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I did something similar with a receipt printer, an Arduino and a PHP script in 2011. It got replaced by an iPhone very soon after, but I'm thinking of reviving it, because it forces you to filter what's important.

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Neither is a car or a dishwasher. Yet, they are convenient to have.

How well does this work as a daily driver? I heavily rely on my smartphone.

What did you switch to? Google? Are they handling this issue any better? Or are you using a dumbphone?

Maybe someone can comment on this: Does Google scan the cloud fotos of its users for CP? Have we seen an uptick of false positives/SWATings since they do that?

Apple is - rightfully and understandably IMO - criticized for their plans, but does anyone know how Google handles this?

I, for one, don't like losing my keys or umbrella and really like AirTags.

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You age inevitably, because your genetic code will degrade over time, increasing the chances for malignacy. If you can reverse that in each of the 10^16 cells in your body, you will stop ageing.

echo "KW"$(date +"%V")

Super useful for me!

A wearable captcha!

Depends on how deep you want to go. You need to find out what people are working on, and you do this by searching on PubMed and talking to people working in that field.

There is a huge gap between having knowledge from books and being able to do original research, let alone solving a biomedical niche problem using CRISPR. This gap is usually filled with an advanced degree, where you spend years in the lab, keep track of the latest research in the field, try to find your niche and solve the actual problem.

I mean, by all means, try it. But life sciences are not computer science. The approach is entirely different and quality of the work you need to do is different. It looks much, much easier than it is. (Which is, on a different note, why I believe the whole pseudoscience crap such as anti-vaxxers is gaining so much traction)

1) Not enough for starting a biotech startup as OP would like to do. Having a PhD means that you've spent years on a certain subject. You cannot just read a book and be up to speed on biomedical research and CRISPR.

2) Having hands-on experience in wet labs is useful and relatively easy to learn. People can learn wet lab skills sufficient to carry out experiments (i.e. pipetting stuff together) in under a year. This is not what research is about though.

3) True

4) You don't need a PhD. But to truly succeed in biology, you need to learn things from the ground up, which takes years of studying. If you just read a few books, you will be able to understand certain parts of it, but as a founder of a biotech startup, you will be the equivalent of a tech startup founder blindly following buzzwords such as "blockchain".

In biology, the problem space is extremely vast and very hard to understand. I have a PhD in biology and find computer science relatively logical and simple. You can just look things up. Looking things up for a specific topic is not even easy in biology.

I wasn't thinking of the end user experience, but more of the developer experience. I'm wondering why such a clause is even written in CoCs.

Genuinely interested: How are gender identity, race, ethnicity, etc. of any relevance in Open Source Projects? Is this a regular topic of discussion besides the code?

"Content Overload: Accommodations have very rich content, e.g.descriptions, pictures, reviews and ratings."

Laughed at that one. Booking.com is so full of dark patterns that I dread using it.

Chemolithoautotrophy is the technical term and while it is very interesting that more of these lifeforms are discovered, it isn't a new thing.

Check out the relevant Reddits r/homeassistant and r/homeautomation.

I started using Home Assistant a year ago and it has become a fun hobby.

I'm fascinated about the degree of automation. It seems that all the necessary computations are made and presented on that website. I would love to learn more about this and their tech stack.

The problem with this approach is: You don't know if this lifestyle caused you reaching a certain age, there is no scientific basis whatsoever. Which turns it into a religion.

They didn't enter the barcodes from memory, they entered the price of the item from memory. That alone is a feat, though.

Cancer is not one disease, it’s millions of different ones. I’ve worked in cancer research, and I believe our biggest bet are treatments that use our own immune system as a weapon. We won’t cure all cancers, chances that this is going to happen are very low.

Thank you for your reply, very interesting! I have no doubt that this project is great help to many people, and it's a shame that any medical device of this kind is closed source. Being involved in the development of medical software, I know how important testing is, and given the chaos that reigns in some open source projects, I'd be wary of hacking a medical device. I see both sides and surely it's a balancing act.

No, you're not better off. If you want to get a medical product like this licensed, you have to prove that you performed rigorous, multi-staged testing and document all your development including all emerging risks. I have participated in such licensing efforts and I doubt that an open source project has the means of providing such rigorous testing.

I'd be interested how they test a Class C medical device that can kill you if you send the wrong commands. It surely is an amazing story and a great write-up, but I'd be wary of hacking insulin pumps, let alone using them.

I've been looking for the same thing. An Apple Photo clone would be perfect, as I like this product very much, but I would like to have control over my photos.

It would be nice if the article gave some scientific explanation why it’s not bad to be fat. Research suggests that it is indeed unhealthy.

R + ggplot2 was the road I took and taught my students. There are other good tools indeed.