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I’d pay a similar amount just for folding —- especially with a kid or two and two working parents, it’s our biggest household time-suck.

The show at the Guggenheim was great; I would highly recommend it if you're near Manhattan. I particularly enjoyed her late watercolors.

That’s a feature, not a bug: we keep our snow in Tahoe, where it belongs!

Exactly. With the hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, Oracle bought themselves a number of huge customers who are disinclined to change ERP systems on anything other than decade-long timelines. It has evolved and is now cloud...ish, so they can certainly talk themselves into being perceived as a “leader.” (Even though they’re not really cloud-native in the way that Workday, Salesforce, or others are.)

Yes, but now with restrictions on buying property. (It makes it much less of an attractive proposition.)

My BeagleBone Black runs a Debian-based distro (Angstrom), and there are spins based on Debian proper, Ubuntu, etc. So it’s definitely good to know.

I always look them up on CrunchBase or similar sites first. (EDGAR is also good.)

“7.1. Don’t go for homebrew logics D&S is not the only example; in general computer people seem to have a penchant for whipping up homebrew logics. See E.F. Codd’s Relational Calculus [12], an obvious mess.”

An interesting perspective, and perhaps technically valid from a purely theoretical perspective; however, the field seems to have found a few practical uses for it: just ask Jim Gray and Mike Stonebraker, among others.

(keywords to search: System R, SQL, RDBMS, INGRES, Postgres)

Oh, that guy. Suing PNAS and the author of a study critical of his work is honestly quite shocking. One would hope the work would stand for itself, or at least the response should’ve been another paper rather than a lawsuit.

Exactly. Not too terribly long ago, estimates for the number of human genes ranged as high (or higher) than 100,000. Instead, we found significantly fewer genes, but with much more complicated regulatory networks and novel mechanisms (such as whole classes of regulatory RNAs.)

We had a 3rd-Generation Toyota 4WD that was simply amazing -- I think we sold it with 350K miles on it, and it's probably still running today. I looked at a recent Tacoma, and was shocked at how huge they'd gotten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux#Third_generation_...

(I took the Stanford nanoscale materials science class this summer, and we all had a good laugh. Graphene is very interesting, but it’s subject to the hype cycle.)

“The only thing graphene can’t do is make it out of the lab.”

I think the other critiques of is article are on point, but there was one quote that did resonate with me (as an Apple user and developer since the ][ ):

“Seriously Apple, what is going on with the QA department there?”

I specifically don't want weight loss greater than 1-2lbs/wk -- slow and steady wins the race.

Trying to change a very complex set of equilibria too quickly is a recipe for disaster.

I know it's just one data point, but I've been doing a very mild form of intermittent fasting (more time-restricted eating) since June, and have been very happy with the results. (I stop eating by 8pm, don't start again until noon, but haven't done much in terms of changing what I'm actually eating.) At 5'5", I went from 156lbs. to 143 (goal is 135), and it's been relatively easy.

Your mileage may vary, of course, but I feel great. This was inspired by a paper I read (I believe linked-to in this article, but I'll have to track it down later.)

https://www.the-scientist.com/features/running-on-empty-3143...

I know you're being snarky, but at the same time, you're not wrong. Too much of a theoretically "good thing" is still too much.

Gah, that's awful. It looks more like the branding for a protein bar: "New EXTREME library to the maaaaax! Get some!!"

...by a little bit (mostly due to Boeing's greater familiarity with NASA paperwork requirements.)

"Based on NASA's "schedule risk analysis" from April, the agency estimates that Boeing will reach this milestone sometime between May 1, 2019, and August 30, 2020. For SpaceX, the estimated range is August 1, 2019, and November 30, 2020. The analysis' average certification date was December, 2019, for Boeing and January, 2020, for SpaceX."

Forty-one total samples? Um...its not quite anecdata, but call me when the N is a bit larger.

As a 5-generation Californian, I will address this in my native language:

"Dude, this is totally lame."

My guess would be that because more people are on PrEP, fewer people are using condoms.

The proximity of Stanford and Berkeley didn't hurt.

You may be thinking about some work that was done regarding mutational effects on conformation and expression. (Molecular biologists have known about it for a long time, but this was an interesting information-theoretical approach from a group of physicists.)

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-confirm-a-second-lay...

(Oh, and massive financial shenanigans.)

What they promised is theoretically possible, but they ran afoul of the huge practical problems that made people with actual biology and engineering backgrounds (like myself) very, very skeptical.

Exactly. This is why Proposition 13, limiting annual property tax increases, passed in California in the 70s. (It's now widely maligned by outsiders, but they're usually not interested in the history.)

I will say that my best investment by far has been real estate, followed by typical 401k index funds. (Pre-IPO stock options have been hit or miss.)

The best advice I can give is to live below your means; it doesn't mean you have to deny yourself everything, but going out 5x/week vs 2x/week really does add up over the years.

Worked like a charm for me, after a little tweaking of the source code. (My use case was a 70-year-old who couldn't remember which code she used on her phone.)

I'm hoping that the next generation of designers mocks it as dated and embarrassing and embraces something ultra-baroque just to spite them.

It will be hilarious.