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mylons

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About mylons

you can find me at mrlyons at gmail

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    Comment #48813572

    haha. hubris thy name is tzumby. look up what isaac asimov had to say about genomic analysis.

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    Comment #48347110

    the entitlement people have towards free, open source software, is incredible. this isn’t even a “new” problem. if you were around in the early 00s or before you probably worked wi…

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    Comment #48346989

    what a fascinating take. i just scrolled the github thread. there’s very little, if any substance. your perception must be very interesting to have gleaned anything but seething AI…

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    Comment #47941577

    github hasn't absorbed agentic coding, though. agentic coding has absorbed it, and as a result it's quality is suffering. the thing about github that is so maddening is linus gave …

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    Comment #46647290

    my father made reading The Agony and The Ecstasy a requirement to go to Italy when I was a sophomore in high school. It's a thick tome, but a great read if you're a curious kid. as…

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    Comment #46268647

    last.fm was so promising when it came out but i have to say i didn’t discover anything using their platform. chatGPT is incredible, just giving it a single song and some context, i…

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    Comment #45984466

    i love you guys.

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    Comment #45984460

    haha — this is the exact comment i was hoping to see! indeed, i was joking. The Watchmen graphic novel is very important to me as it opened my eyes to the concept of “who watches t…

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    Comment #45978547

    This is GOLD Jerry, Gold. but who detects the down detector detecting the down detector detecting the down detector

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    Comment #45946242

    iran did this to themselves. any other view is simply insane.

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    Comment #45646423

    they’ll easily make this up at the parks at the new tron ares ride

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    Comment #45531057

    [flagged]

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    Comment #45507072

    are you dabbling at all in the “no build js” stuff that Rails 8 supports? i did it for that corporate project and their deploy time went from 30 minutes to 5 minutes. it’s also suc…

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    Comment #45506201

    i came back to rails after a very long hiatus to help a company bring a 10+ year old rails project to Rails 8.x.x from Rails 5. It took a bit to get back in the saddle, but every n…

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    Comment #45264558

    fwiw Heng Li was "the author." He was a postdoc under Durbin's professorship. I was around when bwa was developed and was working in a collaboration with Heng Li (I was working on …

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    Comment #45252009

    this is also the insight that the bwa developer had, to use the burrows-wheeler transform which is part of bzip2 due to it's compression properties being particularly good for geno…

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    Comment #44777465

    money is a proxy for value. the post i was responding to seemed to be pointing out how little value there is in something else.

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    Comment #44774206

    sure, but instagram was created by a handful of people with python and got a billion dollar exit in 2012.

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    Comment #44748025

    also text UIs have always attempted a sense of flashiness? your BIOS, DOS UI's back in the day, etc. the OP sounds oddly jaded by it for no particular reason?

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    Comment #44379738

    ya it's pretty FUCKED UP that HAMAS does that, and Iran funds it, isn't it? or do you think Israel just wants to slaughter people weaker than them because they can? if that was the…

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    Comment #44349774

    to say that is what is happening is completely disingenuous. seemingly something happened by the democratically elected government of Gaza on 10/7

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    Comment #44349767

    [flagged]

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    Comment #44349561

    is the destruction of gaza awful? yes. is it a genoicde? no. flippantly tossing words around devalues them and debases the conversation. https://worldpopulationreview.com/cities/pa…

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    Comment #44311491

    google gives you access to real SEO blog spam. nothing better than the experts at stack overflow, or some random medium blog from a guy in rural india