anyonecancode

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by anyonecancode 11mo ago
I strongly suspect the answer is yes -- or more broadly, what makes us conscious. And yes, this implies consciousness is something all life has, to some degree. I'm not going to pretend to have a good definition of what "conscious
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
> The internet was born out of the need for Distributed networks during the cold war - to reduce central points of failure - a hedging mechanism if you will. I don't think the idea was that in the event of catastrophe, up to and inc
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
My current slack channel organization: - Channels I care about: ones where real work gets done every day, eg my team channels, other people I interact with frequently and directly. - Temporarily important: short lived channels, or project c
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
What I'm missing is what, if any, communication Ruby Central had with maintainers. > How do you tell someone that has had commit and admin access to critical infrastructure long after that need has expired that you need to revoke th
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Ants Found a Loophole for a Fundamental Rule of Life(nytimes.com)
1 points by anyonecancode 1y ago|0 comments
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The First Photograph Ever Taken (1826)(openculture.com)
36 points by anyonecancode 1y ago|7 comments
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For a few days this summer, your days will be just a smidge shorter(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by anyonecancode 1y ago|0 comments
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
When I think of swampy areas I'm familiar with, they don't get as much sunlight as desert areas. It's possible to provide water to many areas that don't have a lot, but increasing total sunlight hours isn't possible
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In a Milestone for Manhattan, a Pair of Coyotes Has Made Central Park Their Home(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by anyonecancode 1y ago|0 comments
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
My understanding is that agriculture in the desert works because of all the sunlight, so if water is provided it ends up actually being really good for growing plants. (also, I don't think the Central Valley is actually a desert?)
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
Vote in 2026 to make sure we can vote for a different NTSB in 2028.
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
That's a bit of a catch-22 argument, isn't it? If a history of violence and conquest invalidates land claims, then the white settlers who violently settled North America have no legitimate right to this land, right? But if that hi
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Archaeological evidence of intensive indigenous farming in MI's Upper Peninsula(science.org)
83 points by anyonecancode 1y ago|15 comments
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
Also covered in https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/science/archaeology-menom...
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
I don't think article is comparing like things. Biological _systems_ are indeed complex and reliable, but biological _processes_ are not. They fail all the time -- if they didn't there'd be no need for an immune system (and o
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A Swiss Village Destroyed by a Landslide(theatlantic.com)
7 points by anyonecancode 1y ago|0 comments
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
I think you could make similar arguments about mapping technology like Google and Apple Maps -- that using them decreases people's skills in navigating the physical world, atrophying our sense of direction and geography. And actually,
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
Once upon a time, this was a thing for pretty much the entire city of New York: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Day_(New_York_City)
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
Less "reinventing" the wheel and more "uncovering the wheel."
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
I go to the movies for physics-defying aesthetically overwhelming explosions. For all-too-physics bound and far scarier crashes, I drive the Garden State Parkway.
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
"Hell Gate" in this case meaning "Bright Gate", from the Dutch colonial period.
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How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail(theatlantic.com)
3 points by anyonecancode 1y ago|0 comments
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
We have that in a forested section near me in New Jersey. I think it might be this: https://deerdeter.com/
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
One thing they had going for them is that the people who moved (and move) to Israel come from a number of different language backgrounds, so it wasn't the case of make everyone who speaks language A now instead speak language B (as wou
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by anyonecancode 1y ago
> It’s just a lot smaller geographically. That's actually a fairly important detail. I live in the NYC metro (lived in the city itself for many years) and have visited SF several times. The "city" part of SF is just much,
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The Speed Project - A race that runs from rules(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by anyonecancode 1y ago|0 comments
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by anyonecancode 2y ago
Not necessarily. For instance, if you take enough ibuprofen you'll suffer liver damage, but it doesn't follow that a smaller dose you'll still suffer damage. I only really have enough general understanding of chemistry and bi
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by anyonecancode 2y ago
Isn't this talking about naturally-occurring fluoridation, not added? The concentrations they describe as having an inverse affect are far higher than what gets added to water on purpose: What the study measured: "For fluoride mea
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by anyonecancode 2y ago
The power of software is how it 1) moves a lot of work from the domain of the physical to the domain of the written and intellectual and 2) the way it can be replicated at scale. So it really isn't like engineering, more like writing,
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Appeals Court Rules That Corner Crossing Is Legal in at Least Six States(outdoorlife.com)
8 points by anyonecancode 2y ago|0 comments

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