Trevor Campbell
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Problem Slayer 👾⚔️ Cooking up many new things in Biotech 🫁… Tinkerer and multi-modal human. Ex-ChemEng + Healthcare + Pharma. World’s 5th friendliest guy 🏅
Boston, MA
Joined December 2018
@JonBruner Where else am I gonna find in-depth analysis of ketchup cap redesigns?? Thanks for sharing. Neat that they figured out a monomaterial approach.
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@Papapishu @_johnsonator I’m in Bangkok right now buying literal kilos of lab-grown rough to cut myself when I get home… you want anything while I’m here? . Prices are stupid cheap when buying the material straight from the lab in person! What I’ve bought so far… Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Black Opal
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Just chatted with ~40 aerospace manufacturers today, and here are the problems I heard over and over again:. • Staffing + Hiring, they can’t find good people to run machines, and leads times + volumes suffer. • Raw Materials Sourcing, everyone is fighting over the same reduced.
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@Papapishu @_johnsonator I’m talking like $100-$300 per *Kilo* at wholesale depending on the gem type 😳. Cut synthetic can be had for ~$5-$10 USD per carat.
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@bryancsk It’s the exasperated giggle, and the “oh 💦 Rocky” at the end. Gen Alpha boys are cooked.
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@bryancsk Notice how they blacked out Borneo — god forbid if the orangutans get access to cellular service, it would be havoc.
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Damn people — I think I’ve finally realized the *final boss* of automation:. ⚠️ Wiring and Harnesses ⚠️. I spent the weekend diving deeper to learn more about cables, wiring, harness design and the manufacturing of custom wire harnesses…. Mother of god, it may be one of the.
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@jackalltogether @Papapishu @_johnsonator Yes, it’s quite something to have a literal BRICK of opal or sapphire in your hands. People will respect that drip for sure 😂.
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@aphysicist I would not be shocked if the gunman was a disgruntled patient / family member of a patient with a serious vendetta against United.
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@JNJNews Prove it — Publicly share the QC documents for every batch of J&J talc powder sold from 1972 until today. Be transparent with the results; blind trust isn't enough. (And I know you won't share these documents publicly given this impending lawsuit — your lawyers would freak!).
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@slipsilv3r Most have little investment in workforce — they expect trained and competent individuals to show up ready to perform the job on day #1. I expect that to continue, which means probably automation will be their only savior at salvaging their industry 🤷♂️.
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Abandoned + dying malls would make great converted manufacturing, R&D, and assembly centers here in the US…. - Well Located, Close to Major Highways. - Existing Shipping + Receiving Ports. - Big & open interior spaces, but also segmented into smaller units in the case of several.
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@zaidkdahhaj I should measure the actual wavelength passthrough sometime, but covering up normal lights with red electrical tape does an amazing job at converting lights into friendly red ones
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@sdamico Here was the vaccine development timeline:. - Jan 11, 2020: Chinese scientists released the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2. - Jan 13, 2020 (yes, two days after sequencing): Moderna creates design for mRNA vaccine complementary to the spike protein. - February 9, 2020 (26 days.
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My life has altered drastically with this news this morning — My *sole* focus for the next 6 months will be trying to eradicate this Pseudomonas infection. For those who do not understand, Pseudomonas Aeruginosa is and always was the *endgame* species for me. Chronically, people.
Fuuuuuuckkkk! Never a good sign when your doc tries to call you moments after culture results are published…. Just cultured Pseudomonas for the first time ever ☠️ (also a miracle I managed to dodge it for almost 30 years). Gonna have to go on a nuclear-level antibiotic regiment
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@arubikscube I have a dear childhood friend who cured their genetic disease in a very similar manner. They went to school for it, studied and researched the right things to figure it out. It took them a long time to solve. But they did it in secret for fear of this exact backlash. They bought.
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@Papapishu @_johnsonator This piece of opal is polymer impregnated, but the lab I’m buying from has figured out the process without any impregnation very recently. They have only a white polymer-free opal at the moment, but the price is steeper $5k USD / kilo. I’m buying in the $100-$1,000 / kilo range.
