My father gave up red meat and soda around 2002. My dad’s clone, my uncle didn’t give up anything. Yes they are clones, I sequenced them myself. Since then my dad has always been at least 20lbs heavier than my uncle despite having almost identical activity levels since they had similar jobs and shared hobbies for most of the time. Now 23 years later my dad has heart congestive heart failure and a torn meniscus in his knee while my uncle has a perfect heart but has needed both knees replaced. I think the biggest difference is definitely the sugar because my uncle tends to drink diet soda and my dad fruit juice, tea and coffee.
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bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data2·2 months agoDefinitely not, enshitification is real. I’ve gone from someone excited about new products to I don’t trust anything that I didn’t build. We are currently discussing moving our group chat off discord, but I’m biochemist and my circle are similar professions and I’m still learning how to properly host things.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data2·2 months agoIn the before times we used hamachi, but it was hard. Eventually, Skype was born and it was good and easy. It worked like a phone and many StarCraft 2 team games were won. But Skype was corrupted by the many Nigerian princes and hot Ladies who only needed a few dollars to turn your life around. This corruption was then baked so deeply into windows it took registry edits to exorcise it. But all was good was we now had discord which took the ideas of hamachi and Skype and delived a better experience than both.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data4·2 months agoYou’d be surprised how much money gets wasted of stupid projects and acquisitions in biotech because some suit think they understand science better than their R&D team. For analogy sake think about all the stupid shit Microsoft bought and killed or all the chat apps Google created and killed, this going to be Regeneron’s Skype.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data3·2 months agoIf you really want to get your parents sequenced for your own personal use without it going into a database it’ll cost you about $500 per sample (cheaper if you know someone who can extract the DNA for you). You’ll get a set of fastq files for the reads that will cover almost their entire genome that you can then use with public databases or just store for future use. Another option is to sign up for a university study but you’ll have to be comfortable with their data use.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data7·2 months agoI honestly don’t know what they will do with snp data. These investors and VCs have been running scare peace articles for the last two years to drive the company into bankruptcy so that it could be sold and the data harvested. But I honestly think people are really overestimating the value of a dataset showing how different people are from a standard template. It’s good for ancestry and correlations but people forget they didn’t fully sequence samples. I fully expect the news cycle to change once they figure this out as they try to get people to resubmit DNA for nextgen sequencing, so they can try to salvage their investment.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server?English2·2 months agoMy Rx580 has basically been on continuously since I bought it in like 2017/18. I used it to mine when I wasn’t gaming until it became unprofitable, then to process sequencing data for my dissertation project while not gaming, and now it’s in my server.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server?English9·2 months agoThis was almost my gaming PC specs in 2020. Rx580 and 16gb more ram. It’s now my server running jellyfin and immich for my family.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Scientists of Lemmy, how would you standardize or improve cooking recipes?8·2 months agoI’m an American biochemist, I also never learned the english system because my school transitioned to metric too fast. The mental burden of trying to cook using english units after working all day in the lab using that same part of my brain leads me to just not want to cook 95% of the time. But when I do cook I have optimized processes for my few simple recipes. When I bake I usually use a metric recipe or convert a English one, and optimize it before making a large batch of something.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwideEnglish1·2 months agoSlowly being turned towards the sea
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How are Americans preparing for the Trumpist supply shock?242·3 months agoMy company layed off the newest hire, and bought $50k of materials we need for R&D for the next year and a half. Im in the process of buying a duplex instead of a single family as a hedge, so my cost of living will be low enough to survive on my wife’s part time salary if we can keep a renter. I will be planting food producing trees and bushes, and building garden boxes after close, and learning canning.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 hits 500k sales in one dayEnglish6·3 months agoI’m 11hrs in so far, and I’m hooked. The world building, gameplay and characters are amazing. I also really loved the music, especially inside the manor.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System@lemmy.ml•Jellyfin for Xbox 0.9.0 releasedEnglish5·3 months agoThanks the heavens, I’ve been using the browser on the Xbox for jellyfin.
Aldi rice cooker. $18 and the most used tool in the kitchen
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Arrogant Donald Trump names new fighter jet after himself in unbelievable move20·4 months agoAnother distraction from things that actually matter. This will have no material impact on anyone’s life, but will dilute the news cycle.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto 3DPrinting@lemmy.world•What Exactly is the Issue with my Bambu P1S...? It Both Under and Overextrudes in Batched areas and sometimes leaves what looks like Overheated/Melted Ripples?English4·5 months agoNeed more information to properly diagnose. Is this a new issue? Are you using auto build leveling for every print? Have you tried cleaning everything and rerunning the system calibration? A lot of different things can cause similar issues and it’s hard to diagnose from images alone.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Science Memes@mander.xyz•Costs to thee, but none for me!English12·6 months agoPaying people to review articles is just going to make things worse. The real problem is open access. In the current system the author of the manuscript has to pay to publish it, and the publisher turns around and asks readers to pay to access it. Its a scam. If research was conducted with any public money the knowledge generated should be public. This is why Elsevier needs to go. If you saw how much money institutions have to pump into these useless publishers to get access to knowledge funded by the public for the public there would be more outrage.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Mark Zuckerberg says anyone who quits Meta is 'virtue signaling'English141·6 months agoWhy would anyone quit adult daycare? Unless they are in the content moderation mines in Africa getting ptsd from seeing the horrors of humanity.
bblkargonaut@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s Boring Company is tunneling beneath Las Vegas with little oversight28·6 months agoVegas floods almost every time it rains. Sometimes it floods when it rains nearby like on Mt Charleston. I’ve nearly avoided flash floods hiking in red rock canyon, and seen people on the news get killed in washes on a regular basis. I trust the casinos to care more about their victims than president Elon.
Lol, why’d this link get cross posted to c/vegan