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[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 71 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's what the interns are for; that and snacks

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 86 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've heard some horror stories, but cannibalism is new

[–] kozy138@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ahh... The ol' Lemmaroo. Ya clever bastard

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is... Is this ground zero?

Because hold my snacks, I'm already here.

[–] victron@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

Hello future people!

[–] ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I just made !lemmaroo@lemmy.world :) Maybe we can restart the tradition again here on Lemmy.

[–] Pantoffel@feddit.de 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And then take all the credit for their findings for yourself ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 34 points 2 years ago

Of COURSE! They're paid in "experience" not anything tangible!

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Bruh the data analytics is the fun part.

Everything else gets you 🥵 and 😩

[–] slaughtermouse@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I too, get horny and tired during fieldwork.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Biologists have all the fun.

Who wouldn't get a little riled up finding a new beetle species for the third time in a week?

[–] ArianaGrande@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Do they also masturbate on the clock?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

It's called a safety 🛟 stand down 🍆 💦 bruh and it's in the protocol.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Bruh the data analytics is the fun part.

How often that constitutes of using VLookup in Excel?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

:laughs in data.table:

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who uses excel for data analysis??

Everyone I know use either R, or python if they're in comp sci.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, experiments in CS are not as cool.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why not? :3

Sure, I have a bias but.. I think we're doing plenty of cool stuff! Maybe not a 27-kilometre long particle accelerator level cool but...

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can't just collect and analyse the data either, you have to write a kickass paper, design an appealing poster and present it like it's the best thing ever and the respective talk...oh yea and then you have to write tons of kickass proposals to get the funding to do more experiments to collect more data and analyse it and... :)

[–] menturi@mander.xyz 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago
[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Ouch. Ouchies.
Like a thin, delicate needle, straight through the heart.