Scientific Software Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect. Favourite programming language Java. Biking, kayaking and boarding in my free time. Opinions my own.
@thomasforth I always remember looking at the "Solidaritätszuschlag" line item on my first pay slip in Germany and wondering what that was. There was also at the time some discussion on whether it should also be allowed to spend that money on the Ruhrgebiet (I think ultimately declined).
Sorry for eavesdropping but there are two French guys chatting nearby; one of them said 'I have two brothers' and went on to family pets, and it's raised my hopes that maybe real French people do speak exclusively in the phrases you learn at GCSE level.
The preliminary scientific program of the 12th International Conference on Chemical Structures (June 12-16) is now online:
https://t.co/VVAuaGu4iw
Registration is open until May 28. There is a limit on the number of attendees.
https://t.co/ShcNv1dfAS
Overhead today: “it’s easy to detect if someone is trying to run a Bitcoin miner on our scientific compute cluster because it’s makes efficient use of the available CPU and memory”
The new @UKHSA paper on booster effectiveness vs Delta has some nice extra time resolution.
It gives a good answer to the oft-asked "How long do boosters take to work?"
(Guess: Omicron protection will show a similar shape on a different LH axis).
. @grantshapps Hello, Brit living in Germany here – as you are allowing British residents to do so, can we please also be allowed to come and visit our families, quarantine-free, if we have been fully vaccinated? It's been a long time...