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137 karma · joined July 30, 2013

Neuroscience researcher located in Cambridge, MA
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vex··on Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows
Same. I had a troubled childhood and many D's in high school. If it wasn't for me studying really hard and getting a 2320 on the SAT, I wouldn't have gotten into any school, but that was enough for UCLA to take a chance on me.
vex··on Lessons from ten nations about building affordable, low-carbon neighborhoods
Not my experience. Standard japanese apartments are cheaply constructed, cramped and often unheated. Definitely a lower standard of living.
vex··on Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
With chrome flow tab ui I can rapidly scroll through full width page previews, and I can initiate this by swiping from the top down. In Firefox the tab previews are so small as to be almost useless, and I have to press a button.
vex··on Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
Still not as good. With chrome flow tab ui I can rapidly scroll through full width page previews, and I can initiate this by swiping from the top down. In Firefox the tab previews are so small as to be almost useless, and I have to press a button.
vex··on Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up
Personally, I use Firefox on PC and would love to use it on my phone.

Literally the only reason I use Chrome instead is because of the flow ui tab switching. I just can't stand the Firefox mobile UI for tab switching. I with there was an extension or something to change it. It's a huge shame.

vex··on Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with sync
I switched to Joplin from folders of text files in dropbox. I'm on Windows and I don't want to pay. It's barely better.

The fact that it forces you to write in markdown, or use external WYSIWYG editors is a massive downside. Even if I wanted to type in markdown, that means I have to keep switching between a markdown pane and a preview pane, like straight-up LaTeX. That's wayyy beyond what I want to deal with for notes.

Notes should be quick and easy. If they did this I'm sure it would be much easier for people to switch.

vex··on YC 120
If you don't have anything interesting to say about yourself or your ambitions, maybe you just aren't that interesting of a person...
vex··on Ghost in the Shell Official Trailer
It's ironic that you care about race here as people have transcended race in the works of Ghost in the Shell (people can easily inhabit a completely different body, even a non-humanoid one). I hope this world comes about soon so we don't have to worry about racial crap anymore.
vex··on Ghost in the Shell Official Trailer
Here's a bad-quality version of the opening; the original composer came back to make a new version of the iconic song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5amv-vqUFo

vex··on Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
I'm trying to work toward that goal every day in my lab! Sure would be helpful if a billionaire hired me though. Kernel is the closest thing we have to an industry effort, but they don't quite know exactly what they're doing yet.
vex··on Life in the People’s Republic of WeChat
Anyone know if there's been any sort of security audit for WeChat? I'm basically forced to use it and I'm sure the Chinese government must've put some kind of backdoor in it.
vex··on Becoming a Professor
Really? Because I feel like the comment sections here are usually people being positive and agreeing with each other, while dissenting opinions are silenced.
vex··on Visiting Chelsea Manning in prison
I'm guessing with the amount of money that the U.S. invests in each soldier, there's a pretty overriding impetus to not disqualify people from positions that need people to fill them.
vex··on SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls
Their software is good, but their hardware? Awful. PFsense doesn't know how to do reliable hardware at all.
vex··on How I found one of the earliest browsers on a NeXTcube
What's with all the secrecy?
vex··on Lyft Burning Cash on the Way to $500M Round
I've been really disappointed with Lyft, even as I've used it for over 100 rides. The driver quality has been getting worse and worse. I got an email months ago telling me that I had gotten enough rides to be in the top 10% and be a part of "Lyft Nation", and then never heard about that again. And today they tried to get me to buy Justin Bieber music of all things, right from the app.

So I downloaded Uber today. I really wanted to like you Lyft, but your problems are of your own doing.

vex··on The Last Days of Kathy Acker
Ugh, homeopathy and people who hate modern medicine.
vex··on IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips
Why exactly do you care so much?
vex··on Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (2012)
The title of this article is base clickbait...
vex··on The Man Who Solved the Mysterious Cicada 3301 Puzzle
So what was the math problem?
vex··on [dead]
As someone with no knowledge of the situation, can someone explain to me why the opinions brought up by a google search of his name are invalid?
vex··on The Dropbox terabyte conundrum
Whine whine whine, I have a mac, whine whine whine

get a computer with actual expandable storage

vex··on Scientists have developed a material so dark that it can't be seen
>Just covering with a lens cap would seem to be a simpler way of accomplishing that

I'm sure it's a bit more complicated than that.

>Really? I can't think of any better way of describing black.

Good for you...? You must not be a scientist.

vex··on Cicada 3301
Like the header says, it had been paraphrased/had structure modified to remove watermarking elements unique to each individual it was sent to.
vex··on 4chan Intrusion Postmorterm
Way to not give any details about the vulnerability...
vex··on Man Denies He's Bitcoin Founder
Looks like Newsweek is going to have to deal with some pretty heavy fallout, seeing as they've already gone to print: https://twitter.com/KiraBind/status/441683373665554433/photo...
vex··on Girls and Software
I saw plenty of beheading videos and weird pornography on kazaa when I was 11-12. And I turned out just fine today, thanks.
vex··on Gmail was down
A better question is, why isn't there an open source webmail service like gmail that can be run on a server you control? My lab uses Gmail for business, and the outage took us down too.

I just want to be able to run an email server that has conversation features, contacts, XMPP chat, etc, but isn't Microsoft Exchange

vex··on How I went from 100 to 0 things (or how I was robbed of all my stuff)
>literally worthless

I don't think you understand hacking...

vex··on Dell Wasn't Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It's Only $699
I have HD 485s, but even at the loosest setting I can't wear them for more than 30 minutes because of the way they feel on the tips of my ears.
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