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by jebarker 1y ago
> Coming from an American who switched to metric a decade ago to lead by example in my friend group. I agree with your overall comment. I’m interested what value you’ve found in actually switching to metric day to day?
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That’s good to know actually. The distance I travel is certainly not necessary, there is closer camping, but I just tend to prefer areas that are all the way across the mountains from me. Do you know what sort of range they get while towing
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by jebarker 1y ago
> they outnumber the successful people by a vast margin you can be successful and lower class.
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by jebarker 1y ago
I actually quite like Apple Notes. Then again, I’m in it for a note taking app not an aesthetic experience. I’m also not a tech visionary I guess.
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by jebarker 1y ago
I started looking at camping trailers recently to tow with my Rivian. I quickly went off the idea when I realized that each time I’d need to charge en-route I’d have to find somewhere to park the camper, unhitch, go charge, then do it all i
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by jebarker 1y ago
Seems odd to state a percentage increase in solar to obtain an absolute decrease in CO2.
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by jebarker 1y ago
In my view managers are people that do managing, not people that are ordained with certain titles. Managing encompasses a variety of formal and informal tasks involving guiding other people. So tech leads can most definitely be managers. Pr
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by jebarker 1y ago
This is also only true (maybe) of the officer class of manager. The NCO class (tech leads??) certainly do the work on the ground with their staff.
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by jebarker 1y ago
I think you misunderstood the use of "fast" in the article? They mean that the software should run fast, not be produced fast necessarily. In my experience software that truly runs fast is usually much higher quality.
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by jebarker 1y ago
I agree that inspiration is probably not a great metric for many tax payer funded organizations including DoD and NASA
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by jebarker 1y ago
When I did my maths degree in the UK in the early 00s it was quite popular to do a “Maths and Music” degree that was equally split between the two. I’ve also been a musician all my life so one more sample point!
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by jebarker 1y ago
OK, I apologize if I misunderstood. My core belief is that it’s possible for humans to continue to prosper without causing a mass extinction of other species. I believe that largely happens through managing our impacts on the environment in
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by jebarker 1y ago
What a strange question. As a starter I’d like to see us help trees, coral, other primates and megafauna as much as possible. The former because they support so much other biodiversity and the latter because they’re nice to have in the worl
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by jebarker 1y ago
> Their science missions are inspiring, but not as inspiring as they ought to be Are they 1% as inspiring as what the DoD does with their budget? I don't mean to be snarky, but level of inspiration is pretty subjective and difficult
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by jebarker 1y ago
The question is how much of that power will we use to do good for the rest of the species on the planet? I’ve just finished reading “Not the end of the world” and found it to be an informative and balanced discussion on the topic that recog
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by jebarker 1y ago
Im speculating, but mountain lions were probably doing fine before the early 1800s too so they likely just balance each other out naturally if there’s competition over the same prey. I doubt humans need to do anything.
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by jebarker 1y ago
Good point. I realize that I was thinking of average life expectancy and that was biased by high child mortality until recently
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by jebarker 1y ago
Life expectancy much longer than 40 is a modern thing for humans though. So where would the over 40s schedule have come from? Or do you mean the schedule basically says: once you hit 50 start falling apart?
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by jebarker 1y ago
I don’t believe that article supports your claim. It doesn’t claim humans innately prefer meat smell/taste, just that we evolved to seek out smell and flavor complexity, which cooking— meat or otherwise - provides. You could just as ea
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by jebarker 1y ago
Can you point to any supporting evidence for the claim that humans have evolved an innate “finding meat delicious trait” or alternatively evidence that suggests it’s not purely cultural? I’m genuinely interested as I haven’t found any evide
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by jebarker 1y ago
I totally agree with your strong feelings on the meat industry. The reason I said the main market is ex meat eaters is because if you’re still eating meat then any craving for the taste/texture/smell of meat is at least getting pa
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by jebarker 1y ago
If you speak with vegetarians/vegans who have been raised that way and never eaten meat you will find many that are repulsed by it. Nurture seems to be able to override nature here and, as far as I’m aware, there’s no strong evidence t
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by jebarker 1y ago
I was raised as a meat eater and ate it for 30 years. I’ve been vegetarian for about a decade for ethical reasons that I do believe are incompatible with eating any meat. I consider myself a good cook and make vegetarian/vegan meals fo
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by jebarker 1y ago
I would guess the primary target market is ex meat eaters that are trying to go vegetarian but have been raised to enjoy the taste/texture of meat. I am in this group. I agree it’s not a very large market for the reasons you stated abo
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by jebarker 1y ago
I feel I should clarify as clearly this is an unpopular opinion: I’m not saying climate change can be solved by technology alone, but I do believe that enabling the societal changes needed to deal with climate change requires using every to
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by jebarker 1y ago
I disagree with this assessment. We don’t know the steps we have to take. We know a set of steps we could take but they’re societally unpalatable. Technology can potentially offer alternative steps or introduce societal changes that make th
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by jebarker 1y ago
IMO questions are to math as leetcode questions are to software engineering. Not necessarily easier or harder but they test ability on different axes. There’s definitely some overlap with undergrad level proof style questions but I disagree
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Nobody knows the answers to these questions. Relying on AGI solving problems like climate change seems like a risky strategy but on the other hand it’s very plausible that these tools can help in some capacity. So we have to build, study an
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by jebarker 1y ago
Many major US cities have museums like this. It wasn’t built there because of the dinosaur archaeology as far as I know. This core was found during unrelated digging in the parking lot of the museum, so I think it is a coincidence.
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by jebarker 1y ago
A funny thing about this find is that the bone was in a core from beneath the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science which is heavily dinosaur focused. It’s either a crazy coincidence or there are abundant dinosaurs under De

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