Sunday, 24. January 12021
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🤞 Development of a cancer-targeted single component supramolecular peptide phototherapeutic agent.

Chemotherapy with only one injection, repeated phototherapy, and no side effects.

Researchers in South Korea have developed a phototherapy technology that can significantly increase efficiency while reducing the pain of chemotherapy and minimizing side effects after treatment.

Women’s bodies emerge on the shoreline between biology and culture.

Androcentrism, as it’s known, isn’t just a symptom of bias in science and medicine, but the consequence of a society where the ‘default-male’ is encoded in language, leisure and law. The heights of desks, the shapes of cars, the size of phones, the width of piano keys – all are built in ‘one-size-fits-men’ terms, as Caroline Criado Perez has argued. The bodies of women and other gender minorities are simply perceived as a divergence from the norm – ‘mutilated males’, in Aristotle’s words.

This fooled me so hard already.

Async loops — and why they fail!

forEach expects a synchronous function – forEach does not wait for promises. Kindly make sure you are aware of the implications while using promises (or async functions) as forEach callback.

your favorite beauty guru but it's 1588.

thanks a lot to Nicholas Sampforde and son, the shipwrights, for sponsoring today's video.

Proper Release Versioning Goes a Long Way.

The mathematical case against blaming people for their misfortune.

The problem is that much of economic and social life in affluent countries is structured to require individuals to commit most of their resources towards one strategy for pursuing a flourishing life. Taking out a student loan or mortgage, or buying a taxi medallion, are all strategies that require a large, if not total, commitment of a person’s financial resources. Here, real hedging would require us to start from a place of considerable wealth, and so it isn’t a viable strategy for many.

Naming Cheatsheet.

Naming things is hard. This sheet attempts to make it easier.

Wednesday, 20. January 12021
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Book cover “Liesert: Peeks & Pokes zum Commodore 64 – ein Data Becker Buch”
Book cover “Liesert: Peeks & Pokes zum Commodore 64 – ein Data Becker Buch”

Interesting blog theme.

The Internet is (not) broken.

Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing (via lobste.rs).

I think that a better thought, instead of trying to defend 1-based indexing, is to try to answer the question “why is 0-based indexing even a thing in programming languages?” — of course, nowadays the number one reason is tradition and familiarity given other popular languages, and I think even proponents of 0-based indexing would agree, in spite of the fact that most of them wouldn’t even notice that they don’t call it a number zero reason.