Uranium_Green

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[–] Uranium_Green 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hmm, that's interesting but IIRC Tyrosine itself isn't all that sour when tasted, nor are really any other amino acids I can think of aside from possibly Taurine, I assumed it was a small amount of hydrolysis of the acetyl group was occurring to enable the taste difference, but if you've got some more context I'd love to hear it

[–] Uranium_Green 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Get some malic acid if you want it to be a different type of sour, or tartaric acid if you want it to be more tart.

Oh actually other suggestions; buy some N-Acetyl-L-Tyrosine (Often called NALT), it's incredibly sour and slightly sweet, once again different from from the fruit acids (malic, citric, tartaric). NALT is a precursor to Tyrosine an amino acid. You need only the tiniest amount on the tongue to get the affect. The sourness is from the acetyl group, and I think the slight sweetness is from the tyrosine/or the complete structure, as related compounds are used as artificial sweeteners.

[–] Uranium_Green 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Huh, I've got a collection of not necessarily dangerous, but hard to find chemicals. DCM (methylene chloride) is still something I've been unable to find. It's an incredibly useful solvent especially for adhering bitumen felt to itself.

[–] Uranium_Green 3 points 4 days ago

Never been too concerned with fumes at typical temperatures (higher temperatures required for PETG and the effect of those temps on PTFE bowdern tubes are a different box of frogs), but stringing getting pulled into the extruder fans scares the crap out of me as it basically becomes an ultra fine dust that builds up in the air and eventually settles waiting to be disturbed.

[–] Uranium_Green 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)
[–] Uranium_Green 3 points 1 week ago

Well, I'm in the process of internally overboarding with 50mm PIR sheets for added insulation, added 200mm fibreglass into each floor of my house, and 150mm PIR on top of my flat roofs.

And have just had a heat pump installed, frustratingly, still haven't quite worked out how to properly drive the thing yet so am rather cold currently.

[–] Uranium_Green 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, why vitamin D before bed?

I thought your body produces it in response to daylight, so I always thought that should be taken in the day?

[–] Uranium_Green 26 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I'm genuinely unsure they're a scab, I think they're saying that we cannot expect these parasitic companies to have the workers best interests at heart, and as such strong workers rights should be enshrined in law and enforced.

I could be misunderstanding them though of course.

[–] Uranium_Green 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I wonder how hard would it be to build a extension for a browser that checks the doi of the paper youre looking at on scihub against the live version, to see if there's a retraction/update to the paper, and list the date of the changes. I assume that information wouldn't be behind a paywall.

The reason for it being via an extension is to reduce load on sci hub, and for the lookup requests to be decentralised and live for the relevant paper

[–] Uranium_Green 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My watch later is so big; it breaks whenever I add a new video. I have to manually go into the playlist, change it from recently added to a different listing order, then back to recently added for it to show anything I've added since the last time I've done this.

[–] Uranium_Green 2 points 2 weeks ago

So remove a feature, and put in behind a paywall as an additional accessory? ... Actually yeah, that's exactly what apple would do

[–] Uranium_Green 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not necessarily a stretch or workout that I'm going to suggest, but more if you're exercising get help from someone who knows good form.

I got into doing sit-ups/core strength exercises as a teenager, alongside bad form and bad sleeping/living conditions + stretchy ligaments have completely ruined my back.

The first thing that's actually started to help in a way that doesn't cause other issue has been seeing a physiotherapist, who worked with me to identify exactly which muscles were stiff, which muscles were over stretched, range of movement, etc...

And then walked me through what exercises and and positions would actually help with my difficulties.

Otherwise a massage gun used properly can be a game changer, but same thing, if you have a partner, ask them to help you out; don't over stretch trying to fix things.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Uranium_Green to c/[email protected]
 

I don't know much about it, it's the only piece I've got that is made from two distinct layers of glass.

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