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Pretty cool mediawiki gallery page from biophysicist Jane Richardson (known for Richardson diagrams)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dcrjsr/gallery_of_protein_structure

More on her user page, including some photographs of cultural sites and nature.

@robryk you just taught me a new word: "eristics"

I had a course in constitutional law that talked us through some of the arguments testing the U.S. constitution: it was a real eye-opener, showed me more directly than I had before how the "rubber meets the road" when it comes to law

Maybe I'm biased by my young body and tolerance to sweets, but harvesting *sugar* to make a no-calorie sweetener just sounds hella stupid.
https://amyris.com/

It seems pretty obvious from a strategic standpoint that other countries and alliances would want this, but I didn't know there were multiple GPSes
https://www.gps.gov/systems/gnss/
Seems they're all pretty new though compared to GPS

For the longest time I didn't realize the qoto.org favicon is a bubbling flask. My tabs have a dark background so it just looks like some blob with little sprites dancing above it.

@trinsec Ah. Understood. I do think there's something to remo and gather town though. Something about the analogies to physical space those apps make ticks a box in my head that says "you are among people" that I don't get from chat rooms.

@trinsec and yeah, it still exists. I tried it a few years ago, but found it to be way too clunky, at least on Linux. I don't know why it isn't bigger... maybe because they leaned to heavily into the whole "second world" thing. Like, Zoom has taken off this year because it's how people get work done in the real world (and, IMO, it was just way better than the alternatives of skype and google hangouts in terms of video quality and reliability). Second Life was always more about "exploring" and "discovering", which made it trivial in most people's lives.

@trinsec the apps i linked are more for situations where there are multiple loosely connected conversations going on. Like hackaday.io's remoticon used remo for their break times where people could virtually move between tables. There were not specific topics at different tables, but you could see who was "sitting" there and join if you wanted to say hi or whatever.

NeurIPS 2020 is using gather town for their poster session. easiest to just look at their video: https://nips.cc/virtual/2020/public/

Some interesting apps in virtual conferences. Esp. with the pandemic, ppl have tried hosting meetings in video games (animal crossing and even red dead redemption, apparently), and second life for concerts and meetups has long been a thing, but obviously those solutions leave a lot to be desired for moderation, and for video, file, and screen sharing.
Having tried remo, I think the biggest mismatch vs real life is how awkward it is to be "at" some place and just listening in - coupled with the artificial scarcity of seats at a table, I start to feel like I'm taking up a seat someone else with more to say could be sitting at.
https://remo.co/
https://gather.town/

Adventures in Synthetic Biology: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/46337?show=full

#synbio #comic

How is it that the #archlinux wiki became the de facto place for so much generic (e.g., XDG, X11) desktop configuration help?

@mray she's written a whole graphic novel about it @julietteTaka@social.logilab.org

Dang, but I can really use this: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree
We generally have long-lived support branches in our #git repos that get worked on alongside main development. I had made do with alternately checking out support/develop or maintaining completely separate clones, but worktrees could make for a cleaner workflow.

I didn't know #git had this feature.. The example of attaching a "tested by" note is cool -- we could probably use this to attach summary test results and CI build statuses.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes

Nice. Looks like it's easier to do recursive queries in #SQLite (e.g., for graphs). I remember this was a pain-point for me a few years ago.

https://sqlite.org/lang_with.html#rcex3