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@DanielleFong Those cases of extremely acute / fast food poisoning are not from the bacterial agents themselves per se — it’s from the concentration of toxic secretions from the bacteria present in the food (these cases usually occur when the food is pretty far gone / has been stored for a.
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I just made $18,482 📈 . Thanks Vance! 🤝
Vance: I would call my wife up here to speak but then I think I’d have to sleep on the couch
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@Papapishu @_johnsonator @EmporiumThought Yes, opal is a very different gem from the others! The fact that it’s not one continuous crystal lattice makes it extremely difficult to grow without a scaffold to “force” the silica channels to form. This lab is world renowned, so if anyone could have figured it out, it’s them!.
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@DanThompsonIV One of the stockyards I spoke with told me flat out they make effectively nothing on the stock itself — so they have had to transform into stock-plus add ons (simple machining to rough dimensions and finishing) in order to make any profit.
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@amasad The thing with exponential graphs like this is that the graph pretty much *always* looks like this if you zoom in on any region — the scale just changes drastically!. So if you were to cut the frame to end at the year 1800 — the graph would have an almost identical shape as this.
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The saddest thing I’ve ever seen — bouquet of roses thrown in the trash at the Dublin Airport arrivals terminal 😢. What is the story??. Was there heartbreak? Someone never showed up? A terrible secret revealed?. I just want to know!. This is a “baby shoes” poem moment…
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@bryancsk I once found an actual plastic chunk (~3mm x 6mm) in a piece of grilled fish in Borneo — totally buy this!.
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@tautologer I’ve had this Eastern Mountain Sports “Four Wheel Jive” 36 Liter backpack since grade 5 in 2004. Used rigorously almost daily for the last 20 years — all the way through grade school, college, work, and backpacking around the globe. Carrying anything from 40lbs of textbooks to
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@teddypowday You're paying for the experience of being allowed to pick them without trespassing, not the apples themselves:. That slightly crisp day where the air is a little cool, but the sunlight is still warm. Teaching your little kids how to see when an apple is ripe and ready to pick,.
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@SimoneSyed Honestly I think the majority of issues are simply systemic “greener pastures” syndrome — with people failing to realize that green pastures are the ones which were well-watered for years.
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A girl blocked me because I had the ~audacity~ to ask if Friday or Saturday night @ 6:30 was better for her for our first dinner date. She said I should have just given her one day so she wouldn’t have to choose, then blocked me. I’m so tired 😮💨.
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@OllyLong4 Foundries having trouble sourcing ores,. Stockyards having trouble sourcing metals of all kinds. Customers + shops having trouble finding stock. Big loser for the moment is Titanium, across the board.
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@LukeFarritor Unfortunately the barrier to entry is much higher, and the payoff period of these disciplines can take much longer. Software is easy, cheap, and fast — *very* rare combo in the world!. But people who trudge through physical engineering problems can enjoy bluer sky markets.
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@Wobblypeg @Papapishu @_johnsonator The “cheapest” opal this lab has is in the $600-$1,200 / kilo range when sold at wholesale price. Opal is one of the trickier gems to grow synthetically, since it’s not one defined Crystal lattice. This black opal they sell at $1,400 / kilo wholesale.
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@eesgreene @Papapishu @_johnsonator Yeah man… the picture really doesn’t do it justice either. In person it’s truly breathtaking. Like people will see it from across the street and stare kind of breathtaking. Can’t wait to splash the stuff all over me and have folks think I’m the billionaire’s son.
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How fun, some new art finally arrived!. Some Pen plotter pieces from @adamfuhrer. These will definitely find a home somewhere in the new HQ office…. Squint your eyes a little and think:.💭Tissue Engineering💭
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@myles_cooks A note for the home cooks out there — when brining or dry brining your meats, try to do it in a wood / plastic / ceramic / glass / or *stainless steel* surface or container. ⚠️ Do NOT use aluminum or other metals !! ⚠️. Many metals will undergo a galvanic reaction in the presence.
