palebluethought

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You are so gullible

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Everyone is talking about dominant and recessive genes, so I just want to clarify a couple things.

The way your body directly uses genes is as a blueprint to construct proteins. Your cells are always producing proteins from the genes in all your chromosomes. It has complex ways of regulating how much of each it produces, but your body doesn't care what chromosome it's coming from. Once an embryo is fertilized, there's really no distinction between "mom" chromosomes or "dad" chromosomes, as far as the embryo and its protein machinery are concerned.

"Dominant" and "recessive" characterization is about how those proteins affect your body at the macro scale, not whether your body actually uses the gene and produces its proteins -- it always does that. For example, brown hair is a dominant trait, and blonde is recessive. But this is because producing any amount of brown pigment will make your hair brown, regardless of what other pigments you're making, simply because it's darker. Literally the same as combining blonde and brown paint. It has nothing to do with whether the genes are actually being expressed -- the brown hair gene doesn't stop the blonde hair gene from making its pigments.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Chemists learn it without being taught linear algebra ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

It's still lemmy, but the mander.xyz instance is exactly this for science

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Still better than cities skylines too. No shade, C:S is good and obviously made with love, but outside of the traffic sim, it's never felt as fleshed out. Sc4 cities feel like places, C:S cities feel like model train sets

[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Uh... Ask, I guess?

[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (42 children)

Your premise is wrong in like... A bunch of ways. We sure as shit do not live in a post-scarcity society lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Because allowing them would be functionally the same as requiring them. Especially when there's already a "primary" no-PED league.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don't really know what "original use" would mean -- most emojis aren't really made with some specific usage in mind, they're just pictograms. The use is to be able to show a skull when you wanna

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

This -- I think this is probably starting to die out already, but there was a massive wave of startups whose "product" basically amounts to a prompt template that they fill in with your input and pass along to ChatGPT. Any early stage startup getting plugged on HN or whatever, you can assume there's at least a 60% chance it's pure smoke and mirrors, and that percentage only climbs the more buzzwords it includes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lambda is certainly an interesting case for this, I'll give you that. Outside of that, though, the impact on deployment speed is also not relevant; the bottlenecks for deployment are things like CI, canarying, even rolling blackout windows across AZs, etc. The actual time spent transmitting your build artifact over the network is completely negligible even at huge sizes

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The size of the code is mostly irrelevant if you're not shipping it to clients over the network on every request. Short of truly gargantuan statically-linked binaries in compiled languages, anyway, and bundling isn't really an applicable concept there. And similarly, the overhead of loading modules from the filesystem is a one-time cost that's mostly irrelevant for server-side code that runs for days or weeks or years at a time.

On the other hand, the complexity overhead of adding the additional bundling step is a major drag on development productivity, debuggability, etc.

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