Sorry to hear about your fish loss. I’m digging your plant hospital, though. It’ll look awesome with some substrate and moss.

Would $20/hr make it acceptable to you? $15? Minimum wage? When you find a point that’s different but acceptable, that’s a hangup, not a standard.

I’m sad to hear about your friend’s death; that sounds really difficult. I listened to your EP and I liked it a lot. I hope you’ll keep making music.

Everybody needs a hobby!

Literally true. You can reach inside a cannulated cow, but I definitely recommend the longest pair of rubber gloves you can find. The dishwashing kind will not cut it.

It may help to think of it as the authors invoking the idea of Maxwell’s demon to illustrate the elegance of the enzymes involved instead of an actual Maxwell’s demon that would literally decrease the entropy in the system over time.

Please tell me these are cocaine condoms and not actual stir bars like I thought when I first woke up and saw this

Let me preface this by saying I didn’t do well in chemistry. I haven’t gotten any better at it over the years, so I could be looking at this entirely wrong.

It sounds like these Maxwell’s demon enzymes do the catalysis, which causes enough of a change in their shape that it changes their mobility until they return to their original shape. That’s what pushes them away from the products of the reaction, preventing the enzymes from reversing it when things calm down.

When a system’s at equilibrium, that reaction would reverse as often as it proceeds, so this is the big deal part. By moving the enzyme away from the products, Maxwell’s demons ensure the system doesn’t remain at equilibrium without needing to use any additional energy. They don’t need to kick off a wall to swim away, they can float off (or something like it) just fine.

It’s like how you’re not supposed to wear the same bra two days in a row because it wears out the elastic. After having been stretched over your body all day, the elastic stays stretched for a little while and takes time to return to its original shape. It’s not magic, it’s just a property of the material.

This is a matter of personal preference, not something where a consensus opinion helps. Where you’re at, it sounds like 1080p x265 isn’t worth it. Would it become worthwhile to you if you were using it on a different device? With a different set of conditions (like lower battery drain)? If a small change can make it acceptable to you, it’s a hangup, not a standard.

You can always try!

Hard to tell how close you are with a snout you can’t feel maybe

I said it! I said the words!!

I have the same concerns over geothermal fracking right now. We’re only willing to find out how much we can disrupt the underlying rock by going too far a few times, deliberating over the acceptable death and damage toll, and then deciding to stop doing that whenever ~40% of the country agrees it’s time to stop.

This is gorgeous!

Shared in a WhatsApp group of police, not to the general public. Even though it was clearly meant to be a call for other cops to intimidate the accuser, some contacted her to express their support.

Thanks for the link. This is really cool work! Search and pre-rescue rats are a small part of what Apopo does: they mostly do unexploded mine clearance and tuberculosis detection! 😳

This is really useful, thanks!

I appreciate you! My family and I made the decision to move off of Discord when they announced their full age verification rollout. We were planning on setting up and hosting our own matrix server, but now I’d like to know more about Element’s poor stewardship of the protocol.

My tech level is literate layperson, not working in tech and without a background in systems administration, networking, or software development. I can understand the larger concepts pretty readily but get lost in the finer details like why data architects would choose one setup over another. I’m content knowing that someone good at this made a reasoned choice without needing them to explain why as long as I still get to laugh at Bastard Operator from Hell stories.

The results I found last night were things like The Register talking about matrix being adopted more and more around the world, including at the government and military levels, a competing service or two telling off Element for bad practices or poor use of the protocol, and Element’s rebuttal (which basically came down to “our configuration doesn’t need to be everybody’s configuration, THAT’S THE POINT” and “it’s a limitation you have, too, do you really want to make this a thing?”). It’s good to be aware of, but it’s not what I’m looking for. All this involves the paid services side; does anybody have any sourced news on the ongoing development of matrix from, say, the past 3-5 years?

Damn, you people go hard for your romantic dinners

You are gonna love the rest of Bosch’s work!