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@Chemist_John_ Shit thanks for reminding me, University of New Hampshire is ditching a ton of Bio stuff ending in a couple days.
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@tangjeff0 Massive infighting and a hostile board. Probably she made several poor decisions a year ago as well to set the stage in this way where she lost control. That or someone one either side of the story is not telling the whole truth….
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@wasserstein_rao Most people don’t know how long it take to run a complex biological experiment, and have probably never run one before — all the planning, reagent prep, mixing, waiting, incubating, analysis, etc. The only way we can reach biological escape velocity is to find ways to automate.
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@arubikscube Also it was *astonishing* how quickly and drastically their symptoms improved after administering their treatment. I’d say the entirety of the effects of their disease were eliminated within 6 weeks. It was honestly mindblowing to watch that progression.
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Y’all gonna crucify me for this one…. But the closest you can get to the ~vibe~ of the neighborhood Japanese Ramen shop in America is at the Classic Diner. - Usually just one or two owner / operator cooks behind the counter.- Food comes fast.- A little dirty.- Patrons are
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When I was 14 years old, I got my first job at a local amusement park. The pay was shit, just $4.25 /hr — well below the federal minimum wage because the state of New Hampshire allowed that for underage workers (side note… ???). But it was one of the few places that would.
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@CooperZurad @brad_rothenberg Just one more part bro, just one more part — I’m begging you, add one more part!.
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Very interesting night last night! I met Vermin Supreme at my brother’s bar… while I was having dinner with one of the cybersecurity engineers who originally discovered the Pegasus iOS exploit 🫨
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@TylerAlterman A life lived true to the mark of character we wish to be — one of the few factors totally under our control!. That’s what makes life beautiful: we get to choose what flavor of person we want to be. Most beautiful when we choose to be the best flavor we can possibly imagine 🤷♂️.
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@keccers Another thing is that the NO2 and Benzene emitted by gas stoves are far more harmful than the CO2 they produce. Gas stoves in the home are the cause of 1/8th of the cases of childhood asthma.
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Even the margin on lab-grown stones sold to consumers is very high!. I can purchase lab-grown colored stones direct from a manufacturing lab in Bangkok at $5 /carat ~already cut~ in a wide variety of styles. Yes, you read that right… faceted rubies, emeralds, sapphires, whatever
Sales of jewelry with lab-grown diamonds went up 12.5% this year; prices fell 75%!. TheKnot says >50% of engagement rings are lab-grown, up from 19% in 2019. DeBeers says the widening price gap is good, “accelerating consumer awareness that they are fundamentally very different
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@hasanthehun Have your friend look into getting an “ATA Carnet” for the equipment — prevents scenarios like this from happening. Basically a customs document that states a list of the equipment and how it’s NOT for import, just passing through. Film Crews need to use these all the time!.
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@pikacodes At my last company, we hired a few remote devs from Pakistan through some friendly connections. And paid them well!. I went out there last year to meet them in person for the first time, and went to a couple of weddings too!. Man, that kind of money goes FAR in a place like that.
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@FilArons You might consider making an (opt-in) public directory of your manufacturing customers, so people can easily find forward-thinking manufacturers to work with.
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@atc1441 I had no idea who you are before seeing this post…. But anybody who is hacking toothbrushes is someone I’d like to know! 😂.
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3/ The saying "It's not the crime, it's the cover-up" applies here — J&J knew about this issue for ~30 years, yet continued to sell asbestos-tainted product to the unaware public. People have and will continue to die from exposure to these products. Blood is on their hands.
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@myles_cooks Throw a little bit of really good Djon mustard in there next time and thank me later!.
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@saifedean @traders_insight @pierre_rochard If this ain’t the most self-righteous thing I’ve ever seen. your book is great, but that doesn’t mean it is the all-telling, unwavering source of truth. You’re an economist, not a scientist. Don’t make scientific claims unfounded in reality. CO2 is a pollutant — the world knows.
