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Re: Debug Project

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Post by mesrik »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #45
hackyhacky wrote: post #7

The domain name reminds me of the venerable DOS "debug.com" command, which managed to combine an interactive and scriptable debugger, assembler, and disassembler into a program weighing a few kilobytes. I spent many long hours in my youth using it to reverse engineering copy protection on games. I really wish we had a similar tool for the modern era.

The DEBUG utility was originally named DEBUG.COM in early versions of MS-DOS, but it was renamed to DEBUG.EXE starting with MS-DOS 3.2 Shoutout to the 12 of us who remember debug> g=c800:5

Sure I remember, but since I purchased Spinrite doing lowlevel was needed just once while changing ST-506 controller to a different type or for a new disk, former was quite much rarer needed.

Then even after std lowlevel it was worth using Spinrite to check if interleave value was proper. And if it wasn't it was worth letting it first before anything else. Same when changing a faster CPU as it could speed up IO so much that no interleave would not needed any more and get faster IO.

Spinrite was such a great tool and time saver fixing or making preventive periodic maintenance to customers disks, even though it chugged hours even 30M disks. And just because not to take absolutely any risk it was necessary to make full backup first, which that took quote long also. LapLink was a great tool for that, before LAN became more common.

Re: Debug Project

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Post by zarzavat »

obezyian wrote: post #83
classichasclass wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ae. aegypti is not native to California. We won't miss it. This is addressed in their FAQ as well: "The general consensus among scientists is that the ecological impact of removing Aedes aegypti mosquitoes from urban environment would be small. They are not a significant food source for other animals and are invasive to many areas. The main ecological impact would be to restore the ecosystem to how it was before the…

> They are not a significant food source for other animals In Indonesia for one they are. Every night, countless geckos come out, both indoors and outdoors, and start hunting for mosquitoes. Even lullabies sing about it [1]. The above song is so popular that it got an AI parody [2]. I'm curious what food chain reaction this will start if successful. [1]: https://youtu.be/dOhHiwWwXFw [2]: https://youtu.be/c6Ad8WAigdQ

The geckos can eat other insects, they are not obligated to eat aedes aegypti. You would need to identify a creature that can't eat anything else, and then justify why humans have to die in order to support that creature's extremely selective diet.

Re: Debug Project

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Post by coolness »

ryanseys wrote: post #65

I had a lot of fun building this marketing website for Debug back when I worked at Verily in 2016. Crazy that despite their progress behind the scenes, they appear to have not touched this website since. I probably spent a little too much time tweaking the CSS to get the mosquitoes to not overlap the text on various viewport sizes :)

Good work! The animations are super cool, how did you make them?

Re: Debug Project

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Post by zarzavat »

defrost wrote: post #84
obezyian wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They are not a significant food source for other animals In Indonesia for one they are. Every night, countless geckos come out, both indoors and outdoors, and start hunting for mosquitoes. Even lullabies sing about it [1]. The above song is so popular that it got an AI parody [2]. I'm curious what food chain reaction this will start if successful. [1]: https://youtu.be/dOhHiwWwXFw [2]: https://youtu.be/c6Ad8WAigdQ

What's the worst that can happen? The extermination of sparrows – also known as the Eliminate Sparrows campaign – resulted in severe ecological imbalance, and was one of the causes of the Great Chinese Famine which lasted from 1959 to 1961, with an estimated death toll due to starvation ranging in the tens of millions (15 to 55 million). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign Though that's unlikely to foll…

The choice is not between making one species of mosquito extinct or doing nothing.

The choice is between making one species of mosquito extinct or using traditional mosquito control methods such as removing standing water. The traditional methods affect many different insects not just mosquitoes. Attacking specifically the species that are vectors for disease is the more ecologically sound method.

If we could remove the insects that carry disease then the outcome could be more insects overall, because people will be more willing to have ponds, etc.

Re: Debug Project

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Post by pzo »

jstanley wrote: post #92

Why does releasing infertile males prevent the fertile males from reproducing? Are mosquitoes pair-bonding??

I had the same question when reading website - really poorly explained. Not sure why they also advertise that those genetically modified males are non biting and harmless - all males mosquitos are like that.
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