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Irresponsibly buried as an offhand remark most of the way through the article: "many species of wild bees are, in fact, declining" Commercial honeybees are not endangered. But honey bees are just one type of bee. And the major iss
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I'm moderately interested in housing crisis analysis but haven't really heard much about zoning. Do you have a good source on that youd recommend?
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Personally, I'd much more need to be convinced that complex behavior and emotional states aren't evidence of consciousness. I feel the burden of proof goes in the other direction.
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Gaining and losing body mass has to do with all kinds of complex biochemistry beyond calories in.
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I think OP meant "radioactive fallout" which would be the source of "long term radiation." Fission bombs scatter radioactive dust of uranium, plutonium, and fission byproducts that continue to emit harmful radiation for
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Ah nice, then they'd be easy to build without detection, and proliferation treaties become unenforceable. What could go wrong? I think my mind just changed on whether fusion energy breakthroughs would end up as a net good.
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What's the weapons angle for sustained fusion research? We've had the tech to reliably turn heavy water into 100 million casualties per warhead for >50 years.
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I also have a family member who gets migraines triggered by msg. To be fair, people can have migraine triggers from just about anything, it's not well understood. Sure, some triggers are more common than others. But these anecdotes don
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by aradox66 3y ago
Wait, instant coffee extract? That is...not espresso edit: ok, they pulled espresso shots and freeze dried them in the lab (lol) - "The espresso coffee extract was obtained from 15 g of powder using a two-cups coffee machine (Gaggia e
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Link to the actual paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1176...
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Many of the herbs included have mild effects on mood and the nervous system
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Cultural bubbles? I hardly know anyone who /isn't/ interested in astrology.
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Sitting on the front edge of a chair with your head elevated is the exact instructions for how to sit ergonomically. The spine is naturally quite curved in its proper "stacked" position, and it's easy to get it wrong and over
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This is awesome and you feel powerful vengeance until you accidentally slip the paper cone a bit on disposal and a hundred fruit flies escape at once.
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Agree with this. I think a good 75% of the value I've delivered in data engineering roles has been on proficiency building out cloud infrastructure, CICD, etc. Teams hire data engineers when the analysts are spending too much time and
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The synthetic plant based meat foods are missing the point - the flavor comes from the fat, not the protein! Plant based whey, or heme, or pork protein isn't gonna do it. We want the fat!!
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Agree, I've had great results asking chatgpt questions about AWS services. The interactivity is very helpful, and chatgpt will draft scripts too, although that's hit or miss. But for understanding concepts and services, it's
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by aradox66 3y ago
I'd read that PFAS are used in the manufacturing of nonstick pans but aren't present in the final product, but I was wrong. PFAS regularly are found in nonstick pans, even ones labeled PFAS-free, and you eat them when you use that
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I thought that it wasn't possible for pathogens to develop resistance to alcohol based sanitizers, but apparently I was wrong. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.aar6115 Not the same phenomena a
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Migrating from a legacy orchestration stack to Prefect(austinweisgrau.github.io)
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I always appreciate seeing demos of how folks go about implementation. I hope this is helpful for anyone looking into setting up Prefect in AWS ECS, or otherwise moving off of a limited legacy orchestration stack!
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aren't the men, and the bricks, and the dropping all symbols? Perhaps the visual stimulus / qualia could be considered non-symbolic, but surely the high level abstractions "men" "bricks" "drop" are, e
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A few directors have sent emails lettings folks know it's ok to experiment with as long as they dont send passwords or PII. I had it draft a thorny recursive SQL query for me one time (which I did write some extensive automated tests t
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galaxy brain
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whoosh
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Fascinating. When I had fever dreams as a kid, I would have a sensation that was similar. It was the need to do find/choose something infinitesimally unlikely. Like finding a single coin dropped anywhere in the Pacific ocean. And if I
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I looove this My favorite Spotify genre for awhile has been "Wattswave," which is Alan watts lectures over chill/expansive ambient music
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Regexes are one of those things that are much easier to write good tests for than to write the code itself. I like this use of LLM
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Also birth control does nothing for STDs...
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They're behind Cloudflare, which is very aggressive with its bot filtering. There have been some HN threads about it.

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