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@FilArons @LukeFarritor You’re probably thinking of Emperor Vespasian, who refused to allow a new method of low-cost transportation of heavy goods, stating: "You must allow my poor hauliers to earn their bread.". There are other emperors who employed similar measures of band on labor-saving measures —.
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Fuuuuuuckkkk! Never a good sign when your doc tries to call you moments after culture results are published…. Just cultured Pseudomonas for the first time ever ☠️ (also a miracle I managed to dodge it for almost 30 years). Gonna have to go on a nuclear-level antibiotic regiment
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@RoxCodes Congrats dude! This may not feel like the *big* exit you’ve been hoping for… but it means more than you think at the moment. This is your springboard! You’ve got two years of bills paid… that’s enough a few months of total chill and reset, time to re-explore the things you.
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In case you’re looking for a “Buy It For Life” backpack, this one has served me unfairly well 🙏.
@tautologer I’ve had this Eastern Mountain Sports “Four Wheel Jive” 36 Liter backpack since grade 5 in 2004. Used rigorously almost daily for the last 20 years — all the way through grade school, college, work, and backpacking around the globe. Carrying anything from 40lbs of textbooks to
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@thekitze You can also create arbitrarily named groups, using syntax: “group/group-name”. So you could do something like:. “group/main-content”.OR.“group/secondary-content”. And then control different styling for those named groups using syntax:. “group-hover/main-content:abc”.AND.
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Crazy to hit both of these events in the span of a month right here at home 🤯
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@sdamico I finally got to try my first dose of lab grown tuna and scallop a couple of months ago — we’re getting much closer, but still a few texture + flavor things to iron out… definitely coming!.
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Anyone on industrial / manufacturing twitter looking for a big CNC Waterjet Cutter??. Have a friend who is getting rid of theirs, and they’re looking for a buyer who wants to take advantage of a fire sale! 🔥📉⏰. Market price for the unit is ~$200k USD, but they’re willing to
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It’s incredible how, without fail, your brain cranks the afterburners after you lie down in bed when you’re supposed to be drifting off to sleep 🚀🔥🏎️. Then the age-old dilemma of deciding if you should get up and do something about it, or go to sleep and risk forgetting 🫠.
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@radshaan The trick is to have a very good idea of the end goal you seek — and then express route it by forming relationships with professors and labs who are highly aligned well before the time of application comes. Those human elements can have a LOT of sway over these decisions when.
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@lawmaster Not to mention this incredible self-righteousness. Had no idea he was this kind of person, but he definitely lost a lot of respect in my eyes. What ever happened to being humble???
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Anybody manufacturing / Industrial folks in New England willing to give me a factory tour and tell me more about what you do and problems you’re having?. I don’t have anything for you yet — but the more I know, the better I will be able to help you!.
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Also this decolonization attempt will come at the price of extreme collateral damage, no matter how you slice it. The cocktail of black box-laden antibiotics I will be administered is basically setting off the medical equivalent of a nuclear bomb inside my body. Side effects that.
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@realAAAbbott Here’s a few examples:. @TryOpenX .@DiracInc .@Traba_Work .@chatterupdates .@atomic_inc .@lumafield.
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@_piss_sipper_ @Papapishu @_johnsonator The first pic is how it looks “head on” normal to the plane of the silica crystals growth direction. Second pic is interesting — this is how it looks parallel to the plane of crystal growth. See how the crystals “stand” vertically. This orientation only really exists in lab-grown
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Shoot, flights to *anywhere* in June from Boston are scary scary cheap. I could go back to Singapore for $300?. Or Rome for $225… Istanbul for $275??. New Zealand for $500?. Didn’t have this on my Bingo card for June but I basically have to, don’t I?.
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A good friend’s phone was stolen outside of the Boston Public Library yesterday, and he’s been sorting through the disaster today. He also kept his license and some credit cards in a holder on the back of his phone, so those were taken too. Whoever yoinked it managed to spend a.
