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New comment by tejtm in "Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business"

tejtm — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:18:58 +0000

complacent consumers.

Oh wait you meant something else,

Myself I am biased towards antique manual machines, if you are not in a hurry you can push them beyond what we might expect.

New comment by tejtm in "AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome"

tejtm — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:26:36 +0000

no, furthermore I have never deliberately interacted with one.

Surely you could not think the message was to you only on this very public forum.

New comment by tejtm in "AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome"

tejtm — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:47:10 +0000

gfp --- green fluorescent protein

glow in the dark jelly fish bits that biologist stick in other critters to see if, when and where it shows up (under a blacklight).

New comment by tejtm in "Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death"

tejtm — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:40:37 +0000

old.reddit is no longer available (to no account me) as of a week ago.

a few withdrawal pangs, but the mainstream version is a nope.

New comment by tejtm in "Lion-man"

tejtm — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:27:25 +0000

Ahh the good old Nacirema

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema

New comment by tejtm in "Evade Reddit account tracking, keep old.reddit.com layout while logged out"

tejtm — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:03:30 +0000

@dang this functionality deserves a second chance bump (no affiliation and have not vetted code)

New comment by tejtm in "Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny"

tejtm — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:05:11 +0000

Except the part where where alcohol metabolizes into aldehyde species which cause double strand DNA breaks faster than we can repair them and we get moderate cancers ... but other than that it is great (ignoring the behavioral aberrations).

New comment by tejtm in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

tejtm — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:05:04 +0000

A step further "novel" life (hence still simpler) made from the same raw materials as existing life would look exactly like decomposing existing life and be routinely scavenged for material.

New comment by tejtm in "A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway"

tejtm — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:32:49 +0000

python you say?

Pray tell which one of the myriad is the true one?

And do not worry, no one would be rash enough to bring in external dependencies it is just too darn inconvenient.

I should probably drink my coffee before posting, be less grumpy.

New comment by tejtm in "Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds"

tejtm — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:09:25 +0000

I stand corrected and will now go RTFM

edit: thats great... addressed in the first paragraph.

New comment by tejtm in "Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds"

tejtm — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:03:49 +0000

probably not as much as doing anything non sedentary

New comment by tejtm in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

tejtm — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:19:39 +0000

Thanks, not to disagree but it may be best to use plain language as I do not know what a neoliberal is to me never mind what it means to you.

I do know liberal is used as a derisive term by the people we (US) are being led by which leads me to cognitive dissonance parsing your statement.

New comment by tejtm in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

tejtm — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:12:23 +0000

It is not as though other countries could not choose do the same.

It seem to me that China choosing to subsidize industry it is not so different than the US choosing to subsidize Roads, Autos and OIL.

In both cases it does seem to work splendidly as intended.

Other than political inertia (or economic reasons far beyond my ability to fathom) there is nothing to stop the US from following suit.

I accept "free market" is a term of art probably from before global trade reality and could be narrowly redefined to mean whatever one wants (or wanted when it was coined) but in my ignorance I see it simply as free to choose actions and responses.

But I am far far away from opinions I am qualified to hold, think I will shut up now.

New comment by tejtm in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

tejtm — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:11:46 +0000

an ort cloud of eye peices comes to mind

New comment by tejtm in "The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning"

tejtm — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:33:03 +0000

The Little Schemer, The Little Typer, The Little Reasoner, The Little Proover The Little MLer ...

It has been going on for a while in Lispy land

New comment by tejtm in "The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming"

tejtm — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:16:31 +0000

anything but be owned by you

New comment by tejtm in "My Students Can't Read"

tejtm — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:20:05 +0000

If an employer really valued the credential, they would supply it.

New comment by tejtm in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

tejtm — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:29:18 +0000

the classic

    "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think "oh, the lawnmower hates me" – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle."

— Bryan Cantrill

at about 34-39 minutes in:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s]

New comment by tejtm in "Why Janet? (2023)"

tejtm — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:40:38 +0000

We absolutely order more likely / preferred options before other options. Codifying that as a short circuit optimization is a feature.

New comment by tejtm in "Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond"

tejtm — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:38:19 +0000

approximately, with assumptions.

Assuming ISM band in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_radio_band