- sometimes you need to quickly appraise a code repository. The following script does just that:
- description is as follows:
# Sometimes you just want to get an idea of what someone's
# code repository is like as opposed to running a full blown CI/CD
# type environment such as Jenkins or TravisCI. That's the point
# of this script. I use in combination with by github_downloader.sh
# script in order to get a quick idea of what a developer's code
# repository is like
#
# As this is the very first version of the program (and I didn't have
# access to the original server while I was cleaning this up it may
# be VERY buggy). Please test prior to deployment in a production
# environment.
#
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- The Palestinians have argued that since the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has been stalled for many years, they have no choice but to proceed in other ways in their quest to gain statehood.
"They're still denying we are a state," Mansour said. "We walk like a state. We quack like a state. Therefore we are a state."
- A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia and Warsaw University of Life Sciences has found that dairy cows are willing to expend energy to gain access to a grooming brush. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes experiments they carried out with dairy cows and a large grooming brush and what they found.
While it may look like cows in a field do nothing but stand around eating or chewing their cud, they also do something else—they rub themselves on virtually any object they can find, such as trees, fence posts and even a tractor if the opportunity arises. They rub themselves as part of grooming—exposure to the elements can cause an itchy hide. Rubbing not only feels good, it helps to remove dirt, feces and insects, and perhaps reduces stress. Unfortunately, dairy cows do not get to wander around in pastures that have places for rubbing—they are kept in the barn most of the time, where they have no way to engage in grooming. Noting that it must be frustrating for the cows, the researchers set up an experiment to determine if a large rotating bristly brush might help.
After noting that test cows seemed to enjoy pushing themselves against the brush, the researchers set up an experiment to measure how much they enjoyed it. The experiment consisted of training several dairy cows to push against a gate to open it, allowing them access to one of three options: an empty enclosure, a bucket of feed, or the giant brush. They also rigged the gate to require different amounts of pushing to get through. After testing multiple cows with their gate, the researchers found that they would push just as hard to gain access to the brush as they would for the feed. They also discovered that most of the cows were not willing to work very hard to gain access to the empty enclosure.
The researchers conclude by suggesting that the brush appears to be a viable option for allowing dairy cows to groom themselves.
- Now, the original team has published another paper claiming that additional research they conducted showed that their original claims were correct. But others in the field are still not convinced. One team published a paper in the same journal issue outlining their experience attempting the same procedure on mice. They claim that large, undesired deletions occurred in the embryo genome. Another team pointed out in their paper that the technique used by the original researchers could not work because DNA from the male and female in the embryo is physically separated during early development—because of that, there would be no way for the embryo to use the mother's DNA to repair the section cut out using CRISPR. Others have also noted that there is no way to tell for sure if the technique used by the original research team made other cuts that could not be seen, leading to other possible birth defects.
To date, no other team has attempted to replicate the original team's efforts due to governmental restrictions or outright bans on working with human embryos.
- The human psyche hates any form of cognitive dissonance – or challenge to ingrained beliefs – and so scientists think the struggles through which born-again Christians go in order to overcome their old modes of thinking cause severe stress to their brains.
- Rush: The Ancients did not devote the efforts of an entire generation to build this ship on a whim. Neither was Destiny named on a whim. Over a million years ago, the Ancients discovered the complex structure buried deep within the background radiation. The fingerprints of an intelligence that existed very near the beginning of time itself. Destiny was launched in search of that intelligence. Who knows how close we are to finding it. How close we are to learning, in the Ancients' words, "the destiny of all things." I don't pretend to know when that's going to be, in which stars it will happen, or even how that will change our view of the universe. I only know that Destiny has come this far and if we abandon her now, there'll be no coming back. All of that knowledge will be lost, forever. I believe this journey is the reason I'm here, but I can't hope to do it alone. I ask you to come with me.
