zbjornson
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Microbiologist (virology) & immunologist by training. High-performance bioinformatics software dev by trade.
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Comment · 2 months ago
Rather, "there is no evidence to show that using insecticide to kill mosquitoes inside aircraft cabins is effective in preventing introduction and spread of mosquito-borne diseases."
https://www.epa.gov/mosquitocontrol/aircraft-disinsection
Not sure where the idea came from that spraying the cabin aisle would penetrate the luggage bins, cargo hold, under the seats, or really anywhere.
Comment · 1 year ago
"Google Fi users are not subject to T-Mobile's collection and sale of app data." From the first expandable question on https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6181037?hl=en#zippy=%2C....
Comment · 2 years ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | UTC-4 to UTC-9 ish | Remote
Seeking a web test automation engineer with in-depth knowledge of Cypress, Mocha and API testing (Supertest) (all JavaScript/TypeScript). Prefer knowledge of fuzzing, nice to have knowledge of property-based testing. We're building a life science research SaaS product that's used in regulated industries; testing supports our validation process.
my username at primitybio dot com
Comment · 3 years ago
Quite a letdown that the solution for a web-based spreadsheet is for users to install a local backend. Might be a case for edge computing even.
> WebAssembly has a single contiguous, linear memory space shared by all dynamic memory allocations. This means that WASM cannot make use of several memory management features that operating systems provide, such as Virtual Memory, Swapping, etc. Additionally, it cannot make use of the CPU’s MMU optimisations such as prefetching and caching.
WebAssembly has memory issues, but those are not them. Virtual memory and swapping are OS features that work at the page level. CPU prefetching and caching are CPU features that work at the cacheline/address level. [1] covers the major design limitations with WebAssembly memory.
Comment · 3 years ago
California residents, here's the data deletion form: https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/request#california
Comment · 3 years ago
It turns out that collision among egg farmers is likely the actual cause of rising egg prices -- not avian flu or CA's new cage law. https://modernfarmer.com/2023/01/record-breaking-egg-profits...
Comment · 3 years ago
This is not quite right. I don't think any other pharmacy tests what they dispense. It's expensive, difficult, and the FDA doesn't seem to appreciate that their risk management strategy is being second-guessed. They recently issued a long warning letter to Valisure for doing it [0].
Note that ValisureRx (consumer pharmacy that dispensed lot-tested drugs) was sold to Medley Pharmacy, which just folded. Valisure is now just a testing lab.
Finally, it's not just a chain of custody thing. Even big generic brands and name-brands source a huge amount of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from China and India.
Comment · 3 years ago
It's been built-in since December to Google Workspace premium tiers:
https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2022/12/format-displ...
Comment · 4 years ago
Medical appointment reminders and other medical communications have a special cutout in the TCPA, including reduced consent requirements. They annoy me too though; they're redundant with my calendar reminders. The feedback SMS might not be included in the exception either.
https://blog.curogram.com/what-are-tcpa-and-traced-act-and-h...
Comment · 4 years ago
"Virtual kitchens" (ghost kitchens) are encouraged by doordash as a way to diversify and boost revenue and stuff:
https://get.doordash.com/en-us/blog/virtual-restaurant-brand
They seem to be used frequently as decoys to allow restaurants to drop bad reviews though.
Comment · 4 years ago
On the contrary, it could be easily mistaken for herpes, molluscum, warts, syphilis, acne, insect bites... This outbreak doesn't usually have the severe rash that's characteristic of classic monkeypox.
Comment · 4 years ago
CellCarta (formerly Primity Bio) | USA and Canada | Senior Front-End or Full-Stack Dev | Remote
Our team builds a high-performance bioinformatics data analysis SaaS application that researchers use to analyze millions of single cells and create visualizations for drug development, clinical trials and more. (Landing page: https://cellengine.com.)
We're seeking a senior front-end or full-stack developer to join our team. No experience in biology needed. Ideally you have a passion for building interactive UIs, excellent fundamental HTML and CSS skills, in-depth experience with a UI framework (we use Vue, but any component-based framework is okay) and keen attention to detail. Opportunities exist to contribute to open-source projects.
Our dev team is small, close-knit and spread around the US and Europe. We're situated within a larger contract research organization (CRO) that provides research services, headquartered in Montreal.
contact: zbjornson at primitybio.com (CellEngine team lead)
Comment · 4 years ago
They did. We got personalized emails for each account showing the effect on each project.
Comment · 4 years ago
I feel the opposite. Everything I've used in GCP, I've understood and appreciated the design decisions behind. Most things I've used in AWS, I've wondered why they shipped it that way. Examples:
* High-availability HSM KMS: trivial in GCP, super difficult in AWS.
* Object storage (GCS/S3): multi-region is trivial in GCP, somewhat harder in AWS. Archival is so much simpler in GCS than S3 Glacier.
* IAM: makes sense to me in GCP and is consistent across products, AWS policy editor has poor usability and feels inconsistent between products.
* Having per-region pages in the AWS console is a pain, easy to lose stuff. GCP is one global interface.
* Cloud functions/Lambda: CF Just Work with native dependencies. Lambda is painful in that regard.
GCP's auth lib is confusing though, I agree with you there. We stopped using it and all of their client libs a few years ago and wrote our own. However, that they force you to use service accounts is an excellent security decision.