Has your friend talked with current bio research students? It’s very common to hear that people are having success writing Python/R/Matlab/bash scripts using these tools when they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to.
Possibly this is just among the smallish group of students I know at MIT, but I would be surprised to hear that a biomedical researcher has no use for them.
ahahahahaaha
cross-posting to here as well for whoever finds this thread from pivot: please enjoy this unfortunate discovery that I stumbled upon yesterday
it's also such a weird position for critique to take, imo; DCs don't really do much in the way of Local Job Generation, and I'd fucking bet that each of these locations also got selected because of favourable gladhanding credits (tax incentives, power incentives, etc)
I suppose "all the ${whatever business} that got bought out and flattened (for buildout space) is still gone" is maybe one harm, but again... these things don't get built on high streets
I found it really fun to drag the filter sliders around and cackle at the remaining details
roll up to 180k and you get one that can do 18kg load! amazing
I also quite like Themis V2! "$120k for the privilege of being sued by disney for looking too starwars" is just one hell of a pitch
Hopefully no one will actually get these images tattooed on their body.
you know there's gonna be at least that one person with multiple of them
and you wrap it off with some linux 3d graphics lib hacking
pedal to the metal on the content and information theft, folks:
seems it's this lot. despite their name, there appears to be almost nothing artful or artistic about them - it's all b2b shit for Selling Better
tesla: "your car is not your car and we have deep, varied firmware and systems access to it on a permanent basis. we can see you and control you at all times. piss us off and we'll turn off the car that we own."
also tesla: "sorry no you can't return it"
nah I think it just sits weirdly with people (I can see what you mean but also why it would strike someone as frustrating)
Samizdat of the Sneer?