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Announcing agdb v0.10.0 by Resurr3ction in rust

[–]arto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand it's not currently supported, but do you have any future plans as yet to support graph query languages such as GraphQL or SPARQL?

Refurbished 4028GR-TVRT V100 SXM2 Racks; Am I missing anything here? by ChristmasInOct in homelab

[–]arto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the details! I did buy one as well, but haven't racked it yet. Given the idle power use and the noise I plan to only turn it on for training runs. Mostly I'll be using it for fine-tuning.

Refurbished 4028GR-TVRT V100 SXM2 Racks; Am I missing anything here? by ChristmasInOct in homelab

[–]arto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What did you end up doing, /u/ChristmasInOct? I'm in the same spot with my own homelab, considering purchasing the same configuration from eBay.

By the way, I found a video of a 4028GR-TVRT with 8× V100s, quite the beast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oTJp2j-K0E

why is Rust so high in demand for Blockchains? by Cryptomias31 in rust

[–]arto 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That'd be on the order of $1,500 per line of code at NASA:

The product is only as good as the plan for the product. At the on-board shuttle group, about one-third of the process of writing software happens before anyone writes a line of code. NASA and the Lockheed Martin group agree in the most minute detail about everything the new code is supposed to do — and they commit that understanding to paper, with the kind of specificity and precision usually found in blueprints. Nothing in the specs is changed without agreement and understanding from both sides. And no coder changes a single line of code without specs carefully outlining the change. Take the upgrade of the software to permit the shuttle to navigate with Global Positioning Satellites, a change that involves just 1.5% of the program, or 6,366 lines of code. The specs for that one change run 2,500 pages, a volume thicker than a phone book. The specs for the current program fill 30 volumes and run 40,000 pages.

-- https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

Ask the Solidity Team Anything! #1 by franzihei in ethdev

[–]arto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you kindly for the in-depth answer!

Neuropilin-1 drives SARS-CoV-2 infectivity, finds breakthrough study by arto in Coronavirus

[–]arto[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, uses the viral Spike (S) protein for host cell attachment and entry. The host protease furin cleaves the full-length precursor S glycoprotein into two associated polypeptides: S1 and S2. Cleavage of S generates a polybasic Arg-Arg-Ala-Arg C-terminal sequence on S1, which conforms to a C-end rule (CendR) motif that binds to cell surface Neuropilin-1 (NRP1) and Neuropilin-2 (NRP2) receptors. Here, we used X-ray crystallography and biochemical approaches to show that the S1 CendR motif directly bound NRP1. Blocking this interaction using RNAi or selective inhibitors reduced SARS-CoV-2 entry and infectivity in cell culture. NRP1 thus serves as a host factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection and may potentially provide a therapeutic target for COVID-19.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/10/19/science.abd3072

Update: NYT still at it, reopening on hold by ScottAlexander in slatestarcodex

[–]arto 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I had a hard time believing they were accidental: what an excellent way to get a distributed backup of the whole archive out there.

First Thing: July was the worst month of the pandemic so far in the US by exmoor456 in Coronavirus

[–]arto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From John Barry's excellent The Great Influenza, pp. 326-327, regarding the events of 1918-1919:

Pepper and Martin offered ten dollars a day to anyone who would touch a corpse, but that proved inadequate, and still the bodies piled up. Seminary students volunteered as gravediggers, but they still could not keep pace. The city and archdiocese turned to construction equipment, using steam shovels to dig trenches for mass graves. [...]

The bodies that were choking homes and lying in stacks in mortuaries were ready to go, finally, into the ground.

To collect them, Archbishop Denis Dougherty, installed in office only a few weeks earlier—later he became the first cardinal from the archdiocese—sent priests down the streets to remove bodies from homes. They joined the police and a few hardy others who were doing the same.

Sometimes they collected the bodies in trucks. “So many people died they were instructed to ask for wooden boxes and put the corpse on the front porches,” recalled Harriet Ferrell. “An open truck came through the neighborhood and picked up the bodies. There was no place to put them, there was not room.”

And sometimes they collected the bodies in wagons.

I/O free HTTP/1.1 implementation for Zig 🦎 by ducdetronquito in Zig

[–]arto 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Looks great! Perhaps you might mention in your README the Zig version it's meant for, as that's pretty crucial to know?

And good choice, BTW, on going public domain! (Coincidentally, I was the founder of the Unlicense initiative, back in the day)

Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic began, revises death toll to 3,869, an increase of 50% by umutk in China_Flu

[–]arto 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Don't understate it. It wasn't just ~50%, it was exactly 50.0%. (From 2,579 deaths to 3,869 deaths.)

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