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by ikesau 3y ago
i'm not sure i understand you. you're saying third party app stores will incentivise apple to improve their quality control to better differentiate them from competing app stores?
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by ikesau 3y ago
i recently saw a refreshing perspective on canadian immigration that addressed these issues at their origins: failures in housing policy and complacent governance. it's the perspective i wish more canadians held so we could steer the g
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by ikesau 3y ago
> Luis Fernando Ramadon, a federal police specialist in Brazil who studies extractive industries, estimates that the global illegal sand trade ranges from $200 billion to $350 billion a year—more than illegal logging, gold mining and fis
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by ikesau 3y ago
Cloze cards also work well for this sort of thing, I think. Though they're easy to mass produce and create an overwhelming amount of revision, so be careful. You may not have noticed, but there's also a reverse card type that only
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by ikesau 3y ago
Does this go both ways? can we use gene therapy to make 11-year old boys deaf?
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by ikesau 3y ago
yeah, this logic makes sense to me i just have no idea how you begin to create a global system of "generic parts" beyond screws and bolts in a world of globalized supply chains, with specialized production in every country. but i
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by ikesau 3y ago
that's an interesting idea, but I dunno if "language learners" comprise a sufficiently influential cultural group to influence language in this way. If I learned a new word through duolingo, used it while speaking to native s
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by ikesau 3y ago
The article is citing Alberto Mazzola, the executive director of the CER. He says that reduced emissions and price are driving the rise in demand. Clearly he's not impartial here, but I'd trust him to be forthright about these rea
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by ikesau 3y ago
I can find evidence to suggest that consuming processed foods increases microplastic exposure[1], but I don't think that's the main reason public health officials advise against eating processed foods. It's a different level
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by ikesau 3y ago
You might be thinking of Adam Mastroianni's essays on the subject: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-... https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-dance-of-the-nake.
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by ikesau 3y ago
Class Warfare, out 1717243201.
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They say it was trained on TPUs https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/#scalable...
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Here's another useful view that shows the breakdown in a stacked area chart: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
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by ikesau 3y ago
LemmyBB is the kind of direction I wish this would go. Self-hosted communities, interacting in federated spaces together, specifically in the form of a PhpBB board which I maintain is the least bad form of social media we've tried.
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by ikesau 3y ago
The bandcamp app is great. You get 2-3 free streams of any album, plus an enormous catalogue of radio shows to discover new music through. It's really reinvigorated my passion for music. Once you've listened to an album a couple o
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by ikesau 3y ago
This is exactly how confirmation bias fuels conspiracy theories. No one believes anything that they think sounds implausible. As a general rule, you should give very little thought to anonymous 4chan posts.
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by ikesau 3y ago
Hm, interesting. I do not find "noticing people around you and thinking about them" to be creepy at all. Could you elaborate further as to why you do?
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The interactivity of these videos is really well done. I've never seen anything like it before.
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You mean W-h, right? Watt-hour, not watts-per-hour as W/h would suggest
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2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Awesome project! Would love to take some time to understand how this all works. One tiny thing I noticed is that the build information tab seems to point to a commit that no longer exists.
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The dialogue at the end of the transcript (Find "OK, Lauren, so it sounded when") does a good job at outlining the difficulty of clearly demarcating the concepts of ownership and intellectual property. Our metaphors are undeniably
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Sebastian Lague's Tiny Chess Bot Tournament [video](youtube.com)
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https://github.com/SebLague/Chess-Challenge > Welcome to the chess coding challenge! This is a friendly competition in which your goal is to create a small chess bot (in C#) using the framework provided in this repo
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by ikesau 3y ago
love flowchart.fun! it's still the quickest and easiest tool i've found to quickly put diagrams together. it continues to show that clearly a lot of thought has gone into the ergonomics : )
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by ikesau 3y ago
The bill creates a committee that will write reports on new laws that involve animals. Section 2 of the bill lists out how this will work. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/22/enacted#section... I don
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> The review also evaluated the potential welfare implications of current commercial practices involving these animals. It recommends against declawing, nicking, eyestalk ablation, the sale of live decapod crustaceans to untrained, non-e
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Do you have any advice on how to work out if an IPFS project is using IPNS? I can't see anything on this page that suggests it is, but maybe there's a better, more intentional technique over searching "ipns" in the inspe
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or it couldn't! i think exploratory play is much more in the spirit of an ecosystem
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i love this. you can make a pretty cool thunderstorm vignette with by drawing lots of rapid blue lines downwards and then a couple of zigzag lightning bolts : )

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