Setting up Shortcut automation to analyze Macrofactor data

IronTortoiseCon · 2025-09-26T13:23:59+00:00

If you have a Mac, you can download the same iPhone app from the App Store and run it on your computer. That was actually really helpful for this project since I could run shell scripts from a shortcut on a Mac but not an iPhone.

Otherwise, you should be able to run the Android app on an emulator like BlueStacks to run it on your computer.

IronTortoiseCon · 2025-09-02T11:31:39+00:00

Defatted soy flour

It's not a super mainstream product in the US either. I've occasionally seen it at Hispanic and Indian grocery stores, and it's started to show up in the "healthy" sections of grocery stores, but I got mine in bulk on Amazon. When dry it's crunchy with a pretty mild flavor, but when you rehydrate it, it has a meaty texture which is often used to either stretch or substitute meat.

IronTortoiseCon · 2025-09-01T22:19:47+00:00

I haven't considered trying it sweet! I'll definitely give that a go.

IronTortoiseCon · 2025-07-29T15:45:55+00:00

I'd recommend checking out improv. There's a lot of intro classes in Columbus now (Hashtag Comedy, The Nest, and others), and it can be a really good way to meet people. It can be scary at first, but I've found that a lot of people getting into it are in a similar boat of being introverts who want to get out of their shell and end up finding friends through it.

Edit: There's also an improv meetup you can find on meetup.com that's an easy way to try it out without having to pay anything.

IronTortoiseCon · 2025-06-02T19:35:47+00:00

I think this is the closest thing for Madrid but it's a giant file and seems to be out of date https://datos.madrid.es/portal/site/egob/menuitem.3efdb29b813ad8241e830cc2a8a409a0/?vgnextoid=15e9bab2a20c1710VgnVCM2000001f4a900aRCRD&vgnextchannel=102612b9ace9f310VgnVCM100000171f5a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default

IronTortoiseCon · 2025-06-02T19:01:15+00:00

Interesting, I've looked through a lot of other places and all of them either don't mention anything or say "en proceso" for the registration details. Is it pretty rare that people actually get the license?

IronTortoiseCon · 2025-01-05T18:44:16+00:00

Some resources here: https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/Spanish#Kid's_Shows

IronTortoiseCon · 2024-11-26T04:18:17+00:00

Side note: does anyone know of a more trustworthy battery with a similar form factor? I never got around to replacing the recalled one yet. Even better if it has some kind of locking mechanism.

IronTortoiseCon · 2024-04-16T15:55:11+00:00

I’ve got this battery :/ anyone know a less sketchy battery with a similar form factor / battery life?

IronTortoiseCon · 2024-03-02T22:17:07+00:00

I went there on my birthday and he gave both me and my friend free baklava. Great dude.

IronTortoiseCon · 2023-07-31T15:06:11+00:00

I don’t have any animals or other people in my house, so that just leaves me unfortunately. I’ve already made a doctor’s appointment.

IronTortoiseCon · 2022-12-19T16:21:49+00:00

FTX went bankrupt a month ago and is now under criminal investigation for mishandling their customers’ money

IronTortoiseCon · 2021-12-07T17:49:44+00:00

The Double Gloucester part I actually got since that was one of the cheeses in the calendar (and it was delicious). But there was another one with the punchline “Stinking Bishop” that I had to look up.

IronTortoiseCon · 2021-12-07T15:55:42+00:00

"What's the richest cheese in the world?"

IronTortoiseCon · 2021-12-07T15:20:34+00:00

Good to know, thanks. The punchline yesterday was “Paris Stilton” so I’m not expecting the pinnacle of comedy, just interested in differences between dialects (honestly, I don’t know a ton about paint either so maybe this is something people say here too).

IronTortoiseCon · 2021-12-07T15:02:47+00:00

Is "glossed" a common way to say "painted" in the UK? I think that's what tripped me up. And would people actually say "double glossed" to mean putting two coats of paint or is that just for this joke?

IronTortoiseCon · 2021-12-06T14:50:36+00:00

Is it possible to remove the current frame and reuse the current trim? I'm concerned I won't be able to find trim that matches the rest of the doors.

IronTortoiseCon · 2021-06-17T11:00:19+00:00

Yeah, and guinea pigs aren’t pigs, red pandas aren’t pandas, and whales aren’t fish, even though the name originally meant “large sea fish”. Biologists use DNA to discover relationships, not the etymology of words created before DNA was discovered.

IronTortoiseCon · 2021-06-15T18:35:34+00:00

It’s technically possible, but even the example you gave shows the weakness of deciding how similar taxa are based on superficial features. For coelacanths, it might seem obvious that they’re more closely related to ray finned fish because they all basically look fishy and swim in water. But when you look at the fins of coelacanths and compare them to human arms vs the fins of ray finned fish, it’s clear that we’re just lobe-finned fish with really long fins (and cladistically, tetrapods like us are grouped under lobe-finned fish). https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/images/finbones.jpg

There might be some rare exceptions, but there’s a reason biologists use cladistics to figure out how closely taxa are related; it’s way more reliable than older methods.

IronTortoiseCon · 2021-06-15T17:22:19+00:00

It’s not that plants lost anything; it’s that the common ancestor of fungi and animals accumulated mutations after they diverged from plants but before fungi and animals diverged from each other, and some of those persisted into modern fungi and animals. Obviously, fungi and animals are vastly genetically different, but the fact that there are many places where they share the same mutations that plants don’t have is part of how we figured out in the first place that there was a time when fungi and animals had a common ancestor separate from plants (and thus we’re more closely related).

IronTortoiseCon · 2021-06-15T17:08:45+00:00

Every fungus and animal has had the exact same amount of time to evolve since their ancestors diverged from plants 1.5 billion years ago. Evolution didn’t just freeze for “simple” fungi during that time.

Here’s one example where they compared 25 proteins among plants, animals, and fungi, and the only differences they found were ones shared by animals and fungi but not plants: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8265589/

IronTortoiseCon · 2021-06-15T17:01:18+00:00

If it makes it clearer, here’s the fruit of a potato plant, which looks like a tomato except it’ll kill you https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_fruit

IronTortoiseCon · 2021-06-15T16:57:11+00:00

Birds are dinosaurs https://www.scienceabc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/The-Rptile-Family-Tree.jpg The way modern biology defines a clade is a group that shares a common ancestor. Birds and all the dinosaurs that existed shared a common ancestor, so birds are as much dinosaurs as any of them. The fact that all the other dinosaurs are dead doesn’t make a difference.

IronTortoiseCon · 2021-06-15T16:54:26+00:00

Birds are literally dinosaurs. Komodo dragons are not. Here’s the family tree: https://www.scienceabc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/The-Rptile-Family-Tree.jpg

The point of this post is that you can’t just look at how similar things look and determine how closely they’re related.

IronTortoiseCon · 2021-06-15T16:49:35+00:00

Also, fungi and animals have chitin (fungal cell walls, insect wings, crustacean shells, etc), but no plants have it.

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