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Antibodies on this scale are not _produced_ by animals. The way these things work is an antibody that binds to a specific target will be _discovered_ by immunizing animals and then…

Isn't that exactly what they're doing here? My understanding is Deno is asking the courts to invalidate Oracle's JavaScript trademark, making it a generic term in the public domain…

It worth noting that the power of the neural engine doubled between the A16 and A17 chips (17 vs 35 TOPS, according to Wikipedia), while the A15 to A16 was a much more modest incre…

Unfortunately, since 2013 Opera is also built on Chromium. They dropped Presto a long time ago.

The article says this system in Vancouver has 300% efficiency, so seems like a problem that works a lot better at scale.

There's power in bargaining as a collective, whether you're a collective of ten or ten thousand. Either way, it helps with the power imbalance between employees and management.

Good news, Apple just announced they'll start supporting RCS next year. https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/breaking-apple-will-...

I've stopped using Uber in my city (Vancouver) and gone back to traditional taxis because they're providing a more reliable service at equivalent or cheaper prices. The last few ti…

Interestingly, there appears to be some localization with that page. I'm in Canada and see: hello :maple leaf: -> bonjour :fleur-de-lis:

That's funny, I tried Go for Advent of Code last year and got through the first 10 days or so without any real difficulty, having never written a line of it before. Just as there a…

I've heard so many people say that Ruby is really easy to pick up and work with and for some reason I've had the exact opposite experience. I have tried to learn Ruby at least thre…

The relative costs didn't change for me significantly, I was paying 2600/month USD in rent in the Bay and 2700 CAD in Vancouver, so while it was a significant paycut if you look at…

I really liked San Diego when I visited, if I was going to return to the US, I'd seriously consider San Diego.

I am a US citizen who moved to Vancouver from the Bay Area three years ago. I took a small pay cut when I moved (from ~135k USD to ~125k CAD, after a few years of raises I'm over 1…

My mother was a teacher before she retired to a different state than she'd worked in. She now has to file income taxes in the state she receives the pension from and the state she …

It's worth noting that roughly half of Canada's population lives in the Quebec-Windsor Corridor [0] (the land between Quebec City, QC and Windsor, ON). This region is really the Ca…

This is why the lifetime of the creator should have nothing to do with copyright terms. All works get a fixed term of 20, 30, whatever years, if the creator dies before that term t…

I did a PhD and Post-doc in computational chemistry (focusing on quantum chemical simulations) in the late 2000s/early 2010s and nearly all the software I used was written partiall…

Which is also based entirely on their market dominance. I'm 100% convinced Google continues handing millions of dollars a year to Mozilla so Google can point at Firefox as competit…

I am pro-union and acknowledge that some unions will protect workers that don't actually contribute to the business, but I think we need a source on unions that drove companies int…

I actually don't see anything in the OP's comment to indicate whether they are pretending COVID has gone away or accepted that it has become endemic, it's clear that we both interp…

Given that the EU and US are both seeing around 100,000 new cases daily, no, I don't think the world has moved on. In the US and Canada (can't speak to other countries), we've coll…

In my last two jobs, one in the Bay Area and one in Vancouver, my usual schedule has been arrive at 9, take a 45-60min lunch, leave at 5 and I've never had anyone tell me I'm not w…

I've been seeing this problem too at $JOB. Amusingly, the people on my team that use Firefox don't have these issues, but the Chrome users are seemingly losing the ability to scree…

I actually ran up against this exact problem of IDEs being ubiquitous in the JVM ecosystem at a previous job. The company had just released a new SDK to access a data repository. S…