Posts by mneme@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #314981 by mneme@qoto.org
2018-10-01T15:41:05Z
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Does antimatter fall down or up?https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/09/22/physicists-investigate-why-matter-and-antimatter-are-not-mirror-imagesSpoiler alert: Probably: down... but maybe: up#science #physics #cern
(DIR) Post #347842 by mneme@qoto.org
2018-10-03T16:19:21Z
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I feel like a ridiculously simple creature sometimes. All of my tasks for today were very short, so I get to move a lot of tickets to the "Done" column. This makes me feel far more pleased with myself than is remotely rational.
(DIR) Post #347995 by mneme@qoto.org
2018-10-03T16:31:26Z
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@solanaceae @freemo My team uses JIRA and something approximating Kanban. So my tickets go: Selected For Work->In Development->In Validation->Ready To Release->Done. But I also use the "Getting Things Done" system (from a book by the same name - which I've not actually read), which I track with an app called Nirvana. I'm naturally disorganised, so unless I'm very strict with myself things rapidly unravel!
(DIR) Post #359481 by mneme@qoto.org
2018-10-04T09:59:51Z
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@freemo @solanaceae I think I tried TodoIst as well. Can't remember why I went for Nirvana... don't think there was much in them.
(DIR) Post #478496 by mneme@qoto.org
2018-10-11T06:22:58Z
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@freemo SI prefixes blow people's minds. I've tried using "megametre" instead of "1000 kilometres" and it always causes a stop-the-conversation-WTF-was-that moment with my interlocutors. :)
(DIR) Post #1052303 by mneme@qoto.org
2018-11-08T10:24:34Z
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@ElfLord That's most the ingredients of a hot toddy! Great for sore throats. Just need to add some cinnamon.
(DIR) Post #1245912 by mneme@qoto.org
2018-11-16T11:40:48Z
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@freemo I think honeybee population have not declined for the same reason that chicken populations have not declined: they are mostly farmed and managed by humans. Wild bees are a different story: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/2/662.short
(DIR) Post #1399522 by mneme@qoto.org
2018-11-22T11:54:10Z
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@freemo Of course. I'm not really saying that it's bad that there are farmed bees. I'm saying that I'm not convinced that the abundance of human managed bees contradicts the narrative that bees are in trouble (especially given the evidence that non-human managed bees are in sharp decline). If an ecosystem is only working because humans are propping it up, we should be worried.
(DIR) Post #1503339 by mneme@qoto.org
2018-11-26T13:58:39Z
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@freemo When I was surprised by your initial claim I searched on Google Scholar to see if published literature agreed. Eg Search for "bumblebee population": Of 10 results 4 mention decline, none say steady or increasing. Of particular note: "Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees" published in PNAS: "We show that the relative abundances of four species have declined by up to 96% and that their surveyed geographic ranges have contracted by 23–87%, some within the last 20 y"
(DIR) Post #1503585 by mneme@qoto.org
2018-11-26T14:10:37Z
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@freemo (Part 2/2) I've not done much research beyond varations on such searches, so I do apologise if I'm somehow missing widespread agreement amongst biologists that bee populations are fine. I'm just arguing on the basis that, your toot seemed to contradict both commonly held knowledge and my extremely rudimentary literature survey! :)