps not…
I speculate your comment has been downvoted because you haven’t explained why you’d “like to see generative AI try to reconstruct the full image”. What would be the purpose of that reconstruction? To help visualize the…
This is exactly the right argument. Accepting the lawsuit would give precedent to an insidious combination: Matthew+chilling effect
Interesting! To translate to the language of stock and bond offerings: TicketMaster ~ bookrunner/sponsor; scalper ~ underwriter; The general population cannot participate in IPOs, just like we cannot buy primary-market…
Agreed, the presentation of summarized statistics in the web page seems intended to shock, and it’s hard to reconcile some numbers: According to the Census 2020 Current Population Survey[1]: * There are 44.9 MM…
We can do this passively with corner cubes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_reflector
GE no longer owns or operates the GE Appliances business. Haier bought GE Appliances in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Appliances
This story describes Pajaro, an agricultural community in California with a local water-management agency, the origins of that agency, and how other communities, facing water shortages, are looking to that model.…
Echoing several of the comments here about learning by doing, I think Ben Horowitz’s “Hard thing about hard things” may recommend that too. See section (and blog post) “If you’ve never done the job, how do you hire…
Thanks for posting this. At the dealer last year, I thought it strange when, after I refused the Starlink Security Plus subscription with fee, they offered it “for free”. Starlink Safety Plus is already included for the…
Taking the driver’s license should happen already through the points system (3+ points upon conviction for red light or speeding; 11 points in 18 months to license suspension)[0], but perhaps it’s not enough? I looked…
Wow! I was about to comment: when there are so many unheeded “noise” warnings, it can be easy to miss rare ones and new ones. I remember a codebase with thousands of warnings, and hiding among them were a few with the…
tl;dr: 51 days is the wraparound point of a signed 6-byte counter running at 33 MHz, used to invalidate stale data from instruments.