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CowperKettle

05:11

NEWS ALERT: FLYING SQUIRRELS ARE PINK nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00307-6

CowperKettle

05:47

Captain Bohemian

@Jasper how do you meet new people to befriend when you are in a wasteland?

CowperKettle

When you're in a wasteland, you can draw new friends through doors, from other dimensions.

Captain Bohemian

I think Facebook or twitter is a good tool to get feeds from some interesting websites or keep a diary of the websites you have read, but it's never a good place to befriend with professional peers.

because I find only fools there would add you as friends.

well, maybe there are some experts in facebook, but they wouldn't add you or talk to you unless they somehow know you in advance.

CowperKettle

06:08

A good way to find friends is to go hiking

When you do something together in challenging situations, that's a binding experience.

Even if that's only a heavy rain or wind or an effort to make a fire at night.

Captain Bohemian

my problem with Facebook is that I have too many notes there that I have to check them from time to time but I really hate to see those friends, particularly those faces in friends' column.

people haing Facebook friends can just delete Facebook or leave it alone, but I want those notes.

Captain Bohemian

06:22

if there is some funding source for travelling to conferences, it would be very good. I think conferences are real chatrooms while web chatrooms are virtual chatrooms.

Captain Bohemian

06:41

I had never known much about web forums and web chatrooms until long after I was marooned to this wasteland.

Captain Bohemian

07:23

hunger trouble

I think knowing related people really requires a specific community.

people on the street who would accost you are either obscene men or salepeople or missionaries or market investigators or other market-related people or direction inquirers, etc.

these people are seldom interested in your interests.

they just want you to filfill their interests.

CowperKettle

08:22

If it was not that I can't accept an answer soon after posting, I would immediately accept this one. — Zhang 4 mins ago

Is this a correct conditional?

userr2684291

11:16

Looks okay to me.

I've figured out when it is that team projects work: it's when your team members need a certain number of points to be able to take the final exam, lol.

So I've done most of the heavy work, and now another team member has made a couple of valuable contributions.

I'd say we've done around 80% of what the specification stipulates. I'm happy with those numbers.

Jasper

I am against the idea of degree courses requiring team work.

You don't know who puts in how much effort, but everyone gets the same grade.

userr2684291

No, they don't. The leader of the team says who gets what number of points.

Jasper

Oh, that is something I have not heard of.

userr2684291

(And in that risks getting beaten up after school...)

Jasper

That is also bad, for how can the leader give grades like a professor?

userr2684291

11:28

I said points.

Jasper

Still not a totally fair idea.

userr2684291

I think it's fine.

Usually you'd start a team project with friends anyway.

Jasper

@CaptainBohemian You said obscene men meet you on the streets. Does that mean you are a woman? =)

I think I have very few stars on the wall.

But then again I don't post any words of the day.

userr2684291

Besides, well, depending on the job – but normally irrespective of it – you do work in a team on projects such as these (developing applications).

Jasper

Aha!

I am wondering if there is anyone I can contact at Google to tell them that my Hangouts messages have been going missing.

There are some old posts on forums long ago, but there is no resolution or answer.

I think this is a very serious bug that needs their attention immediately.

If you know what I can do let me know.

userr2684291

11:34

Isn't that service obsolescent?

Isn't Google slowly shutting it down? Has the company not announced that recently?

Jasper

If you have a Google account, you will see that Hangouts is very much alive. It is basically turning chat on or off.

userr2684291

Anyway, gotta run.

Catchya.

Captain Bohemian

11:52

@Jasper yes, but obscene men do not only molest women. One of my male friends was molested by an obscene man and got mental illness.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

13:13

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Q: What is the difference between "I am going home" and "I go home"?

What is the difference between these two sentences: I am going home. I go home. I know that people don't usually use the second expression, but can we use it? Also, I don't really know, if it is gramatically correct. As I understand, in both sentences we are talking about the action ...

