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by xipho 6y ago
We build scientific software ( http://taxonworks.org/ ) where interfaces are notoriously bad. I feel the scientific community would benefit so much from a (sponsored?) program that paired game developers (or UI/UX specia
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by xipho 6y ago
> I need something more like email (independent, self-hosted servers with a well defined protocol to communicate between them) The problem with email servers is you need a special type of sys admin to maintain them properly, they are no
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by xipho 6y ago
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13127-020-00448-x See references therein for metals numerous other orders of not just insects but arthropods. "metal mandible Hymenoptera" as a search.
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by xipho 6y ago
And various other wasps have heavy metals concentrated near the apex of their mandibles. There's also resilin, an elastic-like compound(?) that concentrates energy at certain parts of insect joins, used during jumping, or other fast mo
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by xipho 6y ago
Thanks for the links, I completely concur with the goodness of everything you've raised. To clarify where I'm coming from, my use-case is (fully) offline. I want to mock the visualization in the service then get the raw, static J
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by xipho 6y ago
Observable is fantastic, but as others have hinted at, IMO, I think it's trying to lock you in. I want the raw JS, in one click, so that I can build out a visualization locally, just hacking on HTML/JS. Steps to doing this are hig
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by xipho 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. It's hard to find good stand-alone SVG editing libraries/engines that really focus on the back-end editing/API and not the UI (buttons, icons, etc). We've always wanted an engine that just focuses on
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by xipho 6y ago
A wonderful bit on the Platypus from a recent conference: [doi: 10.3897/biss.4.59089]( https://biss.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=59089&journal_name=... ). Video of the talk will be here if not already: https:/&
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by xipho 6y ago
I think this is the key. "Just a state-machine" is a gross over-simplification. Imagine a tiny fruit-fly brain, vastly smaller than a human brain. Remarkably we can slice that brain into over 4000 pieces and try and rebuilt the
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by xipho 6y ago
There are many groups of insects that have a majority of species undescribed, chalcid wasps are all around you, everywhere outdoors, but so small they are never seen. Current efforts proposed to sequence the genome of every species are gra
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by xipho 6y ago
Probably where I learned it!
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by xipho 6y ago
Thanks. Wasn't hard to find that, it was just a minor nitpick to say if you're going to spend the effort to promote then perhaps provide some clues immediately after the click. Maybe this was a strategy to make people curious, and
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by xipho 6y ago
When I click on the link, then I read that raindrop-io is fast intuitive and smart, and at the very bottom I see a link to tell me its an extension. I like fast, intuituive and smart extensions, I'm looking forward to buying pizza wit
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by xipho 6y ago
> If the goal is maximum human freedom, again, the choices are obvious. Really, do explain please. First I'd like to know what you mean by freedom. I assume you're also considering that a) the dead have no freedom, and b) those
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by xipho 6y ago
So, if 50, you are willing to play Russian-Roulette and pick an M&M from a jar of 100 (or even 200) when, perhaps, 1-4 of them will kill you? I'd love to imagine (actually watching would be sadistic) a lineup of folks claiming they
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by xipho 6y ago
> it's just papering over the problem of bloated classes with too many responsibilities. If you're blindly coding away and using some feature just because it's there you've got bigger problems with how you go about pr
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by xipho 6y ago
Yes. 110% attributed to learning about unit-tests and gems/CPAN in grad school. IMO there is a big fallacy about the "just get it to work" approach. Most serious scientific code, i.e. supporting months-years of research, is
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by xipho 6y ago
University of Illinois CU is running this [right now]( https://illinoisnewsroom.org/university-of-illinois-creates-... ). They are returning results in hours.
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by xipho 6y ago
Tangentially, biological systematists (aka Taxonomists by some) take the cake: https://faculty.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html .
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by xipho 6y ago
Shameless plug. https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/waxy is coded based on Red Blob Games' incredible tutorials. We use it for visualizations in Rails.
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by xipho 6y ago
The color is absolutely real. Many Hymenoptera, and other insects have this coloration. It structural, not pigment, bouncing light around via microscopic grooves and ridges. Fun fact, most Hymenoptera are also very very small, ~2mm or so,
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by xipho 6y ago
IIRC he has at least one YT video where he bemoans the lack of Linux support for sound, sounded like it was non-trivial in many cases.
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by xipho 6y ago
Apologies for the trollishness. Still seems a little tautological (to be good be good). If the core of what you are doing doesn't work (Creative), what you are trying to do with your core (Advertise) won't work. Since nowhere in
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by xipho 6y ago
From an outsider's perspective "Creative" seems to be the same as saying "Get good, bro".
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by xipho 7y ago
2000 suggestions a hour seems like a success to me.
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by xipho 7y ago
Species File Group | 1- Community Manager, 2- UI/UX/Design | 1- ultimately ONSITE, 2- REMOTE/INTERNS considered | Full-time | USA, U. of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana We're an endowed group housed that University of Il
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by xipho 7y ago
Definitely, please pass it along. We're looking for intuitive, creative, imaginative folks. There is room to dream. We're prioritizing ideas and insight, regardless of whether we build out what is developed. I'd see it as a
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by xipho 7y ago
Species File Group | 1- Community Manager, 2- UI/UX/Design | 1- ultimately ONSITE, 2- REMOTE/INTERNS considered | Full-time | USA, U. of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana We're an endowed group housed that University of Il
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by xipho 7y ago
That's a funny way of stating it's a great example of 2(?) people coding a sustainable service to hundreds of thousands of others.
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by xipho 7y ago
Fair enough. Curious if you have a gut feeling for what alternatives are?

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