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shellfishgene··on OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
I paid for OsmAnd+ a long time ago, now it asks me to pay a monthly 2.99 Eur for OsmAnd Pro it seems?
shellfishgene··on Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery
In the end it may still make financial sense, the price for electricity often goes down to near zero or even below.
shellfishgene··on Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery
They heat it by blowing hot air through it, that needs loose, evenly sized material.
shellfishgene··on Positron, a New Data Science IDE
I was wondering for a while already why Posit had seemingly dropped the ball on AI support in RStudio...
shellfishgene··on Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees
Often ecosystem quality is measured by diversity, eg number of species. Diverse ecosystems are considered more resilient.
shellfishgene··on How to Catch a Wily Poacher in a Sting: A Thermal Robotic Deer
Is this not "entrapment"? I thought this was illegal, like setting up a unsecured bike to catch bike thieves.
shellfishgene··on I know genomes and I didn’t delete my data from 23andMe
Yes the 0.02% thing is a bit disingenuous because he knows better: the bases the chip covers were specifically picked because they are variable in the human genome. They don't have "your genome", but as most of it is the same for everyone those 640k snps give much more information than 0.02% of the letters of a book would.
shellfishgene··on Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age
Yes it's not lightweight, but I haven't really found any better ssh client for Windows.
shellfishgene··on Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection
https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
shellfishgene··on Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power?
Would it not be a much better test to measure power draw for say 10 min with the seconds on and then off, for 10 cycles or so? Rather than waiting for the battery to run down. I guess it's more difficult for a laptop as your have to measure in between battery and laptop, but it should be easy for a desktop (maybe one with laptop CPU).
shellfishgene··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
The linked post comes to the conclusion that Groks behavior is probably not intentional.
shellfishgene··on Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishing
These types of time series are super important, but hard to finance as they often only yield cool papers after decades.
shellfishgene··on Eastern Baltic cod grow much smaller than they did due to overfishing
This is about Eastern Balic cod, so theoretically genes from, for example, Norwegian cod could be spliced in. However body size is usually a polygenic trait with potentially hundreds of genes involved, so that's not possible.
shellfishgene··on Why Do Swallows Fly to the Korean DMZ?
Kim asked me, “Do you know what the function of an estuary is?” [...] “This is where salt and freshwater meet and purifies the water so that it can flow as freshwater into the country,” Kim explained. “Isn’t that remarkable?”

That would indeed be remarkable if it were true, do I just not understand what this is supposed to mean?

shellfishgene··on Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off
> miticides (which are insecticides, btw Mites are not insects, so miticides are not necessarily insecticides, no?
shellfishgene··on Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor
Yes, this is weird. I said something like "I want to learn Spanisch to go shopping" and it just added "That's great" to my sentence.

Also for the flash cards the audio that says the word starts at the same time with the audio for the example sentence.

shellfishgene··on We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s, only nobody knew
Note this is a different paper from that discussed in the article. The new one is https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu9677
shellfishgene··on The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over humanity's origins
Indeed, I've come across enough of those kinds of researchers, scientific knowledge comes a distant second on the list of priorities to bolstering their own ego.
shellfishgene··on The impossible predicament of the death newts
It's more likely that a mutation in the gene/pathway arose multiple times independently, instead of one spreading through the population.
shellfishgene··on Sodern launches Astradia, a star tracker for GNSS-denied navigation
Also a bit pricey at 250k Eur...
shellfishgene··on Merlin Bird ID
BirdNET-Go is nice, it runs on any linux box (raspi included) and can also analyze RTSP streams, so you can just connect any security camera audio you may already have outside.
shellfishgene··on Merlin Bird ID
Birdnet let's you upload audio files to analyze, if that's what you mean. https://birdnet.cornell.edu/
shellfishgene··on Merlin Bird ID
Try Pl@antNet, https://plantnet.org/en/ Seek is nice as it's all on device and works offline, but I think Pl@ntNet is better for identification.
shellfishgene··on Merlin Bird ID
You mean BirdNet-Pi? That's just for a Raspi, but have a look at the above mentioned BirdNet-Go, that runs on any Linux box.

The guy you replied to probably was talking about the BirdNet Android/iOS app, which also identifies birds by sound, similar to Merlin.

shellfishgene··on Merlin Bird ID
It's very nice, I prefer it to Birdnet-pi. It's been running very well for a few months now. It's cool to see the daily and seasonal changes in the detections.
shellfishgene··on Japanese scientists develop artificial blood compatible with all blood types
I think most transfusions after blood loss are also only red blood cells, so all these other functions are not transferred.
shellfishgene··on Finland announces migration of its rail network to international gauge
Yes, but the tracks themselves are labeled if you zoom in on the map.
shellfishgene··on Comma 3X: Initial Impressions
So in the US you can replace/add hardware to your car and install some open source software on it that takes over steering and braking, and this is legal? I'm amazed. Here I can't even install an aftermarket blinker if it does not have the correct certificates, ID numbers and documents, to be carried in the car at all times.
shellfishgene··on Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner
Maybe check out this for ideas? https://youtu.be/qMYBwbTIL-0
shellfishgene··on There are two types of dishwasher people
Note that European dishwashers are quite different in a few aspects.
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