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by gravelc 3mo ago
I've been on a GloBird plan with 3 free hours for a while. Works out very well as I have a 20 KWH battery and solar. Costs about $15 a month to run the house inc. cooking, heating/cooling, hot water, and charging my PHEV. To make
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by gravelc 3mo ago
Tried this to see how it goes in my particular field - computational design of RNAi-based biopesticides. One-shotted a design for targeting the DvSnf7 transcript of western corn rootworm. It took a fairly naive approach (maybe how a 1st y
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by gravelc 4mo ago
The 'Ask Reason for Calling' iPhone feature has completely eliminated scam calls for me. Real callers not in contacts leave a short message and I pick it up. Best iOS feature from the last few years IMO.
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by gravelc 4mo ago
BYD only entered the Australian car market in 2022. They are now the 2nd biggest seller after Toyota ( https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/insight/byd-overtakes-rivals-... ). They are also priced much lower than KIA
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by gravelc 5mo ago
Banned in Australia (or at least in most states). https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/are-mobile-billboards-leg...
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by gravelc 5mo ago
Pesticides form the backbone of crop protection. Without them, we're looking at at least a 40% reduction in global yield, and much greater uncertainty in food supply chains (the oil shocks show how bad that can be). Pesticides per se
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by gravelc 2y ago
Australia is 'winning' even more based on the graph: https://population.un.org/wpp/graphs?loc=36&type=Probabilist... Housing is very expensive, but inflation is largely tamed, unemployment is low, and the
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by gravelc 2y ago
I had a Merida Magnesium 909 road bike back in the day. They were common in Australia. Was (wrongly) convinced magnesium was going to overtake carbon. Never had any issues in 10 years of ownership and a lot of kms. Welds looked shocking
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by gravelc 2y ago
Surprised Australia isn't much higher given the incidence of melanoma.
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by gravelc 3y ago
Exactly what I was going to write. Why not at least demo the AVP before writing a whole article?
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by gravelc 3y ago
Some fungi require dead organic matter for survival - necrotrophs. Many dont (e.g. yeast)
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by gravelc 3y ago
Sceptical of this. Where did that number come from? What's the uncertainty? Yes, it's an extremely unlikely event, but unlikely events happen all the time. There's just as good an argument that given the advantages conferre
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by gravelc 3y ago
It's common enough in sheep grazing areas. I grew up in Australia with mutton making up 90% of my meat intake, as we slaughtered our own merino wethers (so not the breeds of lamb raised for eating). The local butchers would also have a
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by gravelc 3y ago
As usual, the manuscript itself is a bit more discrete than the press release, but this sentence in the conclusion shows the potential benefits - scalable and practical resetting of somatic stem cells, which has been a barrier in translatio
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by gravelc 3y ago
Game of the Year for me if it holds up in the latter stages. Playing it with my son on split screen. Hopefully will give him some good memories. It's deep, but not too complicated that the learning curve is too much if you're ti
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by gravelc 4y ago
I'd be surprised if anyone in any large scale sport ever dominated like Bradman or will be as dominant in the future. He missed part of the prime of his career due to WW2, so who knows what could have happened if he'd avoided the
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by gravelc 4y ago
I love simple generative approaches to get ideas, and go from there. This seems like an extension of that (well, it's what I'm going to try - sample the output, make stems, pull MIDI etc). Will make the creative process more int
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by gravelc 4y ago
Well that’s beer and bread off then menu. Fungi are like plants. Some are beneficial. Some are not.
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by gravelc 4y ago
You can't present it as computer science concepts because it's not computer science. For example, the central dogma of DNA transcribed to RNA translated to protein seems simple, but it's not. In almost every instance, there a
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by gravelc 4y ago
This is indeed a far better resource.
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by gravelc 4y ago
Who knew complex large polyploid genome assembly (i.e. sugar cane) was just a matter of python scripting?
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by gravelc 4y ago
Don't want to be too disparaging, but this to me doesn't seem to be an 'Introduction to Genomics', but more an introduction to read mapping and variant detection in human (or more broadly diploid) genomes. Genomics stret
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by gravelc 4y ago
My absolute favourite wine in the world is less than AU$30 a bottle - every vintage is spectacular. The winemaker wants ordinary people to drink his wines, so this is the price he sets. They are accordingly very difficult to buy - cellar
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by gravelc 4y ago
Circumstances change - super super glad I got my booster. When I got it, I was a healthy, fit person without any of the comorbidities that go along with COVID. Last week I had a mountain biking accident and broke half my ribs and punctured
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by gravelc 4y ago
Australia has no local car manufacturers and hasn't for some time. Toyota is by far the biggest car seller , followed by Mazda and Hyundai. https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/vfacts-australias-2021... Tesla se
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by gravelc 4y ago
Australian
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by gravelc 4y ago
Been on the β for a while; it’s a good OS. Particularly like the ability to use the iPhone as a Zoom cam. 3D printed a phone mount and everything works pretty seamlessly. Lock Screen widgets are nice too. Stage manager on iPadOS doesn’t do
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by gravelc 4y ago
Reference please. This says 10.2% as of 2020 : https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/health-welfare-expenditure/h...
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by gravelc 4y ago
I currently have a Toyota hybrid that is slowly reverting to an ICE-only after 8 years of ownership. Unless there's some mechanism in place to prolong the life of electric cars beyond the limits of their battery, I can see there'
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by gravelc 4y ago
Everyone who has ever been born is dangerously aging as far as I can make out. Doesn’t seem unique to one hemisphere.

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