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by dguest 2mo ago
I would really love to see a regular a blog that details all the ways the world will need to adapt to furries. There are endless engineering challenges here! Also, any spiritual successors to Sim Tower needs to include furry-con as a disast
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by dguest 2mo ago
I seem to remember something about the scientist being distraught because physics didn't make sense, not because she was having trouble getting clean data. That also stuck with me as weird: there are any number of places you could sabo
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by dguest 2mo ago
It's more about the indirection, but it's a matter of taste. Whales blow bubbles to sleep. Humans stink to thermoregulate. We blow air to metabolize. Cars rumble to propel themselves forward. In each case there's a missing me
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by dguest 3mo ago
Indeed. This isn't a particularly bad case. I think both are often useful, and this headline isn't wrong, I just assumed the bubbles had some direct use and found the scientific title more clear there.
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by dguest 3mo ago
Oof, sorry if that was misleading. Maybe I'm overly fixated on the "to" in "to achieve": the whale doesn't care about the bubbles, they serve no important purpose in helping them sleep, it's just what happ
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by dguest 3mo ago
> Jack Dorsey is now using his clout to share about this app and bring some light on the situation Failed attempts at censorship are the best thing that could ever happen to Bitchat: free advertising for a vibcoded and questionably secu
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by dguest 3mo ago
The title of the original article [1] is a lot more clear: Buoyancy regulation through modulation of onboard gas volume by resting sperm whales They don't "blow bubbles" to sleep vertically, they vent gas to regulate
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by dguest 3mo ago
Is there any evidence that individualization of responsibility works better than government policy? Personally I see no contradiction in using a product despite wanting policies that prevent it: it just implies that you understand the trage
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by dguest 3mo ago
50m shells seems pretty optimistic. I thought some alarms would fire when things are within 1 km.
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by dguest 3mo ago
I feel like LEO is a convenient speed to know if you are someone who often asks "how fast is that". At Mach 23 it's a lot faster than sound, and on the slow side of "how fast space stuff moves". Of course it's
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by dguest 3mo ago
Yes! I meant local issues that don't concern 100M people. Local issues that concern a few thousand people can be (and often are) resolved by direct democracy. I guess I could argue that putting a stop sign at a particular intersection
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by dguest 3mo ago
Personally I've always appreciated talking to nurses I know. The respectable ones know they aren't doctors, but they've seen a lot more recoveries and cases where minimal intervention was required. As some people have said so
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by dguest 3mo ago
I think everyone can agree that having O(100M) people vote on every local initiative is absurd. But a lot of countries are somewhere on the "direct" vs "representative" spectrum. The US actually abnormally lacking in dir
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by dguest 3mo ago
If you have a photocopier and a few currencies you can have a lot of fun with EURion: - look up your local laws! usually you can photocopy money as long as it's shrunken / enlarged by a specific amount - you can cover up everythin
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by dguest 3mo ago
Also his profile on Stack Exchange [1] This account is temporarily suspended network-wide. The suspension period ends on Mar 18, 2292 at 16:28. Note the "temporary" suspension end date, 250 years in the future. [1]: htt
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by dguest 4mo ago
Citation: - https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Criminalize_Hunting,_Fishing,... - https://www.yesonip28.org/
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by dguest 4mo ago
Also so that it can make the retailer money. The studio might not want to piss off the retailer, which they would do by pulling the physical copy (or selling it at the OEM price directly). There are cases where retailers will de-list some p
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by dguest 4mo ago
In the opening scene a scientist argues once the ambient temperature of some region is 37°C we'll all get eaten by fungus. It will evolve to live at body temperature. There are some precedents for this: hibernating bats lower their bod
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by dguest 4mo ago
Isolationist is an interesting way to describe Switzerland: economically they're probably one of the most internationally integrated, and thus dependent, countries in the world.
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by dguest 4mo ago
I'm probably missing something. This would seem a bit problematic for some organizations that put Switzerland on the world stage, e.g. - The UN - CERN - The Red Cross - The WHO - The World Economic Forum - ETH Zurich There are probably
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by dguest 4mo ago
I'm the same. When people who maintain this separation travel for work, do they just bring both along? My laptop is often the heaviest thing in my bag, I'd hate to bring two. [late edit: I meant work travel]
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by dguest 4mo ago
I'm not a lawyer, I program. My understanding is that Civil Law (most of the world excluding UK, US, AU) is like a program: you feed it a situation, it outputs a decision, every once in a while you edit it. Common Law (UK, US) isn&#x27
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by dguest 4mo ago
Imagine the headlines though! (says your will boss, or bosses boss) It's still stupid, but they are imagining the news: > This guy said "it's probably fine" right before Flight 1337 explodes over the Atlantic. Now pe
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by dguest 4mo ago
That Amazon releases this seems to be consistent with the trend the original linked article mentioned: these big tech companies are happy to warn people of the apocalypse they are causing. It helps not to think of corporations as a single c
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by dguest 5mo ago
I think the point is that AI was here 40 years ago [1]. LLMs/RAGs/Transformers are the newish thing that's here to stay. I've seen my colleagues vocabulary regress from "training transformers" to just "usi
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by dguest 5mo ago
Estimate as water and fudge it a bit. Conveniently the fudge factor is just the specific gravity and is already tabulated as such in a lot of fields. But it turns out that water is a pretty good bet most of the time: - Settled snow is aroun
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by dguest 5mo ago
I'm fine with math, but that doesn't make it less annoying. The real advantage of metric is that you only have to do math once to calculate something. A cc is a ml is a gram. A liter is a cubic decimeter is a kg. It's just
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by dguest 5mo ago
Hey it's a bomb made out of hydrogen! Also the deployment system for a thermonuclear bomb might involve that reaction in the rocket engine.
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by dguest 5mo ago
He was right that it violates conservation of mass. He was completely wrong that it violated it by adding 2 atomic mass units when hydrogen fuses. In reality heavier isotopes of hydrogen fuse, conserving the total number of nucleons, but
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by dguest 5mo ago
Maybe CTF is dead, but there are plenty of fun problems in the real world -- ask any scientist, engineer, or medical researcher. There are a million places where a computer can interact with a non-digital system in a loop. - Tune an FPGA, o

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