[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

You're interviewing them as much as they're interviewing you. It reflects poorly on you if you don't ask questions. Because it shows that you haven't actually thought about how you plan to fulfill your job expectations.

Advice: do some research on the company, know what they do, know what you'll probably do if you get hired. Then come up with questions - things that aren't obvious through your research. For instance, ask them to talk about work culture, management style, expectations of your performance, etc. The exact questions will depend on the specifics of the job. But in other words, put some careful thought into envisioning the day-to-day activities of the company and how you foresee yourself fitting within that structural framework.

Second advice: search up common interview questions, and prepare an answer to them. It'll be shame if you get tripped up on easy questions. For instance, you should know how to respond if they ask you why you want this job.

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Surprisingly no. Those 2 depicted are just side characters and actually have a somewhat healthy relationship. And the main cast is generally not that sexualized.

To be clear, the issue you point out does exist, just not with these 2 specific characters.

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Please don't put that much perfume... My nose is pretty sensitive to perfume and it makes me sneeze. Most of them smell like dust. I never understood why people try to smell that strongly of dust.

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

To someone who is knowledgeable about this: how important is a fibula to the actual strucural integrity of the body?

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I wonder if we could sidestep this issue by generalizing "Flock" to simply refer to all ALPR's

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

Technically the car is powered by the movement of the exhaust fumes... Just not in the way that OOP thinks, I would presume

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

That's really well done. Would be a really nice desktop wallpaper

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Not at all sure if it's true. But based purely on observational data, spikes in simplified Chinese tend to be short-lived and tend to occur right when windows percentage spikes temporarily. Internet cafes using Windows certainly would be a valid explanation to the observations.

To be clear, it's probably also true that people in China likely use Windows more. But that only partially explains our observations. Namely it doesn't explain why these spikes are temporary and tend to only last 1 month. More likely, these spikes are caused by a singular event (or a small handful of events) that skew the data heavily when it happens. For instance, if a large number of people all log in to Steam on a computer that they don't typically use, that could lead to the data that we see. Internet cafes would be consistent with this model, but we can imagine that other hypotheses may also produce similar results

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

There's a spike in Simplified Chinese this month, which implies that we're probably seeing another temporary dip

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 146 points 3 months ago

X axis: the inappropriate to corporate axis

Y axis: the funny to tragic axis

6 is the inappropriate, funny number

7 is the corporate, funny number

9 is the inappropriate, tragic number

11 is the corporate, tragic number

Is my interpretation valid?

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 158 points 4 months ago

Explanation:

If you want to do gene editing, you'll need to get your gene into your cell. Viruses are really good at doing exactly that, so a lot of modern gene editing technology revolves around putting genes into modified viruses, then infecting your cells with those modified viruses.

As it turns out, a lot of cells also have a lot of anti-viral mechanisms. One of them is called the RNAi system. Basically, if the cell detects foreign DNA, the cell automatically assumes that that DNA is from a virus and shuts down any and all production of whatever gene happened to be in that DNA.

This can have amusing consequences, because if you manage to trick the cell into thinking that its own genes are a virus, you can effectively block the cell from expressing its own genes. This effect was discovered when scientists tried putting a purple gene into a flower, which inadvertently caused the flower to think that its own purple gene was a virus. The end result is that the flower turned white.

This effect turns out to be incredibly useful for scientific research, because it allows scientists to suppress any gene without needing to go through the hassle of gene editing the cell

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Nobody has the time to wait for trypsin to do its work

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To be pedantic, some MAPK's are activated by mitogens. We're conveniently ignoring that fact because what's more funny is that some MAPK's are not

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 152 points 2 years ago

Wording is funky. To clarify:

The rain smell is due to a compound called geosmin. The bacteria that produces it is Streptomyces.

When I taught microbiology lab, I would grow a petri dish of Streptomyces during one particular class and have the students smell it

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