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by contingencies 2mo ago
→ Macro African Union → Metazoan Member States → Panspermian Massive → Anomalies Anonymous "Hi I'm infinity and I... I cracked and generated a self-replicating biology last aeon. By the second kalpa they'd devised a writing
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by contingencies 2mo ago
You misspelled 'beers'. A boring technology.
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by contingencies 2mo ago
Wait wait wait: so Xinjiang is an inalienable part of Europe? For those interested in an overview of the history of the area in an historic dramatic frame of reference I can recommend the group of short stories published as Life Along the
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by contingencies 2mo ago
Lenses have energy budgets, responsiveness concerns and actuator/sensor pairings through embedded processing. Therefore they need firmware. Firmware goes out of date and has bugs and improvements. Having the ability to configure a len
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by contingencies 2mo ago
Sadly, it seems to me that what we are witnessing in our era is a convergence of technology-enhanced surveillance governance globally, greatly eroding personal agency and democratic capacity to institute change. We desperately need utopian
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by contingencies 2mo ago
Always wanted to do this but enjoying land-lubber life a bit too much at the moment. I'd like to think I've built most of the skills (sailing, electronics, mechanics, sewing, rigging, drinking amicably with strangers, radio, cooki
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by contingencies 2mo ago
I draw the line at public points.
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by contingencies 2mo ago
It's a global thing; most of those countries look to immigration to solve their depopulation problem. Education needs to be global. I guess LLMs do that now in many ways; we don't necessarily need formal education systems everywhe
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by contingencies 2mo ago
Indeed. As I see it (and I have lived in socialist and capitalist countries as well as developing countries) there are really only two problems. 1. People in power don't want the system to change because it's a threat to their pos
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by contingencies 2mo ago
ie. China is the future, US is the past.
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by contingencies 2mo ago
Many fungi have pan-tropical or global distribution. See p158+ in PDF https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annur...
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by contingencies 2mo ago
ROFL. Banned in Australia. "Requires age verification." Next up: Ethnomycology of nanny state....
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by contingencies 2mo ago
I'm aware of this guy but the presentation is a bit full on for me. My buddy who is in to botany says apparently his podcasts are really good: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zJDjluBz6qVCGrF1I8JhP
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by contingencies 2mo ago
Congratulations! Add a water feature ... it will attract birds. And next to that some smaller shrubs. Then once the trees grow you can put climbers and ferns in them. And throw down some rocks for good measure. It encourages variant microcl
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by contingencies 2mo ago
1. Sashimi goblinu 2. Goblin penis soup.
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by contingencies 2mo ago
Primarily this fixes the bug in the interface which is allowing the user to input data that does not match their declared destination. However, a second benefit is that you can then obtain per-user destination information, which is useful i
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by contingencies 2mo ago
For these people, replace the buttons entirely with a voice-activated destination request on proximity.
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by contingencies 2mo ago
From the people who brought you USB-C. Great to see a step in the right direction, especially in this economic and political climate, and lovely to see it published via Mastodon. Go EU!
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by contingencies 2mo ago
Pasta itself was not frequently consumed in Italy before the industrial revolution as it was too labor intensive and thus prepared only on special occasions. 'Real' Italian cuisine is without tomatoes (a new world crop) and ~witho
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by contingencies 2mo ago
Two San Diego posts at once! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090867 Go team!
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by contingencies 2mo ago
Two San Diego posts at once! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083314 Go team!
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by contingencies 3mo ago
No. I2C is popular for a reason. It is cheap, fast enough, well understood, available everywhere, uses less lines and less physical space than almost all alternatives (excluding one wire buses which are far less standardized and far more li
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How to See the World: Art of Travel; European and World Backpacking on ≤$25/Day(artoftravel.net)
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by contingencies 3mo ago
Yes, an air conditioner can be made as follows. 1. Identify a locally viable deciduous tree species. 2. Plant this species on the afternoon aspect of the sun in your location. So for northern hemisphere plant to the southwest. For southern
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by contingencies 4mo ago
I have a ton of handwritten German stuff from the 19th century. My grandmother could make a fair stab at it, but nobody left can read it. I've shown modern Germans and they are at a loss. Thanks for your idea, I will give it a look. An
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by contingencies 4mo ago
I found a copy of the oldest film ever shot in China in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) library in London. The camera had been personally loaned to the French administrator in question by the Lumiere Brothers. The film had
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by contingencies 4mo ago
Baby got backplane . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X53ZSxkQ3Ho&t=80
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by contingencies 4mo ago
SaaS was always destined for this, with or without AI. Excluding the small subset with network effects, the nominal nature of a remote execution aid in basic business process was always semi-farcical.
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by contingencies 4mo ago
No worries as they'd had their vegemite for brekkie providing all the salt they need to offset the constant sweat. None of this soft modern electrolyte bullshit, just beer dregs on toast.
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by contingencies 4mo ago
My sentiments exactly. I would like to trade the time spent giving away ideas to AIs for time spent in nature. Actually it's a well executed front for a build-me-a-technical-trading-execution-package-as-a-service scheme. Not sure if

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