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zbjornson

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About zbjornson

Microbiologist (virology) & immunologist by training. High-performance bioinformatics software dev by trade.

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    "Google Fi users are not subject to T-Mobile's collection and sale of app data." From the first expandable question on https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6181037?hl=en#zippy=%2C.…

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    SEEKING FREELANCER | UTC-4 to UTC-9 ish | Remote Seeking a web test automation engineer with in-depth knowledge of Cypress, Mocha and API testing (Supertest) (all JavaScript/TypeSc…

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    Quite a letdown that the solution for a web-based spreadsheet is for users to install a local backend. Might be a case for edge computing even. > WebAssembly has a single contiguou…

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    California residents, here's the data deletion form: https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request#california

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    Comment #35294651

    It turns out that collision among egg farmers is likely the actual cause of rising egg prices -- not avian flu or CA's new cage law. https://modernfarmer.com/2023/01/record-breakin…

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    Comment #34816677

    This is not quite right. I don't think any other pharmacy tests what they dispense. It's expensive, difficult, and the FDA doesn't seem to appreciate that their risk management str…

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    It's been built-in since December to Google Workspace premium tiers: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/12/format-displ...

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    Comment #32677449

    Medical appointment reminders and other medical communications have a special cutout in the TCPA, including reduced consent requirements. They annoy me too though; they're redundan…

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    "Virtual kitchens" (ghost kitchens) are encouraged by doordash as a way to diversify and boost revenue and stuff: https://get.doordash.com/en-us/blog/virtual-restaurant-brand They …

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    On the contrary, it could be easily mistaken for herpes, molluscum, warts, syphilis, acne, insect bites... This outbreak doesn't usually have the severe rash that's characteristic …

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    CellCarta (formerly Primity Bio) | USA and Canada | Senior Front-End or Full-Stack Dev | Remote Our team builds a high-performance bioinformatics data analysis SaaS application tha…

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    Comment #30676183

    They did. We got personalized emails for each account showing the effect on each project.

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    I feel the opposite. Everything I've used in GCP, I've understood and appreciated the design decisions behind. Most things I've used in AWS, I've wondered why they shipped it that …

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    This is an intervention study, not a double-blind, placebo-controlled RCT. Patients knew they were getting ivermectin and the control group knew they weren't. With an effect that s…

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    They're showing inhibition at 100 ug/ml, but it looks like high doses result in serum CBDA concentrations in the low 100s of ng/ml [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…

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    Comment #28835742

    CRCs have the awesome ability to be composed, and are many times faster to compute than SHAs with the best hardware acceleration.

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    Comment #28210737

    PerfkitBenchmarker has a boot timer like this (time to SSH) that works for all major cloud providers. https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker

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    You could pad the input as you said, which avoids a "tail loop," but otherwise you usually do a partial load (load To your last question specifically, if you _mm256_load_ps(&ys[i])…

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    Shameless plug: I made bson-to-json for more or less the same purpose with MongoDB: converting the raw BSON response from the DB directly to JSON strings. Saves lots of CPU cycles …

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    We have no idea how many drugs would work in humans but are not being considered because they don't work in animals. If we assume it's about the same as the number that work in ani…

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    CellCarta (formerly Primity Bio) | USA and Canada | Senior Front-End Dev | Remote Our team builds a high-performance bioinformatics data analysis SaaS application that researchers …