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Darren
@dplattsf@sfba.social
mastodon 4.7.3genetical engineer / CS geek
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Joined November 18, 2022
tail to tail traffic here in the clowder. #caturday. #catsofmastodon
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@paparatti@phire.place - I was talking with an #instagram friend about some irritating reply on Mastodon from the other day and they said "Oh, you need to give the algorithm feedback if you don't want to see that type of thing" and I just said ... there is no algorithm.. and you could see the mixed look of awe and horror at the thought. #mastodon
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@mike_bowler@hachyderm.io - one other effect I've read and noticed is make the whole video smaller - at least the part with the gallery of faces. It takes up less cognitive bandwidth when that's a smaller part of the visual field of view. Somehow a sea of smaller people confronting your brain is less taxing.. who knew??
Have been trying out an #oura4 ring and was alarmed when it told me my #cardiovascularheath looked like someone 9 years older than I am. Was sobering. I reflected on life today, forced the dogs to take an extra long walk with me and was planning to fit in a bike ride up one the larger hills in #SanFrancisco tomorrow, and then I thought hang on... checked the app settings and it had picked up a completely random birth date - probably the product of a lifetime of lying to anyone who tries to collect my true date of birth.. Still going on the bike ride tomorrow. I'm no #datascientist but betting my heart will look better relative to my age tomorrow...
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@mattblaze@federate.social the media written accounts are deliberately neutral and so ambiguous „stood in front of car that turned“ that I felt I had to watch. That animal had all the time in the world to step back and raise his gun. He wasn’t threatened for a moment and yet the NYT still leads with „disputed“ b/c of course propagandists do tend to dispute reality.
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@theleftistlawyer @SRLevine I would just politely suggest they go collect some
real world data to back up their assertions.
this is car wreck material - #trumpvoters with regret and yet even in their most frustrated moments they’d never vote for a democrat because their core hatred towards people not like them
outweigh even self interest. free link for #nytimes
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@solar_chase I think it’s a practical sensible investment but also just anything that upsets the Trump administration is fine with me at this point. The harder they try to destroy the planet the more motivated I am to see fossil fuel interests distressed.
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@solar_chase maybe we should try it again with a bottle of red as a control. Need to get to the bottom of this. ;). PS finally installing solar thanks for all of the wonderful information over the years.
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@solar_chase made and at least partially consumed. Did you use a whole bottle of wine as the primary liquid ingredient? Honestly choked on the vapor layer. This is one of those situations where you think bottle of delicious Cab sav (verified)? butter? pasta? how can you go wrong??! My opinion as a biochemist was too little lipid and not enough cook time - it's not as presented in that pic either - they added things they don't include in the recipe. To be fair we omitted the ANCHOVY but that got pretty awful reviews...
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have wondered if we could buy the #nytimescooking team a #blueapron subscription so they learn to add spices and use a few more aromatics ..
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@Taweret@timeloop.cafe you have to ask yourself obvious question. Are you a large language model ?
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And our #opensprinkler is working daylight hours again. I went out late at night and it was watering the front garden. I thought it had to be a plumbing issue, but with #homeautomation in play, it was actually #DNS failure leading to #NTP protocol failure, leading to it being "midday" for the front garden.. #IOT ... a thing of beauty
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@trixter@retro.pizza @Taweret@timeloop.cafe it’s probably somewhat true in the loose definition of model as long as you allow wetware.
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@danluu there are some great studies on building demolition where they put dummies in different places and then assess how well they did post demolition. IIRC being next to things >> under things (between beds, not under tables). The #sfba has earthquakes just enough that we do something about it. I worry about the other parts of the whole west coast, b/c the risk seems to be similar but kind of understandably it's harder to motivate people to deal with hypothetical risks. #earthquake
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@liza@post.lurk.org perfect, that reminds me of the quote, I think from Djikstra:
“there are two ways to program. Make it so simple. there is obviously nothing wrong, or so complicated that there’s nothing obviously wrong.”
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@ZachWeinersmith after a lot of testing we have found the sweet spot is bottling applesauce. It’s an almost instant apple pie. If you can make dough quickly, the effort reward ratio on cider was just way too low. you might enjoy kombucha if you want to ferment things on a more reasonable human time scale.
web systems always fail in passive voice
wait time at #kaiser #sanfrancisco french campus for #covid and #flu #vaccination is less than 5 mins. Way faster than catching the disease itself.
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@mattblaze@federate.social I remember reading that fondly at the time and looking at the physical security world differently afterwards. thanks!
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social - curious, have you read the book and what did you think if you have ?