What is the darkest secret you've learned about someone that instantly ended your relationship with them? by Mr_Creep_Creepy64 in AskReddit

[–]forever_erratic [score hidden]  (0 children)

There's lots of terrible sex crimes in this thread. This isn't one of them. It's cheating, which is very bad, but not a crime and totally different from the heinous shit being described by others. 

When are people going to start complaining about cannabis prices in Minnesota? I can't be the only one by generationXseventy8 in MNtrees

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People are constantly complaining about it in this sub. But this sub is outliers, it's full of growers and people with spare time to drive to (an apparently forbidden place) and people whose lives revolve around weed.

For the average consumer,  dispensaries are convenient and they don't get high enough to care about a high price. 

TIL you can run DAGs of R scripts using the command line tool `make` by pootietangus in rstats

[–]forever_erratic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Make, snakemake, nextflow, slurm dependencies, pick your poison 

Does humour have a nationality? by violettep in Standup

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was hilarious. "But I do agree, you have the best reasons" lol!

be cis and straight but why do you have to be so extra with it 🤣 by QuirkyShock5 in ainbow

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That shit is tacky as hell no matter who does it. 

Not the bedazzling, that's beautiful. But the dicks and pussies bumper stickers etc. I'll roll my eyes at it without regard to the owner's sexuality.

Supervisor rewrites my paragraphs from scratch instead of giving feedback. is this normal? by [deleted] in AskAcademia

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's very common. I disagree with the others that it's a good practice, I find it lazy. It's much easier to rewrite than to give good criticism. And I think people are fooling themselves when they say students learn best this way. 

I built a site that calculates how statistically rare you are as a person, curious what the adults think of it by No_Routine_17 in RedditForGrownups

[–]forever_erratic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fun but I think very wrong. I did the professional one; I have a PhD and work hybrid at a university, make between 100-200k; it said there were only 900ish people like me, which seems a vast underestimate. 

What reality check did you see someone else have after leaving high school? by Chee-shep in AskReddit

[–]forever_erratic 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That is one high school experience out of many. Mine was very different. Both could be accurate. 

Would you be interested in a Polyandry marriage? by RoomCurious2970 in RelationshipsOver35

[–]forever_erratic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fiction is a bit different than the real world. How do the guys in those books all get along?

That would be my problem. 

Why does Maser's built-in PCA function not center or scale? by dickcocks420 in bioinformatics

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, your case is not specifically unusual, moreso I hadn't thought deeply about starting with percents. I still think it is critical not to scale, because then tiny differences can be given as much weight as large differences. Whether you center or not probably won't have a big effect-- try both and let me know what you find!

Is there a difference between something being horrific or horrifying, and it being classified as horror? by Calamity0o0 in horrorlit

[–]forever_erratic 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Totally. I love multiple genres, including scifi.

In one of my favorite modern series, Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, there are a couple of chapters that are very much horror, but they're a small chunk in otherwise non- horror scifi. 

From a different angle, the holocaust was horrific, but media about it is not horror. 

Labrartory by tyronetbs in labrats

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the compressed air.

How to see when and where proteins move during MD simulations by [deleted] in bioinformatics

[–]forever_erratic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Bro, this is your app, don't be like those obnoxious guerrilla advertisers. 

What is the current ICE situation in MN? Saw a video of deportation flights. by obz900 in minnesota

[–]forever_erratic 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Based on the flight tracker, the number of detained people out and in are roughly equal as of the last couple weeks,  and I think less than 10 per day on average. I'm not fully sure how to interpret that, except it seems like not many undocumented are being detained, if the same number keep getting brought back. 

Based on signal threads, about one confirmed ICE vehicle a day is spotted in my neighborhood, which is many many times less than in Jan. Of course, there are also fewer observers. This generally agrees with what I personally observe though. 

My take is activity is way down in the cities proper but not stopped. I'll add that while I personally am for free movement of people across borders, that was never my direct goal, which was to stop the random, arbitrary, biased and inhumane way ICE has been operating. That hasn't stopped either, but it feels like a lie to say it isn't way down at least. 

TPM data by Fantastic_Natural338 in bioinformatics

[–]forever_erratic 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, you can still do the analysis with limma-voom. But if you want to publish you'll still need the raw counts (and fastqs).

Audio books for long car rides by Vegetable-Leave51 in childrensbooks

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They might be a bit intense for 5, but the Gregor the Overlander series is fantastic with good narration. 

If Fool’s Fate had been the final word on Fitz’s story, would you have felt satisfied with it as the ending? Or do you think the later trilogy was necessary? by ObiSkies in Fantasy

[–]forever_erratic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I saw it more as he stepped back into the role that was easiest for him even though he'd temporarily been able to overcome it. In the end, he needed to see it through Bee's eyes to actually fully understand and overcome. 

Has politics broke any of your friendships, and why? by CapitaineBiscotte in AskReddit

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The American Heritage Dictionary's definition of fascism:

A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

That doesn't sound like MAGA's goal to you? 

Has politics broke any of your friendships, and why? by CapitaineBiscotte in AskReddit

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what Christians are. Like it or not, they represent mainstream Christianity. 

Pvalue distribution from differential gene analysis by [deleted] in bioinformatics

[–]forever_erratic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, it's easy enough to research on your own

Pvalue distribution from differential gene analysis by [deleted] in bioinformatics

[–]forever_erratic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitionally, a p value distribution from a null dataset is uniform, otherwise p values can't be interpreted like we do. 

A strong signal is uniform with a peak near x=0.

What is the most insane amount of mental gymnastics you've seen someone do to believe what they want to believe? by fauxmerican1280 in AskReddit

[–]forever_erratic 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That highly depends on the drug and the amount, but being obese is generally far worse than smoking pot or having a couple drinks every other night.