OhNoMoreLemmy

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OhNoMoreLemmy, (edited )

Dev jobs and data scientists often get a lot of leeway.

Very big tech companies tend to be more open to it. When I was at AWS their threat model was basically to treat every end user device as untrusted, which then meant that they didn’t rely on keeping laptops locked down for security.

OhNoMoreLemmy,

It used to do this all the time a few months ago. The links never worked. Eventually I got bored of asking it.

What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?

EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something...

OhNoMoreLemmy,

I was listening to a sleep scientist the other day and they were saying that one thing we know is that depressed people have more rem sleep on average, and SSRIs decrease the amount of rem sleep.

If it is something sleep based that goes some way to explaining why it takes time to have an effect. Building up or wiping out a sleep debt can’t happen instantaneously.

OhNoMoreLemmy,

Characteristic sleep-EEG changes in patients with depression include disinhibition of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, changes of sleep continuity, and impaired non-REM sleep.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6386825/

Yeah, I think we have multiple types of sleep because we need them, and if you’re getting too much rem sleep at the expense of other types it’s going to cause problems.

OhNoMoreLemmy,

Most curries you can get in the UK were invented there.

As a quick rule of thumb, if it looks like it has gravy or thick sauce someone from India wouldn’t recognise it

OhNoMoreLemmy,

This is really not a problem that’s fixed by open source.

The microscope will be controlled by a card that only plugs into 30 year old desktops. If you open source the drivers for it this only gives you the source code to drivers for Windows 95. These drivers will be incredibly hacky and hard coded and probably die if you install a service pack.

Having access to the source code doesn’t let you replace the entire stack because you’re still physically tied to old hardware, that is worse than a raspberry pi and even just making sure that you can update Windows is a feat of engineering.

OhNoMoreLemmy,

I mean the most upvoted answer in your link says it often is that insurmountable.

Basically, it’s a huge gamble and a substantial software engineering effort even when you know what you’re doing and source code is available.

It’s not surprising that biologists keep using old machines until they die.

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