Chicago style is now officially sanctioned though

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Pittsburgh being exactly on the boundary between Northeast and Midwest is perfect.

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

I wrote up some notes on Brownian dynamics of (nearly flat) Helfrich membranes to help myself learn, and decided to post them publicly in case anyone else finds them helpful. Starting from Stokes equations and going through stochastic simulation in Fourier space.

www.samuelfoley.com/misc/

Leaves the door open for future awards, I suppose

Or a really fast sketch artist given the assignment the night before the announcement?

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IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Hard to trust the safety of new verb additives these days what with all the corporate lobbying from Big Dictionary.

A very expensive day later, and the consensus seems to be: he had a tummy ache

Yes, but I don't have tremendously good reasons for not picking it. I picked Ubuntu because it has by far the most community support online, making it easy to fix problems by googling. I picked XFCE because it's lightweight and a mature project.

XFCE is definitely minimalist, light and snappy. I didn't feel like I had to make any compromises choosing it over GNOME.

The application I use is called PCem, and it supports a ton of architectures. I can't remember if I followed a specific guide when I first set it up, but the trickiest part is picking the right combination of hardware and drivers. And I was talking about the Star Wars episode 1 video game lol

I kept a small Win11 partition for dual booting but only ended up booting it up like 3 times. The biggest issue is the lack of MS Office desktop applications on Linux (there are some things LibreOffice just can't do compatibly), but I just run them in a Windows VM rather than rebooting to Windows.

I've been using a Thinkpad L14 Gen 1 with a Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U running Xubuntu for about a year and a half now and it's been great for my work, which mainly consists of coding in Python, Julia, and C++, and reading and writing papers.

Never a good day to be at the pet ER with the kitty

I'm curious what your main qualms are with VScode. I resisted for a while due to bad memories of visual studio, but I was pleasantly surprised by how nice it is to use, and on Linux at that.

Nothing like compiling a Pentium processor emulator so you can install Windows 98 with a properly emulated Voodoo graphics card and play some classic games lost to that weird intermediate period between what works in DOSbox and what still runs on modern OSes.

I know there are more important things to worry about, but the NIH website main banner being a super shitty AI-generated image pisses me off so much. "Know your blood pressure numbers" yeah they got me there, that is good advice after seeing the picture.

This is what I've done ever since I realized journals provide RSS feeds

How your email finds me

How your email finds me

We seem on the verge of so many breakthroughs in disease control right now, and yet are facing the ravings of a governing death cult. No news service should be treating this stuff as some kind of "controversy". It's a derangement.