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Global mean vegetation greenness reached a record high in the year 2025(nature.com)
3 points by delichon 2mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 2mo ago
Given the fragility of the biosphere and the determination of powerful factions to break it, developing the capability to be a tiny bit existentially independent of it is good.
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by delichon 2mo ago
The scale of this thing seems science fictional. https://x.com/ChrisJBakke/status/2085519392285380966 That's 15 Pentagons.
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1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group(twitter.com)
3 points by delichon 2mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 2mo ago
Four hours and 15 minutes of "vigorous" sexual activity!? Impetuous! Homeric! -- Michaeleen Flynn, The Quiet Man, 1952
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Blasting the Air in Front of Hypersonic Vehicles with Lasers Reduces Drag (2020)(twz.com)
13 points by delichon 2mo ago|3 comments
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by delichon 2mo ago
There is a whole genre of videos on YouTube where Europeans in the U.S. for the World Cup rave about how happy and friendly the locals are. Click on one and your feed fills up with them. These mostly start with saying that this is in rural
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The Myth of the Food Desert(newyorker.com)
6 points by delichon 2mo ago|0 comments
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SpaceX Starmind Orbital Satellite(spacex.com)
2 points by delichon 2mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 2mo ago
At the moment this story has 2 upvotes in a half hour and is in the 8th position on the front page. Apparently HN has a fairy godmother algorithm that randomly promotes posts.
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Karpathy’s Pelican(twitter.com)
618 points by delichon 2mo ago|433 comments
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by delichon 2mo ago
Overall global fire emissions are on a downward trend. https://bsky.app/profile/mparrington.bsky.social/post/3md3w3...
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by delichon 2mo ago
This is what I think of when I think of personalized pricing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlT3uHlNAg&t=111s It's pretty much what I've done when selling at flea markets all of my life. I ask what I think
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by delichon 3mo ago
If you want to believe that the success of Kimi is about distillation attacks, ignore this.
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by delichon 3mo ago
Turns out it was a trust calibrating exercise that the whole team learned from.
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by delichon 3mo ago
We had a contractor doing repairs before we sold our house. Without being asked he took an orbital sander to the wooden hand railings along the stairs to the front door and said "people really notice this". A family came for the t
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Anthropic versus the entire tech industry(twitter.com)
6 points by delichon 3mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 3mo ago
To vaporize 10^21 kg of seawater from ~4 °C to 100 °C would require ~10^27 joules, around 16 trillion Hiroshimas or ~2.5 seconds of the sun's output.
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by delichon 3mo ago
There's been no biological change in humans in 40,000 or 50,000 years. Everything we call culture and civilization we’ve built with the same body and brain. -- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Spice of Life", 2000 Gould was an
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by delichon 3mo ago
> When manufacturing turned into electrified factories and conveyor belts, there wasn't waves of massive layoffs. And AI these days come nowhere near close to conveyor belts or electrification at scale at all. Nowhere near close, bu
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by delichon 3mo ago
The claim isn't about the age of rock, but that the surface has churned almost everywhere. Israel does contain the oldest measured continuous surface at about 1.8M yo, but nobody claims to have looked everywhere.
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by delichon 3mo ago
Mighty rivers start as a trickle. Enough trickles and fetch happens.
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by delichon 3mo ago
With current tech we are close to having a babel fish to put in our ear as a near universal translator. I have a dream that this will enable huge linguistic diversity, even down to one language per person, as translation costs approach nil.
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The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene(science.org)
69 points by delichon 3mo ago|22 comments
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by delichon 3mo ago
Still available. https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat
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by delichon 3mo ago
> What if they’re not pelicanmaxxing, but svgmaxxxing in general? Mission fucking accomplished. https://xkcd.com/810/
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The Fake Influencers Selling Wellness on Your Feed(nytimes.com)
2 points by delichon 3mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 3mo ago
"Actual" athletes only sprint for a few minutes at a time, not really comparable with the hydration needs of a cyberathlete on their hundred and third consecutive two week sprint.
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by delichon 3mo ago
I honestly don't think it's pessimistic to predict war. We live in a world where various cultures have incompatible values at a fundamental level that include valuing the extinction of other cultures. If they never go to war it me
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by delichon 3mo ago
What is it that the space aliens don't want us to see? The obvious conclusion is that they are hiding their invasion fleet arrivals inside of hurricanes. The proof will be when the system comes back online and only permits us to see or

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