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by pmags 4y ago
Indeed I do occasionally wish the bluebox also acted as an interface, but I also really like the fact that the Bluebox is a stand alone recorder (unlike the TX-6). I often don't want to be sitting in front of a computer when I'm j
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by pmags 4y ago
Small, portable mixers with lots of stereo inputs are relatively rare. That plus the Teenage Engineering "tax" (think Apple tax but for synth-heads) is driving the price. A cheaper, but slightly less tactile alternative is the 101
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by pmags 5y ago
I had a '73 VW Bug -- the solenoid failed in the middle of a post-college beach camping adventure through Baja with a friend. We too designated a screwdriver just for this purpose and kept track of whose turn it was to slide under the
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by pmags 5y ago
I get the appeal of classic texts like the Dover math series -- I've got plenty of them on my own bookshelf. But the reality of most fields of study is that a 60+ year old textbook just doesn't cut it in terms of topics covered, a
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by pmags 5y ago
What makes you think its colleges and universities that set the cost of textbooks?
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by pmags 5y ago
1) I'm afraid you're about 15 years out of date with your perception of how genome sequencing and assembly works. Nobody is assembling PacBio, MinION or other long-read data (or short read illumina data for that matter) with slow
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by pmags 5y ago
Did it really? `/usr/bin/python` invokes Python 2.7.18 on my just-bought Macbook Pro 14 running MacOS 12.2. Maybe that's because I installed the Xcode command line tools?
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by pmags 5y ago
I get an Error 1011 message: The owner of this website (neil.computer) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/content/images/2022/02/Artboard-5.png).
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by pmags 5y ago
My thoughts exactly. Berkeley Mono looks great on the website and in the PDF data sheet, but the real test is how does it look in my terminal and editor, especially when compared side-by-side with my current preferred font (Pragmata Pro; al
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by pmags 5y ago
I just pulled three actual postdoc offer letters out of my email archives from the 2008-2009 period. Salary offers ranged from $38K-$48K with the higher end representing a starting bioinformatics postdoc position. NIH minimum in 2009 was &
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by pmags 5y ago
This is absolutely not a "typical postdoctoral salary", and hasn't been for more than two decades. Most major research institutions follow NIH guidelines for postdoc salaries: https://www.training.nih.gov/pos
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by pmags 5y ago
From Ars Technica's coverage of this issue: >In another clip, Rogan spoke to a guest who has parents of different skin colors. "Powerful combination, genetic-wise, right?" Rogan said. "You get the body of the black ma
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by pmags 5y ago
I think the key innovation of Leo is it's use of "clones" in outlines (see discussion here; http://leoeditor.com/tutorial-pim.html ). In my experience this is the perfect bridge between a strictly hierarchical
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by pmags 5y ago
I've taught a scientific computing course aimed at first year grad students in the biomedical sciences for about 15 years. This article absolutely mirrors my experience. When I started out teaching this course I could assume that stude
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by pmags 5y ago
I work on the genetics and genomics of Cryptococcus, and actually it can often be quite tricky to treat as common azoles (most likely what your dad was treated with) are often ineffective (they tend to be fungistatic instead of fungicidal).
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by pmags 7y ago
Some additional details about these and related retractions from Pruitt's work can be found here: https://retractionwatch.com/2020/01/29/authors-questioning-p...
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by pmags 9y ago
Very nice. But are the "File" and "MindMap" menu items supposed to do something? (like export the file). On both Safari and Chrome they don't seem to have any behavior.
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by pmags 11y ago
If you're willing to give up a tiny bit of screen size for portability, I highly recommend the Dell Latitude E5450. * 14" 1920x1080 screen * Excellent keyboard (better than my 13" Macbook Pro) * Very usable trackpad * 6-7 hr
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by pmags 12y ago
Look's interesting, but I hesitate to use a Python formatting tool whose own code runs counter to well accepted Python stylistic guidelines -- namely "Use 4 spaces per indentation level." ( https://www.python.org&#x
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by pmags 12y ago
Seems entirely appropriate given his blog post, and others like it on his site as well as the book he wrote, are clearly aimed at people interested in learning bioinformatics.