Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
plurality Discord, eff you Loki
if you want a Discord server for all sorts of plural folks and which isn't run in a capricious arbitrary manner, you might try the Wonderverse
btw, in the interest of full disclosure: Kara Dreamer is an admin there, tho it isn't her server
here's a one-day invite link
and Loki? "dad"? *flips off*
plurality Discord
it's also really quiet, which can be good or bad, I guess
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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so uh apparently i finished the whole picture and forgot to fix a huge flaw
but after some art surgery, hopefully it now looks like sea is turning around and not, like, folded in half
also i made the darkness a bit less stark so you can see what's going on
(again, huge snugglefriend is seafisheater on twitter)
ok how many people use Wire, here
isn't that some awful Electron thing, though
wondering about good ways to use the Sun to get some portable heat for various purposes
my little workroom here is in a basement and it's always kinda cold, even on hot days
was shopping for a small space heater to aim at my legs or something but bleh, wouldn't it be cool if I could store solar energy in some way
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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Hell yeah, punk!!!!
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aw man, I haven't had to use my "evil toothy grin" emote in a while and. hm it feels kinda good to be a little vicious and shark-y now and again
Kara (well, the person who would become Kara, hahaha...who WAS that guy?) once wanted to become a filmmaker
I wonder whatever happened to that
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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@Alyx Right! With a little Lord of The Flies and Quest For Fire thrown in! It’ll happen.
ok, here's a chemical challenge for folks to think about
how would you make a QUIET fireworks show
like, if you wanted the equivalent experience, but without blowing shit up, how would you do it?
maybe, projecting lights onto fog or mist high up in the air
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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@Alyx There are several works (I guess they work that way...), like BASE (Uni Bielefeld) or CiteSeeX. I''m wondering the same, btw.
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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To all scientists: is there a good alternative to Google Scholar? A good search engine indexing (most to all) papers published at good conferences and journals?
Gargron salt
so uh could someone tell me if eugen [at] developer.g*b.com is "real" or not
like, I'll be honest here, no sense in not laying it on the line, I think Gargamel is really awful, but...that's not really HIM is it? on a fucking g@b.com account?
why is favoriting your own posts even a THING
like, why would you even _allow_ that, as a programmer?
sorta thinking of optimizing for semimicro scale work by going with a lot of "disposable" plastic ware that I would reuse. washing pipette tips and plastic tubes and stuff like that is tedious, but it beats the heck out of dealing with glass
always kinda wondered how accurate those variable-volume pipettes were
gonna be buying some anyway, I think, and I kinda wonder if this is one of those things where I shouldn't be cheaping out
I can test 'em by weighing aliquots of water I suppose
negative
see, if I became a game programmer, people might actually wanna talk to me here
if there's any one general pervasive thing I detest about contemporary graphical interfaces, it's the ease with which it's possible to execute irreversible (or difficultly reversible) actions with a single accidental mouse click
spectrophotometer stuff
trying to work out color-reaction methods for calcium and magnesium would be cool because then that gets me an easy way to estimate water hardness. I did find a mention about using rhodizonic acid for estimation of calcium, and there's gotta be others
found an _indirect_ method based on precipitating calcium as oxalate, then gauging its oxidation by potassium permanganate. cute, but not exactly simple
