# Key Points from IRC Conversation (August 21, 2013)

• Participants engaged in a technical discussion about implantable computers, concluding that Linux would be unsuitable for in-body systems due to its large footprint and high power consumption, emphasizing the need for specialized low-power operating systems for such applications.

• The conversation highlighted practical engineering considerations for implantable technology, including power constraints, security concerns, and potential applications like biometric authentication, demonstrating the channel's focus on technical feasibility rather than philosophical speculation.

• Members expressed skepticism about the "Technocopia" project, criticizing its lack of quantitative analysis, underestimation of farming requirements, and unimpressive subscription model of $100/month.

• A database troubleshooting technique called "poor man's query profiling" was shared, which uses gdb to dump stack traces of MySQL threads and awk to process them, useful for diagnosing blocked MySQL daemons.

• Research on CRISPR technology in plants was discussed, specifically mentioning a bioinformatics database containing over 1.4 million unique sgRNA target sequences in Arabidopsis exons for genome-wide application of sgRNA:pcoCas9 technology.

• The channel demonstrated an organized system for sharing and archiving academic papers through a "paperbot" system that automatically converts and stores shared research.