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Comment · 3 months ago
Short of frequent blood donation, is there any reasonably adoptable life change a person can make to meaningfully reduce expected PFAS intake, or is it best to try not to think about it?
Comment · 8 months ago
Ha55ii's powder game is perhaps the best of the genre, and the ease of sharing made for a pretty cool online community circa 15 years ago. I remember various calculators / computers created in powder game, along with a bunch of artistic efforts.
Comment · 11 months ago
Though I agree that inequality is less important than the quality of life of the poorest people, this article explicitly tries to characterize the latter, so even though this is done in the name of discussing wealth inequality, I'm not sure your comment applies here.
Comment · 1 year ago
I was just starting a comment on this but you beat me to it! I believe
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Comment · 1 year ago
How does this compare to relace, which I believe is also a YC company? They seem to have very similar functionality [0]
Comment · 1 year ago
The linked article covers this - the main innovation is neither the HIV activation treatment nor the general mRNA-wrapped-in-lipids (LNP) delivery mechanism. Instead, it's a new form of LNP which works on specific white blood cells that were hard to target before.
It was “previously thought impossible” to deliver mRNA to the type of white
blood cell that is home to HIV, said Dr Paula Cevaal, research fellow at the
Doherty Institute and co-first author of the study, because those cells did
not take up the fat bubbles, or lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), used to carry it.
The team have developed a new type of LNP that those cells will accept, known
as LNP X. She said: “Our hope is that this new nanoparticle design could be a
new pathway to an HIV cure.”Comment · 1 year ago
I built a similar thing that includes forces between particles meant to simulate a sort of fluid or, as you scroll down, a gelatinous solid. There’s a bit of free energy injected to keep things moving so it’s actually a very bad fluid sim, but I think that makes it a better interactive toy in exchange.
One of the fun parts of naively n^2 particle simulations is trying to find ways to reduce the algorithmic complexity of collision detection. I remember messing with sweep lines and similar, though I don’t remember what optimizations made it into the final code. [0]
Comment · 2 years ago
I have a particle simulation type thing on my website: https://omrelli.ug/
It was supposed to be a fluid simulation, but it’s slightly broken in ways that I thought made it more fun. I made as a hobby project many moons ago.
These days there are similar looking things you can add to a site with a line or two of includes, but I think mine remains a little more sophisticated.
It’s interactive, and scrolling changes the simulation parameters.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've finally switched (back) to firefox today.
I switched from firefox to chrome for their superior devtools a few years back, but hopefully firefox has had time to catch up.
Everything old is new again!
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm not super familiar with KYB, so it could be that this would pass a human check as well, but I got in with a couple of mostly-blank utility bill / AOI templates and a pastebin saying 'this is the company x website, we do business y' as the official company website.
In any case this is a cool demo, and the type of thing that I expect to be mostly solved as LLMs get better. Good luck!