bevan 2 months ago • 100%
looks like Synchron is mostly amino acids and Siberio is decanol alkoxylate at least that is what they release publicly. alcohol alkoxylates are not too great for frogs: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11504342/
bevan 2 months ago • 100%
I worked in the kiwifruit industry for a while, this is great news as it was considered very likely Hi-Cane (hydrogen cyanamide) would be banned both in NZ and by importing nations.
bevan 2 months ago • 100%
Yes, but there are less competent people. The main answer for any slightly complex issue at work is 'reimage' - the pancea to solve all problems. And reconfig of personal settings is the users problem.
bevan 2 months ago • 100%
It is possible to edit a folder name in windows drivers. But for IT departments that could be more work than a reimage
bevan 2 months ago • 100%
So after traveling this week, yes I had to take out the laptop leaving Auckland, but leaving Christchurch they wanted laptops in your bag and had signs up to that effect.
bevan 2 months ago • 100%
Good luck with my crappy code China
bevan 2 months ago • 100%
Weird. I had my laptop out and the AvSec lady said “ you don’t need to do that anymore “
bevan 2 months ago • 100%
The three cities that I fly though a lot ( Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch) always have full screening to each other. No screening flying to regional airports though.
I flew out though Wellington last week, and was told I could keep my laptop in my bag, no doubt due to the new CT scanners. I know Auckland has these at the International terminal, but have they reached domestic yet? where else in the country? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/515692/rules-around-laptops-liquids-eased-at-auckland-airport
bevan 3 months ago • 100%
Sigh... no it was user error. I happened to click the spoiler tags on a place were there were sequential bar charts (I was expecting pie/bar) so the bar chart 'not hiding' was actually just the next one in the sequence appearing.
bevan 3 months ago • 100%
Thanks this is an interesting read. Probably unsurprising the strong technical job bias and the demographics that goes along with that.
The spoiler tag hides the text of the bar graph but not the actual image!
bevan 3 months ago • 100%
Thanks for the real story. What an idiot.
bevan 6 months ago • 100%
Yes it was a jarring point in an otherwise great episode. But I still think it was still a Riker approach to the problem. Worf would never accepted the proposal and (gently) knocked out Lanel and then rushed the single guard at the door.
bevan 6 months ago • 100%
Yep 5m of sea level rise is basically locked in to happen
bevan 6 months ago • 100%
I am so disappointed this is not real!
bevan 6 months ago • 50%
This is a really good point. The old phone is was a 'hand-me-down' gift from a parent to a child in another family.
bevan 6 months ago • 100%
The browser is too old to even run that!
bevan 6 months ago • 100%
If i have the settigns right these should be the top charting NZ songs of 2023: https://nztop40.co.nz/chart/nzsingles?chart=5732
bevan 7 months ago • 100%
Yep used 'power delete suite' to delete everything before I left.
bevan 7 months ago • 100%
If it is totally local, (and able to be disabled easily) then great.
bevan 8 months ago • 100%
No problem, The gas phase avoids nitrogen liquid infiltration into our storage straws that could be imperfectly heat sealed. If only a tiny amount gets in this expands 700 times in volume to the gas phase when warmed up causing the straws to pop.
The key glass transition temperature is that of the samples, there will inevitably be some warming as the tanks are used and sample racks removed, but so long as the samples don't warm more than -130°C they won't experience any structural changes.
OFAF just saves liquid nitrogen, quite a lot is lost cooling down the pipes when doing a fill, so may as well fill all of the tanks while the supply pipe is cold.
I think there is an issue with Tank 1, perhaps the insulation is not as good as the other tanks. I am monitoring to make sure it does not get worse over time.
bevan 8 months ago • 100%
The article says: "Currently there is no indication that it was due to outside influence but the police report was done to cover all bases."
bevan 8 months ago • 100%
This is odd. I run a similar but smaller facility in New Zealand (3 tanks). If the nitrogen supply fails we have about 18-20 days worth left in the tanks before they run dry. Even then I had a staff member checking every couple of days over Christmas anyway. I wrote an R script to analyse data from the tanks https://rhizobia.nz/r/N2-tanks.html to get a good idea of usage.
Just strange to me that a much more well funded organisation didn't do better.
bevan 8 months ago • 100%
There are a lot of fungi that might be the genus "P."! This is Puccinia monoica a rust fungus.
bevan 8 months ago • 100%
You can still use the PWA (progressive web app) for your home lemmy site. This works well.
Does anyone know of a matrix client that is able to run on very old iOS version, namely 10.3.4 ?
bevan 10 months ago • 100%
This is amazing, going on my office door.
bevan 11 months ago • 100%
Ditto, but had to manually update a few times. You need to boost your YouTube addiction!
bevan 11 months ago • 100%
The first trial will only be about 12 people
bevan 11 months ago • 100%
The initial trial will be with pure compound, eventually moving to whole mushroom.
Exciting news today that my collaborators have been granted the first licence in NZ to cultivate Psilocybe ‘magic mushrooms’ for use in helping addiction to methamphetamine. I am providing advice on the mushrooms. #mycology 🧪
bevan 1 year ago • 100%
hmm, yes that does reduce readability especially at a quick glance.
What are your thoughts on the new watchOS 10? So far it seems OK to me, but I am missing the edge-to-edge screen swiping to change watch faces, why was this removed?
bevan 1 year ago • 100%
Agreed that guy has screwed up so many senior management jobs. Used to be on our board and resigned after no one would accept his stupid take on a particular issue. How do these guys keep failing upwards.
bevan 1 year ago • 66%
It is Leucocoprinus birnbaumii just not very yellow
bevan 1 year ago • 100%
#4
bevan 1 year ago • 100%
I love this little bin. It is great it can take meat and bones unlike normal compost. We fill it up every week reducing what goes to landfill. Some people like complaining I guess.
bevan 1 year ago • 100%
I travel a bit for work and a few years ago flew into Palmerston North at 6pm on a Thursday. Driving into my hotel in town I saw NO OTHER CARS till I hit the CBD. It was creepy, I thought something really bad had happened and I was the only idiot out in the streets.
Turns out it was just PN on a Thursday night
bevan 1 year ago • 100%
Well it is pleasing to see that is completely blank for me, perhaps because I use facebook container: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/
bevan 1 year ago • 100%
A vaccine for RSV has only just been released, hopefully this will be available for the season next year
bevan 1 year ago • 100%
Ah damn, I didn't know about the alcohol tax.
Well Apollo has shut down so time to get rid of Reddit. I am currently using Power Delete Suite https://codepen.io/Deestan/full/gOQagRO/ to overwrite all of my old posts with some random text, then tomorrow I will run it again to actually delete all of the posts / comments. Apparently if you just delete they can be easily restored. Anyone else going down this path?
bevan 1 year ago • 100%
This is bad, I happened to be caught up in this indirectly as my WOF was due the same weekend the police invalidated all of these WOFs. I waited in a long queue for more than 2 hours in the hot sun...
Did get chatting to these guys that got ripped off though, they got no compensation. At the minimum this guy should have had to refund or reimburse those who are out of pocket due to his actions. Then a hefty fine on top of that.
bevan 1 year ago • 100%
Nice. Likely mower’s mushroom - Panaeolus foenisecii
bevan 1 year ago • 100%
Makes perfect sense from a tourism point of view