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drno123··on The Sloppification of Peptides
BPC-157 was discovered in the late 80s, not really novel. As opposed to mRNA shots that everyone was taking happily.
drno123··on Incident with Github.com
Self hosted Gitea
drno123··on Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories
Also, speed.
drno123··on Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf]
Also the pregnant man / Bill Gates was added there :)
drno123··on Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes
At least two other Croats broke the same record in the last 11 years (Goran Čolak 23:01 in 2014 and Budimir Šobat 24:37 in 2021). There must be some genetic predisposition.
drno123··on Why there are so many more South Asian CEOs than East Asian CEOs in the US
Nepotism, plain and simple
drno123··on The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)
Yep. In Croatia it has a cult following. Similar to obscure Italian comic “Alan Ford”, and Hungarian-Israeli writer Ephraim Kishon.
drno123··on Mark Zuckerberg unveils giant Roman sculpture of his wife – AP News
Does not look Roman.
drno123··on Commission opens additional DMA investigation against Apple
The population of EU is roughly 450 million compared to 330 million in the US.
drno123··on California sides with big utilities, trimming incentives for community solar
“Extra charges based on income” - does this mean that if you earn more, you pay more for electricity?
drno123··on GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS?
Still gives incorrect code to the following prompt - the description is correct but not the code. I have yet to find one LLM that gives the correct code. This is the prompt:

“Write C code to calculate the sum of matrix elements below the secondary diagonal.“

drno123··on Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video]
Americans call their ICBM “peacekeeper”, while renaming Russian ICBM to “Satan”
drno123··on Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 sales in the US this week
Pulse oxymeters exist for at least 30 years. What kind of patent does Masimo hold?
drno123··on Doug Engelbart’s 1968 demo
This is interesting? Can you share more information on that?
drno123··on A Timeline of the OpenAI Board
So the rumors that she has strong ties with the CIA are not unfounded?
drno123··on 'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó
If there wasn’t COVID pandemic, and mRNA vaccines did not become widely used for another decade, ms Kariko would never get the deserved recognition.
drno123··on Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago
As someone living in the EU, I can say your comparison between Lysenkoism and EU grants is fantastic.
drno123··on Croatia wants to turn superhot underground lake into 16MW power plant
You are sharing current data from this week. The annual average carbon intensity for EU27 is 296 gCO2eq/kWh. The annual average for Croatia is 246 gCO2eq/kWh, and as I wrote, it is below EU average.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1291750/carbon-intensity....

drno123··on Croatia wants to turn superhot underground lake into 16MW power plant
Electricity production in Croatia is already much “greener” than the EU average: approximately 30% is generated from fossil fuels (10% coal, 20% gas). Remaining is mostly hydro, with significant amount produced from wind and 15-20 % is nuclear.
drno123··on Luiz André Barroso has died
Sad to see another great guy go away too early :(
drno123··on How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
No, what is the consequence, how has quality of Twitter diminished? As a “normal” user I can not observe any degradation of Twitter service.
drno123··on Growing share of Americans favor more nuclear power
Yeah, it is profitable for the US that Ukraine people keep getting slaughtered.
drno123··on Dirty downside of 'return to office'; ending WFH could make climate crisis worse
So to save environment we should ban pets
drno123··on Dirty downside of 'return to office'; ending WFH could make climate crisis worse
What percentage od the total workforce can actually work from home? Construction workers, doctors, nurses, teachers, shop salespersons, waiters… I expect these jobs are the majority od the workforce? Not everyone is in IT so that it is easy to transfer to WFH
drno123··on Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage
I have lived in a country under communist rule until it fell apart in 1990.

If you haven’t experienced communism first hand, you have no idea how bad it is, even the watered-down communism of 80s.

drno123··on How to Pick a Mate (1946)
Interestingly that today we laugh at the fact that there is a book helping people how to make one of the most important decisions in their life. It is normal to have books about how to cook food, how to travel, how to exercise. But God forbid there should be a book on how to select a good marriage partner.
drno123··on Maps distort how we see the world
Is this the same Pueyo who shaped Covid response through “the hammer and the dance”? People still consider this guy relevant?!?
drno123··on Bullshit Jobs (2018)
Elon Musk’s Twitter experiment with firing over jakf od the workforce is very interesting in regards of this book
drno123··on Men who helped run Megaupload sentenced to prison in New Zealand
It is better than invading Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and droning kids in villages

* droning = killing a person by shooting iz from a drone

drno123··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
If it can run stable diffusion in real time, and “augment” people walking around you to appear naked, it will be a hit
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