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scottcain

@scottcain@genomic.social

Long time bioinformatician. I’m the coordinator of the GMOD project (http://gmod.org) as well as a developer on things like WormBase, group lead on the Alliance of Genome Resources, and project manager of a few other OSS projects (covid and cancer). San Diego. tootfinder does full text indexing for users that opt in. https://www.tootfinder.ch/

Profile pictures is a screenshot of #JBrowse2 showing synteny between two Caenorhabditis species.

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fraser, to random
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We've seen that missions to the Moon have very short lifespans. As soon as the two-week-long lunar night sets in, temperatures drop so low rovers and landers can't keep their batteries warm, ending their missions. A new paper proposes that a spacecraft in a halo orbit on the far side of the Moon could stay in perpetual sunlight and then beam power wirelessly to rovers and landers, helping them survive the lunar night and communicate from the far side.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16320

scottcain,
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@fraser Sounds like a microwave power plant from SimCity 2000 https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/Microwave_Power_Plant

mjgardner, to Perl
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They say if you whisper the hashtag three times into a mirror, I show up in your pull requests to tell you that for loop would really be much nicer as a map

👻 @Perl

scottcain,
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@mjgardner @Perl
I don’t have a problem with map, but I will virtually always reach for a for loop first. It’s just the way my brain works, even though I’ve been writing Perl for over 20 years

scottcain, to Starwars
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So, I have an interesting problem: my young adult son has been a person pretty much his whole life. I don’t judge him for that: the linear plot lines and clear good guy vs bad guy themes are appealing. But he has offered, for my birthday, to watch a movie with me. The question is: what to pick. Wrath of Khan feels like the obvious choice, though I haven’t seen it since I was a kid. Anybody want to offer an alternative?

rooster, to random
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Oh here's my hair routine by the way:

  1. Shampoo and massage scalp (https://www.sheamoisture.com/jamaican-oil-strengthen-shampoo/764302215837/)

  2. Condition with tons of conditioner, rake through hair to evenly spread and then rinse out (Trader Joe's Tea Tree Condition; work's great, dirt cheap)

  3. Fill a plastic bowl with water in the shower

  4. Work in leave-in conditioner (Kinky-Curly Knot Today https://kinky-curly.com/shop.php)

  5. Dip hair into bowl and then scrunch the water and conditioner out

  6. Add curl cream (https://notyourmothers.com/products/curl-talk-defining-cream), dip into the same bowl and scrunch out 3-4 times

  7. Get a giant handful of mousse and scrunch it in (https://notyourmothers.com/collections/curl-talk/products/curl-talk-activating-mousse) while holding my head forward and side to side

  8. Get out of the shower, holding my head forward still

  9. Diffuse by hovering the diffuser over my hair for 5-10 minutes

  10. Diffuse for another 15 min normally

  11. Scrunch after air drying for an hour or two

WHO WANTS CURLY HAIR AGAIN

scottcain,
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@rooster Yeah, I was thinking I'd send this to my curly-haired son who doesn't take his hair care seriously (oh, it could be so great if he tried), but when I had to hit "read more", I knew it was a lost cause.

mjgardner, to random
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As we close the books on 2023, I don’t want to end the year on bad terms with anyone.

Apologize to me.

scottcain,
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@mjgardner I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about it, and I realized that I owe you a very deeply heart-felt apology, so please forgive me.

nixCraft, (edited ) to linux
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Poll: Be honest. Did you struggle to exit vi/vim the first time?

scottcain,
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@outofcontrol @nixCraft I came here to write this--I find :wq in so many of my documents.

blueberry, to random
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When somebody mentions Avatar, I ask whether they're talking about the good one or the one about the blue people

scottcain,
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@blueberry yeah, but then you gatta be more specific and say “but not the god awful live action one”

davep, to random

Unless you’re prepared for the reaper cushions.

scottcain,
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@davep I had to say it out loud.

mcc, to random
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One of the worst things about using Linux/Unix (any type) is having to keep the exact sequence of characters "2>&1" stored in your head forever

scottcain,
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@mcc I have to look it up EVERY TIME!

Daojoan, to random
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Transitioning from Gsuite to iCloud+ was not an entirely frictionless experience, but the benefits have been well worth it.

