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ConcernedCoder

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You can easily help humanity cure disease and/or find new treatments by setting-up folding@home to run using the spare cycles on your computer:

https://foldingathome.org/

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ConcernedCoder··on iPhone Duo
IMHO, one of the reasons I've been delaying an upgrade is because the standard sized iphone 13 ( not even pro ) I've had for a few years now is big enough already, anything larger just would not be ergonomic ( and I have large hands )...
ConcernedCoder··on Gloomberb
Unlocked a core memory for me!

Anyone else old enough to remember scripting a tradebot in Asheron's Call?

ConcernedCoder··on What we know about CEO shooting suspect
my money's on him being "suicided" with the cameras off before a public trial can take place...
ConcernedCoder··on What we know about CEO shooting suspect
this is the correct answer, as long as health care is for-profit we will always be the product instead of the consumer
ConcernedCoder··on Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M
so who's holding the $750 million?
ConcernedCoder··on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
The DOJ are apparently idiots that do not understand tech, let alone anti-trust or monopolies... for instance: I create a useful device that consumers love and use, I sell ads on the device to anyone who will pay, in fact I auction them to the highest bidder... DOJ: you are a monopoly and must sell the device... wtf?
ConcernedCoder··on The brain summons deep sleep for healing from life-threatening injury
almost like it's a business and they don't want to lose any customers...
ConcernedCoder··on The Lion of St. Mark's Square in Venice Is Chinese
Possibly related are silver coins called "trade dollars" that were minted in the usa and used for trade with china which exibit "chop marks" signifying validity: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=9cb25f21911ea42e&q=tra...
ConcernedCoder··on First images from Euclid are in
In theory, couldn't we focus on a perfect spot near a black hole where the light has been warped 180 degrees around it... i.e. if the black hole is 100 light years away, you'd see ( with perfect zoom, of course ) a picture of the earth 200 years ago...?

I understand that we'd have to account for the movement of objects, of course, but with computers, seems like a small hurdle...

ConcernedCoder··on "Bad Apple" in Minecraft
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: "Get'r Done" -- The ability to interate and solve individual hurdles and issues within the constraints of a system to achieve a grand idea.
ConcernedCoder··on Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
people still folding@home <shrug>
ConcernedCoder··on Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
ask them if they push back the same way with other knowledge professionals like the family doctor or lawyer...
ConcernedCoder··on Spinning the Night Self
I suffered insomnia for many years when working days, it seems I'm just a night owl and I've learned that working the night shift works best for me, midnight - 8am local time seems to be the sweet spot for me, in bed before noon, up for a late dinner and a night with family before they're all off to sleep while I work the night away in peaceful quiet... and no more insomnia, with black-out curtains in the bedroom and a running fan I no longer have trouble sleeping...
ConcernedCoder··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
this is why we need a union
ConcernedCoder··on The complete Code of Hammurabi (~1750 BC)
people got executed for EVERYTHING back then... sheesh...
ConcernedCoder··on Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission
I'm glad everything went ok.
ConcernedCoder··on Simulating Jupiter
now this is programming :) thank you!
ConcernedCoder··on The Mystery of the Coin That Shouldn't Exist
For the curious, and to get a deeper idea of what's being discussed, (vamworld)[http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki...] is a website detailing the different known die varieties for Morgan and Peace Silver Dollar coins.
ConcernedCoder··on Asking your customers what they want doesn't work
I often tell my wife my software job is like being a home builder, people think they know what they want, but it's not until they're standing in the thing trying to use it that they figure out what parts work and don't work well for what they actually need... and I spend quite a bit of iterating before we end up with the final working thing -- which is usually far removed from the initial design.
ConcernedCoder··on How to clean chemistry glassware
for anyone curious, this guy uses it all the time to refine gold, it's very interesting work: https://www.youtube.com/@sreetips
ConcernedCoder··on Making ethylene – without using fossil fuels
Continuous Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction to Concentrated Multi-carbon Products Using a Membrane Electrode Assembly: https://www.cell.com/joule/pdfExtended/S2542-4351(19)30365-4
ConcernedCoder··on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
so where's the virtual HUD ?
ConcernedCoder··on Electrons from Earth may be forming water on the moon
I see your point as higher temps == higher reaction energy levels, so I agree this is probably the case, but your sleeping bag had better be pressurized...
ConcernedCoder··on F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected
anyone have any solutions / ideas -- how would you go about locating the lost F-35 if you were so inclined?
ConcernedCoder··on YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off the streaming site
IMHO, it IS premature if you believe he has some inalienable right to be on Youtube, he hasn't been convicted of anything yet, these are only allegations. Yet, it's a company doing it, and they aren't bound by any "must-be-convicted-1st" rules, they can just block someone for any reason, they ( and other companies ) do it all the time, and in this case it's probably "better safe than sorry" type of risk management.
ConcernedCoder··on Death by a Thousand Microservices
upvoted, but honestly, the other side of that coin is:

"The author posits that if you make pile of crap monolith then all you had to do instead was make microservices and magically it’ll all be fine."

ConcernedCoder··on Death by a Thousand Microservices
you just described the last 5 years of stumbleupon...
ConcernedCoder··on Death by a Thousand Microservices
I find it weirdly theraputic to read things like this, and reminisce about loudly proclaiming the same a decade ago while being shushed as a non-believer...

Please excuse me if the paradigm of "microservices" has left a bad taste in my mouth, but I have real-world experience with the repercussions of whole-heartedly embracing the latest tech-dejour without completely understanding the tradeoffs...

Many years ago I was hired at stumbleupon around the time the leading compsci doctor decided to take a working and profitable monolithic php app and turn it into a scala/java microservices architecture... in fact part of the newhire process was a weird one-on-one with said mad-compscientist where he extolled the many merits of microservices and skillfully dodged questions like "why would you build a distributed service that just adds a list of numbers?" with a bunch of "you wouldn't understand why it's so much better..." type hand-waving. Fast-forward to 30+ new hires and 4+ long years of intense development and the no-longer profitable company was left with a new slower, buggier, impossible to debug distributed hellscape... as the main designer/architect of it all decided it was a great time to take a "sabbatical"... it wasn't long after that the Nth round of investor money ran out and we were all looking for work.

ConcernedCoder··on Millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed
a little off topic but the mob has been operating this way for years when it comes to risk management... dead men don't talk, no matter how trustworthy the individual might be, it's easier to put a bullet in someones head and be done with it, than to worry about what could happen later.
ConcernedCoder··on The Surprising Power of Documentation
omg if someone could just put some notes in their code... that would be a wonderful start...
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