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by Blahah 9y ago
I did wet and dry work in my PhD and before, and found a paper notebook to be incredibly inconvenient. Finding things, referring to things, including data or code - all very laborious if it's even effective. I can imagine keeping thoug
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by Blahah 9y ago
unless there are computational aspects to your work, which these days there usually are
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by Blahah 9y ago
in my experience, most lab gloves work fine with capacitive touch screens
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by Blahah 9y ago
Mainly yeast, via products fermented with yeast. So beer, marmite, fermented vegetable foods, etc.
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by Blahah 9y ago
It's not true that "you cannot get B12 from plants, period" [1]. You can get trace amounts from various edible land plants, but dietarily significant quantities from some algae. Also fermentation of some plants can provide B1
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by Blahah 9y ago
It's possible to make arbitrarily sophisticated websites without serving any HTML except a script tag. The browser shows you HTML to represent the DOM, but it doesn't mean sites are serving any significant amount of it. (most stil
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by Blahah 9y ago
What your comment (and followup) shows is that you think some other people's behaviour makes them deserve HIV. That's an utterly intolerable position, and especially so in this community. Nobody deserves HIV.
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by Blahah 9y ago
replying to myself to say that parent replied: > Degenerate behavior can't be punished with AIDS anymore. I think that's important context for their original post, which is why I'm posting it although it was flagged and do
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by Blahah 9y ago
What is the downside to curing HIV?
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by Blahah 10y ago
I'm not normally one to be creeped out by these kind of things. But this is a device that's designed to take photos and videos of you while you get dressed, and will be both connected to the internet and constantly communicating t
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by Blahah 10y ago
hey - I'm also working on something along these lines [1]. v1 will be a search + reading interface for scientific articles with p2p datasources (provided as hyperdrive feeds [2]). v2 will have arbitrary features that can be used to cus
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by Blahah 10y ago
Organic makes a totally unscientific distinction between synthetic and naturally-occurring substances. It's also a huge, and hugely profitable industry that lobbies effectively to prevent research funding into the safety of the substan
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by Blahah 10y ago
I travel a lot internationally but won't visit the USA - I have no interest in putting myself through that. By contrast, I've travelled to a lot of countries that the USA considers dangerous or extreme (e.g. Sudan), and have had n
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by Blahah 10y ago
The commenter actually didn't say where they lived, and didn't limit the question to any location. I live in Kenya and my one year old walks around a lot of the time without shoes, which is a calculated risk. I assure you I'm
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by Blahah 10y ago
Depending on where you live in the world, a lot of infectious diseases can spread by either wounds on the foot or vectors invading through the sole of the foot.
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by Blahah 10y ago
OpenSNP is for analysing your own SNP data, which you can download from services like 23andme: https://opensnp.org/ However, sequencing your entire genome is generally not available commercially. If you can find it, expect
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by Blahah 10y ago
OK yeah so I haven't closely inspected them, but compared to the way roads built by the Kenyan government are made, these ones are high quality. For example I've seen a road being laid between Nairobi and a nearby town since last
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by Blahah 10y ago
Awesome, that worked! Thanks to you and your wife :)
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by Blahah 10y ago
Paywalled article, so hope this is relevant. Here in Kenya, infrastructure investment by the Kenyan government is very poor. Whatever money gets theoretically assigned to things like building and maintenance of roads and the power and water
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by Blahah 10y ago
Except something did change, and it wasn't JS's fault. If it wasn't the code, it was the environment (time, variables, FS, system resources, etc.).
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by Blahah 10y ago
A simple intermediate step would be to archive with Zenodo
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by Blahah 10y ago
He shorted the pound enough to move the market significantly, and his buyback strategy deliberately prevented any stabilisation. The crash wouldn't have happened or at least wouldn't have been as bad without his involvement.
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by Blahah 10y ago
Great stuff in the sense that one person can directly profit to the tune of a billion dollars, by manipulating currency markets, at the cost of the taxpayers of an entire nation. So, not great stuff at all.
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by Blahah 10y ago
No, we haven't. A bunch of people have used the app (including me) and said nice things about it. Then some other people have spouted vitriol about the fact that it's made with electron. Frankly all we've established is that
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by Blahah 10y ago
Or maybe the app works great and nobody cares what technology you wish had been used.
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by Blahah 10y ago
QT used to fill this space, but developers flock to electron because it's a much nicer development experience.
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by Blahah 10y ago
I feel completely the opposite way. > It's terrible. It's awesome. Who cares if it takes more memory than someone would expect? That doesn't matter unless you're on a memory constrained system, in which case it's
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by Blahah 10y ago
It's not the responsibility of anyone except the police to police those sites. Cloudflare aren't providing those attack sites with an attack vector, they are just serving their webpages. The post office isn't responsible for
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by Blahah 10y ago
It depends what OP means by "getting jobs". To me it means getting work from clients. For getting clients side projects can be extremely useful, and there are no interviews.
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by Blahah 10y ago
My wife and I were both coming to the end of our PhDs and knew we didn't want to continue in academia. We have a successful software consultancy on the side, and have been teaching bioinformatics around Africa for a couple of years. We

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