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- Comment on the lifestyle 1 week ago:
Plots are typical composed, and when writing a paper (I insert them mostly into TeX publications) I do find the quality of the resulting plot is just so much more refined.
Seaborn is indeed closer and was definitely inspired by ggplot2 in some areas, but IMHO, it’s still not 100% there visually. I’m very much a Python user and would love it to be, but when I’m, let’s say, publishing a book, I’d always go back to ggplot2 - when preparing a paper for a lab class, seaborn is probably fine.
- Comment on Git good, son 1 week ago:
Or they have the same issue as me, their phone keyboard randomly inserting periods all the time. I manually remove them most of the time, but when I’m agitated, I sometimes can’t be bothered.
This happens with several apps, e. g. www.reddit.com/r/Swiftkey/…/random_periods/
I didn’t particularly want to link to reddit, but I wasn’t able to quickly find e. g. an issue tracker.
- Comment on the lifestyle 1 week ago:
You’ll get used to it and it will only take a couple of minutes. And I honestly believe nothing comes close to ggplot2 in terms of quality, and I don’t use R for anything else.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
honey bees are bad for pollinators
Hm? What do you mean?
From this paper:
A. mellifera appears to be the most important, single species of pollinator across the natural systems studied, owing to its wide distribution, generalist foraging behaviour and competence as a pollinator.
- Comment on Risky Buisness 1 month ago:
Jokes on you, I look her up once a year to see what she ended up doing. I’m 100% her name is Danielle.
- Comment on Mona’s ‘Ladies Lounge’ wins court battle to exclude men from art-filled space 1 month ago:
Kirsha Kaechele is delightful. Unfortunately, I don’t know how much of her old Ayahuasca - consuming self is left, she mentioned herself she became a lot more conservative.
Still, she did a bunch of interesting projects: Eat the Problem, 24 Carrots, a rap themed gun buyback in New Orleans…
Now that I think of it, this post is mostly me reflecting what I think of her as an artist these days. I was having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that success in the art world often forces the artist to adapt and conform, and I could see some of that in her as well. I have to say though, she is probably doing a good job and I shouldn’t be complaining.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Oh, I did grow up before video games were a thing, so I am aware of how CRTs worked. You just made it sound like CRTs would somehow provide tactile feedback while gaming, which I couldn’t place at all, given the context.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Sorry, tactile response from a CRT?
- Comment on Animals that use Drugs 2 months ago:
Sure. In my opinion, however, the overall context of the image would lead people to believe the jaguar enjoys similar effects to those clearly requiring the presence of DMT, as that is what is most people commonly associate with ayahuasca.
It’s a bit of a “look at all those animals getting high, this jaguar is even talking to machine elves in the 19th dimension” kinda thing, where - if I remember correctly - they actually consume the leaves for digestive purposes.
- Comment on Animals that use Drugs 2 months ago:
Jaguars actually eat the leaves of b. capii, which acts as a MAOI in the Ayahuasca brew.
While there is some discussion that the harmala alkaloids in b. capii might also be slightly psychoactive in high doses, the actual main compound in Ayahuasca is DMT, which is certainly very psychoactive, but not bioavailable when consumed orally without a MAOI. Unless the jaguars have figured out how to combine the two and/or brew ayahuasca, I strongly doubt that’s their intention and that they’d get comparable effects.
I think the idea stems from BBC show Weird Nature showing a jaguar eating yage leaves in episode 6, “Peculiar Potions”.
I’m not really sold on how well that content was researched.
- Comment on U.K. might follow Europe in fining employers who message staff after-hours 2 months ago:
Glad to hear that you found a position where your work experience is enjoyable and compatible with your life style. Given your last sentence, I hope you can see how the legislation mentioned here could potentially help people who have not yet been so lucky to achieve that.
- Comment on Lichens are things 2 months ago:
For anyone interested, I really recommend the book / audio book Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake.
I liked the book so much that I later on bought the audio book. It’s entertaining, filled with facts, but not overly scientific to a degree where it can’t be enjoyed by a layman.
- Comment on Mycology Club 3 months ago:
The top half has so much personal meme potential for me… great
- Comment on Waveshare UPS HAT easily adds battery backup to a Raspberry Pi 3 months ago:
It’s portable.
- Comment on What if? 3 months ago:
Same, but you were talking about NewPipe. I assume you use that on your phone.
And while you can disable the search history there, too, it often is convenient not to have to type the name of that thing you want to listen to while you’re driving, so many people leave it enabled.
- Comment on What if? 3 months ago:
They ask for your search history then
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
Thank you, those are the precise point that summarize my gripes with it. In particular, I feel it encourages people to perceive it as an authoritative source and to form their opinions on sites it rates (often wrongly) without additional thinking / fact checking.
It’s basically a company propaganda tool that can change its own option and ratings any time, influencing others in the process.
- Comment on My bad 3 months ago:
Thanks, that meme probably expresses the actual intent.
- Comment on It’s Lucian isn’t it? 3 months ago:
Crocodiles are reptiles, right?
- Comment on It’s Lucian isn’t it? 3 months ago:
They actually joke about it in the show, screaming “Aah, a crocodile”, and it’s just some woman working there. Same with the director being a lion, I believe.
The exhibit has turtles and penguins.
- Comment on Hardcore 3 months ago:
You have a good eye
- Comment on How can i make myself poisonous to mosquitos? 3 months ago:
DEET works, but is also not exactly healthy and does irritate both skin and mucus membranes. Also, applying DEET over sunscreen reduces the effect of the sunscreen by about 30%. Unless you are in a tropical environment with dangers of Malaria carrying insects, (P)Icaridin is a good alternative:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25936273/
www.sciencedirect.com/topics/…/icaridin
- Comment on I'm just gonna stick to slotted, thanks 4 months ago:
Not really. A solid set for security Torx is available for like $20 from reputable brands. Naturally, you can get higher quality sets and sets that add other security bits, but you still won’t land in an unacceptable price range even for private use, let alone a pro shop.
- Comment on Temu has finally gone too far. 4 months ago:
- Comment on Name that paper. 4 months ago:
- Comment on Aaaand fade out... 4 months ago:
Honestly, I often like a fadeout, e. g. keeping a slow bass beat around, fade everything else out slowly, sounds like a heart beating its last beats. Super cliché, but I like it.
- Comment on This is what we used to worry about in the 80s. This and global thermonuclear war. 4 months ago:
Given how political punk was right from the start, I wouldn’t call it “just a music movement”.
- Comment on My laptop hinge just ripped its screws right out. 4 months ago:
Yes, absolutely. Not all hinges are adjustable, unfortunately. In fact, I’d argue that most are not. Just have a look at the hinges at your place (doors, cabinets, toilet seat etc.), most will be very simple mechanisms with no inbuilt adjustment.
You can adjust the play mechanically, of course - that is, through application of a certain amount of force via deformation, which can be destructive process if not done carefully.
There are hinges with axial screws that allow for precise adjustment of hinge friction, but I have not seen those used for laptop display lids (nor did I personally encounter those in the small dimensions you would find on a laptop) . You’ll find examples of those at Misumi or McMaster - Carr.
- Comment on My laptop hinge just ripped its screws right out. 4 months ago:
Absolutely, if there is enough plastic left, melting is one of the best options. That also enables mending plastic by melting in metal pins or strips via a cheap plastic welder for 10 bucks (success can be great, but it’s highly dependent on the geometry and how things broke).
- Comment on My laptop hinge just ripped its screws right out. 4 months ago:
This is correct and good advice. I’d like to add that it’s also an option to glue in a threaded metal insert in case a self - tapping plastic screw was used and the original thread is stripped.
