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Genomes are sequenced when they're both accessible and are of scientific/economic interest. This results in an overrepresentation of: - Humans and their pathogens - Economically im…

Right, the furin cleavage site seems to have occurred independently in SARS-CoV-2 or one of its undiscovered close relatives.

That’s still incorrect. MERS is a Betacoronavirus and has a furin cleavage site: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/111/42/15214.full.pdf Furin clevage sites haven’t been found else…

Using the number of BLAST hits as the basis of an argument is about as reliable as using the number of results when searching for a string on GitHub. Without further analysis of th…

That’s not correct, furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...

Nuclear weapons do not have situational awareness. They’re intended to be used as part of a larger deployment system with a human in the loop. There’s no threat model for them that…

Existing Intel software (with potentially broken version checks) will work on ARM Macs under emulation. Once they rebuild with the new SDK they'll get the receive the correct versi…

That converts miles to approximate hectometres.

The T2 chip is a derivative of the A10. It has similar power requirements to the SOC in modern iPhones. They could probably use a cut down derivative of the W2 chip used in AirPods…

The way I’ve approached it in my compiler [1] is that garbage collection can never occur while Lisp/RFI (Rust function interface) code is executing. Once the program returns to the…

You’re not parsing XML at that point. You’re parsing a text based data format that looks superficially like XML. This can work if you strictly control the encoder but it’s not gene…

The flip side of time dilation is Lorentz contraction. As you approach the speed of light objects in your direction of motion will become shortened from your frame of reference. Fo…

This is a concern but it usually works for two reasons: 1. Most firmware is sufficiently broken that Linux drivers are already hardened against devices being brought up in arbitrar…

iOS 11 removed support for 32bit applications. Because the iPhone X requires iOS 11 I’m not aware of any way to run 32bit code on A11 processors and above. A32 support is likely al…

There is Barycentric Coordinate Time which is the time from a hypothetical clock at rest at the centre of mass of the Solar System. This is easier to calculate across spacecraft th…

Presumably this would interact poorly with FaceID’s attention aware features. iOS periodically activates the front facing camera while unlocked to determine if you’re paying attent…

Approximately 90% of billionaires are male. It seems to have quite a lot to do with gender.

This quote was inside a list of negative experiences with WKWebView. It wasn’t intended to be positive.

You can’t set FS/GS from user space on x64-64 until the FSGSBASE instructions were introduced in Ivy Bridge. The kernel only needs to be involved as its privilege is needed to set …

Vietnam has 95 million people and a larger economy than Greece. I would consider it a major country.

It's contributed to the open source ARM desktop/server community quite a bit. While ARM has had first class support in for embedded and mobile for a long time people weren't really…

It's being mentioned more during product launches than it used to be. For example, Apple heavily promoted the iPhone XS's 7nm SOC where previously it wouldn't have been mentioned. …

Changes to the language spec do not have to be backward incompatible. 8 of the 11 Go 1.x releases have had changes to the language spec.

Another use case is dealing with tokens that assume globally synchronised clocks such as JWTs and Kerberos/Active Directory. Ideally all clocks would be perfectly synchronised but …