I downvoted simply because it's the umpteenth time this has been asked only on this site

No one seemed to bother looking for a dupe though, so I won't either

Probably better voted than a dupe anyway

CowperKettle

14:29

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Look on the brights side of this. Artificial intelligence will find it easier to learn English by investigating duplicate answers on grammar. That will help it understand this or that aspect better.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@CowperKettle Looking at bright things damages eyesight

CowperKettle

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Ah, that's why you never look in the mirror!

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Blushes

CowperKettle

The weather men promice minus 29 °C on 4 February.

I'd better jog each day until Saturday, because there will be a weak's gap.

Jogging at below minus 18 is unpleasant.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

If you ask Bohemian jogging below 30 deg C is unpleasant

CowperKettle

14:40

Yes )))

ColleenV

15:04

@CowperKettle it’s OK but “I can’t..., or I would” would be more susinct

CowperKettle

15:14

Ah! Thank you!

CowperKettle

16:13

Pando (tree)

Pando (Latin for "I spread out"), also known as the Trembling Giant, is a clonal colony of an individual male quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) determined to be a single living organism by identical genetic markers and assumed to have one massive underground root system. The plant is located in the Fremont River Ranger District of the Fishlake National Forest at the western edge of the Colorado Plateau in south-central Utah, United States, around 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Fish Lake. Pando occupies 43 hectares (106 acres) and is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000,000 kilograms (6,600 short...

An aspen grove with a unified root system, a single genetic organism that is 80 000 thousand years old.

Wow.

Methuselah (tree)

Methuselah is a 4,850-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California. For many years it was thought to be the world's oldest known living non-clonal organism, until it was superseded in 2012 by the discovery of another bristlecone pine in the same area with an age of 5,068 years (germination in 3050 BC). == Geography == Methuselah is located between 2,900 and 3,000 m (9,500 and 9,800 ft) above sea level in the "Methuselah Grove" in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest within the Inyo National Forest. Its exact...

A single standing tree, 4850 years old

It germinated before humans invented writing.

> bacterial endotoxins content is higher than 0.03 EU/mL while the limit is below 0.03 EU/mL

Hm

Captain Bohemian

18:10

how many recommendation letters do you have?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@CowperKettle What about it?

@CaptainBohemian Zero, considering I've entered the third decade of my life for only 36 days

Captain Bohemian

recommendation letters are the entrance to you next position.

without them, you would be mired at limbo.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Well, I need to suffer the limbo of the first semesters of the university first

Captain Bohemian

university is never a limbo, I feel.

hometown is the most profound limbo.

CowperKettle

18:30

Adjunctive zinc in depression.

Captain Bohemian

actually I suspect I only feel cold at this home no matter at what temperature in winter.

because I find I don't feel cold when I go out as the temperature rises to around 20 C.

CowperKettle

I dutifully read up on adjunctive everything in depression, and took omega-3, zinc and magnesium as an add-on to my antidepressant, but it feels like magnesium makes me lethargic.

Severely so.

When on omega-3 only, it's okay.

When I add zinc, sometimes I feel weird

When I add Mg, some days I can barely function. I just fall and lie down.

It's so odd! Studies tell that people take boatloads of Mg for months.

So I'll try to restrict myself to Zn and Omega3

Captain Bohemian

I think I could only feel seriously depressed at hometown.

CowperKettle

Captain Bohemian

once I go out of it, I would be bounced back from it.

CowperKettle

18:37

I feel myself like this after reading dozens of articles on depression and adjunctive treatments, and meta-analyses and stuff.

Okay, I'll go and translate some more.

Good night

Captain Bohemian

19:07

so much preparation for the application and such a long selection process, but only the applicants admitted finally do works which are paid.

Jasper

19:17

@CaptainBohemian Are you a math professor somewhere in the world?

@CowperKettle What cartoon is that taken from?

Captain Bohemian

@Jasper no

would a professor need to apply for positions? they have had positions.

CowperKettle

@Jasper Madagascar, a very nice cartoon

Captain Bohemian

@CowperKettle when I was an undergraduate student, we had one kind fo course which requires us to find some English-written scientific articles related to that course to translate into Chinese as the final semester report. I felt that work very boring so I always submitted the eport very late so I usually didn't get high score for it.

