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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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Research Article
Knitted origami
Elizabeth L. Wilmer
"Techniques are presented for embedding horizontal, vertical, and45◦diagonal crease lines into garter stitch knitted fabric. While theseare mostly based on standard lace knitting stitches, the horizon-tal creases use double-cable-crossed elongated stitches in a non-standard way. This crease library suffices to knit a model of a squaretwist, a foundational origami tessellation unit."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/17513472.2023.2191572
@alienmelon what's this for?
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sometimes i wake up in a cold sweat with the realization that generations after me will never experience the joy of degaussing their monitor :((((
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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@mtomczak I just don't add people I'm not intending to address directly.
it can be annoying though. I've found the "mute conversation" function doesn't quite work if people keep @-mentioning me, but I'll typically pipe up in that case.
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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!
ffx, ff7r spoilers
@xgranade
that FF7 twist is wild. I hadn't planned on playing because I figured the original already "did it all" in some sense. That's cool there's actually another layer to it @ami_angelwings
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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.
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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