Is this driver a Virginia Battle Flag cuz they are never leaving MN now.

This is probably fake, but inviting PMs (and then letting them talk) during sprint planning is some real sicko stuff if true.

Here's a good sequence. Sometimes you don't see much when you find it in the field. The scribe removes big pieces of rock. The powder does the detail work.

People down here think AI is crazy, but AI doesn't care. Because it's almost there!

My friend Dan Perlman made this short doc about being hired to impersonate Michael Bublé at a party and it’s so funny and good. (And my other friend Charlotte produced it!!!)

Love how the app now has an unskipable yet broken age verification flow.

TIL Deacon decompresses fastq.gz 3x faster than GNU coreutils gzip/zcat. You can decompress, dehost and recompress fastq.gz using Deacon in less time than only decompressing using coreutils gzip/zcat or pigz.

The US should honor its bilateral treaty obligations if Venezuela or Colombia request extradition of a murder suspect.

Felt the earthquake as a sharp pulse here in SSF. Pretty close on the San Andreas! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

My boss pissed someone off and now my coworkers are a candle who's trying to schtup a mop and a clock who keeps losing gears. My kid is a broken cup.

Wow, you're telling me a guy who doesn't understand unicode has some new opinions about society's relationship with LLMs

I bought some sheet music off Nextdoor today and the past is such a distant place. What's a talking machine?

Every biologist knows the story of Fleming's chance discovery of penicillin. But is it true? Here, with @asimovpress.bsky.social, I write about inconsistencies in the canonical story, and explore a few alternative theories about what really happened in that St. Mary's lab in the summer of 1928.

Tonight I’m taking a tour of SamTrans’ North Base with my fellow Citizens Advisory Committee members! We’ve seen maintenance, dispatch, and the new temporary hydrogen fuel station in the last shot.

Does anyone know how X is de-woking Grok now? The "white genocide" things was them editing the system prompt, but thry've improved since then. RAG? Some kind of post-training?

every time there's an issue at the data center, they light a big flare so all the traffic on the internet superhighway will avoid it. putting out all these fires is why data centers use so much more water nowadays.

I grew popcorn this year and it's not very economical, but it is pretty.

Diving through the purple sulfur bacteria layer of Fayetteville Green Lake with our ROV last month. This is the most intense density of PSB that I've seen in many years!

For South San Francisco people, there's a workshop at the library next Thurs (Oct 30) from 6:30-8:30 PM about redesigning ECR. A good opportunity to make it safe for bikes and walking: fp.mysocialpinpoint.com/el-camino-re...

a good prank idea is to wait until someone falls asleep and then replace all their sandy loam with loamy sand

I was playing with ollama and open 4b models (Qwen3 & Gemma) on my laptop and they're indistinguishable from the state-of-the-art models to me. I don't think that means data centers are obsolete (most people don't run their own compute), but there's going to be a limited need to keep building.

For the weekend crowd. I'm hiring a postdoc! If you're interested in algorithms, data structures and high-dimensional inference, and if you want to invent new methods for genomics and implement them in high-performance, robust and easy-to-use software, do I have a lab for you; ours!

Are you the type of dev who just copies and pastes hex codes? If so, I've written an article over at @piccalil.li just for you! I take a look at some of the new CSS colour features that are most useful for those who don't really care about colours. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...

Today and Sunday, shop at the SSF Education Foundation’s Book Fair and Read-a-thon to support its programs, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the SSFLibrary’s 2nd floor Community Room. Several SSFUSD schools have wish lists!

just one more lane bro. I promise bro just one more lane and it'll fix everything bro. bro, just one more lane. please just one more, one more lane and we can fix this whole problem bro, bro cmon just give me one more lane i promise bro, bro bro please ! just need one more lane

Why go back to a Walmart in 2002 when you could go back 45 years and safely experience the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980? Have some respect for yourself and hold your nostalgia to a higher standard.

This is like three houses away from the SB79 upzoning that would let you build 5000 sq ft in five stories (code and Newsom willing).

Man bursts into tears. Says "but doctor, my neighborhood doesn't have the density to support amenities like bars."

Former SSF Mayor Pedro Gonzalez died last week at the age of 92. Pedro advocated for South City as a whole and Old Town in particular, supported my school board campaigns, and was a genuinely sweet man. My love to his wife Eldie and family. www.gardenchapel885.com/obituaries/P...

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change. Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

Aw man, no, RIP Maru the cat. That little man brought so much joy to my life for years and years. ❤️ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maru_(c...

Haven’t seen any mentions about it yet, but the Hetch Hetchy water pipeline and powerlines run under and across Don Pedro right between the active 6-2 and 6-5 fires. The Foothills Tunnel has a siphon on the west bank and delivers 165 M/gal/day to SF Bay Area (85% of water supply for 2.8M people).

#timetravel #sapientcorvid #corvid

Fuente: los pijos de BS.

Every week someone here posts "the government's going to shut down the internet; get a ham radio" and I hate to break it to you all, but you have to broadcast your address-linked government ID every 10 minutes in amateur radio.

My team at ATCC is growing! New #bioinformatics position open now! More to come too! If you’re an early career bioinformatics professional, have a passion for #genomics standards, quality and scientific reproducibility - then take a look!🧬🖥️ 🧫🦠🔬🚀 Let’s go! careers-atcc.icims.com/jobs/3992/bi...

Sweet video supporting regional transit funding from San Mateo County leaders Supervisor Noelia Corzo and SSF Council Member James Coleman www.instagram.com/reel/DMdIrTj...

I said it sounds like you're just feeding Keter-class anomalies to tech bros and then the AI started crying.

Any favorite short stories with an environmental bent? I'm working on syllabi for a couple classes that include a science communication component, but I don't read much short fiction! Hoping to have students read a relevant short story or two.

Tuning in for today's San Mateo County's Transportation Authority meeting at 5pm PT: www.kqed.org/news/1204757...

📚Looking for some textbooks or reviews for learning genomics, gene editing, and molecular biology. Trying to build a solid foundation, Any recommendations?

📅 Tuesday, July 1, 2025 | 5:30 PM 📍 Millbrae Station, next to the Southbound Caltrain platform actionnetwork.org/events/rally...

can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

When you think about whaling, you’re probably thinking about 1800s Moby Dick era stuff. But guess when we stopped using whale oil in cars?? 1972. We were using sperm whale oil in transmission fluid until 197freaking2. The NYT even ran an article about how bad the ban was for people’s transmissions🧪🦑

New preprint! Deacon is a versatile tool for filtering FASTA/FASTQ files and streams at hundreds of megabases per second using minimizers, built with rapid metagenomic host depletion in mind, but equally useful for search. github.com/bede/deacon

Post-industrial northeast China, the world's largest hadron collider, a restaurant that only opens at night, a runaway scavenger, this is like a Jia Zhangke film written into a #scifi short story. I loved translating it. www.easternwood.co/heavyindustr...

Had fun at the San Mateo County Fair today. Some changes from last year: they have a kid rollercoaster called the "Orient Express" and there were no birds in the livestock barn (only a chick incubator).