๐ธ๐น2ck ๐ฑ๐ @2ck@qoto.org
A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
So I guess I understand that zinc fingers use the zinc to as a coordination center and the different molecules in the protein fold are sort of "pinned together" by the zinc. Still, I don't understand: why zinc ions?
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This older comic is going around. Animals with misleading names! A gentle attempt to poke fun at English common names.
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Another fun fact:
The Hungarian version of "the tables have turned" is "visszanyal a fagyi"
Which literally translates into
"The ice cream licks back"
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A new study proposes why there are so few insects in the ocean, relating back to the oxygen-centric mechanism they use to harden their exoskeletons!
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-explanation-insects-ocean.html
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I recently received my annual letter from Elsevier for a book that I published 10 years ago <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-7223-6>. Royalties were insufficient to write a check to me, but Elsevier still sells the book for 118 Euros, and includes it in their library book packages. Tell me again why I published it with a big publisher instead of posting it for free on the Internet so my colleagues could benefit from it?
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Hello everyone, let me give my #introduction . I'm a doctoral student from The Philippines, researching about #ClimateChange, #ClimateJustice, #Flooding and #MachineLearning and of course #OpenScience ! Hope I can get to connect with all of you!
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Maryland Highway Administration quietly closed my service request from February to review a terrible intersection design. They did not realize that I have a Kanban board called "Local Government" with regular reminders to follow up on service requests I file.
This morning I escalated the close and extracted a promise of adding "guide marks" though the intersection.
Don't try to out-bureaucrat me, I've been forged and sharpened in the glowing furnace of federal contracting project management.
Genuinely shocked to find people don't find proboscis monkeys to be aesthetically pleasing. I think they're beautiful creatures.
Just the Zoo of Us: 192: Proboscis Monkey & Sarcastic Fringehead
Episode webpage: https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/just-the-zoo-of-us/
not an original idea, certainly, but I think the Black Mirror episodes that represent the complexity and nuance of human interaction with technology are almost uniformly more interesting than the ones that just extrapolate to an obviously bad future outcome. Certainly the latter are memorable and significant, but there's a richness to episodes like "San Junipero" or "Be Right Back" and maybe "Striking Vipers" that deal with how technology interplays with intimate personal relationships that has me returning to consideration of then repeatedly.
anyone else decide not to use a piece of open source software because, on the off-chance you might want to contribute a feature or fix, you don't want to write code in a certain programming language or environment? That's me with nodeJS projects. Maybe it's actually really nice to work with if you give it a chance, but it's always been that a pain for me. Also I'd have to be coding in JavaScript.
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@annaleen hoping i'm the first to the thread with this contribution but honestly it's been a whole 5 minutes so probably somebody else has posted the same and i just can't see it from over here on my end of the fedi
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On a #Linux #laptop, is there a way to see #PowerConsumption by process name / by cgroups?
Asking, uh, for a friend
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The Adler Planetarium is hiring a postdoc to work on #LightPollution data science: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=a34e224f-a2e0-411d-b27a-c621816a3d74&ccId=19000101_000001&jobId=467668&source=CC2&lang=en_US
International applicants are welcomed. Please pass it on!
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Anyone with a recommendation for a #fountainpen? I've been considering getting one and just completed my self-imposed two-month test run with a disposable Pilot Varsity with satisfactory results. Here's what I'm looking for:
Something fairly slim, say 11mm barrel or less
Vacuum/plunger fill, piston would be a reasonable alternative
Flexible nib would be a plus
So far I think my best option might be a used Conklin Nozac Vest Pocket or perhaps a Sheaffer Balance Slender. I don't mind a little DIY effort, but if it'd take expensive specialised tools to maintain an old pen, then maybe I'm better off looking at newer models. What #fountainpens can the Fediverse recommend?
Do other people buy albums and listen to them over and over on repeat? I know you might for an album that "really speaks to you" or something, but I'll do this for an album I just like. I have a Pandora account that I never use, but otherwise I only stream #music from, like, #Bandcamp, or sometimes #Soundcloud, when I'm considering buying the album it's on.
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A capable software engineer and aspirating (sic) cook. Also posting about space stuff (mostly NASA) occasionally
pronouns: he, him
Joined Apr 2020
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