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by flobosg 5d ago
There is no Japan Standard Institute but Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) and Japanese Industrial Standards Commitee (JISC).
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by flobosg 11d ago
Tangentially related, these articles by Maciej Cegłowski: * The Lunacy of Artemis – https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm * Artemis II Is Not Safe to Fly – https://idlewords.com/20
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by flobosg 16d ago
> It was much quicker and easier to get the agar to 90C temperature by putting it in a microwave for 40s at 900W Agarose gels in molecular biology labs are prepared in a similar way. (Agarose is the main component of agar.)
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by flobosg 16d ago
No. In this case “Arctic Monkey” is just the pseudonym used by the guide writer.
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by flobosg 22d ago
Somewhat related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_experiment
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by flobosg 22d ago
(2002) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_to_the_American_People
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by flobosg 1mo ago
(2007)
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by flobosg 1mo ago
They literally compose and print their letters in Excel.
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by flobosg 1mo ago
> You can do horrifying and amazing things with Excel. A friend of mine writes all of their correspondence in it.
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by flobosg 1mo ago
Blog entries, alas, are not.
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by flobosg 1mo ago
(2021)
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by flobosg 2mo ago
All those publications describe the methodology and modelling process to generate genomes, without testing them experimentally. This article shows that their designed genomes actually work in the wetlab. Your last two links are both preprin
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by flobosg 2mo ago
> Based on my quick reading, the BBC article doesn't bring up a prior publication / release from 2025 called "AI-Designed Phages," https://www.asimov.press/p/ai-phages That link is a commentary a
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by flobosg 2mo ago
The publication: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec2657 It is paywalled, but this seems to be the corresponding preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.6
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by flobosg 2mo ago
> The from-the-hip cameras typically have a waist-level viewfinder That is the case with twin-lens reflex cameras, for example, which are not commonly used for street photography. What the GP meant was holding an SLR or rangefinder camer
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by flobosg 2mo ago
It goes both ways, of course. There are Germans who do not take learning English seriously, and foreigners who stumble because many informal expressions (including jokes) are difficult to express in German since they rely on structures that
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by flobosg 2mo ago
Thanks for this comment. I also arrived in Germany into a similar bubble, but shortly thereafter it burst. I was forced to relocate to a backwater shithole (trust me, I’m doing my best to be charitable here) where I had an extremely bad lif
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by flobosg 2mo ago
Brings to mind Jeff Bridges’ homepage: https://www.jeffbridges.com/
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by flobosg 2mo ago
For a bit of context, Party Cannon is a death metal band with this logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Cannon#/media/File:Party...
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by flobosg 2mo ago
According to the article metadata: "datePublished":"2026-07-16T08:18:37+09:00"
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by flobosg 4mo ago
The Nintendo 64 Disk Drive (64DD) had the Randnet Browser.
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by flobosg 4mo ago
> Mac Micro Mac Nano, just like iPods!
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by flobosg 4mo ago
> Yes, as supplementary information Still part of the article.
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by flobosg 4mo ago
Usually, journals require raw, unmodified data to be deposited as supplementary information.
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by flobosg 4mo ago
> I would be more worried if the blotted area was different (the dark blob) Or if more than one blob is present (i.e. blobs at different molecular weights) for a supposedly selective and specific antibody that should show exactly one blo
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by flobosg 4mo ago
From the article: > This image is supposed to demonstrate that the antibody being sold works as intended. (…) Antibodies are near-ubiquitous but notoriously fickle laboratory reagents in biomedical research. For many applications, it is
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by flobosg 4mo ago
Same with the TIM barrel fold. It can catalyze a wide range of reactions.
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by flobosg 4mo ago
> since the data used to train AlphaFold is limited to existing experimentally determined protein structures Protein sequences, but the point still stands.
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by flobosg 4mo ago
8G ought to be enough for anybody.
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by flobosg 4mo ago
A small nitpick: chlorophyll is the pigment, photosystems are the protein complexes containing it. > So it works. But there has got to be a simpler/better/non-toxic way to create an ion trap using proteins and make plants work

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