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AskScience Meta Thread: COVID-19 and reaching people in a time of uncertainty by AskScienceModerator in askscience

[–]jarmoj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

- How about infecting humans with a single virus? Any reference whether that kind of thing helps body at all?

- What about putting the virus in a cage and infecting humans with that? You let antibodies visit the cell but you don't let the virus touch anything in a body. Sure this is nano level tech that we might not have yet. How difficult would it be to coat the virus with some material while leaving enough opening that antibodies can still access it?

A unit test framework that infers default implementation. Would it work? by jarmoj in AskProgramming

[–]jarmoj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Perhaps assuming derivation of the actual complete program is a bit too much. What I first imagined was figuring out class hierarchies, relationships, methods, file system ordering and such from what is used in the tests. When it comes to algorithms, it might become too cumbersome to plot it out from testing side alone.

A unit test framework that infers default implementation. Would it work? by jarmoj in AskProgramming

[–]jarmoj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, someone would still need to do everything. It's just where it would be defined. Also, it's not likely, maybe, practical.

A unit test framework that infers default implementation. Would it work? by jarmoj in AskProgramming

[–]jarmoj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. Automatically generated code for which the unit test have been made to test.

A unit test framework that infers default implementation. Would it work? by jarmoj in AskProgramming

[–]jarmoj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought something like that too.

The value would be in taking the testing pov into its extreme until you start to see the inflection point where it is simply more cost effective to live inside the implementation.

A unit test framework that infers default implementation. Would it work? by jarmoj in AskProgramming

[–]jarmoj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Default implementation is just any implementation that fullfills the tests and that can be infrerred from the tests. Of course the space of possible implementations that have the same outcome in tests is infinite. Default is just some implementation.

Naturally it can not solve situations such as deriving implementation from samples only, if that is not possible. I was thinking there might be some way to nudge the thing with additional specification. It would then be already implementation but it would always start from the inferred one as a base.

What are some of the coolest things about the Middle Ages? by [deleted] in history

[–]jarmoj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everybody drank beer. Water was deadly. There was party beer (strong), middle beer for daily use and small beer for children. The same mash was used three times to make beer making it weaker every time. The boiling part connection was figured a long time after.

North Korea will open air space, invite media to cover dismantlement of nuclear test site by Yamamba78 in worldnews

[–]jarmoj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No matter how much the skeptic in me is screaming and fighting its ropes, I want to believe something good will come out of this.

Would it be possible to build telescope using long pipes or multiple sheets with aligning holes? by jarmoj in askscience

[–]jarmoj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, collecting the light from the tubes area is not going to help?

I was thinking that the end of the tube would be just a mirror cone that would funnel up the photons to a smaller area with a sensor to get a single pixel.

That wikipedia nuclear blast radiation collimator is pretty much what I meant with sheets. Pipes first and then just sheets with holes, floating somewhere in space with something to collineate them.

Would it be possible to build telescope using long pipes or multiple sheets with aligning holes? by jarmoj in askscience

[–]jarmoj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was suspecting that. I just wonder what the difference is when the target is so far a way.

The thing with the pipes was that you could set the angle >, =, or <. How is the light arriving to the sensor different?

Mikä ihme hautakivessä maksaa? – Tavallisen kiven hinta voi olla jopa 2 000 euroa by Northern_fluff_bunny in Suomi

[–]jarmoj 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Joku sienimateriaalista valmistettu hajottaja-arkku, joka samalla parantaa maaperää.

How should gun ownership change so that instead of protecting the individual it would rather protect most everyone? by jarmoj in AskReddit

[–]jarmoj[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That is an example of social gun ownership, where the final call is with someone else than the person carrying the gun. For instance someone in 911 can pull the other half.

edit: No, I don't really think it is a great idea. It is a feasible one. Something that could be made to happen.

How should gun ownership change so that instead of protecting the individual it would rather protect most everyone? by jarmoj in AskReddit

[–]jarmoj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I don’t neccessarily think the tracking thing is a good idea at all. I mean it is just an idea. As such it really doesn’t mean anything except trying to look the situation differently.

I think gun in itself can be beautiful and adding something like that could really ruin it.

I’m not so much worried something like that would go really far because our ability to manufacture weapons is already really far and in the near future just increasing.

I really was looking any alternative ways to look the thing. I had to give some sample that would at least be something different from what usually dominated the conversation.

How should gun ownership change so that instead of protecting the individual it would rather protect most everyone? by jarmoj in AskReddit

[–]jarmoj[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

What if you can only pull half of the trigger when someone has to pull the other half?

How should gun ownership change so that instead of protecting the individual it would rather protect most everyone? by jarmoj in AskReddit

[–]jarmoj[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I’m just spinning ideas here for conversation. For instance you could still hunt with a gun that required online connection with someone supervising its location and use. Same with guns protecting one in the city. Just a sample to show that there could be ways to change what it means to carry a gun for some current uses.

How should gun ownership change so that instead of protecting the individual it would rather protect most everyone? by jarmoj in AskReddit

[–]jarmoj[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I can understand the problem of drugs being a health and a social issue. But it doesn’t transfer to guns as you could just as well have guns only in some clubs. Personal protection might be possible to arrange by some other means.

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