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greazy··on Air is full of DNA
Human DNA is relatively large. What's floating in the air is not going to be intact or complete.

Testing relies on amplifying many parts of the human DNA not just a small fragment.

The smaller the fragment the less precise the comparison.

So no, floating DNA does not meaningfully impact testing. It can impact PCR assays that target small regions for identification eg of viruses.

greazy··on Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game
Good call, thnaks for the correction. But there definitely was a sync bug.

Here's an old forum post discussing it

https://tl.net/forum/brood-war/352588-my-replays-are-broken

Here's a hacky patch that also documents some of the possible issues

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/Replay_Fix_for_1.16.1

It seems like the bug is related to pausing the game.

greazy··on Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game
Interesting you mention StarCraft. The replay feature could diverge off due to the non deterministic nature of the game.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21920508

greazy··on Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution
If you do cross the barrier, you could successfully mate with that mythical bird!
greazy··on Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution
The definition of what constitutes a species is a human construct.

Two bird populations living in the same locale but divided by a mountain range therefore not naturally breeding with each other would classify as a different species, even if they could breed with each other.

So your question is hard to answer.

greazy··on The peril of laziness lost
I much prefer the Napolean attributed joke version where diligent is replaced with energetic. It ends with Napolean being asked "but general what about the fourth group, stupid and energetic?"

"I have them shot".

greazy··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
Im an anxious person. I sweat from my hands due to anxiety and not dry hands.
greazy··on The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet
Optics. One can argue that Red Hat was working with DoD on just security. But after this white paper on how to better kill people, that facade has fallen over.

Before it was a maybe, now it's certainty.

Ambiguity is quiet comforting.

greazy··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
Oh wow I think I have a mild version of this.

Can it cause the plastic on the mouse to break down?

greazy··on Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects
They also use Google (USA) index. The president of USA is problematic for many reasons but lately he has been threatening war crimes and genocide.

Buy Russa is the only bad country in the world.

greazy··on Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?
I liked Win10, once you use ShutUp10 it was a solid OS minus a few annoyances.

But Win11 is horrendous. Watching the right click menu dynamocally and slowly populate with "open with" options is jaring.

Now add two right click menus is wild.

greazy··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
This embarrassing wanker

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-28/craig-wright-not-sato...

greazy··on The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing
I don't agree with both of the above analogies. Sometimes you must go in depth on a single paper, while other times it's broad research that's required. Different tools and methods for different tasks.

What your describing here

> reading the portions of those papers that you are interested in

Is a hybrid use of the technology which no one would argue against.

The question remains if students have the foresight to use the correct method and which results in the best learning outcomes.

For myself, I would have absolutely let LLMs summarise swaths of text and write my essays when I was at Uni. That's just me though. Maybe today's learners are better than I.

greazy··on The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing
The author did not outright suggest the banning of all technology. They even linked to a digital typewriter. After the very paragraph you quote, they suggest instead to offer a more human centric approach to helping disabled people. It's not a huge leap to suggest that your sister could continue to learn with the above two solutions; a disability tutor combined with a OLED screen.
greazy··on VR Realizes the Cyberspace Metaphor
The Nintendo DS fit in your pocket but it didn't hearld in mainstream gaming.

Gaming went mainstream because it went mainstream. Technogy improved, it became easy to setup and play (unlike a computer at the time), competition was high between Sony and MS which resulted in quick generational leaps. And finally, all the gamers grew up inviting more gamers to be gamers.

Once it became big money, gaming attracted attention propelling it further.

Like any technology, it's a combination of things that leads to high uptake.

My opinion is that VR will go mainstream when it becomes afford, useful and easy to use. IMO we are years away from good useful VR.

greazy··on Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
I completely disagree. I loved this article. I could feel the authors frustration and disdain for the software.

It was funny and helpful.

greazy··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
I hope you're doing better these days, friend. That sounded rough.
greazy··on Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
This is amazing info thank you.

What is the purpose of planting clover?

greazy··on Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
Ah yes the stoned ape hypothesis. I don't know if there is or will ever be evidence to support the hypothesis.

I also like the drunk monkey hypothesis.

greazy··on Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts
Haha that's next level insanity. This is why you build redundancy into very important things.
greazy··on Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
The myth that humans remain unchanged for 200k years is forever parroted as truth.

What is the origin of this silly myth? Its come from either anatomical similarity of fossils to modern day human or a comparison to modern (5k ago) humans being conflated with 200k humans

> convinced discourse commando.

What is a convinced discourse commando?

greazy··on Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
There needs to o be a distinction between creating a post and replying.

IMO New accounts should be restricted from creating new posts, or at least certain kinds of new posts.

Replying shouldn't be restricted. That is how users interact with each other and learn the etiquette of HN.

greazy··on Can coding agents relicense open source through a "clean room" implementation?
How is it considered clean room implementation when the model was near certainty trained on the original code base?
greazy··on Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores

    Liquod ass design
This made me laugh. I agree that's a plus! Auto updates are mostly bad. Look at the state of extensions on vscode. The permissions combined with silent updates is scary
greazy··on Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
The chop chop gesture is amazing. I love my G3 unfortunately it stopped recieving updates :( some apps are starting to get funky in weird ways
greazy··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
During the years which followed after the invasion, lots did, yes. This is first hand account btw. Now? I'm not sure as the country has mostly stablised.
greazy··on Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
That's the job of uBlock origin.

Eg here's a list

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist#...

greazy··on In world without BlackBerry, physical keyboards on phones are making a comeback
It's good but unfortunately doesn't support the same swipe features of fleksy. The swipe left to delete, swipe up or down for change or remember words are extremely useful.

Hope FUTO supports it in the future

greazy··on In world without BlackBerry, physical keyboards on phones are making a comeback
No! Trailing it out now...
greazy··on In world without BlackBerry, physical keyboards on phones are making a comeback
Android allows custom keyboards. I like fleksy a lot but it hasn't been updated in ages with bugs creeping in.
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