aBioGuy

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by aBioGuy 8d ago
It is SO hard to make things (as someone who also dabbles in wood). It looks awesome, has exactly the light patterns you want, and doesn't make an audible buzz - awesome! And you've also learned something about aluminum extrusions
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by aBioGuy 8d ago
Glad you got it done! I'm very confused at the aluminum frame - it would have been far easier to just buy a $5 (?) piece of pine (or equivalent softwood) to make the back frame. The pine can also be customized with a handsaw. I guess I
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by aBioGuy 18d ago
https://ikeahackers.net/
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by aBioGuy 3mo ago
Another anecdote (where it came from I do not remember) stuck in my brain was that Watterson's editor called him one day to tell him that STEVEN SPIELBERG was on the phone to talk with him about a Calvin and Hobbes movie. Watterson ref
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by aBioGuy 3mo ago
In the title "....in the APP/PS1 Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease" Given the decades of emphasis on clearing / preventing amyloids I would be fairly jaded. If someone (biotech) wants to spend $$$ chasing this down, goo
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by aBioGuy 7mo ago
The M4 MacBook Air (16gb, 1TB) retailed for $1400 ( https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1884084-REG/apple_mba... ). The M5 equivalent is now $1300. 1TB requires the CPU upgrade.
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by aBioGuy 1y ago
I would like to point out (as I have seen this confused by many non-scientists) that the NIH (National Library of Medicine) provides a service called "PubMed" which collates peer-reviewed (and many pre-print) scientific papers int
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by aBioGuy 3y ago
Vehicular gas infrastructure is near 100 years of development and still has some edge cases. EV charging infrastructure is at about 10 years.
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by aBioGuy 3y ago
Well a Tern GSD has a max carry weight of 379 lbs and a max speed of 20 mph. Only needs a 0.5 kWh battery too. Has infinite range, depending on your fitness.
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by aBioGuy 3y ago
No has mentioned that the initial assertion is incorrect? The US Government sent troops to remove native inhabitants. Then they gave the land away. Having an army clear the land ahead of time makes a lot of homesteading possible.
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by aBioGuy 3y ago
I remember when I moved to DC many years ago we drove to an art exhibit (in an empty building way away from the metro). There was a guy walking up and down the road saying "$5 to park!" I paid him and in the elevator an older woma
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by aBioGuy 3y ago
Unpopular (?) opinion: don't worry about theft. If you are making developer-money then a $1000-$3000 bike is a trivial amount of money. Just use a cafe-lock with a sturdy chain and go about your life. It gets stolen? Buy a new one. See
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by aBioGuy 3y ago
The cheapest and simplest strategy is to buy several external drives and leave them at work / someone else's house.
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by aBioGuy 3y ago
I thought that held the coaster AOL sent everyone in the mail.
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by aBioGuy 4y ago
Depending on where you live, you can cargo bike with your kids. If you check out the cargo bike forums there are always posts on how to attach baby seats to a bakfiets and such. I've got two kids and my ecargo-bike replaces about 20 ca
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by aBioGuy 4y ago
Furthermore, scientific computing often (usually?) involves trainees. It can difficult to train people when small mistakes can have five figure bills.
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by aBioGuy 4y ago
If you make it pleasant to ride a bike - people will do it. Where I live, there is an off-street bike path that was completed about 10 years ago. Since then many new businesses have opened along the path. The economic impact of pulling peop
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by aBioGuy 5y ago
The e-bike (pre COVID) would do about 2-3 24 mile trips a week. Plus the local trips. The other 1-2 days were a regular bike. That's a lot of rush hour miles removed from the road.
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by aBioGuy 5y ago
Well the car has about 1000 miles in the same time frame. A second (non electric) bike has about 1500 miles. More importantly I was seriously considering replacing the car (it is quite old) but with the cargo bike the car gets used so infre
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by aBioGuy 5y ago
Tern GSD
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by aBioGuy 5y ago
I have two little kids. I also own an electric cargo bike. It has replaced over 2,000 car miles in the past year. I can bike to the grocery store, with two kids, and come back with a week's worth of groceries.
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by aBioGuy 5y ago
Doesn't this suggest that cities should continue to build out their bike infrastructure? You can't get high bike use without protected lanes / etc.
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by aBioGuy 7y ago
It's popular with scientists (genomics) for making web portals to interactively share data / plots / analyses. The number of users to such sites is (often) measured in dozens of people per day. I'm a bioinformatician, no
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by aBioGuy 7y ago
After I requested work buy me a tricked out MacBook (which I received literally last week), I saw the rumors that Apple would soon update their MacBook line. I was mentally preparing to be gutted when Apple would update the MacBook with two
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by aBioGuy 7y ago
This is a nice intro. For a good collection of "worked out" "pipelines" to analyze different kinds of genomic data types (RNA-seq, ChIP-seq) in the R environment (the concepts are universal, even if you don't R), ta
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by aBioGuy 7y ago
Yeah, that's why we subscribe. Digitally renting a movie is crazy stupid for busy parents of young children. It takes us 2-3 days to watch a movie (in the ~40 minute chunks we have each night). Digital rentals force you to finish watch
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by aBioGuy 8y ago
This was published yesterday (title says 2012).
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by aBioGuy 9y ago
A 'gene' is a distinct set of DNA nucleotides. What changed were 7% of his gene's expression levels, across time. Which is not a particularly remarkable finding. If approximately the same 7% of genes changed for most astronau
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by aBioGuy 11y ago
Agreed. I'm more interested in the cheap semi-quick data storage ($0.01 / GB / month) than any of the workflows they offer. I'm also not interested in learning a new syntax to replace what I can do with UNIX / pytho