realChem @beehaw.org he/him
Materials Science PhD candidate in Pittsburgh, PA, USA
My profile picture is the cover art from Not A Lot of Reasons to Sing, But Enough, and was drawn by Casper Pham (recolor by me).
lmao me too actually, since posting this I decided to give it a go this past weekend. Not very far in yet, but I'm really enjoying it so far!
Stories from UPS part-time employees
I assume a fair number of folk around this community have been aware of the labor negotiations going on at UPS right now, and the potential strike next month. This video from More Perfect Union that came out today is sharing the stories of a couple of part-time workers (the workers whose exploitation is at the center of the current negotiations).
I've also heard great things about Crosscode. I haven't started it yet (mainly because I'm worried about what it will do to my already flagging productivity), but from what I've heard about it, it sounds like it'd fit the bill quite well!
I really enjoyed Death's Door, which is frequently compared with Tunic. That might be one to check out!
You might also be interested in Supergiant's older games: Bastion and Transistor. They're the team behind Hades, but those older games don't have the same rogue-like elements that Hades does. (They also both have absolutely phenomenal soundtracks by Daren Korb!)
You might also like Divine Divinity (the 21 year old predecessor to the popular Divinity: Original Sin).
Marvelous, thank you!
Yep, I'm stuck on the web ui for this exact reason. I second the question
OpenAlex sounds really interesting! It would be fantastic if someone could develop a UI for viewing the local graph of an area of research (say, starting from a particular paper, and traversing the citations back and forward to build it the local network). Seems like it would be a very useful way to discover subareas, get good coverage on literature reviews, etc.
Just to clarify, Beehaw is lemmy: we're a particular instance running the lemmy software. (Sorry I know that's nitpicky.)
I had a lot of fun with Redshirts, it doesn't take itself too seriously it's just a good time. I find that a lot of Scalzi's stuff is like that. I think my favorites have been The Kaiju Preservation Society (audio version also narrated by Wil Wheaton), and the Lock-In books (in which the main character is never explicitly gendered, so there are two audio versions of each book: one narrated by Wil Wheaton, and one by Amber Benson).
Thanks for the references! Next time I'm at the grocery store I'll poke around and see if I can find any of those chicken substitutes! A lazy chicken soup actually sounds pretty appealing: the from-scratch method gives great results, but it does take a surprisingly long time!
Heads up: long rambly comment!
Personally I do still eat meat, but I eat much less than I used to. I quite like Beyond's sausage products (links and breakfast-style). I was using a lot of their ground beef for a while, but it continues to be not quite beef-like enough to be a 100% substitute for me. I feel like they went for something that would taste really good as a burger at the expense of tasting a little weird as, for example, a bolognese. Still, I do continue to buy it.
I haven't tried any substitute chicken nuggets or anything, but that's also not really the kind of thing I cook anyway. A good chicken substitute for me personally would have to be one that holds up well in a soup, and I see that as being probably pretty tricky!
One that I just tried for the first time this week was the beefless bulgogi that Trader Joe's sells. It was delicious, really excellent with some rice! Texture isn't quite the same but not in a bad way.
Another thing I've had my eye on is plant-based seafood substitutes, mostly from a sustainability point of view, but it seems like most of the ones out there are trying to replicate fish that are already fairly sustainable, like shrimp and salmon.
Forgive me if I'm reading sarcasm into your comment where it wasn't intended, but raw food diets are definitely a thing, and there are people who choose to abide by them. It's not a diet I would personally choose, but for some folks it works.
Haha that sounds like it must be keeping you real busy! I'm currently spending most of my days writing and it takes up so much time on its own I can't imagine trying to combine that with a full time job. More power to you!
Love this! Scientific art is super cool, and you've done a great job, especially with the color!
Hey, thanks for sharing this post! I think this would also be a good fit for our space community, beehaw.org/c/space – I’d encourage you to cross-posts this into that community as well!
That sounds like a pretty fun job, yeah! A bit like a real-world puzzle game, maybe? But presumably with more freedom to do what needs to be done to get things from A to B efficiently.
Bigger seems to have helped so far, yeah, with things like GPT3.5 being based m some really massive models iirc? Happy to have you around!
Mmm yeah, I can imagine things might get a bit stale after a decade working on similar things. What was your physics PhD in, something you'd be interested in pursuing again maybe?
Cool! Is this the kind of thing that's going to happen between Andromeda and the Milky-way, or is that fundamentally different because they're more similar in size?
Hey, thanks for sharing this post! I think this would also be a good fit for our space community, beehaw.org/c/space – I'd encourage you to cross-post this into that community as well!
Hey, thanks for sharing this post! I think this would also be a good fit for our space community, beehaw.org/c/space – I'd encourage you to cross-post this into that community as well!
We also have a community for space-related stuff (beehaw.org/c/space)!
This Could Be The Biggest Strike In U.S. History
This video is a little bit old now, but still, I think, relevant. Results of the union vote on whether to strike are due on June 16.
I've done it - open water certified!
It's not sports news or anything, but I'm pretty excited! Finished my open water yesterday, got my card today! Really looking forward to getting some more dives in (I can tell I'll need a bunch more practice).
Anyone else here scuba dive?
Simple Strawberry Mochi Cake
EDIT: Now with image!
The mochi cake I used is from a mix (I like the one that Trader Joe's sells), but it you wanted to make your own I don't think it's too complicated. I like a thinner cake, so I usually only use half a box of the mix. Doing that also means it cooks very quickly!
What takes it to the next level, in my opinion, is to get some freeze-dried strawberries or other freeze-dried fruit (Trader Joe's also sells this, and freeze dried fruits of all kinds are common in most supermarkets, usually in a snack aisle), grind them up, and dust them over top like you would with powdered sugar, but in a thicker layer. I like to grind mine with a mortar and pestle, but a (blade-style) coffer grinder or anything like that works too.
It's honestly the simplest desert recipe I know, and one of my favorites!
What makes a concert great for you?
Back in 2014 I got to see Rise Against play at the House of Blues in Boston, which was amazing, and just recently I went to see grandson and K. Flay perform together.
I think these are my two favorite concerts I've been to, and the key factor seems to be the energy between the crowd and the band. It's a thing that's kinda hard to express in words, but for me that's definitely what makes a concert go from good to great. It doesn't need to be a high-energy thing necessarily, either: one of the best moments from grandson's set was actually a really somber, lower energy song that he came down onto the floor to perform, and you could just tell that everyone was really invested in that moment.
What about you all? What takes a concert to the next level for you?
How to Build a Solarpunk City
It's not a new video or anything, but I didn't see it posted in this community before, and I think it's a really worthwhile, multifaceted video. Since there are a bunch of folks coming over from reddit (myself included), I thought maybe I'd share it here in case anyone hadn't seen it yet.