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Marcus Müller

15:15

@terdon sorry for the asynch communication :) that's quite cool :)

it's also a bit surprising that both your and @Kusalananda have spent significant time in the industry it seems :) is that a coincidence or is there underlying factors driving bioinformatics people to become moderators in communities like this, or vice versa? :D

terdon

15:28

@MarcusMüller heh, absolute coincidence :)

I'm an actual biologist masquerading as a nix geek, while Kusalananda is an actual nix guy who's spent years working in computational biology.

Marcus Müller

ha! now that's an interesting vita :D

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16:33

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Kusalananda

17:22

@terdon I believe this assessment is nearly 100% correct.

With "actual" taken with a grain of salt.

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