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.

i’ve never thought about that before.

isnt that untrue though given that objects freeze instantly in space? Also that would mean you would only need to heat the ISS (rip) once, during its conception.

our true and native land

hm…

i saw a packet of heinz ketchup that said 148g of tomato per 100g. I guess they evaporate the liquid but I had a good laugh.

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

the guy above you is saying that 1/3 chance of being DIAGNOSED with cancer is not the same as 1/3 chance of having cancer.

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

when I was young (but still way past the prime time of IRC, 2000’s), I was invited to a few IRC servers for raids and etc. I didnt realize other kids werent doing the same…

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

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

as a fairly partial party (I like gas stovetops, don’t own one):

statistically significant doesn’t necessarily measure how important the effect is (or translatable to real life scenarios)

one study found people exposed to ~50 mg/m^3 benzene for 4 months to 16 years developed cancer (with some studies reporting ~20 mg/m^3, and a minimum of 2 mg/m^3 over 6 years)

this study reports ~3-6 ug/m^3, which is at a minimum 3 orders of magnitude less than the what was previously reported to cause cancer. (and also uses this 3 ug/m^3 based on some california recommendation)

TL;DR does it emit benzene? yes.

does it emit enough to cause cancer? untested. extrapolated answer: probably not.

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