IrritableOcelot
@IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
- Comment on Call me 4 days ago:
It is how it’s generally taught in schools, which is unfortunate.
- Comment on Call me 5 days ago:
Nope. RNA is chemically different: different sugar in the backbone, and there are wayyyy more than 4 RNA bases (like 12 iirc)
- Comment on Call me 5 days ago:
Something called a “lesion” around a base mismatch, basically a bubble in the strand pairing. It can introduce kinks in the helix, and generally is the result of mutation in one strand.
- Comment on 🍃 🐑 1 week ago:
I mean honestly? If you’re not even keeping full cells from the prey, I think we can give it to them. Lil guy, you can photosynthesize. No need to bother them with the asterisks.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 week ago:
That is true, but part of improving our environmental impact will be decreasing that transport of raw materials, localizing chemical industries near the sources of their raw materials.
- Comment on "EU-Linux:" Petition calls for the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system in public administrations across all EU countries 1 week ago:
Sure the threat model is different, I’m just saying it’s still a single point of failure.
- Comment on "EU-Linux:" Petition calls for the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system in public administrations across all EU countries 1 week ago:
I mean yes, but currently they’re all dependent on Windows, so its less of centralizing OSes, and more changing what its centralized on.
- Comment on It hurts me. 2 weeks ago:
Yep! The LD50 is 12.5% in air (higher than I thought, honestly) and yes the issue is that it binds preferentially to hemoglobin.
The main treatment for sub-lethal exposure is just supplying pure oxygen to kick the equilibrium the other way and slowly remove the CO from your system. It won’t all come off, but your body recycles red blood cells pretty quickly, so you’re back on your feet within a few hours and back to normal within a few days. However, there’s no treatment for lethal doses, people have proposed using things like cobalt porphyrins (which bind CO even better than iron hemes) to more quickly sequester the CO from your hemoglobin, but that’s not been trialled yet in humans.
I wasnt aware of its use as a neurotransmitter (but I’m absolutely going to look into it now), but its barely soluble in water so there must be more going on there. just like urea, it’s a natural waste product, and typically one your body wants to get rid of reasonably quickly.
- Comment on IT'S BEEN EIGHTY FOUR YEARS 2 weeks ago:
Yikes that’s almost as bad.
- Comment on IT'S BEEN EIGHTY FOUR YEARS 2 weeks ago:
When you’re supposed to choose between siding with the Mages and Templar, it tells you to go back to the war room, which I assume should activate some kind of cutscene…but nothing happens. You just get to choose more missions on the map. I can’t tell how far back it bugged out, even if I go back to before starting that questline, I get the same issue.
- Comment on IT'S BEEN EIGHTY FOUR YEARS 2 weeks ago:
I was playing through Inquisition for the first time earlier this year, and 30h in the main questline broke, and I cant proceed…a real bummer.
- Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users 2 weeks ago:
Yikes.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
In chemistry a lot of the foundational synthesis and work is as old as the 60s and 70s; people build on it, but in some cases those early papers said pretty much all there is to be said on a topic, so there’s no reason to republish on it.
I’ve had to cite papers as old as the late 30s before, because no one has ever found anything to fix or correct about their work! Pretty impressive if you ask me, given how few tools they had.
- Comment on Publishers Always Innovating 4 weeks ago:
Truly. Also the springer nature ones load so slowly for absolutely no reason, and break 10% of the time. I really don’t get what their motivation is, do they think that after I’ve said no, I dont want a web version, I will be happy with a different web version?
- Comment on Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95% 5 weeks ago:
Good point. Though, the vast majority of ML training and use is tensor math on floating points, so largely dot and cross products, among other matrix operations.
- Comment on Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95% 5 weeks ago:
I think you’re thinking of the famous fast inverse square root algorithm from Quake.
With respect to the top comment, the only reason 3d graphics are possible (even at 850W of power consumption) is due to taking a bunch of shortcuts and approximations like culling of polygons. If its a reasonable shortcut it either has or will be taken.
- Comment on Nobel Prize in Lit 2024 5 weeks ago:
How did I miss that…
- Comment on Nobel Prize in Lit 2024 5 weeks ago:
Royal Swiss?
- Comment on Citation Ascension 5 weeks ago:
Jabref is great. Also, if you need other formats you can always import the bibtex file into Zotero.
- Comment on AMD Ryzen AI 300 CPU beats Intel Core Ultra 200V CPU in Linux showdown — Strix Point was up to 1.6X faster than Lunar Lake 1 month ago:
Yeah if that’s not on-brand for Intel, I don’t know what is! I wonder what the max power draw for the 14900H is, it’s gotta be close 😂
- Comment on AMD Ryzen AI 300 CPU beats Intel Core Ultra 200V CPU in Linux showdown — Strix Point was up to 1.6X faster than Lunar Lake 1 month ago:
The most confusing thing is that “200V” isnt a CPU, it’s the equivalent of “15th gen”.
The numbers before the V are un-parseable, but at least for the actual parts it’s a “Ultra 7 236.1425926V” or something
- Comment on AMD Ryzen AI 300 CPU beats Intel Core Ultra 200V CPU in Linux showdown — Strix Point was up to 1.6X faster than Lunar Lake 1 month ago:
The original article [www.phoronix.com/…/core-ultra-7-lunar-lake-linux]
- Comment on Godot fork- Redot emerges after recent events within the Godot project. 1 month ago:
Technically changed two letters. Thats what makes them innovator auteur geniuses.
- Comment on Recall: Microsoft re-launches ‘privacy nightmare’ AI screenshot tool 1 month ago:
Oh my god if you are a new user please do not go straight to Arch or Manjaro. By far the two distros most likely to breaky irreparably.
- Comment on Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility 1 month ago:
Helium is tiny, and will diffuse though pretty much anything other than continuous welded metal pipe very very quickly. The elastomer seals on a phone would slow it down slightly, but the article’s from 2018, before so many phones were watertight. I remember my old iPhone had a little piezo cooling fan in one of the grates on the bottom, so helium would have no trouble at all.
- Comment on Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility 1 month ago:
Can’t speak for MEMS specifically, but it absolutely can make chips shut down whole instruments by changing their properties. It intercalates slower, but has much the same effect once it’s in there.
- Comment on Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility 1 month ago:
Yup. Most of the mems devices will essentially shut down the device if they go out of tolerance. This is a pretty common-knowledge fact among folks who work with large magnets, or with helium or hydrogen gas.
Funnily enough, it also happens with equipment microcontrollers which are unlikely to have a MEMS unit in them – for instance, any benchtop centrifuge made after the mid-90s will shut down, and I’m pretty sure those are still on quartz clocks. It also effects things like on-chip thermometers.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] This Case is a Disaster | Tryx LUCA L70 Review 1 month ago:
I’m guessing that’s a mini-ITX? Yeah I can forgive a case which is highly optimized for small form factor, but this case is if anything the opposite.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] This Case is a Disaster | Tryx LUCA L70 Review 1 month ago:
For a $240 case, no review is going to make me want to buy it, but god is it funny to watch Steve’s frustration with it.
- Comment on I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt. 2 months ago:
Yeah, most dead scripts have Unicode, specifically because how the hell would you write academic papers about them in this day and age otherwise? Even old Irish Ogham:
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The line is a convention, because ogham was originally written on the corner of a stone stela.