Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
on Twitter being better for science
@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe I dunno. sure, the Twitter *brand* will probably live for a long time, but what will it BE
on Twitter being better for science
@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe you really think Twitter has a future
honestly, I should probably get on Twitter. my chances of getting answers to technical questions would be something a bit more than zero, there
@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe yeah well, hope springs eternal
what would be the most valuable use of low-tech #chemistry for the people. got major choice paralysis between options
home serum monitoring of hormones is a possibility
food analysis? like, getting nutritional values for foodstuffs?
low-tech atmospheric CO2 monitoring?
there's the Unity approach but, ugh, it's Unity
is there something a bit less of a faff
oh yeah time to ask again about what the least painful options are for getting some kinda #Android app running
I figure if I repeat the question enough days, I might get an answer in a month maybe
hey I can't tell if my likes and boosts are sticking or not. seems like a "light theme" thing...
salt about technological development under capitalism
@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe no shit. *laughs* the usual lie is that we start with a prototype thing and then everything after that is better, but nah, not with high-tech shit
high-tech shit starts with a questionable prototype and then just degrades from there. it's the only industry where shit can be counted on to get WORSE with time
yay capitalism!
wow Bing used to be slightly better than Google Images in a couple of minor details but that was a while ago, holy crap does Bing ever suck now
focus is just awful today
ok Aza Cope it is. that's a name, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aza-Cope_rearrangement
but I think this vein for names is getting near exhausted, unless I really wanna have game characters named, like, "Willgerodt Kindler" or crap like that
@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe eh what's the fun in that
"Aza Cope" that would be cute haha. cheating a bit
@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe yeah that's what I thought
*looks it up* that has a name? well, I guess it would
(Kolbe-Schmitt reaction is carboxylation of a phenol under high carbon dioxide pressure, it's more of an industrial thing)
@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe ok what is it
@kara_dreamer@plural.cafe that's awful
running out of good names
already used "Diels Alder", "Dess Martin" (well Kara did, in a story she never finished)
"Wolff Kishner" is weird for a girl's name
ok back to #FFXIV
got a character already on Malboro named Corey Kim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey%E2%80%93Kim_oxidation) but, bleh, I don't remember how to play a conjurer at all, or anything else for that matter
might as well start from scratch
FFXIV on Linux, suffering, pain
@mdhughes@cybre.space well I wouldn't have even bothered _trying_ to make a go of Ubuntu as a desktop OS if I hadn't found something suggesting that people had successfully gotten FFXIV to run on it. I don't play a lot of games but I'd like to play that one anyway
but in the event...yeah. it just wasn't worth it
@melaninpony that's kind of a mood after watching two in a row
