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xjlin0 | 4 months ago | on: Moderna has unraveled

The point is the COVID you son had and the vaccine are different strains

xjlin0 | 4 months ago | on: Moderna has unraveled

at least the vaccine greatly reduce the severe conditions such as death.

xjlin0 | 4 months ago | on: Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS

Is it only for English? is CLI available? There are thousands of files on my local and I'd like to save results to local db. Thanks!

xjlin0 | 5 months ago | on: US cities pay too much for buses

Taking a look at NYC or SF bus, are you sure that more riders solve security issues?

xjlin0 | 5 months ago | on: Show HN: Python Audio Transcription: Convert Speech to Text Locally

Which local speach-to-text tool can use Apple chip's MLX?

xjlin0 | 11 months ago | on: America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back

The best army/weapon are those never needed to be utilized. Enemies won't pick up fights because your weapon/army are way stronger than theirs. Therefore we cannot regard army/weapon as "not used" or just wasted.

xjlin0 | 1 year ago | on: Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security

Even google account's MFA allows back up codes, at least in the Enterprise accounts.

xjlin0 | 1 year ago | on: Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

I am fairly sure other countries use fake social accounts to garner support or take advantage from US lawmakers too.

xjlin0 | 1 year ago | on: People who won't give up floppy disks

Does BART still use them?

xjlin0 | 1 year ago | on: Runtipi: Docker-based home server management

Is this dockerized alternative to https://yunohost.org/ ?

xjlin0 | 2 years ago | on: Tree plantations are not the environmental solution they’re purported to be

Did they plant some mangrove which tolerates salt and grows at coast line?

xjlin0 | 2 years ago | on: Tesla shares 48V architecture with other automakers

It is, just be patient and the battery will be drained to 42V eventually.

xjlin0 | 2 years ago | on: DOS_deck: Play DOS games in the browser with full controller support

I wonder how can I disable the command key on my mac....

xjlin0 | 2 years ago | on: 1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account

My mom use pen and paper. Pretty secure I'd say.

xjlin0 | 2 years ago | on: Costco gold bars are selling out within hours

1. Pure gold will react with mercury and halogens. Yes, pure gold does "rot", just at lower rate, but still happens. 2. Most of the physical gold products, even at 99.99% pure, has 0.001% other elements which do rot too.

xjlin0 | 2 years ago | on: The SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System worked by tracking the stars

Too bad the star tracker on my phone still relies on GPS instead of electro-opitical geolocation.

xjlin0 | 2 years ago | on: F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected

F-4 Phantom was a great fighter serving US Navy, Marine and Air Force. It equipped with missiles to kill enemies in the beyond visual range, didn't equip internal guns in the first generation because "it shouldn't get into close combat" .....

xjlin0 | 2 years ago | on: Why does nuclear power plant construction cost so much?

Another question: Why does nuclear power plant demolition also cost so much and so long?

xjlin0 | 2 years ago | on: Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

> genetic clocks show that RaTG13 and SARSCoV2 diverged almost 50 years ago.

Converting the distance in phylogenetic analysis to evolutionary distance is based on natural gene drafting rate, which does not consider passaging with human selections.

xjlin0 | 2 years ago | on: US Air Force shoots down drone swarm with THOR microwave weapon

Does it work in rainy days?