Feels extremely smooth. And perfectly integrated with the apple ecosystem.

scottcain,
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@Daojoan interesting. I’ve been thinking about doing the same. Migrated hosting for one email address but my primary is still Gsuite (along with sooo many docs, sheets and presentations). What hiccups have you experienced?

scottcain,
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@Daojoan funny—calendar was at the bottom of my list of concerns.

gwynnion, to random
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One of the things I thought we learned from the War on Terror is that "clash of civilizations / religions" framing is an attempt by fascists to manipulate people into accepting genocidal violence against an entire population, often purely on behalf of imperialist and ethnic nationalist goals.

scottcain,
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@gwynnion That "we learned" part is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your statement :-/

siderea, (edited ) to Massachusetts

Hey, (and other baystaters), were you aware there is something not unlike unemployment insurance available for us through the state, for super cheap?

https://www.mass.gov/orgs/department-of-family-and-medical-leave

It's an income replacement insurance program, for if you are out of work for medical reasons, yours or a family member's (and they have explicitly defined family member to be more inclusive of LGBTQIA+ families than the federal FMLA program, which doesn't cover us self-employed people anyway).

I just found out my premiums for the whole year would be less than $500. Total.

They would pay out more than that in a SINGLE WEEK of my being out due to a qualifying medical reason.

@therapists

scottcain,
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@siderea Huh. California has it too; I never knew. I'm curious how much it costs. https://edd.ca.gov/en/disability/Self-Employed/

scottcain,
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@siderea yeah I had pretty much the same though (per uselessness)

scottcain,
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@Rycaut @siderea thanks for finding this, but yeah, not cheap especially compared to Mass!

trendless, (edited ) to random
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> long COVID isn't unique, other viruses cause post acute sequelae

Uh huh, and how many of them utilize a receptor that's ubiquitous, trigger overactivation of the immune system, are the fastest mutating, easiest transmitting virus ever, and [re]infect the vast majority of the population over and over and over every year, regardless the season?

I'll wait...

scottcain,
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@trendless I see the initial statement and think to myself "no shit--that's why covid is terrifying; in 10 years we may find a whole new set of 'long covid' symptoms."

BigAngBlack, to internet
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US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter pills

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/22/burgess-abortion-pill-nebraska-mother-daughter

> Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty in July to providing an abortion after 20 weeks and tampering with human remains



scottcain,
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@BigAngBlack reading this had me more enraged with each paragraph. People need help not prosecution

Green_Footballs, to random
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Oh great, this is all we need. Not now, tectonic plates.

scottcain,
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@Green_Footballs actually, this might be the perfect day for it: everybody’s ready. Earthquake, hurricane, what’s the difference?

scottcain,
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@bstix @Provider I can’t see any of the responses (must be a mastodon thing) but I can tell you that this not the first time I’ve seen this complaint and it has had an impact: I had several tutorials to produce this summer and planned on doing them as videos. As the summer approached I saw comments like this and switched to blog posts instead. So, I just wanted to let you know you’re not shouting into the void.

liztai, (edited ) to mastodon
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Hello and folks,
Is there an Android Mastodon app that allows me to follow the Local feeds of various instances?

(Am currently using Megolodon, Tooot and Metatext. Perhaps I don't know if this is actually a feature in the app. Fun fact: I once drove a car 100% believing that it had no air conditioners. A year later, my friend showed me the button on the dashboard that activated it. Yeah, I'm that kind of person.)

Cheers & Thanks in advance!

scottcain,
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@liztai Toot! On the iPhone lets you have multiple accounts and follow multiple local time lines on servers where you don’t have an account

scottcain,
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@liztai the control in the bottom right corner of this screenshot is a “dial” that lets you swipe between servers and accounts.

nixCraft, (edited ) to linux
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Poll: Have you ever run the command "rm -rf /" as a root user on your , (or *BSD), , or system? Please share if you have and how it happened. Let's be honest. Please boost for reach. TIA.

scottcain,
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@nixCraft not quite “/“, but close. At my first real job I was given a few irix workstations to prep for a trade show and did rm -rf . when I thought I was in /usr/local but I was actually in /usr

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