tom
bonked 06 Mar 2025 14:54 +0000
original: asb@fosstodon.org
tom
bonked 06 Mar 2025 14:53 +0000
original: ltratt@mastodon.social
For a little while we've been using Shrinkray (https://github.com/DRMacIver/shrinkray) for these purposes, and I'm astonished it's not better known. It seems to improve on the older reducers in every way! Shrinkray has very sensible rules that apply well to languages it has no specific knowledge of -- we make a *lot* of use of this and it's brilliant! -- and it scales near-linearly to the number of cores. If you need a reducer, I highly recommend it! Thanks @DRMacIver!
tom
bonked 01 Mar 2025 03:19 +0000
original: clacke@libranet.de
Me on 2013-03-01: Location: Hong Kong or Sweden
Discovered that the domain cl.ac.ke was available for registration and got all excited, until I discovered that I need papers to prove that I am a Kenyan university.
"Skype shutting down" is a good reminder of the importance of open protocols and federated identities.
tom
bonked 28 Feb 2025 03:14 +0000
original: Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io
*Long, long sigh* Trials for an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer have shown a 75% cure rate, when administered after diagnosis. Only 2 patients had their cancer return. Life expectancy after diagnosis with PanCan, under conventional treatment, is less than a year. My dad died from pancreatic cancer in 2018. Im not going to do an explainer thread for why this is an incredibly big deal today. You can ask someone else, or read the study for yourself. I miss my daddy.