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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNA⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlike the cowards who hide their stupid names with latin, computer scientists will straight up call something a ‘fat pointer’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody will question you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actual graph used to inform government decisions

  Scatter plot correlating parked vehicles at supermarkets with the store’s number of employees. There’s only two data points and the trend line is drawn in the exact opposite direction of what they show (line says the store with more employees had more cars, the data shows otherwise). Page 602 of the Parking Generation Manual 5th Edition

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨butts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least they have an anus. Anemones just have to vomit out their waste

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Causes of Death in London (1623)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think ‘several’ just means that the people counted weren’t all killed in the same accident. No WorkSafe in those days so those accidents were probably shit like roofers falling off chapels and apprentice tanners mishandling chemicals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Molting Tardigrades⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IMAGINE SHEDDING A CUTILE

  THIS MEME WAS MADE BY THE SPIRALIA GANG

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Thanksgiving, Yanks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re going back in time to the first thanksgiving^cretaceous to get turkey off the menu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it worth it??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s plenty of stuff where ML algorithms the state of the art. For example the raw data from nanopore DNA sequencing machines is extremely noisy and ML algorithms clean it up with much less error than the Markov chains used in years previous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anagenesis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough in Canada we have mars bars instead of the US milky way and 3 musketeers instead of the international milky way. Mars doesn’t sell anything called a milky way here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like laying an egg.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this is cuckoo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Creature Party⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Echinoderms:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be a rebel, pick up trash.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell the jellies are on the right and that they’re in the genus Aurelia. Seems like a skill issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure vs Temp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what makes them fluids

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure vs Temp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  gases are fluids tho…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#notaseagull⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The buffalo thing pisses me off the most. Entire cultures are defined by that animal and it’s incredibly significant to the history of the prairies and the continent as a whole. So it’s pretty disrespectful to go to these people and go “um actually what you’ve been calling this animal for centuries is wrong actually because Linnaeus or whatever”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#notaseagull⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Je suis un ananas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, popularized by C

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s worth noting that a number of languages comparable C in use case and performance (including its predecessors COBOL, Fortran and ALGOL) start indexing at 1 just fine because they have proper array types and don’t make heavy use of pointers poking and peeking wherever they like.

  Decoupling indices from memory offsets doesn’t get in the way of performance and actually often allows better optimization because the compiler knows you aren’t sharing pointers between arrays or some other shenanigans (see Fortran, the GOAT of fast array processing). Also in many cases it allows improved type safety and thus memory safety (see index types in Ada/SPARK and the fact that it’s the only ‘legacy’ language that’s gotten comprehensive compile-time memory safety analysis)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with that guy. C was a mistake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My markup has my cat's contributions.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone who wants to do this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fruit flies you’ve seen eating fresh fruit are probably Drosophila suzukii (spotted wing fruit fly). Most (all?) other Drosophila species (including the model organism Drosophila melanogaster) only feed on rotting fruit. Though they’ll consume the sugars too, not just the microorganisms.

  There are also some more distantly related flies that feed on fresh fruit and are commonly called fruit flies (eg the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives in the midwest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Indian’ is still pretty widespread in the US

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y tho⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a bunch of species of cactus (family Cactaceae) but only Rhipsalis baccifera is found in the old world. Even weirder is that it’s found in sub-Saharan Africa and for some reason also Sri Lanka

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's gooo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  \mathbf. It’s consistent with \mathrm for well-defined constants

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's gooo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you monster

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big ol booties⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unbeweevible!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chemistry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My uncle was a med lab tech in the hospital. They still had “no mouth pipetting” signs up in the late 90s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Organisms need some oxidizing agent to respire. We use oxygen because it’s very highly reactive and thanks to photosynthesis is goddamn everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When avoirdupois pounds and pounds-force are used together I’m pretty sure it’s more common to use ‘lb’ for avoirdupois pounds and ‘lbf’ for pounds-force.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maximum is 100 °F and minimum is 95 °F. Those seem pretty arbitrary to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MSc Mansplaining⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Had to hand-lower it in to prevent splashback. WorkSafe you know”