Those flasks can actually be really nice compared to normal RBFs for real reasons and not just memes. They are a lot easier to e.g. pipette out of because the taper gives small volumes of liquid more height than a typical round bottom, so less material is lost as skin on the glass. Same issue with stirring; it’s a lot easier to get better stirring when the liquid actually covers the stirbar. “Just use a smaller container”, you say, and yes, do so if you start with a small volume. But a lot of times in organic chemistry, you need to isolate the compound from solution by evaporating the solvent. Depending on the concentration, the volume can start large and end much smaller. These flasks can help recover a larger amount of precious material.

Um die US-Wahlergebnissen zu beeinflussen muss man nicht unbedingt gewinnen. Jede Stimme für eine dritte Partei hätte auch an eine der größeren Parteien (dh, eine der beiden, die werden sicher gewinnen: D oder R) gehen können. Wenn eine Untergruppe einer der größeren Parteien (zB Republicansche Musk fans–Demokraten gefällt er weniger) gemeinsam für die dritte Partei (Musk) stimmt, erhält die größere Partei ® weniger Stimmen un deshalb gewinnt die andere (D).

Es könnte ein Versuch von Musk sein, Trumps Partei zu untergraben. Auch könnte es nur ein Wutanfall sein–das ist von Musk auch zu erwarten.

Char contains a variety of compounds that can be carcinogenic. It’s usually worse with meats than veggies, though veggies still produce at small amount. However, if some char or smoke gets you to eat more otherwise unprocessed vegetables, don’t worry about it; the health benefits pretty much always outweigh the additional risk.

To some degree, yes, but if a bit of char gets people to eat more calories from vegetables instead of highly processed foods, the cancer risk is pretty much always offset by decreased diabetes, liver disease, etc.

I’m assuming that the fried rice here has vegetables, of course. I know some people who don’t…

The local reenactors’ reading out the Grievances this year certainly hits a bit different.

Just think about all the shit you had to do to get from then to now, and then imagine that you have to do all of it all over again.

Pretty sure I just got anti-bribery ethics and compliance training that said no one in my company is allowed to accept such gifts lol

And calculating far too many digits of π by hand

-onium is usually an extra group/proton (carbonium, oxonium, bromonium…). HO+ isn’t too hard to approximate–just take a hydroperoxide or peroxyacid and add strong acid like with piranha :)

Hydroxyl hydride feels wrong given that hydride is H-. So what’s a good name for HO+…? Oxenium hydride? Hydrenium hydride? (comparing carbonium (CR4H+) vs carbenium (CR3+) and oxonium/hydronium (H3O+))

I think oxenium hydride would be more appropriate than hydroxyl taking into account the polarity of the two fragments (HO+ and H-), though AFAIK there is no standardized name for HO+.

Computer scientists? Sure, maybe. But all four of us will join together to resent the engineers for designing systems around extrapolated power law fits and lack of rigor (and totally not because they are higher paid or anything).

Some Pu solutions for your viewing pleasure:

just take a cheese grater to it to make smaller pieces smh

Not when your advisor converts it back to docx before sending you comments.

I’m not sure I’d call US sunscreens way worse (they are still very effective at blocking UVB, just not UVA as effectively), but there are definitely better options abroad. There definitely aren’t many options; that’s part of why Hawaii banning two common sunscreen ingredients for marine toxicity reasons was such a big deal.

Not saying that it’s necessarily a bad option, but my biggest issue with delta chat is that it does not offer forward secrecy (if a user’s private key is compromised, past messages can be revealed); Signal does. Delta no question beats signal in decentralization, though email is less decentralized than it seems–how many people do you know who still use gmail? Delta also inherently leaks metadata on whom you’re communicating with to the email host (that’s just imap/smtp). Signal can mitigate this somewhat with Sealed Sender (which gives one-way anonymity), though it can be broken with statistical analysis, and signal metadata is more identifying due to requiring a phone number.

FYI, while Threema front-end clients (apps) are open-source (and offer reproducible builds, which is surprisingly uncommon in open-source land), the server component, though supposedly audited, remains closed-source.

EDIT: for comparison, the Signal server code is mostly open source, but things like the spam filter are closed.

Yes, looks like I was misremembering some numbers like I mentioned elsewhere.

Hmm for some reason the numbers 1600 and 2000 W were rattling around my head for US and Europe respectively. I know most US appliances don’t like to pull the full 15 A because that’s when the breaker trips, but that would scale roughly the same for Europe so the power ratio should still be as you describe. I guess I either was misremembering or got the EU number from an abnormally low-current circuit.

I forgot TC did a video on this. I’ll have to watch when I have the time.