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This seems really nice as a sketchpad for small flowcharts. I'd definitely use it to map out a small piece of work, because I'm terrible at laying out flowcharts on scrap paper wit…

The breakdown of interest by subregion is... unsurprising.

I think people here (USA) see the news out of China/Italy and think it's not that bad here, without realizing we're 1-4 weeks away from starting to see how bad it will actually get…

Thanks. Didn't know this existed.

Seems interesting, but I can't read that without paying, and I probably lack the background necessary for it to be understandable.

Heh, It makes more sense if you think about it medically. Like, the gain or loss of function in a limb or organ. For a virus I suppose this would be function in reproduction.

From the Wiki page for Furin > ...must be cleaved by furin or furin-like proteases to become fully functional. Anthrax toxin, pseudomonas exotoxin, and papillomaviruses must be pro…

The phrase "gain of function" seems to mean the virus differs in some way that makes it more contagious or deadly.

The kind of tank design that appeared in World War I. They were designed to cross the cratered wastelands and trenches created by the fighting. The crews fought from gun ports and …

> Soviet tractor quality wasn't that bad, especially considering they shared a lot with tanks. Fun fact: The first tank (turreted, not land-whale) was based on a tractor design. Se…

This sounds like the seismological equivalent of bloodletting, and would be about as effective.

I have no idea if molten salt reactors are as awesome as this website represents them to be, but I thought the following point was interesting: "light water reactors can use only a…

My favorite example of this is the time it was used it to inject flappy bird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0

It's well documented in numerous reports that: 1. The position and size of the upgraded engines for the 737 MAX caused the plane to tend to pitch upwards, which could cause a stall…

It's interesting to me that the system would be designed to detect that a sensor is feeding it bad data, then go back to trusting that input after it had been determined to be bad.…

> Why would you want the IRS to duplicate this effort and compete with these companies? Is tax collection not a function of the government? I'd rather my taxes fund a free, easy ta…

@SarahTaber_bww is a really good twitter follow for people who want to learn interesting bits about agriculture & tech.

I think they mean we should prefer using stripped down base images, then installing ONLY what is needed for your application/ci+cd tasks to run.

This is a fun read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scan... Edit: looks like somebody already posted it while I got distracted reading it.

I eagerly await the day when all my games are electron apps that break because they can't load an old version of libnode.

I used thefuck for a little while, but have removed it since I found this gist https://gist.github.com/robmiller/6018582 The `git publish` alias eliminated the vast majority of my …

You should give it another go. I think Chris Thile is doing a great job carrying the show forward. They still do all the radio skit acts, but they've mixed in more live music. The …

> They might be a good answer for newbies that want to spend 100$ on a stock for the first time, but for anything else I will stay with Ameritrade. Thanks I don't think you're thei…

Finally made an account to post in this thread. I'm rather early in my career doing mostly Ruby, Python and JavaScript things. As you might expect, I consume mainly Ruby, Python an…