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721.
by hosh 3y ago
When I worked at an Erlang shop, the director’s hiring strategy was to hire generalists willing to learn Erlang. He also hired remote, years before the lockdowns. He built distributed teams that builds distributed systems.
722.
by hosh 3y ago
Last year, according to Stackoverflow polls, Elixir was the second most loved language, just under Rust. There is a reason why people who knows it, loves it. Elixir’s runtime, unlike many others, uses preemptive lightweight processes. Unlik
723.
by hosh 3y ago
Why do we need to keep up? When AlphaGo came out, it changed the landscape of competition. But the game itself can train a human’s ability to make life decisions for themselves. It’s a discipline one enters to refine and grow their own capa
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by hosh 3y ago
In order for the panels to function as a nitrogen fixer, you’d not only have to add that functionality to the panel, you also reduce the yield in order to power it. Are people willing to do that? Are there better ways to contribute? When de
725.
by hosh 3y ago
Generating electricity is a yield to humans. Other plants have other yields. In an ecosystem, something spreading and growing is a feature, not a bug. It means that, as a living system, it self-heals and regenerates. This is better than jus
726.
by hosh 3y ago
I don’t know. But that gets into the broader design pattern of engineering a microclimate, whether that is changing local humidity and temperature levels. Perhaps, the structure itself can also provide some other functions. The pylons, for
727.
by hosh 3y ago
That’s a result of occupying a certain canopy layer. Any other plant that occupies that canopy layer can do the same.
728.
by hosh 3y ago
There are plants that can do soil remediation on soil with heavy metals, though you can’t eat them and you still have to find a way to process or sequester the heavy metal. Cilantro (coriander) is an example.
729.
by hosh 3y ago
This is a specific application of a broader design pattern found in the permaculture world: planting combinations of plants at different canopy layers, ecological functions, and yields. The solar panels would be taking the place of an under
730.
by hosh 3y ago
Even supposing that we end up creating a super AGI, that does not mean we need to worship them. There are many different ways people can relate to each other, among them, respectful fellowship. It’s within our human spirit and means to lift
731.
by hosh 3y ago
I would be less concerned about who gets paid, and more concerned about our civilization's long-term decline with human thought leadership. We won't be writing the story of our humanity anymore.
732.
by hosh 3y ago
Printing to an eink tablet — that’s intuitive! I bet someone can even make it into a thing and market it as “smart paper”.
733.
by hosh 3y ago
Yeah, eink displays seem to work better in a tablet form factor. Philips could have invested into something similar to paperwhite (indirect backlighting for eink displays)
734.
by hosh 3y ago
That is indeed what factories preferred since the beginning of industrialization. I’m not concerned so much about AI taking over my livelihood as I am of businesses treating humans as automatons, and have been for over a century, if not mor
735.
by hosh 3y ago
The scope is much broader than choice of computing language, since it affects the discourse of our whole civilization, and how we think about and discuss societal issues, and where we want to go as humanity. On the other hand, if you want t
736.
by hosh 3y ago
I don’t think pg is talking about the short-term, cognitive deficiencies of using AIs during execution of a specific task. I read it as the long-term decline in capabilities because you don’t regularly exercise certain things: - being able
737.
by hosh 3y ago
Although, there is such a thing as Semantic Web, where such information can be embedded within a page.
738.
by hosh 3y ago
There are cultivated areas of wilderness in North and South America. But the way it is cultivated is more like the modern “perennial food forest”, and not “scientific forestry” you see in Europe.
739.
by hosh 3y ago
I think that modernity had shifted the mainstream view away from that, but it need not that way. When I look at Christopher Alexander’s life’s work and what the various people tried to do during the Renaissance, you can still be in relation
740.
by hosh 3y ago
If we are viewing this spiritually, then yes, plants have consciousness, though not necessarily human consciousness. There are shamanic practices involving plant teachers and interacting with the spirit of the plant. There are these Tantric
741.
by hosh 3y ago
Yeah, their chicken egg songs are something else.
742.
by hosh 3y ago
I don’t see why that is unreasonable to do. Whether it is ranching or hunting, why wouldn’t you?
743.
by hosh 3y ago
That kind of fear is not what I want to impart my children. Life becomes so small and dark when living life like that. But I get that I’m not the average parent. We already have chickens in the backyard. Hen pecking don’t really hurt. They
744.
by hosh 3y ago
I thought about working with 4-H to create a permaculture track. I live in the city. I have been applying permaculture design principles to my back and front yard. I am exposing my kids to all of this, and it is not too late for you if that
745.
by hosh 3y ago
I was just talking to a friend about the fatal flaw in Marxian analysis of capitalism Both the analysis and the proposed solution focused on owning the means of production, but none of it says anything about the well-being of the humans,
746.
by hosh 3y ago
We had to use otel with Datadog because Datadog did not support Elixir with an official SDK. There are a lot of subtle issues, but we've been able to work through them to get usable traces. (Metrics and log ingestion already have prett
747.
by hosh 3y ago
It would be interesting to see if: - this concrete formulation is self-healing like Roman concrete - Whether that absorption property is dependent on other factors like heat (our cities create a heat island effect) - Whether adding in thing
748.
by hosh 3y ago
There was this one time, my Australian friend told me he finally gets tipping. Tipping is not the custom in Austrailia, yet having visited the US and travelled around the world for years, tipping mystified him. He told me he finally got it
749.
by hosh 3y ago
There are adaptations against that, giving even greater tenacity and resilience. There are a whole bunch of plants that rhizomes. Attempting to pull out the root structure, in practice, helps propogate them via root division. Examples of su
750.
by hosh 3y ago
Fire is a great way to help restore soil. Some plants, as you found, come back stronger. The best way I have found to get rid of weeds without herbicide is to make sure something else is growing on there. Some weeds are pioneer plants. They

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