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titaniumtown··on This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. and It's Manmade
> Human Genome: About 20,000 protein coding genes.

> E. Coli: A lab strain of the E. Coli bacterium use for research has 4,460 genes.

> SpudCell: This new synthetic cell only has 36 genes.

Wow, so little genes even compared to E. Coli! Things like this make me wonder what the minimum number of genes is required to maintain functionality for cells in species we have all around us. There isn't much evolutionary pressure to do the genetic equivalent of dead code removal (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equisetum_arvense) besides the ability to copy the genes.

My other first impression is the potential similarities to alien contact. What if these cells, once given the ability to reproduce autonomously, become widespread around the globe, with no way for our, and other species', immune systems to prevent their consumption of biomatter, or whatever is made to be their "food".

titaniumtown··on Why is Europe the fastest warming continent?
If the AMOC collapses, they will soon be the fastest cooling continent as most of their heat is brought up from the equator.
titaniumtown··on A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide
The fact that there are cameras is fine. But the issue is who owns the data, what is done with it, and what the end goal is. And with Flock cameras, DHS gets backend access and shares that infomation with ICE, for example: https://komonews.com/news/local/redmond-pd-completely-suspen...

I am in favor of traditional traffic cameras, I just don't think analytics and facial recognition systems should be hooked up to them. They should be used for archival purposes, scrubbing back to a date of a crime to get the full picture.

titaniumtown··on A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide
As Ben Franklin said:

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

You are giving up your right to privacy for some modicum of security that they train AI on and gets added to a national database.

titaniumtown··on Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order
> Have control over somebody else's organism

What does that even mean? Are you an InfoWars fan? lol

titaniumtown··on Chernobyl wildlife forty years on
What does that project have to do with the above comment?
titaniumtown··on Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session
I had it hallucinate a tool that didn't exist, it was very frustrating!
titaniumtown··on A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation
> After printing the line, a popup opened and my camera was activated. The app wanted me to submit my information, presumably to decide what to do with me next time I enter China.

Was this on your personal device? I'm just wondering how it activated your camera. I would love more details!

titaniumtown··on Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid
That made me very weary about this service. But I like the connections they have with other trusted organizations like the EFF and GrapheneOS. Still sketchy though.
titaniumtown··on Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance
Installed! Lets see how this goes. I'm going through previous interactions I've had with people.
titaniumtown··on Pebble Production: February Update
I use your service every day. Thank you so much
titaniumtown··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
> Does it mean that even people who reside outside jurisdictions touched by the age verification craze will have to deal with all this?

Yes, it's global

titaniumtown··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Every 90 days? Wow. Can you elaborate on how that logically works? Like what about for doctors offices having your number on file and other similar situations.
titaniumtown··on IEA: Declining coal demand in China set to outweigh Trump's pro-coal policies
I like the progress China is making on clean energy.

I don't know how to put it, but the narrative around "cancelling out" (in the article, not the title) carbon makes me uncomfortable. Language such like this makes the problem of global co2 emissions seem less dire than it really is. I mean it's good work (not in the US) is being done on the problem, but nature doesn't care about "cancelling out" co2. It's just so frustrating seeing such a dirty source of energy being continued to be used.

titaniumtown··on Show HN: Why many AI-generated websites don't show up on Google
This sounds like an awful idea. Shouldn't it be good AI generated pages don't show up? That question is rhetorical.
titaniumtown··on X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents
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titaniumtown··on Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes
Yea, old server hardware can be super cheap! In my opinion though, the core counts are misleading. Those 24 cores are not compareable to the cores of today. Plus IPC+power usage are wildly different. YMMV on if those tradeoffs are worth it.
titaniumtown··on Git 3.0 Defaults to "main" Branch Instead of "master
I like "main" just because it's a cleaner word than "master", I never really had an attachment to the word "master" in itself.
titaniumtown··on Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward
AI slop comment.
titaniumtown··on Grokipedia and the coup against reality
"far left" "George Soros" Are you a bot? Or are you just trying to start internet arguments to inflate your own ego?
titaniumtown··on I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
Can you elaborate? I don't know what you are referring to.
titaniumtown··on Deepseek R1-0528
... What?
titaniumtown··on Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on an Error
This post reads like its an AI generated bot trying to stur something up.
titaniumtown··on Newtons Are a Unit of Mileage
I've actually done the same thing with modeling my car at different speeds! I used linear regression though haha. I have the same car too!What a coincidence. Time to compare homework!
titaniumtown··on Max Headroom
Site seems broken. I don't really know what its supposed to show.
titaniumtown··on One Head, Two Brains: The origins of split-brain research (2015)
Its a very interesting theory, either he's a genius or the theory is completely insane. I cannot decide which one.
titaniumtown··on Turn any bicycle electric
Thanks for the clarification! The more you kbow I guess haha.
titaniumtown··on Turn any bicycle electric
I would think the pedals would stay in the same position because of the back ratcheting. Think of when you're going down a hill and you hold your pedals still while accelerating down. I'm no bike expert though, I may be wrong haha.
titaniumtown··on TikTok goes dark in the US
I think we're beyond creating dangerous precedent at this point. He'll do what he wants and no one can stop him.
titaniumtown··on I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
I personally use Checkmarks: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/checkmarks-we...

It just opens every bookmark to load the favicon. Brute force, but it works!

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