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Alexander

@ alzymologist @sopuli.xyz

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  • 'Flettner Rotor' - xkcd

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  • I thought a lot about these things, and apparently, a less elegant way to tackle this problem is decoupling power harvesting and propulsion. Like, put your best suitable power plant on a boat, then conduct power to best propulsion (probably submerged turbine or something)

  • How to Defeat a Vampire

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  • Nah, it's like salt - vampire would stop to count and read all entries and scroll to the bottom.

  • Can reading assholes be considered science?

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  • Mighty Shai-hulud!

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  • One surface, one edge, one gender

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  • Actually I know a lab that ordered a large set of glassware from China directly from factory and erroneously received a different set of glassware. Turns out the same factory makes lab glassware and those kinky glass cocks and buttplugs to be filled with hot or cold water. What's even funnier, the senior PI genuinely had no idea wtf that is and went ahead asking colleagues - people around the globe - what they think this stuff would mean, what weird technology is that.

    Before you ask - I don't know the name of the factory, but probably it's easy enough to find on aliexpress, I'm into different stuff. Buying directly from manufacturer is better than buying from local reseller IMO. The best thing for a chemist in this category is probably buying lubricant components in moderate bulk and mixing them yourself so as not to worry about shelf life and be as allergen free as possible.

    If the OP question is genuine - this thing is supposed to occasionally rotate around held by the neck, so the bottom has minimal footprint thus it does not hit anything. And this is the most stable and easy to manufacture shape for that.

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  • Spent my first 3 years in academia doing exactly this. This is no 7.5 buffer. You've got suspension with zcp at around 7 probably.

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  • I do not have a lawn, I have several ha of forest and grassland. I have about 25 nest boxes for wild birds, occupied 2/3 (last year I had a huge owl living in one!) and countless other nests, several snakes, snails and frogs, lynx and I see bear tracks and scats now and then. I keep bees and allow wasps to build wherever they like, there are lots of bumblebees everywhere and birds sure have something to eat. I mulch a lot and keep loads of rotting leaves. I mow with scythe when I absolutely have to clear small area. I know there are fireflies in Finland.

    Never saw a single blink.

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  • I've seen them once in my life, in Smoky Mountains, about 10 years ago. It was pretty much spiritual experience. The darkness came alive. I cried when I saw their luciferase smeared over windshield and glowing long after the creature was dead. I knew lots of lore about them, saw them in mass culture - never realizing I never saw one myself, even though I take care to notice all living things around, from bacteria and yeast to mycchorizal networks.

    I live in Europe.

  • If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine

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  • Overpriced dophamine

  • That's not how any of this works.

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  • That's awesome, perfect conversation starter. Very smart design (and cute). Art with impact!

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  • squidbillies live action

  • Dont call this number again, we uphold the laws of physics in this home

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  • After hanging out with Veselago I'm not sure I can handle the concept of "reflective-only" elements.

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  • I got this vibe from fridge. One of the reasons I often put some frozen hornets in those, no packaging. Deters people from doing stupid things.

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  • Nah, top left is totally one of them hardcore STEM ladies from Uruguay

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  • They are awful for cooking, believe me, I have a home lab.

    Induction hobs are great for lab though, except for glass vessels, of course.

  • Stack advice

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  • This is so true! Tried "nice crossplatform WASM" multiple times - every time you need a system call, drawing single pixel, networking, or catching input - you just start debugging JS. If the logic is simple, whole code ends up being JS mess with small inclusions of Rust. Very unpleasant experience, even with all the modern frontend code generator tools.

    I ended up deciding that making custom bindings instead (edit: mention uniffi here) and building frontend in native (Qt/Kotlin/Swift) ends up being simpler, more pleasant, and the end result is faster and prettier (and no wasm limitations). The downside is having to actually use XCode if you do want iOS app to work (which is quite simple but unpleasant and requires you to have Apple hardware or suffer a lot), but if not and you don't care for Apple worshipers - it's pure win.

  • Classic SMBC: Funding

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  • I did quit after getting PhD, which simplifies changing citizenships and getting some kind of funding a lot. Now I'm trying to figure out whether PhDs are like knights - would anyone recognize PhDs if I find a committee of 3 to grant them (I already have 2)?

  • Classic SMBC: Funding

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  • This is pretty much how I left academia lol, took me 10 years to build a lab and get a tenure (european citizenship, with social benefits and stuff), regret nothing.

  • Experiences using leptos or yew in production (or giving up trying)?

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  • Even 2 years ago, yew was way way worse than actually writing js by hand.