cachius

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by cachius 3mo ago
The year predicted for the glacier's collapse was an extrapolation based on data and models available at the time. While the timing was off, the thing is going away visibly for everyone! In hindsight they shouldn't have set the da
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by cachius 3mo ago
> geoengineering could go wrong Sure. If one path leads to certain doom and the other into the unknown, which one do you choose?
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by cachius 3mo ago
About Wolf Tivy's idea of "xenohumanism": strip "humanity" of all ape-ish historical contingency and identify the convergent "true man" as sum of "human" capabilities like language, philosophy, s
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by cachius 3mo ago
Just posted the idea for a win-win reuse of desalination waste water in the arctic depths in a sibling comment! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283840#49286264
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by cachius 3mo ago
> temperatures recover Not. so. fast.
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by cachius 3mo ago
Can't we just pour the waste water from desalination plants into the arctic abyss to keep AMOC going?
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by cachius 3mo ago
HaS aNyOnE sEeN aLtErNaTiNg CaSe CoNvErTeRs https://en.toolpage.org/tool/alternatingcase https://www.textformatting.com/case-converter/alternating-ca... Sadly no backwards direction
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by cachius 3mo ago
Right, and I think now I understand you better: >> targeted humans With utilitarian and anthropocentric world view you mean the 'target thinking' ascribing intention to nature, and not what is targeted, which are only in
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by cachius 3mo ago
Why would a random thing in the world specifically target anything? Nature throws things against the wall and keeps what sticks. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedychrum_rutilans , a parasite on a parasite. Did i
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by cachius 3mo ago
TIL I learned about Janus words that have two opposite meanings depending on context, also known as contronyms or auto-antonyms: Cleave : To split apart ('cleave the wood') or to adhere closely ('cleave to one's princ
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by cachius 3mo ago
Funny how 'drug' in English is a homonym for at the same time bad recreational substance and good one to cure illness. In German it's Droge and Medikament
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by cachius 3mo ago
We hear a lot about LLMs lately, they solve reasoning, mimic empathy, and awaken consciousness miraculously. As long as we do not understand the workings of the mind and brain, it reminds me of the days when machine learning or Bitcoin were
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by cachius 3mo ago
Sure, and one product is the browser, the other is search :-/ @BrendanEich
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by cachius 3mo ago
Zarelli - Falling Light ft. Leonard Nimoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ekjpJWSvY
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by cachius 3mo ago
More books and stories are listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_holocaust_fict... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apocalyptic_and_post-a... The Beast of Heaven by Vi
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by cachius 3mo ago
> "Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. "Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthd
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by cachius 3mo ago
The name collision with the browser is a bit unfortunate. If you set it to default search engine in Chrome on mobile, 'Search with Brave' is very ambiguous!
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by cachius 3mo ago
What does JaneStreet do besides sponsoring nerdy Youtube channels and writing UI libraries?
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by cachius 3mo ago
What's with Fil-C is unsafe? https://archive.ph/ysqbm TIL about 4chan clanker clone moltshit.com
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by cachius 4mo ago
Why the stigma? Does it come from the same direction as US American prudence?
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by cachius 4mo ago
Cool that the low-level configuration system and settings management tool of GNOME 3 gets its own conference! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dconf
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by cachius 4mo ago
Living fossils, like Ginkos And Equisetum/Horsetail/Schachtelhalm
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by cachius 4mo ago
To the Book Mark Index
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by cachius 4mo ago
Ok boomer. SCNR 2016 is a while ago. Flew by me
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by cachius 4mo ago
Sad cause its true
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by cachius 4mo ago
I love random associations between different concepts! And that the page title becomes 'Michaelsoft Teams' when inactive <3
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by cachius 4mo ago
Why Fly?
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by cachius 6mo ago
Windows Sandbox is not for persistent apps
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by cachius 6mo ago
Went over the cliff. Straight to the ambulance down there.
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by cachius 6mo ago
And Windows?

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