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simlan··on Google outage – resolved
Maps is affected as well
simlan··on PinePhone – KDE Community edition
Turns out my browsers mangle the landing page of the pine64 site. Pre-order opens December. Just Fyi for anyone else that wondered what avail immediately means.
simlan··on PinePhone – KDE Community edition
If i click through i can't order it though ? The web shop only has the manjaro version. Am I missing something?
simlan··on Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanilla web development
Not a js wiz but i really enjoyed your experimental approach and the write up. Stating the objectives and constraints, report results. Nicely done!
simlan··on Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition
Yeah Firefox Mobile also has some serious issues with that.it was fun though ;)
simlan··on How to digitize your lab notebooks
I tried for a while with a convertible laptop and a stylus that goes with it. In the end it was too bulky and when i spill i might kill it. I am back to the paper notebook for bench work. All data and documentation of results goes into Confluence. This hybrid served me well lately.
simlan··on Show HN: Stock Performance of US Senators
Yeah same here. I don't have the beefiest Android so I thought might be my issue.
simlan··on Show HN: I built a free forms service for static websites
Yep exactly my thoughts.
simlan··on Show HN: Raspberry Pi garage door opener
Really cool. How do you trigger the opening ? Just via the pwa upon entering Wi-Fi range ?
simlan··on Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving crimes
I love it that was a fun past time ;)
simlan··on I tried to buy an actual barrel of crude oil (2015)
Thanks for sharing. That was a fun read from an unexpected source.
simlan··on We Made One Gram Of Remdesivir
In a usual lab no automation whatsoever. When something goes commercial there are two routes. One is adapting to bigger batches where you will get some automation (dosing, temperatur controll, mixing). The last step is to have full blown process where you pipe stuf from reaction a to b. However, that last one works best with large scale basic chemicals. Think all kinds of polymer materials.

There is a trend to get pharmaceuticals to a stage where flow chemistry can be used (like a small version of the full blown basic chemicals processes). This is however still a research field because a lot of processes don't lend themselves to continue flow.

The most automation in chemistry can be found in the analytical side of things. A good example right now are the covid tests that are run on large automated liquid handling systems.

simlan··on Keeping a Bibliography
Jep Zotero is where it is at! The bibtex support is also very good. So you can do your papers in word an still have a nice latex thesis later.
simlan··on What's SAP?
This should be higher up. Everyone here thinks a simple shinny crud app to order materials for a fancy start up would be so much easier. In reality anything that starts like this will need to face this complexity at some point. Turns out the SAP way is a compromise between usability and extensibility that worked for a long time.
simlan··on The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out
> Over 70% of this cost comes from the increased mortality risk associated with exposure to the local air pollution emitted when burning fossil fuels.

Sure thing... This disqualified itself really quickly.

simlan··on The University Is a Ticking Time Bomb
Great I really want my bridges cars and medical instruments developed by someone who consumed video bits explaining how it is done.

Just because this approach works for CS and a lot of humanities classes this can not be generalized. I have the feeling on here the technology optimism sometimes clouds the view on the reality.

Just some examples here: biology, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, medicine... To be any use you have to have more than a couple mooc classes.

simlan··on I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018)
Interesting I do exactly that to keep track and have something in hand on a rainy day where the motivation tanked.

I usually keep it analog though because a ruby piece of paper that fills over time is more tangible than a doc. But i guess that is personal preference ;)

simlan··on Fashionable Problems
Well I guess you can't see AI as a played out field yet. More likely it is just starting to take off. Say you find a new exciting spin on ERPs to replace e.g. SAP solutions that will have a large surface area. At least that is how i read the linked post.
simlan··on Learning to code vs. learning to automate
That book encapsulates how i learned my Python, Bash, and whatever else i tinker with. I only browsed it a couple times because it was too late for me. Just reiterating that i highly recommend it.
simlan··on Pyodide – Python data science stack in the browser via WebAssembly
Okay makes sense that it was on here a Google search on it didn't find it but i was in a hurry so... My bad
simlan··on Pyodide – Python data science stack in the browser via WebAssembly
Just heard about this today. It is pretty wild imho. There is also a live demo: https://alpha.iodide.io/notebooks/300/ Watch out though likely doesnt work on mobile and will download >50 mb of libs to work.
simlan··on Farmers Are Using Food Waste to Make Electricity
Puuh i think you overestimate the usable energy from pulp. Honestly anaerobic digestion works best with simple sugars. More complex carbohydrates and proteins and their turnover to methane depends on the digestability by the used bacteria. This is also why corn is a major feed for digesters in central Europe.
simlan··on Stackoverflow peak detection algorithm with academic citations
It is really neat how sometimes SO makes it into science. I love stuff like that because it showcases how the internet originally a science project enables new generations of scientists.
simlan··on Show HN: Bamboolib – A GUI for Pandas (Python Data Science)
Looks really interesting. The GUI is purely built on ipywidgets correct ?
simlan··on College admissions officers rank prospective students before they apply
Waste of money imho. But i guess if higher ed is strictly a business...
simlan··on Uranium Chemistry (2008)
As a chemist I really enjoy this. It only gets scary where he details that you can buy HF hydrofluouric acid over the counter... That is interesting to say the least. Can't buy that anywhere here...
simlan··on How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
You are buying and eating the so called sweet variety which is safe to eat after proper cooking. The ones used for making flour is called bitter and way more toxic thus the elaborate process.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava

simlan··on Driving on the Autobahn
Nope! On ramps do not have right of way speaking for Germany Austria and Italy here. By any means move over for merging traffic if you can but don't endanger yourself or others by jumping out of your lane for merging traffic.
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