chewbacha (u/chewbacha)

chewbacha commented on Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment nytimes.com/2025/05/15/he... · Posted by u/jbredeche

chewbacha · 9 months ago

Good thing RFK pushed out the official overseeing this financing and the current administration is actively defunding the organizations that produced this.

Better to have more disabled or dead babies instead of science.

/s

chewbacha commented on Starcloud ycombinator.com/companies... · Posted by u/wiley1454

xnx · 9 months ago

I do wonder about data centers in the arctic. Cut out the middle step of greenhouse gases and melt the polar caps directly.

chewbacha · 9 months ago

Not to mention the benefit of directly harming extremely vulnerable ecosystems! Win-win

chewbacha commented on Someone at YouTube needs glasses jayd.ml/2025/04/30/someon... · Posted by u/jaydenmilne

kevincox · 9 months ago

I call these features "dead birds" because they remind me of gifts that an outdoor cat will leave on your doorstep. They took quite the effort to do and were made with good intention, but ultimately I don't want them.

chewbacha · 9 months ago

  were made with good intention

Not always true.

chewbacha commented on Home washing machines fail to remove important pathogens from textiles medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/bookmtn

comrade1234 · 9 months ago

60C held for 15+ minutes should be enough for sterilization. The research paper says they washed at 60C but that the quick cycle was especially poor at sterilization. Other than that I didn’t read the paper closer to see if it was a temperature control problem or not enough time at 60C or something else.

chewbacha · 9 months ago

A hot dry cycle will also help with this through desiccation but is more damaging to clothing. Should be fine for scrubs though.

chewbacha commented on The Seven-Year Rule macsparky.com/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/thecosas

LPisGood · 10 months ago

I once heard that this is an oft repeated myth, that neurons are not replaced throughout life.

It seems to me to that what you said is true, but for some odd reason I have a recollection of reading a debunking of this. Does anyone know what I might be thinking of?

chewbacha · 10 months ago

They are just very very slow. It does happen but the turnover is not fast and certainly not every 7 years.

chewbacha commented on Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature herecomesthemoon.net/2025... · Posted by u/Mond_

chewbacha · 10 months ago

Is this pipelining or the builder pattern?

chewbacha commented on Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/docmechanic

zx8080 · 10 months ago

For those who are interested and wants to see how it looks:

There are no pictures in this article.

It's just some story. Actually it is not a science paper.

chewbacha · 10 months ago

Got through the first section and it started to feel strangely repetitive.

chewbacha commented on I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype unixdigest.com/articles/i... · Posted by u/smartmic

sgustard · 10 months ago

I guess OP hated it when Bill Gates said "personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created."

Or Vint Cerf, "The Internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating a more open and connected world."

chewbacha · 10 months ago

Yea, and the internet never went through a hype bubble that ultimately burst ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

chewbacha commented on There are two types of dishwasher people theatlantic.com/family/ar... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

lolinder · 10 months ago

I think it depends on the kind of residue. If we're just talking about caked-on stuff that you recognize that didn't wash off, I'd start with hot water and adding the pre-wash powder. But if you get stuff on your dishes that you don't recognize... yeah, that's a filter.

I once stayed with family at a vacation rental where the dishwasher left things worse than we put them in—a thick gray residue plastered over everything. We were going to be there for a week with 30 people, which meant we had a lot of dishwashing to do, but by the time I became aware of it the rest of the family had already given up on it and had started washing dishes by hand.

I took one look at the output and knew immediately what was wrong thanks to TC. An hour later (it was that bad) the dishwasher was working flawlessly and we saved hours in dishwashing time over the week.

(We also told the rental owners that their cleaners weren't taking care of the dishwasher. I didn't ask for them to pay me for the time, but I probably should have!)

chewbacha · 10 months ago

I’m mostly referring to my own dishwasher which I use all the time and understand. But for a long time I never cleaned the filter and then one day I did and suddenly everything made sense.

The filter can also clog up and a layer of water will form above it which can impede the rotation of the sprayers and then it really doesn’t work well.

chewbacha commented on There are two types of dishwasher people theatlantic.com/family/ar... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

TehShrike · 10 months ago

My mental model for diswashers got a lot better after watching some Technology Connections: https://youtu.be/jHP942Livy0

chewbacha · 10 months ago

You know, the hot water tip is great, but cleaning the filter is really the best thing I’ve found to keeping it working well. Residue always seems to indicate a dirty filter.