I‘m less familiar with Manjaro than Arch which it’s based on but this would be the bigger shift in package management. I find the Arch packages easier to deal with than Debian/Ubuntu based manager if building custom code into packages or using unusual configurations but sounds like that’s not you

What kind of package manager reasons are they expecting the switch to fix? Because both Pop and Debian use the same manager so main difference is what versions of software are available as packages and what comes in the base install.

Yeah - I had looked that more thinking in the context of hotel availability, but wasn't making the connection today when my student brought up issues. We'll be chatting more tomorrow about her specific concerns, but I think that does shift the assessment a bit

Yeah having things in March is part of the wrinkle since hard to judge how things might shift. We‘ll be flying from CO and Reagan airport is pretty close by so hoping to get hotel through the meeting so travel around town will probably be minimal. So likely we won’t be in DC itself at least

Don’t suppose anybody local has insights into what being near National Harbor Convention Center is like? www.asbmb.org/annual-meeting #ChemChat #ITeachBio

There are certain fights that you need to either never pick in the first place or be certain you're willing to see all the way through.

The shutdown was one of them.

Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

When I was doing a study abroad semester in Denmark they took us to a panel with members of parliament to talk to us about danish politics. one casually started on about women with headscarves on the trains being a problem then assured us they just were concerned “integration“ and weren’t racist