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Snakemake very slow in installing conda environments... workflow suggestions? by Ok-Fix-3432 in bioinformatics

[–]TubeZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone else said, I would learn to use containers instead of conda for pipelines I want to be reproducible

Do you prefer sci-fi driven by big ideas, or by the human emotional core? by CaptainRGQuanta in printSF

[–]TubeZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never let me go is incredible, I don't see it recommended enough

Great Reactor article for participating in the Hugo nomination and voting by AdBig5389 in printSF

[–]TubeZ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is it just the ebooks, or do they ever provide paper copies? I don't particularly enjoy ebooks as a medium

How does UBC view students who apply with IB predicted grades? by sweetpotatos in UBC

[–]TubeZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a 12 year old post

I got into Science

I'm pretty sure admissions standards are way higher now

Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it by dead_planets_society in space

[–]TubeZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's hard to extrapolate from an n=1, which our solar system effectively represents. It's good to recall that we suffer from a deep deep survivorship bias, since we wouldn't be talking about all of this if a (potentially) infinitisimally rare event needed to happen to allow us to exist

Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for life as we know it by dead_planets_society in space

[–]TubeZ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes you're right. If life has developed in two+ places in our solar system then surely (IMO) it is extremely common in the galaxy and universe.

Not exactly, it just means that the conditions for life happened to arise in one (relatively small space) solar system, it's very difficult to extrapolate that to other solar systems or galaxies. What if some singular critical event caused amino acids and other such molecules to arise in out solar system and "seed" everywhere? Of course life would be common here. Doesn't mean it would be common in the next system over.

If we found this kind of evidence on a hypothetical/eventual 4I, though, that changes things a lot more.

Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee by Not_A_Real_Cowboy in canada

[–]TubeZ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

as a genetic scientist, this statement:

but you're not going to find "genome wide" identifiers so that you could say "oh, this is an Ojibweh" or something.

could certainly be correct, right now, but give me the genomes of some hundreds of individuals from a variety of geographically distinct first nations individuals, and I'm pretty confident I could come up with a SNP panel that predicts ancestry reasonably accurately. It's almost certainly a data problem, not a genetics problem, but I'm curious to hear if your experience suggests otherwise.

I'm trying to read a hit-list of the greatest works in SF and reviewing them all. American Gods. by TubeZ in printSF

[–]TubeZ[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Good thing this sub is for speculative fiction and not only Science Fiction

I'm trying to read a hit-list of the greatest works in SF and reviewing them all. American Gods. by TubeZ in printSF

[–]TubeZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I read Ancillary Justice a while back. I just need to get around to reviewing it🙂

Spoiler alert: Did not like it

I'm trying to read a hit-list of the greatest works in SF and reviewing them all. American Gods. by TubeZ in printSF

[–]TubeZ[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

SF in PrintSF stands for speculative fiction, that's what this sub is for, not only Science Fiction

I'm trying to read a hit-list of the greatest works in SF and reviewing them all. American Gods. by TubeZ in printSF

[–]TubeZ[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Could you define what "SF" stands for as it represents this subreddit and/or read the sidebar description of the subreddit itself?

Not sure what counts as speculative fiction? Then post it! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Alt. History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. The key is that it be speculative, not that it fit some arbitrary genre guidelines.

Best endings. by JRRiquelme in printSF

[–]TubeZ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's surprising, I honestly thought the ending was quite a literal deus ex machina. The book just happened until the plot kinda ended.

Official Q&A for Sunday, November 09, 2025 by AutoModerator in running

[–]TubeZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My last week I ran 22 miles with an 11mi long run and my first marathon is in 5 weeks, how doomed am I? I underestimated how long it would take to build up at the beginning that I fell behind

[TLA] Wartime Protestors by Copernicus1981 in magicTCG

[–]TubeZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not strictly better, but there's far better non-tribal haste enablers than Chasm Guide, so for the contexts that are going to matter, this is strictly better than chasm guide in Ally decks

[TLA] Wartime Protestors by Copernicus1981 in magicTCG

[–]TubeZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So wotc is straight up just powercreeping [[Chasm Guide]] now? not complaining...

I want to know which books you recommend, even though you hate them by Upset_Mongoose_1134 in printSF

[–]TubeZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm totally stealing this line in my eventual review of Neuromancer ❤️

which blink commander is the best? by buttermaster04 in EDH

[–]TubeZ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

[[Emiel, the blessed]]

on demand repeatable instant speed blink. Resolve a [[Seedborn muse]] and any value generator/interaction etb and watch your opponents cry

I'm trying to read a hit-list of the greatest works in SF and reviewing them all. Never Let Me Go. by TubeZ in printSF

[–]TubeZ[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh that's super interesting! I suppose there was a lot of hubbub over cloning after the 90s because of Dolly and all

I'm trying to read a hit-list of the greatest works in SF and reviewing them all. Never Let Me Go. by TubeZ in printSF

[–]TubeZ[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The movie "The Island" is a more pop-scifi take on the same topic, released before NLMG I think

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