Frostbeard

@Frostbeard@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great to see some actual progress over there⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it should be named The Elizabeth Tower…

  Oh wait…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨return 2 krebs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember my biochem professor sgowednus that chart at the end of “Biochem 100” We had focused in citric acid cycle, the electron transfer in the mitocondria, basic genetics (amino acids, RNA, DNA), neogluconesis, and something about removing nitrogen from cells +a whole lot more I can’t remember 20 years after the class.

  I ended up doing physical chemistry doing my master thesis on thermodynamics in enzymes. Only a couple of formulas and four laws that is already well defined. Way easier than this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help figuring out my pressure washer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be a faulty valve in there somewhere. I have a Steele 129 plus (think it’s just a rebranded Nilfisk tbh) that did the same thing, only I just had to let it rest for 5 minuted as water drained from whatever it was that caused the shutoff.

  Have it serviced is my advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That moment when you graduated from MEME⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the original academic meaning of meme in evolutionary biology it’s pretty apt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wild Seals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was this docureality about seal hunters in the Arctic on Norwegian television a few years back. One of the crew contracted “Spekkfinger” and they had to travel a day to Iceland to drop him off. Apparently there still is a demand somewhere for greenland seal as there was a few boats that the svow followed. And they had a crew with cook and all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wild Seals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just google leopard seal. Its like a cross between a grizzly and a large shark

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨funny little guys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks an awful lot like lampreys…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Disagree about the EU. Europe has had sp many wars, and the EU managed to get the nations talking and trading. It has done lits for peace but its hard to measure wars that don’t happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hyperbaric oxygen chamber⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that botox injectes into penis, or botox extracted from Clostridium botulinum on penis?

  All jokes aside. Why inject a muscle relaxant in penis?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE LEFT JUST DESTROYED THIS BEAUTIFUL FAMILY⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. He left his family for a secretary that he also got a daughter with.

  Tbf that id perhaps the least despicable act this man did.

  And he was beaten to death by the british, not sure how left leaning a give UK officer in WW2 was

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some franchises with characters that personify countries?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Girls umd Panzer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you've ever wondered how many poptarts you can stack on a borzoi, it's at least 8⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me do it for you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My only gripe with that car is that it looks really bland. Then again I am no James Dean where I sit with two kids seats with the back full of shopping

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t it just relocate to say… Switzerland

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Norwegian here: Long thin stick - Spaghetti Straight tube - Penne Curved tube - Macaroni Bow tie - Farfarelle Made of potato - Gnocchi Sheet - Lasagna Everything else - Pasta

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Last time I checked there was Copilot integration in NotePad. So I wouldn’t assume WordPad is safe from anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why the concept of statistical outlier and standard deviation exists.

  Had I seen something like this in any analysis I would either assume some fault in the measurement (either reading or technical) or error in punching the data. Then ignored the result if it couldn’t be reproduced, but leave it in the raw data/graph/figure and explain the exlution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The average age of Disney princesses is 505y.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not seen the movie but I assume she behaves like a 22 yo as well?

  That’s one of the many things that threwe with LotR Rings of Power was how Galadriel behaved like a teen while being between 3,412 and 5,353 years old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The OP laments how he did his PhD because he wanted an academic career, and how his PhD didn’t land him a professorship. Given how he must have spent 5 years at some institution or other, and have at least some success seeing how he got the PhD student position in the first place. My point was that how he in those 5 years didn’t figure out how hard it is to become a professor I find strange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH if you attend 5 years at uni and don’t catch on how few professors there are to literally everyone else at the university perhaps your reasoning skills are not that great.

  I mean I did 5 years with a master in thermodynamics (physical chemistry) and my section had 20 offices. Three had a professor in them.

  Top sciencetists are is like top athlets. The same drive, dedication and forsaking other things to be best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debatable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point kids want agency, and hair is an accessible “medium” Youths will always show “rebellion” with hairstyles and clothes.

  I will even fake outrage so not to spoil the fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scientific American points to an important fact. *With our latest surveys, such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and Euclid, by my very rough estimation, we’ve taken pictures of somewhere around 100 million galaxies out of the two trillion or so estimated to exist in the entire observable universe.

  Shamir’s paradigm-shattering conclusion relies on 263 of them.*

  They are discussing bias in the selection

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password manager by Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my office I have a list that says passwords all nonsens and just as a decoy. I have a system that I use for rotation woth a visual reminder (by association, not directly) somwhere in my office

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The good old days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Balding thank you bery much!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Lord of the Ringsy-Wingsy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every one knows Teletubbies are eloids living inside the dome. We just never see the night when the Morlocs comes out to eat them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning to sovcit vanifestos, and only sovcit vanifestos.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was sure that you were tricking me, but turned out a good click. Even tho’ this is how you all lost The Game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds funny but THIS is how it actually is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heyooh. Ba-bum-dis :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Financially rewarding and you will always have a job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We are part of the EEA. The agreement between the EU and the remaining EFTA members. (Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein and Switzerland.) For Norway’s part it means we adopt the legislation as nationl law (we can veto, but sdom happens) and are part of the inner market but not the customs union. Also special agreements on energy (oil) agriculture and fishing. We have no representation in the parliament or the commission. We participate on beurocratic level but cannot vote on anything. (I represent Norway in two 'group of experts" and two administrative cooperation groups) GoE discusses things on a higher level AdCo lower level and market surveile. We have a voice, but always a little bit apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you work for a company owned by a A..hole⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats a great feeling. I did extremely low level tech support for other students while at uni. in 2003 (Think issuing user names, filling copy paper, sorting out storage spave allocation on the shared drives.) Small part time job that paid for boze. A girl came in with a 3.5" floppy disk on the verge of tears and said she couldn’t get the file on it. It was her master thesis and the only place she had stored it. We still had floppy disk drives and I slitted it in and used a dos shell to acess a: but nothing. No disk in drive. I took the floppy out and noticed that the metal protection of the actuall disk (that soft plastic circle) didn’t slide properly. To me it looked like the spring was just to worn and had no tension. Took it of and could then access the files on it. Error was that the spring wasn’t able to slide the metal protector away when inserted into the reader.

  Copied the files to her “home” area, sent a copy by email and gave her a new floppy with the files and told her about the importance of back ups.

  The sheer look of relief and gratitude was priceless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bullet proof west with PRESS on it and a helmet/glasses. Trump made a war zone so it should be treated as a war zone.