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This is 'used car salesman' levels of fraud on that scale. People rapidly acknowledge these antibodies work or they don't. There are websites with reviews of them. However in addition to getting ripped off for a few hundred bucks, these antibodies are generally produced by immunizing animals and by faking this data they are unnecessarily increasing the discomfort to these animals for a fraudulent reason. Look up the Santa Cruz antibody scandal for more of that.

I think this is likely a process problem. Having been a safety officer for a lab in the past, there are two types of injury reports. One for regular injuries, you have a week to report. Serious injuries need to be reported within 24 hours. These are death and amputation injuries (there might be more, it's been a few years).

Anyway I suspect they missed the deadline because it slipped through the cracks.

NIST maintains several time standards. Gaithersburg MD is still up and I assume Hawaii is as well. Other than potential damage to equipment from loss of power (turbo molecular vacuum pumps and oil diffusion pumps might end up failing in interesting ways if not shut down properly) it will just take some time for the clocks to be recalibrated against the other NIST standards.

I tried to use an LLM for assistance with reversing some embedded code and agree with this. I had built up a pretty decent model of what was going on before starting. It was able to explain what was going on in this one perplexing function quite well but when I'd feed it decent sized blocks of code it would hallucinate like crazy. But I was quite happy with the performance at finding the basic library and ROM functions and annotating them correctly. I think it is all in how you use it.

There is another source, SNI certs showing up on a server or load balancer during the TLS handshake. When the client tries to connect to a server using SNI without indicating the server, some will reply with a default or give a list of valid server names.

Totally agree. A cheap GPS + Raspberry Pi makes an incredibly capable little NTP server capable of serving 100k clients(after you block the bad actors). The local network is down in the 10s of microseconds. Anything more accurate would need PTO and significantly more investment, but that is more accuracy than I'd ever need.

Ahhh thank you! I was wondering why the energy had to be so precise. That makes a ton of sense why it has to be so accurate. What makes this transition so low energy? The only other atomic excited state I have any knowledge of is the iron excited state used in Mossbauer spectroscopy. That transition is much higher energy. Also that one has some coupling to the electronic state of the nucleus. Does this Thorium transition have some special reason that it isn't coupled to the electronic state?

I suffered burn out from the Y2K and dot-com bubble. Left CS and worked at a winery for a year and a half. I went to grad school for Chemistry and then did a post doc in Cancer Biology... 20-some years later, somehow that all looped back around to Data Science. I guess I left CS, but not really STEM fields.

I would guess that the goal isn't to increase the mass of cinnamon to but to interfere with a standard assay of cinnamon. This would be similar to the melamine in baby formula and milk powder scandal in China. The melamine wasn't added to significantly increase the mass, but to interfere with the protein content assay. The lead might be there to add color, to interfere with assay of organic compounds, to prevent fungal growth, or even to cover a defect(lead binds to stinky sulfur compounds)... It's hard to say with knowing what form of lead they found in the apple sauce.

Replication in many fields comes with substantial costs. We are unlikely to see this strategy employed on many/most papers. I agree with other commenters that materials and methodology should be provided in sufficient detail so that others could replicate if desired.

Costco has incredible leverage over their suppliers. I worked for a supplier previously and they forced changes to our packaging including labels, cases, and pallets to make things easier for them. I have no doubt that Costco could give HP or Sony an ultimatum like this to dictate functionality or just not carry their brand.

I think one reason indirect costs get a bad rap is there are supplies that can only be paid for through overhead for example ... pens. Depending on the institute, getting anything back in terms of support can be tricky or down right impossible. It was so bad in one place, that we would all go out of pocket for notebooks and pens because the indirect portion was a black hole of nonsupport.

One way in which Ghidra excells is that it comes with a TON of processor definitions. IDA charges extra for those and the quality of the Ghidra definitions tends to be higher IMO. It makes Ghidra a better tool for embedded processors.

The guidelines have changed in the last couple of years. With the exception of certain agencies(FBI and DEA), drug use is evaluated with the surrounding circumstances. They treat I smoked pot once in college or I dealt pot or I am currently addicted to heroin differently.

The guidance these days is to tell the whole truth and describe the circumstances. Lying on the form will definitely disqualify you and a couple dumb things a few years ago won't necessarily.

One really tricky part of this is going to be that gallium alloys or otherwise attacks a LOT of metals including aluminum and steel. Still should be fine in glass or maybe there is a passivation trick that can prevent gallium attacking the surfaces.

Otherwise platinum on carbon (and now platinum/gallium alloy) can do lots of useful reactions mostly hydrogenations.