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ampdepolymerase··on Ferrofluid display cell Bluetooth speaker
Won't the ferrofluid increase impedance and cause changed frequency response?
ampdepolymerase··on Atlas, a hopefully better engineering IDE
Reminds me of https://blockpad.net/
ampdepolymerase··on Tesla Model 3 Owners Are the Happiest Car Owners, According to Consumer Reports
Less things to be unhappy about when you are well off.
ampdepolymerase··on PocketPCR
PCR is literally the lowest hanging fruit. It is a glorified rice cooker. There are many bigger open hardware problems to tackle in biology such as sequencing, anything optics related, and general process automation. It is not good for hardware and software people entering the field to get distracted with making PCR machines.

To put it in context, take for example web collaborative software. They are very hard to build correctly and get right so most collaborative software in general are close sourced SaaSes. Imagine if a bunch of native/desktop software engineers decided to take a look at the problem and suggest that, hey, we need more open source real time collaborative software so let's build yet another web framework. Another web framework isn't needed and doesn't solve the problem! The problem is lack of correct CRDT and operational transform libraries. We don't need yet another web framework. I hope this analogy makes sense because everytime a biology thread comes up on HN the discussion pivots to "how can I help by focusing on x y z bioinformatics etc" and completely misses the point. Hard problems sometimes need to be tackled head on.

Leave low hanging fruits to academia and interns. If you are a software/hardware engineer with >5 years of experience then recreating the Todo MVC equivalent in biomedical engineering isn't helping anyone. Many of the bio posts here feels like those low effort and inaccurate web dev tutorials on medium.com written by bootcamp grads that would never make it to the front of HN, but for some reason the people here are happy to swallow the equivalent in life science hook, line, and sinker.

ampdepolymerase··on Why psychology isn’t science (2012)
We do have replicable, quantifiable, social psychology. Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are infamous for that. Unfortunately whenever experiments are carried out, you get end up with an uproar over issues of privacy, accountability, and informed consent.
ampdepolymerase··on When people ate people, a strange disease emerged (2016)
Many things. In CS, gossip-protocol based DB systems. In chemistry and physics, phase transitions. Many processes like nucleation/crystallization during freezing are very similar.

When simulated, the code generally resembles cellular automata. Look up Ising model simulation if you want a better understanding.

ampdepolymerase··on Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (2001-2016)
You can just try attacking Apple's M1 since the technologies are quite similar.
ampdepolymerase··on Fediverse.Party – Explore Federated Networks
Gab is living testimony that an AGPL-powered Fediverse can be successful.
ampdepolymerase··on How the Pentagon started taking UFOs seriously
But they do cover hackers. How often do you see non-western news media discussing state sponsored cyber attacks? The whole "we have been hacked and we think XYZ APT did it" is almost exclusive to the anglosphere. Most other countries don't talk about it on prime time news unless there is a physical fallout.
ampdepolymerase··on Show HN: A RISC-V core in Racket
Can you do a write up on the lower level algorithms like place and route, circuit constraints solving optimization, the process from the netlist stage to autorouting? The engineering behind VHDL and Verilog systems are way too opaque for most software engineers.
ampdepolymerase··on Florida bill to fine social media for banning politicians
Good, the question of whether social media with large scale is considered a public square needs to be answered.
ampdepolymerase··on An Update on the UMN Affair
When a state level attacker carries out a successful attack via the kernel, then the developer community will hide behind shocked_pikachu.jpeg and call for more social engineering and red team training for the Linux foundation. Until then, people are happy being complacent and any attempt to change the status quo will be met with hostility.
ampdepolymerase··on Better drainage of brain debris improves Alzheimer's disease therapies
I did say if you are willing to bend some ethics.
ampdepolymerase··on Artist faked being a billionaire to photograph New York City’s best views
At least she did not manage to convince herself that she really is a billionaire heiress and start raising funds to build art museums.
ampdepolymerase··on Better drainage of brain debris improves Alzheimer's disease therapies
If you are willing to bend some ethics, brain organoids and other similar organ-on-chip solutions are quite promising. Though it is important to note that scaled down brains may not necessarily express the same behavior vis-a-vis a full sized human cortex.
ampdepolymerase··on New AI tool calculates materials’ stress and strain based on photos
A better way would be for the neural network to generate input parameters for Finite Element Method solvers.
ampdepolymerase··on Microsoft is moving on from Calibri as the default Office font
Since all five looks like Segoe, they should just go with Segoe.
ampdepolymerase··on Show HN: Jumprope – Terminal-like commands for the Chrome search bar
What is the economics of Forward Email? How are they able to afford such low pricing when other incumbents like improvMX and forwardMX are much more pricier?
ampdepolymerase··on Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster
If Mighty is feeling cavalier they can cut some of the JS sandboxing and go straight to hypervisor level sandboxing.
ampdepolymerase··on Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster
Most remote X server setups have high latency.
ampdepolymerase··on The Evolution of Forth
Chuck Moore should release his colorForth OKAD EDA suite into the public domain as soon as possible. He is not getting any younger and things like Google's Skywater collaboration could really help in popularizing low-overhead self-contained systems.
ampdepolymerase··on Show HN: A simple self-hostable Machine Translation service
Very impressive! I was expecting a naive encoder decoder model. I did not expect a full transformer network. The fact that this is being done in Go is absolutely incredible.
ampdepolymerase··on Web developer's guide to AVIF images
Ah, the good ole' React license trick. Where is the mob outrage? Or are web developers so fickle to not care outside of JavaScript frameworks? Video encoding standards are much lower on the stack and the potential for damage is much greater compared to a website.
ampdepolymerase··on Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens Repeats Uber Playbook, Loses Staff
Yes, he should be consistent and put that on the menu too.
ampdepolymerase··on Wildtype: Sushi-grade salmon grown from Pacific Salmon cells
There is debate about whether their technology is truly novel or whether it is just hype as soy protein based food manufacturing is not exactly new. Their most important technological achievement appears to be the artificial heme that they were able to source from a plant origin.
ampdepolymerase··on Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
I am specifically enquiring about Ryzen based processors as anything CUDA related does not work with AMD and AMD has poor software support for ML in general.
ampdepolymerase··on Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
The NT kernel/hypervisor is a marvel of software engineering but unfortunately it is not as easy to teach in OS classes compared to Unix/Linux family systems.
ampdepolymerase··on Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
Will ROCm or Pytorch GPU work on Ryzen processors with this new update?
ampdepolymerase··on Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer
It's like "a little bird told me".
ampdepolymerase··on Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer
Indeed, how convenient. If it truly did fall off the truck right while he is on a walk then there is the possibility that is a rubber duckie attack. This is basically the equivalent of leaving a USB flash drive lying around. I hope the author took the necessary precautions when reverse engineering the device. Companies like cellebrite have deep connections to certain three letter communities that staging this sort of attacks trivial.
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