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Lack of appropriate funding leads to cutting corners to the point that some results may not be worth the price of the paper to describe them. I had a passing experience with epigen…

I belive you are mixing assembling the genome by combining sequences of individual, overlapping inserts of cosmids, fosmids, PACs and BACs (bacterial vectors with human DNA inserts…

Thank you for your kind words. Sorry for the Captain's Obvious a bit rude comment. It just happened that me and my partner were battling traffic using rickety road through the hill…

If you would have a family member having a scheduled chemotherapy treatment for that day the thrill would be gone. Not every day is great for the chill out.

Spain does have few (probably 4 according to ESP Wikipedia) pumped-storage hydroelectricity plants. Supposedly these are being used nowadays to store excess of energy produced by f…

Also missing in vast majority of the dams is a lower reservoir. Pumping up the water from a river/canal below the dam would result in a dry river bed just below the dam rather quic…

Small thing: keeping old books is a bit like a physical memory palace. Granted, it may be pointless/way to costly to cling to a collection of say outdated books read as an adolesce…

Re science: yes and no. Meaning: the old way of compiling programs from sources on HPC systems while not dead is becoming rare. I can only speak about bioinformatics: the majority …

Well, call them lazy but once you have i.e. biocontainers in which individual bioinformatics programs are prepackaged, hardly any scientist in that field would be reinventing the w…

The whole idea of maintaining module systems in a perfect sync on several systems as compared to i.e. just rsync-ing SIFs sounds strange to me. Often HPC systems (or rather their a…

Frankly I have a problem with one of your problem as described. Who on the planet Earth creates a container with GCC, may I guess, to compile programs? and then complains about mak…

I have gave up on E. once they supported GWB over Gore. I can barely understand over the top devotion to neoliberalism and deregulation. But the shortcomings of GWB were sticking o…

You may check Europe. I can assure you that patients getting PD-1 inhibitors etc. while if I am not mistaken at least in part recruited for clinical trials pay zilch, nada for the …

Yep. And for the smashed to pulp extremities I would suggest a fast regrowth of an arm or a leg, preferably in a week or so. More seriously: cancer is no joke and so are the treatm…

If you like the general shape you may look into various Echium species. Echium wildpretii is just stunning.

Not sure if the identification by the PlantNet is the correct one, but you may check [1]Asparagus aethiopicus 1 https://www.backyardboss.net/asparagus-fern-guide/

I am not sure I want to have the same painting or a poster on the wall not even for the rest of my life but for 5-10 years. Apart from maybe a tattoo with one's blood group frankly…

While it is an important finding blocking either EPO production in the cancer cells or it's receptor on tumor infiltration macrophages is not trivial. One can end up with a severe …

Ignoring for the moment issues of syncing a database where the source DB may be running inserts/updates: if one dumps tables as separate CSV files/streams and using DuckDB converts…

One can combine chemical absorber solution with electrolysis for the regeneration: Efficient Direct Air Capture in Industrial Cooling Towers Mediated by Electrochemical CO2 Release…

Probably way more important than lowering the CO2 is getting rid of PM2.5/PM10. Rooftops nowadays are best used to mount solar panels. Some system growing circulating algae, be it …

Not sure if it's a time to cry about the loss of a bush of roses when the forests are burning. Any natural iron supplementation like blowing the dust from Sahara or a river carryin…

One does not even need to bury anything. For example miscanthus giganteus plantation will increase carbon storage in the soil by simply increasing the mass of rhisomes and excretin…

Re spiders/anything entering your shoes: Do not leave them out in the open if possible. Unless the shoes are wet, pack them in a plastic bag and then put in the sleeping bag. I wil…

Without rules, metadata, systems to organize files even the most valuable data can be stored as a steaming pile of poo. In my case I was diving into a compressed tar containing com…