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Big Chungus…
Quote a picture of your pet and who he or she is named after.
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@nic__carter @varun_mathur @fafcffacfff Honestly, this seems to be damning evidence of a massive wallet prize waiting to be found. If I was the author, I would never have published that until after I spent a few sleuthing weeks down in Florida first 😬 but now the can of worms is open for the world. .
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Lumafield is a super cool company to check out if you’re looking for a new job and you’re hardtech aligned or want to be involved in hardtech. Big growth potential too, they’ve put themselves in a good position to gain lots of new customers in the coming years.
We're hiring at @lumafield! If you want to scan stuff with us, check out our openings for PR & social media, growth marketing, enterprise sales, mechanical engineering, software engineering, and accounting:
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@LBacaj I personally know of a case where a company lost their key engineer shortly before an acquisition was supposed to happen — because that one specific person left the team, the acquisition price dropped to 1/3rd of the original figure as a consequence ☠️.
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The only reason why I am alive today is because my parents were voracious and unyielding in consuming novel research and reaching out to field-leading researchers and clinicians for ideas and help. They are not scientists or doctors; Just regular people from regular places. But.
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My birthday is later this week… which means it’s time to play one of my favorite games:. “How Old Am I Turning??”
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@koenbok The first person I ever hired was actually someone who I discovered after I read their testimonial on one of Meng’s courses — they were just a kid at the time, a freshman or sophomore in college. But they went through one of Meng’s courses on web dev, left a testimonial on the.
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@myles_cooks Don’t sleep on Iwachu — they’re surfaced with Magnetite, which gives them a pretty serious non-stick surface even without heavy seasoning. They’re a little thinner than most western Cast iron, but really great for changing heat fast
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@Austen When I was in college, someone once slipped a *stack* of dominos “free large pizza” vouchers under my dorm room door in the middle of the night. I think it was like 60 coupons that didn’t expire, and you could use multiple at once… never figured out who it was or where they came.
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@leeerob In a past life, I helped *tons* of people quit smoking — enough to make a measurable dent in the reported statistics!. Someday it might come full circle, and one of those fine folks might even be my organ donor ~20 years from now 🤷♂️ . I did it because, unlike me, most of them.
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I’m calling a WRAP on this latest high-effort dating phase! 🎁. Since late March to now, I threw a lot of energy into seeking out and going on lots of dates, with the goal of meeting someone who might blossom into a long-term partner. In this 2.5 month time period, there were a.
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@KevinEspiritu Many things… seeking adventure, reconnecting with the world, but also because I am dying in slow motion. Every day I lose a little bit more lung function — I wanted to see if I took this to the extreme, could I get any meaningful amount of it back?. And it worked! I went from.
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@localghost Seems like this setup could be a superpower for a lot of people in the accessibility / disabilities community.
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One of the greatest markers I’ve seen of a Galaxy brain is:. Seeing someone who is able to plan, manage, and work on many things in parallel — the final states of which have dependencies on other projects that are also being worked on in parallel. But in order to move the ball.
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@VicVijayakumar The ultimate lesson here is that it’s often unwise to bet against computing infrastructure and architecture eover the long term 📈 . We will always need better computing, it’s an ARMs race!.
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A world of opportunities will reveal itself if you just guarantee a personal SLA of sub 30-minute reply times. Ever notice how the people with the most business tend to be the fastest to respond?.
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Also if anyone knows of a Phage lab / research center within the United States who would be interested in conducting or supporting a SPIND trial for *Non-Cystic Fibrosis* Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage therapy, I would love to chat with them!. I could also easily coordinate an.
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Someone put a clean, but *ripping* hot pan on the counter, told nobody, and walked away. I walked in and grabbed it not realizing…. Lizard-brain Newsflash: Hot things are HOT! ♨️
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Anybody looking for an absolutely cracked Mech Eng, Technical Product person?. My brother is testing the waters and seeing what interesting things might be out there. He’s very broadly skilled, but has a lot of work experience with additive manufacturing / 3D printing / Metal.
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