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My washing machine has a timer. I do the wash when local electricity rates are near zero.

You’ll still get some isolation since not all pathways share the same code. It’s not all or nothing.

There’s film of the whale being blown up. The best part is the sound of whale meat falling from the sky.

Is this a joke paper? This is unoptimized bubble sort. This is the first sort I wrote when I was 13. This is literally the most obvious sort that exists.

It’s almost like a global trade war would be bad for businesses.

My friend is a doctor. Her profession uses sections of the NIH and CDC websites on a daily basis. They are the references for drug interactions with medical conditions. These sections are just gone.

Trump’s “cost saving” measures are already actively harming medical treatment in the USA.

Water is a greenhouse gas. That might just make things worse.

That is a false dichotomy. We can certainly place restrictions without resulting in an authoritarian society. We can ban billboards. (Some states do this). We can ban gambling and drug ads. We can place ownership limits on media markets. There are all things we have had in the us at various times and in various places.

But on the weekends the trains run 24 hrs a day, so schoneweide isn’t really a station of despair. It’s not even really that far out.

The freakiest thing to me is the Lawsons. This was a tiny little convenience store chain that existed in a few counties near Cleveland, OH. It went out of business around 1980, but through some baffling chain of events managed to migrate to Japan where they seem to be only slightly less common than 7/11s.

It’s almost like you haven’t been watching US politics for the last eight years.

but keep it below 4% to prevent it from getting too viscous.

It had a lot more to do with changes that were already in progress. The soviet union hadn’t been able to care for its citizens for a while. Most tellingly, life expectancy had been declining. In the late 70s/early 80s there were elements within the us government strongly arguing, based on this and other data, that the USSR would collapse within a decade, but the cold warriors laughed at them.

It had a lot more to do with changes that were already in progress. The soviet union hadn’t been able to care for its citizens for a while. Most tellingly, life expectancy had been declining. In the late 70s/early 80/ there were elements within the us government strongly arguing, based on this and other data, that the USSR would collapse within a decade, but the cold warriors laughed at them.

One of my favorite conventions is ‘TODO(username): some comment’. This lets attribution survive merges and commits and lets you search for all of someone’s comments using a grep.

Why did the reviewer approve the change if the developer didn’t update the comment?

It sounds like people are failing at their jobs.

There are plenty of places in the world where people do think of insects as tasty meals.

I’ve eaten a variety of land arthropods, and many were quite good.

While it took some mental fortitude to eat a deep fried scorpion, the flavor was really good. I’d describe it as smoky, nutty bean jerky paste inside crunchy fried chicken skin.

I’d describe silk worm pupae fried with butter as having a flavor akin to nutty cheese.

Grilled giant water bugs have a floral camphor note, but i find the wings a bit papery.

There were these grubs/pupae that i had deep fried somewhere in rural thailand that were extraordinary. They had a nutty flavor and popped in your mouth. I have no idea what they were, but I could easily see having them instead of popcorn while watching a movie.

Crickets grilled with in corn husks with basil and garlic are divine. The taste is subtle and nutty.

I suspect that nutty would be a common adjective.

What’s really funny is that this doesn’t sound far off from the reality of what architects (the house kind) actually have to deal with.

From what I know you’re mischaracterizing the research.

To the extent that they were looking at gain of function, they were also looking at loss of function. My understanding is that the research was looking at how random point mutation affect infectivity, both positively and negatively.

They were using also using virus evolutionary pretty distant from covid 19.

There are corona viruses present in species in the wet market that were much closer to covid 19. (eg pangolin caron’s viruses)

Blaming the wuhan lab is like finding that your child has been eaten by a tiger and the blaming a house cat breeder on the other side of town.

The initial cases of covid 19 cluster around the wet market. The lab is in another part of the city.

If it were a lab leak then we’d expect the initial cases to cluster around the lab, and to show up in those who had contact with lab workers.

Nobody considered the lab as a source because the basic epidemiological evidence doesn’t support it.

Coronaviruses are a big family of viruses.

The particular viruses they were working with were only distantly related to covid. Related in the same way that house cats are related to tigers.

In addition they were not doing “gain of function research”, unless you want to say that they were also doing “loss of function research”. What they were doing was seeing how point mutation affected infectivity both positively and negatively.

We know what they were working with, and it wasn’t the virus that gave rise to covid. There are much closer matches than in other species.

There’s a rot in here somewhere

The number of seeds that fit into a cheek pouch determines calories transferred per trip to storage.

Knowing this number will be critical for any modelling of chipmunk energetics.

I wonder if Twitter is about to be evicted for non-payment of rent.

This is after all the airline which inspired following musical number: https://youtu.be/FLoHL2O04aI?si=eNqNBRrbSQ_INQYy

Ryanair is not an airline. It is a byzantine bureaucratic game that rewards successful completion with a cheap airline ticket.

As somebody who worked for Google, I think it’s adorable that you believe Google has a messaging app strategy. :)

Move fast and break things runs into problems when “break things” translates to collapsed tunnels.

You mean places like the Netherlands?

On the other hand you often gain wisdom with experience, and often experience is proportional to age.