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I'm an electrical engineer living in Los Angeles, CA.

  • Sixth amendment:

    In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial...

    Just because it's routine doesn't mean we should accept it. The current state of affairs is horrible for defendants (in jeopardy for months or years regardless of outcome, not to mention legal costs) and horrible for the public (justice delayed is justice denied).

    Trump's uncanny ability to stall trials for years is a big part of why he's not in prison right now.

  • A lot of open-source software uses copyleft licenses like GPL. If a company uses that code to build its own products, then some or all of their new code may also become open source. This is an important part of how open-source projects stay open. Organizations like FSF have taken big companies to court over this and won.

    AI companies trained their slop-generators on that open-source code. In many cases, it will reproduce it line-for-line. But courts currently hold that the generated code is no longer subject to the original copyright restrictions. It's nearly impossible to publish open-source software without being scraped for AI training.

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  • "Then, there is a horrifying 512-ounce version that they call child size. How is this a child-sized soda?"

    "Well, it's roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied. It's a real bargain at $1.59."

    Source: Parks and Recreation S5E02

  • That cat looks like they are trying to escape.

  • "Khajiit has wares, if you have coin."

  • The after-credits scene in "Four and a half Vulcans" is comedy gold.

  • Pretty sure I fought one of those in Silksong.

  • Maybe it's like Toy Story. Batman figure just found out he's a toy, drank a bunch of Jäger, and then reverted to the dormant state because someone was looking.

  • How is this a science meme?

  • According to this sign, he is the ssecretary of war.

  • Of all the characters you could have used for this image, why choose Amity Blight?

  • Isn't chocolate poisonous for cats?

  • For mental health? Yes, a robot that says "you're absolutely right" to every prompt is as dangerous as a loaded gun.

  • Harmonica intensifies

  • Simple explanation: the bathtub is actually a mimic.

  • The data would compress well, true. However, the DNA in the cell doesn't have anything like data compression, and it makes the calculations more complex, so it's only fair to compare uncompressed sizes.

  • The full genome is 3.1 billion base pairs (6.2 Gbit = 775 MByte). Each parent (i.e., one egg or one sperm) contributes half of that, 1.55 billion base pairs (3.1 Gbit = 388 MByte).

  • Each base-pair requires two bits, not four. Picking an arbitrary convention: 00 = A, 01 = T, 10 = G, 11 = C.

  • This calculation is off by an order of magnitude.

    The human genome has about 3.1 billion base pairs. Each sperm has half of that. Ignoring epigenetics, each base pair has four options (A/T/C/G), so it can be represented by two bits each.

    All told, that's 3.1 gigabits = 388 megabytes per gamete.