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I know nothing about biology, pardon my ignorance. From the article it sounds like mitochondria were a separate organism that has perhaps simplified through specialization and is currently on the boundary of being an independent life form. It also sounds like there are other structures (golgi apparatus are mentioned?) which are not on the bubble. Are we sure that there is not an arrow of time here, where once those other structures were also semi-independent and have become less so?

More broadly, it leads me to wonder whether cellular life might eventually/might have at some point specialize towards hosting novel endosymbioses.

Either scenario, assuming what I'm saying isn't just total nonsense, would seem to make the state of mitochondria less of a one-off event and more of the instance of that event we are around at the right time to observe.

Why not aluminum cans? There's still some plastic in there, but you can mostly recycle them, they must be fairly cheap, and they're quite light. As an added benefit they stack higher in transit with less extra packaging, at least if they're shipped like beer.

Not it, but really excellent! Thanks

One of many strange features in DNS. I seem to recall a talk a few years ago where someone enumerated a variety of weird DNS capabilities and some interesting security consequences, but I don't remember the name of the talk or the speaker. Does anyone happen to know what I'm half-remembering?

Great article with lots of good advice, but it makes me wonder what the consensus is on using ASAN in production.

Once upon a time it was widely said that ASAN should not be used for production code. The authors advocated against it and from a general-purpose security perspective it gives attackers a very large writable memory region at a fixed offset to play with. But over time I see more and more ASAN code in production on the theory that ASAN may make a system easier to exploit, but a memory corruption will make it easier to exploit. And so it's better to have knowledge of the issue.

Also, I've personally found the glibc malloc tunables very useful for debugging.

Nvidia's denver2 cores work this way. Shipped on an android tablet about 10 years ago. Not sure what happened to them after that.

You can get it directly off the MLS in many (US) states. Of course, a staged home may not provide the same quality of data that a view inside a lived-in house would, and if your home hasn't gone up for sale in a long time it may not have anything relevant to say. But the gaps in that dataset feel far smaller than the "I don't own a roomba" gap in this dataset.