CowperKettle

19:48

Ah!

Yes, translating it boring.

Would we call a document containing a list of changes to some other document "change worksheet"?

Or maybe worksheet is used only when it's not a mere list but some document to be filled out gradually?

Jasper

20:03

@CowperKettle A worksheet to me is what a teacher gives a student in elementary school, questions to do.

@CowperKettle It depends on what kind of changes. You need to specifiy. But errata is a list of mistakes in a book or article.

CowperKettle

No, not errata. I mean "changes to be introduced in another document"

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@CowperKettle Eh, be careful with that stuff

A little vitamin high usually does nothing unless your kidneys are as good as mine

But minerals can do some real damage if they're unbalanced

CowperKettle

The pharma company has a complicated drug manufacture document. And different departments compose "Change sheets" to be submitted for consideration, containing proposed changes to the document.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Yes, I've read about that. Zn can bring your Cu down.

And yes, if the kidneys are not well, stuff accumulates.

I haven't read up on what specific tests to take to make sure that my kidneys work well.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@CowperKettle Well that's just feedback, I rather meant what zinc can do in itself not by decreasing a, say, 'rival'

@CowperKettle It's called the pee test, hehe

CowperKettle

I've read about glomerular filtration rate, but it's so complicated and there is no such test, it should be calculated somehow.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

20:16

If your pee color is unusual, if it hurts to pee, if it's "foggy", if it's not yellow etc etc.

CowperKettle

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Yes, but I presume they would not give people 25 mg Zn/day without making sure that it's safe.

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ No, I remember reading something about a specifict test that shows how fast your kidneys can filter blood.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Liver can get weird. Usually you can't tell if the liver isn't working unless some time has went by and something is so dangerously high in blood that you look more like an orc

CowperKettle

Yes, alcoholic hepatic liver can kill a person

And it's already too late when symptoms appear.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@CowperKettle A blood test and a sonography suffice for >99 percent of the cases

There is some cool stuff using nuclear chemistry etc. but it's for when doctors run out of explanations

Captain Bohemian

it's like there is a difference between "reserve list" and "shortlist". or am I wrong?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

20:20

If your kidney's big enough (sono) and there's nothing infectious about it or around it (sono again) and if urea and creatinine levels aren't out of the ordinary then you're doing alright

Anonymous

20:34

@userr2684291 I haven’t read it, tell me if it’s good!

Anonymous

I get my kidneys tested on a regular basis. I get blood tests and full abdominal ultrasounds.

Anonymous

Kidneys and liver and all their friends.

Anonymous

I’ve never had alcohol, but they do need to keep an eye on my liver anyway.

ColleenV

21:19

@CowperKettle I would say change, correction or amendment list (amendment isn’t the most usual, but it is more formal in my opinion)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

22:00

@snailboat Mine's frequency is now once per month but it's annoying enough to get me going for the month . . . every time it's 3 hours of traffic and 20 minutes spent in the doctor's office.

And that's because the doctor is nice

And it's not watching new BMW models and lush SUVs. I could do eight hours of that

Every Iranian car right now reminds me of how incompetent the makers are.

Captain Bohemian

22:14

fellowship, studentship. scholarship all mean an offer of money

if no offer of money, why bother to create these terms?

foundation: a. Funds for the perpetual support of an institution; an endowment.
b. An institution founded and supported by an endowment.

using foundation to mean funds probably mean funds are the foundation of the institution; without the funds, the institution would collapse.

Jasper

22:59

@CaptainBohemian We would not need scholarships if quality education is more affordable. Unfortunately, that is not the case in many countries.

Captain Bohemian

23:25

@Jasper why not? scholars need economical support while studying.

actually I think there should be a way which can automatically produce funding for studies. I think one good way may be housing rent. The landlord doesn't really do much work to earn the rent, while scholars do much work but can't be funded automatically.

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