rockSlayer
@rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults? 22 hours ago:
If you’re able to, you should absolutely watch the play too! It’s an hour longer than the album
- Comment on Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults? 22 hours ago:
I love historical fiction in any form. The best stuff is about a historical event. I absolutely love the musical play Suffs, it’s about the suffragist fight from 1913 to 1920 and follows women’s rights leaders Alice Paul, Inez Milholland, Doris Stevens, Ruza Wenclawska, and Lucy Burns. There’s also a B plot about Ida B. Wells and Mary Terrell
- Comment on Born to be friend 2 days ago:
Be the neighbor Mr Rogers knows you can be
- Comment on Roasted 2 days ago:
Do you know how hard it is to create the correct embouchure with a felt mouth?
- Comment on Slice of ketchup anyone? 3 days ago:
I bet they’d get along with my neighbors. I live across from a cemetery
- Comment on Slice of ketchup anyone? 3 days ago:
Capitalists
- Comment on I love astronomers so much 3 days ago:
Reminds me of a tool at my job called Picard. No idea what it does, but my disappointment was palpable when I found out that there wasn’t even a hint of a star trek easter egg
- Comment on In case you weren’t sure which box 4 days ago:
You put all the money into the boxes that represent the tax brackets. You are timed. It gets recorded and airs on TV, to prove to the IRS that you did your taxes. A second show called Audit! follows up on all the people who got their numbers wrong
- Comment on UK Police arrests criminal trying to escape 4 days ago:
Why isn’t the car and driver filled with 5 clips of bullets? My American mind cannot comprehend this /s
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I’d recommend tinycore for this computer since it’s ram is so limited
- Comment on Dinner for one 5 days ago:
Sold separately, those bastards
- Comment on Marriage 1 week ago:
- Comment on Where it stops, nobody knows 1 week ago:
When I was unemployed, I would take a nap whenever I wanted and then sleep for as long as I felt like. I miss that sometimes
- Comment on This is the dark souls of games journalism 1 week ago:
Definitely using this reaction meme
- Comment on DNAddy 2 weeks ago:
I’m not familiar with the name of the file I’m currently working with tbh. It’s used to create the annotation files for regenie analyses. It has every variant for every gene within the biobank. There’s far more than just missense; there are stop/start gain/loss, splice donor/acceptor, frameshifts, and ptv. It contains primateAI scores, spliceAI scores, cava data, clinvar data, and more.
- Comment on DNAddy 2 weeks ago:
yes, all that data is extrapolated directly from DNA. It’s a huge amount of information. All the DNA in a single human cell is directly translated to about 750MiB. Now, add in the fact that genomic studies use biobanks, like the UK Biobank, which contains the genetic info of hundreds of thousands of people. The data we can extrapolate from DNA is absolutely massive.
- Comment on DNAddy 2 weeks ago:
Well it varies depending on what the file is meant for. Usually there’s columns like chromosome, variant position, reference nucleotide, observed nucleotide, type of variation, codon sequence, gene name, etc.
There’s also columns that result from various analyses. In the file I’ve been working on lately, there are columns such as variant impact, level of confidence, pathogenicity, clinical significance, etc.
- Comment on DNAddy 2 weeks ago:
No, none of those guys are involved afaik. The one that made the first breakthrough in artificial life is ran by the same dude who competed with the Human Genome Project to map 99% of the human genome. They modified an extremely simple bacteria that only had something like 300 base pairs
- Comment on DNAddy 2 weeks ago:
I’m a data analyst at a medical nonprofit, primarily doing analyses on germline variants for rare forms of cancer. I’m new to this kind of work, but had a decent educational background in biology.
Something I’ve learned is that genetics are complicated as hell. A single gene can produce multiple different proteins, and proteins change over time due to somatic variation. Only 1% of the genome are protein coding, called exomes. Exomes can be affected by variations to start and stop codons, non coding regions, and untranslated regions. There are entire fields dedicated to studying genome-wide, exomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, phenomics, and probably several others that I don’t know about. The amount of data involved with these fields is in the tebibytes region. Have you ever seen a “small” 3GiB csv? I have. The filtered and cleaned data frames created by genetics are over 100 columns wide and have nearly 5 million entries.
There are companies creating artificial life by generating custom chromosomes. There’s a whole field of computer science dedicated to biological computing, using DNA as a storage medium. There are companies dedicated to simply classifying genes.
DNA is cool as hell.
- Comment on Lord Lucifer, hear my prayers 2 weeks ago:
Literally ignore the other people. They clearly don’t know what they’re talking about
This is my issue with your previous comment. It’s clear to me that we interpreted the question differently. Different interpretations does not make either of us wrong. I chose to answer with established current beliefs, you chose to answer with theological history. Both are correct.
medieval Christians conflated a lot of things, made up a bunch of demons
This wasn’t just an organic movement of peasants creating their own interpretations. It was literally taught by the church. Your own source about Satan specifically talks mentions pope Gregory IX accusing Cathars as following a heretical religion of Lucifer. This suggests that Lucifer and Satan were considered the same by the church, long before the 11th century. The demons that were “made up” were almost all Pagan gods. It was a deliberate action by the church to get them to convert.
- Comment on Alexander Siddig, Rosalind Chao and Hana Hatae announced for STLV with O'Brien Family group photo and "extended" O'Brien Family group photo with Siddig. 2 weeks ago:
Seeing that picture of Siddig makes me want Star Trek: House
- Comment on Lord Lucifer, hear my prayers 2 weeks ago:
Hi, I’m one of the other people. Etymology is interesting and useful, but the question “what is Lucifer and how is he related to Satan” in the context about Christianity is specifically about dogma. When discussing dogma, etymology literally does not matter. Lucifer and Satan are the same, as defined by the church before the protestant movement, making it christian canon for all sects except Eastern Orthodoxy.
- Comment on Fuck these doors 2 weeks ago:
The kick plate and no visible hinges are indications to me that it’s a push door
- Comment on Lord Lucifer, hear my prayers 2 weeks ago:
Yes, there are lines that can be drawn between abrahamic religions and ancient Mesopotamian religion. I think there’s a fundamental difference between basing a religion on pre-existing mythos and coopting religions
- Comment on Lord Lucifer, hear my prayers 2 weeks ago:
No, Lucifer and Satan are the same entity. Satan’s name before he was cast out of heaven for heresy was Lucifer.
Other figures like Baphomet, Mammon, Beelzebub, etc were pagan gods that Christianity coopted into being devils controlled by Satan to cause people to stray from God.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps you shouldn’t have your parent and your domme both called “mommy 🥵🥵🥵” in your contacts
- Comment on ‘KHAN!!! The Musical’ Is Coming To STLV 2026 And A Community Theater Near You 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t this the one Brentalfloss was involved with?
- Comment on It can't be coincidence they're so perfectly placed. 3 weeks ago:
Big if true
- Comment on Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase 3 weeks ago:
I know it’s true, but it just doesn’t feel right. I even worked with PS5s for 4 years and it still doesn’t seem right
- Comment on Tolerance break 3 weeks ago:
When I was unemployed and running low on weed, I switched to using my dugout. I was so god damn bored from the moment I woke up that I would hit it 2-3 times, watch an episode of trek, and then hit it another 2-3 times. Repeat ad nauseum until midnight
