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Comment · 1 month ago
Still have a liquid scintillation counter running on DOS with raw data printed on a dot matrix
Comment · 6 months ago
Yes, most definitely.
Comment · 6 months ago
Side anecdote, as a kid growing up I watched a documentary about the coastline problem on the BBC and I started thinking about the paradox and infinity and it made me incredibly scared and unwell and then threw up. Has anyone else ever experienced this?
Comment · 6 months ago
Stealing copyrighted material by scraping databases like Anna's archive.
Comment · 1 year ago
As someone who was mid-diamond around HotS I couldn't disagree more :D. I started playing the piano this year and my blood pressure is significantly lower, still get the dopamine rush of successfully playing a piece without the rage of getting cannon rushed
Comment · 2 years ago
A good strategy that works for us is the first person picks 5 places to eat, the second person narrows it down to 3 of the 5 and the first person then decides out of the 3 the place to eat.
Comment · 2 years ago
I don't understand where people see the optimism at the end of the video?
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes but not for anything requiring deep thought as the intervals don't lend itself to that style of work for me.

But any admin tasks, emails, etc work great.

Comment · 2 years ago
I finally got round to reading The Passenger and the companion piece Stella Maris. Cormac McCarthy still had it even in his late 80's. Not quite as good as his earlier novels but still very sharp.
Comment · 2 years ago
If an assay can be made based off this compound i could imagine some sort of screening tool that could be made. You would just need some sort of linker that could fluoresce or produce a signal.
Comment · 3 years ago
You can't mention Scotland without talking about James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest physicists of all time.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is the sort of thing android should lean into heavily to differentiate itself from apple as I can't see apple supporting this kind of thing outside of their écosystème.
Comment · 3 years ago
But we will need baseload power for a long time to come. The UK is not investing in battery technology and on still winter days the UK needs to be able to spin up a lot of power generation quickly. That role is currently filled by natural gas. Nuclear should have taken its place.

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