a quarter is half of a half.

im having a good run since I havent died early, but I’m like 1 billionth on the ladder so doing relatively poorly.

I don’t type with autocorrect. Last time I checked it was around the same speed as me using swipe, ~76 wpm.

I’ve recently started growing my nails so that has made it slightly harder. Not sure how people type with nails.

our true and native land

hm…

can you share a bit about your adoption experience?

about to do the same thing in a few months: adopt a black cat

i just got these exact razors in the UK, but some blades such as Astras come in cardboard packaging

male otters have a pocket to store their favourite rock. They use this rock to bash females unconcious and rape them.

The truth of academia is that it is extremely slow. there are less than 20 minds total on all of earth working on this idea, separately, in different countries. And these 20 people are in their 20’s, severely underpaid, don’t necessarily have all the resources they want, and science may not be their #1 life priority.

anyways:

reading and writing DNA is the main driver of evolution, and it does so because it is error prone (causing mutations). You can imagine this is bad if you want to preserve the integrity of the data.

DNA storage would be okay if you were to… say archive the entire internet for future generations, or geneology records, etc. things that do not need to be written and accessed quickly or often.

cleanslate.sh

i was told the increased surface area caused by rusting provided a better environment for tetanus

seconded

smoke, eat, panic when I get an after-hours work message, play some dota with buddies and then log off and go to bed.

i’m guessing peobably the opposite? they’re literate in french but the national test is in english.

most scientists are great at speaking. Your research is only as good as how effectively you communicate it. You don’t have to be a TED talk speaker, but generally most scientists can put together a logical story on what they’re doing, why they’re doing it, and why you should care. (That’s how we get funding, but convincing people that it’s important).

i disaseemble all my laptops so they are just a motherboard, screw them into sheets of MDF, place vertically, and use them as servers.

NAS, pihole, plex, etc

really? The first point of information I found out was that it cost 250k to get on.

"hey did you hear about the submarine that’s lost?

“no?”

“It cost 250k to get on, to go see the titanic wreck”

pretty much how my entire day went yesterday with various coworkers

I bought sync for reddit, best money I have ever spent.

I will also buy sync for lemmy