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arkades commented on Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan   www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/... · Posted by u/lando2319
bragr · a year ago
>The weapon falls under the suspicion of violating the Firearm and Sword Control Law.
arkades · a year ago
> the possession of such devices will generally be prohibited by March next year. The police are currently conducting a free collection campaign, urging individuals to turn in coilguns at their nearest police station."
arkades commented on Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow   eurogamer.net/braid-anniv... · Posted by u/amichail
kranke155 · 2 years ago
I suppose if it was easy and fast to swap out the old textures for the new ones?

Odd that Blow would assume giant sales for the game. It barely registered in my radar, plus it was a big hit on release. I wasn't really looking to buy it again. It's a puzzle game, I remember playing it for months back in the day, but I now know the solutions.

arkades · 2 years ago
It wasn’t a simple texture swap. They added 40 new levels.
arkades commented on Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR: The Best All-Purpose Lens I've Ever Used   petapixel.com/2024/05/19/... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
pmlnr · 2 years ago
The rx10 is 24-200, not 600 on the long end.
arkades · 2 years ago
https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/compact-cameras/all-vlo...

“ ZEISS® Vario-Sonnar® T* 24–600 mm F2.4–4 large-aperture high resolution high speed zoom lens”

arkades commented on Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla   science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/Jimega36
arkades · 2 years ago
I have a hard time picturing the radiologist whose reputation and malpractice rely on catching small anomalies being comfortable using a machine predicated on inferring the image contents.
arkades commented on What Happens When a Fifteen Year Old Pumps and Dumps with a Net Profit of $800k? (2002)   kentlaw.edu/faculty/rwarn... · Posted by u/melenaboija
falcor84 · 2 years ago
TL;DR: he argues that he did the same as everyone else on Wall street, so the SEC fines him $285,000, letting him keep more than half a mil of net profits. The system works as intended</sarcasm>
arkades · 2 years ago
The SEC only found wrongdoing in eleven trades, whose profit netted approx $272K. They did not penalize him for trades not found in violation of the law.

Clearly, too long, didn’t read.

arkades commented on One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days in mice   news.northwestern.edu/sto... · Posted by u/clouddrover
arkades · 2 years ago
We have known about sleep deprivation causing a remission in suicidal ideation for a while - we have inferred a depression benefit as well, but it’s nice to have it quantified.

However, we also know resumption of sleep pretty quickly ends the effect. It’s not a sustainable intervention, so much as it an interesting finding for hypothesis generation.

We also see the reverse effect in mania; on balance, regular healthy sleep wins the day.

arkades commented on Serotonin booster leads to increased functional brain connectivity   alphagalileo.org/en-gb/It... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
Palomides · 3 years ago
HN comments are absolute garbage on anything medical, endless uneducated "theories" and emotional anecdotes

you don't need to share your personal backstory, everyone knows someone with mental health or cancer or alzheimer's, your idea that DNA is like compiled code makes me think you should go read a book, and your self-medication is probably not scientifically founded

arkades · 3 years ago
Physician here, and I cannot emphasize this enough. To the point where I actively avoid most medical/healthcare threads - it’s oppressive to contribute.
arkades commented on Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins   nih.gov/news-events/news-... · Posted by u/geox
Animats · 3 years ago
Phase I trial. "Is it safe". Not "does it work". That's Phase II. Phase III is "does it work at scale".
arkades · 3 years ago
This is incorrect.

Phase I is “is it immediately dangerous?”

Phase II is assessing side effects at various dosages, to dial in possible dose ranges. There is some measurement of clinical effect here, to assist in dialing in dosages.

Phase III is does it work / what is the effect size.

arkades commented on Polio cases in Africa linked to new oral vaccine   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/gmays
arkades · 3 years ago
In short:

A common adverse effect from oral polio vaccine, occurring at a far lower rate in the new vaccine than in the one it replaced.

Headline link makes it sound like -bad- news.

arkades commented on Canada geese beat humans in longstanding territory battle: study   aces.illinois.edu/news/st... · Posted by u/hhs
arkades · 3 years ago
> “I thought using these Fitbit-like devices on the neck collar was a creative way to understand resting, flying, or foraging behaviors. And when Ryan was doing all this physical work to figure out what this accelerometry data would tell us, I was very eager to see what the results were,” Ward says. “But when it was all analyzed, I was like, ‘Wow, that's not too exciting.’ Basically, when you harass, they fly a little bit more because you're scaring them, or they might be alert a little more, but it wasn't a fundamental difference.”

Well, that’s one way for a PI to publicly skewer their former grad student.

u/arkades

KarmaCake day7521May 23, 2013View Original