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I always wanted to ship a write-only database. Lightning fast.

Huh - I guess it is. I didn't know that! I guess that's why the world needs so much of it. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.19.633714v1

Plants build three-carbon sugars during photosynthesis by fixing a CO2 molecule onto a two-carbon chain with an enzyme called RuBisCO. In a typical "C3" plant, this happens relativ…

Love it!

I’d agree - but is it? Where I live (not a top-ten US metro area) we also have Lyft and a number of traditional cab companies. Uber is big, but by no means a monopoly.

I’m not a huge fan of Uber’s corporate policies in general, but help me understand what’s wrong with this. Isn’t this what any company would do: maximize revenue from customers whi…

One data point: I’ve taught a few times at a community college here in the US. Obviously, that’s through an established institution. It paid about $7k for a ten-week course.

It's worth mentioning that while some parts of law can be really arcane (parents, terms of service, etc.), Supreme Court decisions are generally pretty readable.

If Halide were an alarm clock, the explanation would be wholly unconvincing: the rejection only seems silly if you know what Halide is. “This is a camera app”, might be a better ex…

A good argument for restricting voting to actual attendees.

There’s something missing here. From what the Hudson Rock article shows, they were able to use an SE’s creds to access their demo account. This is not a customer account and should…

LEGEND is the follow-on project. https://legend-exp.org/

This is simply not correct. Selipsky did not found Tableau by a long stretch. He moved to Tableau from AWS, where he'd been for 11 years, and then went back five years later.

I don't know how to test this in an experimental way because I don't know how to make it repeatable. I can say anecdotally that I've used non-software patents to figure out how to …

One goal is to encourage inventors to publish their work, rather than hold them as trade secrets, so that others can learn from them -- and get eventually copy and extend them. I'v…

See the footnote on page 1: “Hereafter, we let n and m refer to the number of non-compactified space and time dimensions, or more generally to the effective spacetime dimensionalit…

Well, duh: they needed to make sure to run the script twice.

When I was in college, I had to take an assembly language course. It was on MIPS: 32 registers. One assignment said, roughly: - Read ten numbers into an array. - Sort the numbers i…

From the authors’ website: “You can't buy a hard copy of the 8th edition, but instead can rent (and then choose/pay to keep the hardcopy if you want a hard copy book). You can rent…

So this means it can actually do things now, at least in principle, right?

But may I take ducks home from the park?

And India actually suspended Al Jazeera for the same reason. https://time.com/3832585/india-al-jazeera-suspended-kashmir-...

Well I’ll be. Now how ‘bout a simple, quality bike? :)

Off topic, but does anyone make simple electric motorcycles? You know, a frame, battery, motor, etc., but without a connected app and all the goo that comes with it.