Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
towards organic conducting polymers from biomass
thinking idly about how you'd go about making organic conducting polymers out of stuff that can be derived from biomass, or some other renewable feedstock
"green organic semiconductors" is a thing that you can find papers on but *laughs* bet most of of the papers are kinda rubbish. what an old chemist acquaintance (really fearsome old trans woman. Gargron banned her from here once! hahaha) once called magic pixie dust chemistry
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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@kara_dreamer The book Cradle to Cradle Design (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle:_Remaking_the_Way_We_Make_Things) is about designing objects that can be completely recycled and remade indefinitely (as opposed to current recycling practices where quality degrades every cycle), and it's printed on a biodegradable resin composite material.
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A visitor to Niels Bohr’s cottage noticed a horseshoe nailed over the door.
“Surely you don’t expect that a horseshoe will bring good luck?” asked the visitor.
“No, I don’t,” Bohr said. “But they say it works even if you don’t believe in it.”
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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my goblin cooking trick
a good meal is made of starch (thing that fill my belley), sauce (tastey), and chunks (meat or veggie for Healths)
cook chunks and starch. combine them. add sauce. heat until correct heat. congrat of lations you have Cooked
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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Could you recommend me any books (fiction/nonfiction) that helped you to either
* self-reflect,
* strongly reconsider the relation between yourself and the society you live in,
* or grow/change as a person?
If yes, which book(s)?
(Boosts welcome, I guess.)
food chemistry: basic nutritional analysis
now here's a fun topic. kinda wonder if they've got some magically easy methods now. seems like they can use mass spectrometry for literally EVERYTHING these days, even proteins and DNA and other macromolecules. just zap a sample somehow, sort out the gas-phase ions
but what about the other end, low-tech methods
like, I think you can estimate fats in foodstuffs simply by extraction with methylene chloride or similar
I almost feel like assigning you homework, @kara_dreamer@plural.cafe ;=D
design me a machine that will turn waste paper into sheets of recycled paper (not white paper, just...sheets of papery stuff), using an absolute minimum of process water
corporate recycling infrastructure is crap
anyone surprised by this sort of thing?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/17/recycled-plastic-america-global-crisis
I've always kinda known that municipal plastics recycling was a really dodgy business. but yeah, it's real bad
ugh. Kara, you really need to start thinking about how to handle all your garbage on-site
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Hey #MastoAdmin, is there any documentation outlining the commands available in tootctl? It seems shocking to me that I can't find anything on the subject online outside of peacemeal changelog updates and toots requesting fuctionality.
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@Alyx All programming could be considered dialectical between a human's desire to get a goal across and the computer (a very literal, very logical, perversely pedantic creature that).
Perhaps more useful to your question there is a small community of programmers that use/prefer what's called "literate" style esp. focused on persuasive essays with code embedded that feels quite dialectal when done well. But that mostly just recenters people in the above existing "debate".
so I am gonna ask a silly conceptual #programmer question
I am gonna make up a term here
is _dialectical_ computer programming a thing
@dirk good luck :=3
oh, and the thirst?
"and the porous Vycor plugs are cut from lengths of 1/8-in.-diameter porous Vycor rod (_thirsty_ glass or Corning Vycor No. 7930), available from the Electronic Parts Department, Corning Glass Works, Houghton Park, Corning, New York, 14830."
so there ya go. glass can be thirsty.
so far as I know you can't really substitute anything for mercury, when you're using it as a liquid electrode. mercury's electrochemical properties are pretty unique to it
what's the alternative anyway? for closing these small rings, Wurtz coupling with sodium metal, usually a crap reaction, is actually good. but the electrolytic procedure probably has more selectivity and control.
I've vaguely heard of, like, activated non-alkali metals being used. or samarium diiodide
ok trying the random word thing with _Organic Syntheses_ again. the word of the day is "thirsty"
and it matches one article, wow
http://www.orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep=CV6P0153
cyclization of 1,3-dihaloalkanes to cyclopropanes by an electrolytic method! (also 1,4-dihaloalkanes yield cyclobutanes but it's not as good)
preparative electrochemistry is always one of those things I kinda look at with a slightly jaundiced eye. you need specialized equipment. and, in this case, a mercury-pool cathode. bleh
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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fediverse archive setting idea
"Third party archive permissions":
[Y/N] Boosting accounts may preserve content in their account archives
[Y/N] Mentioned servers may preserve content in threads
[Y/N] Archivists may preserve content if anonymized
[Y/N] Automated tools may preserve content.
idk probably some others
mostly I was thinking that the first one would be nice because Tumblr and Twitter defaulted to that being on and that gave me offline access to some content that's gone now
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re: solarpunk...?
@Alyx @kara_dreamer by requiring less from our machines.
the supply chain for discrete transistors is shorter and more flexible than that for ICs, and the same is true to a lesser extent of less complex ICs. Nothing is stopping us from all using a slightly souped up Z80 except that software fucking sucks
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can someone point me to resources regarding modding doom?
and also tell me which is the best doom engine to use?
please and thank ❤
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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"Am I mansplaining?" flowchart description
@Linuxtjej
START: Did she ask you to explain it?
- Yes. => Not mansplaining.
- No. => next question:
Do you have more relevant experience?
- She has more, and is a well known expert. => Just stop talking now.
- She has more. => Definitely mansplaining.
- About the same, or I'm not sure. => Probably mansplaining.
- Yes, by a fair amount. => next question:
Would most men with her education & experience already know this?
- Yes. => Probably mansplaining.
- No. => next question:
Did you ask if she needed it explained?
- I did not ask. => Probably mansplaining.
- Yes; she said she did. => Not mansplaining.
- Yes; she said no. => Just stop talking now.
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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Instance stuff / Patreon!
Hello,
I have created a Patreon to help cover the costs to run / hopefully upgrade our hosting plan and grow our community! Like I said, I first made this instance literally just with the intention of the joke in the domain name but I think it could have potential to become a nice latinx community instance. So feel free to donate so I don't have to charge people to get in da club, and maybe 1 day grow past masto.host! 
