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  • ornery_chemist@mander.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzWheee
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    8 days ago

    Completely rewrite the curriculum and problem sets for my advisor’s grad-level course for flipped-classroom virtual teaching as opposed to in-person lectures. It was the pits for many reasons, not the least of which was that his attitude became “everyone is at home doing nothing, so I can ramble into a recording for 3 h instead of giving 1 h lectures and we can have a full problem set every week instead of 4 in a semester and the scheduled class time is now a problem session amd to answer students’ questions :)”.

    And a fuckton of DFT calculations, so honestly, fair.










  • I’m not sure I’d call US sunscreens way worse (they are still very effective at blocking UVB, just not UVA as effectively), but there are definitely better options abroad. There definitely aren’t many options; that’s part of why Hawaii banning two common sunscreen ingredients for marine toxicity reasons was such a big deal.


  • Not saying that it’s necessarily a bad option, but my biggest issue with delta chat is that it does not offer forward secrecy (if a user’s private key is compromised, past messages can be revealed); Signal does. Delta no question beats signal in decentralization, though email is less decentralized than it seems–how many people do you know who still use gmail? Delta also inherently leaks metadata on whom you’re communicating with to the email host (that’s just imap/smtp). Signal can mitigate this somewhat with Sealed Sender (which gives one-way anonymity), though it can be broken with statistical analysis, and signal metadata is more identifying due to requiring a phone number.




  • My vigour returned and in truth I thrived, and to think I take up sugar now! Banting and co shared a Nobel Prize and their work saved north’ard of a million lives, Nobel them all!

    I was lost to cruel disease when a miracle cure saved mother her son. Dried her tears, now I’m a croakin’ man but I’ll never more fear the last of Banting’s imparted years!

    yt



  • ornery_chemist@mander.xyztoMemes@sopuli.xyzWhy
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    2 months ago

    For those who did a search only to get back pages of less-than-useless SEO slop that just recites the number line, here is something that better describes some of the grammatical insanity.

    also, czterydzieści cztery is imo one of the less pronounceable words (well, two of them) in Polish.



  • I know that this is partially a joke, but I was trying to figure out what kind of lab would be done to produce chloroform that would be appropriate for students (recent OSHA crackdown on chloromethanes notwithstanding)… haloform reaction I suppose? Is that a common teaching lab experiment?