Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 4y ago
Uncontrolled immigration to the UK is a myth. If you've ever tried to get permanent residence for a non-EU citizen, you'd know just how controlled it is. Granted, yes, we had little control over migration from the EU from 2004 to
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by Earw0rm 4y ago
Yep.. something about setting out in to the unknown, a battered paper map as your guide, and the combination of surprise and lack of accountability (doesn't perfectly describe what I mean, but I can't find a better word) you'
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by Earw0rm 4y ago
Probably the biosphere was simpler (fewer extant species at any given time). Being highly intelligent seems to be biologically expensive: the human brain burns a huge amount of calories, and as to the demands of being an upright species wit
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by Earw0rm 4y ago
Pseudoscience. Please explain: - How does the indoor environment lack infrared vs outdoors, when illuminated by filament or halogen lighting. - The relationship between inflammation (a tissue, organ or whole-organism level process) and mito
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by Earw0rm 4y ago
Filament and halogen lamps produce masses of infrared. Narrowband and low-energy lights (fluorescent and LED), not so much.
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by Earw0rm 4y ago
Speaking of the Culture paradigm, could very much go for a drone. (I mean autonomous, self-recharging, etc., not the more-or-less manually controlled camera drones of today). Speech recognition and synthesis, and ChatGPT set up to respond w
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by Earw0rm 4y ago
So many metal album covers in this.
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by Earw0rm 4y ago
Reality is already heavily augmented with any smartphone - what matters is not whether it's in your line of sight, but that there's in effect a constant high bandwidth flow of information between your consciousness and the net (or
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by Earw0rm 4y ago
Where this gets interesting is when the AI attempts to create animations or moving images - this requires a much deeper understanding of objects and their physical properties, even to create a highly stylised or "drawn" animation.
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by Earw0rm 4y ago
Not really close to horses at all. It's an even-toed ungulate, closer to deer, cows and sheep. Many, many tens of millions of years from horses.. the even-toed herbivores are closer to dolphins (!!) than they are to horses or rhinos.
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by Earw0rm 4y ago
And to any classical snobs on a "technology = bad" tangent, Perhaps consider that a concert hall filled with a couple of hundred instruments built to a standard tuning, the materials and techniques involved, and the sheet music no
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by Earw0rm 4y ago
Indeed, and enjoyed regularly by packed concert hall audiences with a full live orchestra. Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Ennio Morricone etc. are arguably the great classical composers of the late 20th century. Classical purists might argue t
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by Earw0rm 4y ago
Sort of. The breaking of MIDI is not, by any means, a good API. In a few other aspects it seems needlessly complex - feels like it was designed to serve one company's strategies and interests, not that of an industry.
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by Earw0rm 4y ago
Because AU is non-existent on Windows, and Steinberg these days controls VST with only its own interests in mind, not those of the wider industry.
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
Had the same for some time after (first round of) mild covid. Not the usual steady tone tinnitus either.. almost like a loose wire sending a very specific frequency in one ear. Spontaneously resolved after 4 months or so, no recurrence with
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
This. It's widely accepted that ebikes are some of the most energy efficient personal transport possible, because they're moving so little vehicle mass relative to passenger payload. Just 250 watts can give you rapid enough point
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
I kind of wonder how much of a role climate control has to play as well. Surely must have a role alongside straightforward inactivity.. until pretty recently, people would burn a lot of calories just regulating body temperature indoors. Peo
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
Interesting thought. I wonder if the combination of forward posture, slim aspect ratio and fluid, fast movement is triggering some bit of neural wiring adapted to look out for big cats. Do the magpies particularly go for roadies?
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
Billionaires tbf are a self-selecting sample of people who made it past $1m, $10m and $100m, and still decided to keep going. As a % of the population, I don't know how many have those traits - 10%? 1%? - but with a population also num
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
Speed and recovery? 100%. Endurance, not so much. Recovery times are shortest in children - and become very significantly longer even at ages where maintaining muscle mass isn't too much of an issue. Maximum speed peaks with strength i
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
This works because of legal precedent. The equivalent in code is pre-existing libraries, and miles of them. But the law has highly developed ways of ridding itself of cruft and tech debt over time, in a way that lib dependencies really don&
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
It also cannot be a legal basis for anything, because the law doesn't treat the right or ability to enter in to contracts as an absolute. Think minors, wards, power of attorney. Contract law is one of the more mechanistic parts of the
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
A house is a private place - you own (or rent) the land and the dwelling, and with that comes the right and expectation of privacy. A car is a way of moving through public space. There's no automatic expectation or legal right of priva
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
In a jurisdiction where driving while intoxicated on MJ is illegal, no, that's not vigilantism. You definitely don't want people driving around stoned in London traffic conditions - very much need to keep your wits about you when
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
Bear in mind this is UK where the vast majority of cars are manual transmission stickshift. So you really can't drive smoothly with a phone in one hand. Using a bluetooth headset while driving is legal here, using a hand held phone is
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
Re intermittent fasting - "not clinically relevant" in that its effect on insulin in itself isn't relevant, or that insulin resistance itself doesn't have a clinically significant relationship to dementia? I'm not a
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
Yes and no.. on a strict thermodynamics basis, it's not. If you're say 30lbs overweight (i.e. some, but not much), straight up burning that is going to require considerable patience and discipline to not destroy your body in the p
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
The UK is not a good yardstick to judge healthy weight by. High levels of overweight here among all races (also, a lot of UK TV drama portrays the UK as a lot whiter than it actually is - our major cities & more modern towns are as ethn
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by Earw0rm 5y ago
Get fewer of his calories from animal products, for one thing - not necessarily go vegetarian/vegan, but cutting down by 50-75%, and switching to grass-fed, organic meat (which doesn't require petrochemical derived fertiliser in