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Just send someone in the other team a message saying you're interested in learning more about what they do, and would like to grab a coffee.

I think you could decrease the costs a lot. I don't see the value in using aluminium extrusions to stand it off from the wall. You could use softwood for that, and glue, and negate the need for expensive custom connectors.

> The case is CNC milled from a solid block of aluminium

What a waste of material and machining time!

There's nothing clever about being "smart".

And being smart on its own really should not be seen as any kind of good thing.

Being smart _can_, however, be an enabler to achieving certain positive qualities (helping people, being considerate, being kind). But being smart can also enable negative qualities (exploiting people, being manipulative etc).

I used to think of myself as "smart" (top marks in high school, Oxbridge degree, PhD), but actually now I think I'm probably fairly average in objective intelligence, but I just try and think hard, and work hard.

I'm now surrounded by people that I think are smarter than me, but that doesn't mean I just give up thinking. Sure, it might take me longer to think of something, but that doesn't mean I still can't contribute.

I have found it a bit frustrating that I am more junior on the company scale than most people my age. In some respects, I have lots more experience with people my pay grade, but in others, not so much.

I have a PhD, because at the time I wanted a career in academia, and I enjoyed research. I did a short post-doc, because I still wanted a career in academia, and enjoyed research. I quit academia because I no longer wanted a career in academia, and I didn't enjoy the research (or my boss).

I don't regret my wasted years. Sure, I would have likely earned more money, but it was fun, and made me who I am.

I do find it a bit of a shame that my current and previous employers couldn't give two hoots that I have a PhD etc, but oh well.

EDIT: I have a PhD and post-doc experience in Cell Biology, and now work as a software engineer at a fairly large hardware company.

I've used an INOGON entering a marina in the UK, and it really did have a very narrow dredged channel, not a wider safe area.

One problem with lights or marks is that they can be very hard to see. At night, there are lots of other lights to confuse things, and it can be easy to mistake on light for another.

I know my city well, but if I drive anywhere in it, I still put on GPS because roads are really often closed for roadworks here.

Good on you for creating something fun, but vibing something up and then trying to charge for it, when anyone else could produce the same product for less, is poor taste.

Multiple people I know, and myself included, have experience failure of their USB-C port on their phones.

I don't think they are really durable enough.

> You know those really annoying shower controls in fancy hotels when you need to adjust two separate knobs for the pressure and temperature separately? That's clunky.

I like being able to control those two variables separately.

Just buy your kid a good quality pedal bike [0], and take the pedals off.

That way they can learn to use the brakes, and when you put the pedals on, they will quickly learn to cycle it. Took my daughter an afternoon.

[0] e.g. https://us.earlyrider.com/products/belter-14-kids-bike-age-3...

If you like this, check out the amazing works of Edwin Lord Weeks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Lord_Weeks

What are the advantages to putting them between the rails, where you need trains to stop running in order to access them?

If it's about using wasted land, why not put them beside the rails, which would make access easier? There is usually a generous margin beside the tracks.

This would also allow bigger panels to be used.

I used to read it every week, and always liked the fact they stated their biases upfront - "This newspaper believes XYZ".

Now I just live under a rock, and don't read any news.

Totally agree. Programming is not art. Does my company pay thousands of engineers to make art? I think not!

We're paid to solve a problem that the customer has.

I used to use that a lot, but now would favour bowline, for ease of tying and untying. Less beginner-friendly, though.

Knowing common knots is not just useful because they are handy, but they also represent a common toolkit - when sailing with someone, if I see they tie a certain thing with a specific knot, I can do likewise. When I see a knot I recognise, I immediately know how to untie and re-tie it.

Depends what you're doing.

My favourite knot is the bowline. Non-slip loop, very strong, easy to tie, easy to undo. Can be used for tying two ropes together, ropes to things.

Other useful ones (especially for sailing)

* Clove hitch * Reef knot * Rolling hitch * Sheet bend

All my university (Oxford, UK) exams were in-person and had written. I had 6 exams over 6 days in 2012, in which my entire undergraduate degree was examined.

It's not easy, but I think that method is just as good (or bad) now as it was then.

If hair greying was mostly caused by UV damage, I would expect that the pattern of greying would be even, and begin on the top of the head.

In contrast (based on my own unscientific observations!) greying typically begins in small areas, and often on the temples - not what I'd expect if caused by UV damage.

When most people think of age-related hair greying (which you referenced in your original post), they think of the phenomenon whereby hair follicles stop producing pigments that colour hair.

This is distinct from UV bleaching of the pigments in the hair.

After a quick skim, that article seems to be talking about something other than typical age-related greying. More photobleaching.

I've not heard that grey hair is sun damage.

Do you have any sources for that?

I really recommend reading "Ravens in Winter" by Bernd Heinrich https://jake-reich.co.uk/blog/17

(forgot to say I'm a former post-doc in Cell Biology)

Images like this show how specifically the antibody binds to the antigen. Generally, the ideal is to have very specific binding. As such, this type of image (Western blot) would only have single bands in any vertical lane. Any other bands show that the antibody is binding to other molecules.

The evidence of painting out the background is likely someone cleaning up other bands, where the antibody has bound to something other than the intended target. So, they are making out the antibody is better than it actually is.

Copy-pasted bands could be evidence of attempting to make a weak band look stronger, or even adding a band where one didn't exist - potentially the entire blot is fabricated.

Either way, like someone else said, this is like fabricating parts of a data sheet.

It doesn't excuse it, but like someone else said, scientists would never just trust an antibody they bought. They'd do their own tests. Labs will also share notes amongst each other, along the lines of "that antibody is bad, and also strongly binds XYZ. You should try this other one instead".

Travel, adventure, camaraderie, to name a few.

At university I started down the path of joining the infantry as an officer. At first it was great fun - getting paid to go camping on weekends away from university. But when the political side began being pressed home more and more, it didn't sit well with my beliefs. Oh, and I met my now wife at that time, and didn't want to go disappearing off.

I ended up getting a PhD, doing academia for a couple of years, then moving in to industry. Some of it was fun, but the itch for proper adventure has never really left.

Now with a young daughter, we have mild family adventures, which are fun in their own right, but I do hope to have bigger adventures one day. Hopefully with my wife and daughter.

My home wifi doesn't reach my side the bed from the router downstairs.

Best way to prevent doomscrolling.

A central package cooldown is not really any different to individual cooldowns.

The main reason for the cooldown is so security companies can find the issues, not that unwitting victims will find them.

One problem of the central cooldown is that it restricts the choice to be able to consume a package immediately, and some people might think that a problem.