Re: Back When I Was Younger*
As someone who has supported specialised lab equipment in the past, your approach seems pretty sensible
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And the IT angle is that VMWare now occupy the site where this molecule was originally synthesised.
The problem is, against any antibiotic we come up with, nature can develop a countermeasure. Such is the capability of limitless structural diversity of proteins.
In the paper they managed to promote and then characterise some strains with resistance to Abaucin, so they know exactly what to look for if this enters the clinic.
Protein folding is a way off too. This preprint suggests that what takes a few days on a "conventional computer" would take decades or millennia on today's quantum computers.
... beat out Gopher was because the University of Minnesota decided on more restrictive licensing than the toy out of CERN.
Or that Philip Schofield wouldn't let him out of the Broom Cupboard[0]
[0] May not mean much if you're not from the UK[1]
[1] And are of a certain age...
There's also This paper: "On most measures, expert LaTeX users performed even worse than novice Word users."
And for those in/near Switzerland, Musée Bolo. It includes some rather tasty bits of old supercomputers.
"If this manager gets all excited about a Soundblaster and CDROM then he has (had) much more clue than the typical manager."Why? What does this prove other than that the manager knows what good 1990s computer parts entail? It doesn't necessarily indicate that the manager is good at using them, even if we assume that the manager has an intended use for them because they're not so unique nowadays.
When I made the comment I was thinking back to the days of mscdex.exe, autoexec.bat etc. In order to use a computer in those days for gaming you had to be more tech-savvy than just clicking buttons in Steam like you do today.
God I'm old -->