mythrwy

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by mythrwy 3mo ago
"when the weapons of mass destruction are found it will be too late!" The composition of the forests changes in managed stands yes. But these are not most stands. And if the hardwoods are removed mechanically or with herbicide the
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by mythrwy 3mo ago
I haven't either, but I imagine it being the exact opposite of Dylan's. Kind of a thunderous booming bards tale voice as opposed to nasal whining.
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by mythrwy 3mo ago
I'm not a fan of Glyphosate but it's just not used enough in forests to be a primary factor in wildfires. Additionally, in the article you link, they are really reaching and again, this is just their activist opinion (chemicals ba
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by mythrwy 3mo ago
That isn't science that is some activists opinion and the amount of forests actually sprayed with glyphosate is not the majority or even close yet we still have wild fires. The article linked is mostly nonsense with regards to wild fir
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by mythrwy 3mo ago
I'm not a big fan of synthetic chemicals in the food supply but I can't help wondering how Glyphosate has made forest fires worse?
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by mythrwy 3mo ago
Especially Bob Dylan. Nasal whining isn't historical America.
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by mythrwy 3mo ago
I'm just one small data point, and significantly in the minority I'm sure, but I got chickens and started gardening hard 4 or 5 years ago and get around 1/3 of my food from there.
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by mythrwy 3mo ago
"If a function needs a new argument, all the callers have to pass it and all of their callers recursively". That is not the case if you default a value in the function. `def foo(x=None)` Of course then you usually have to deal wit
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by mythrwy 3mo ago
The US can "win" for some definition of the word but at what cost to the US and the world in general? Would that really be a win or would it be a loss?
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by mythrwy 3mo ago
The Mongol army was much less industrialized than the people they conquered though so I'd say it's factor but not decisive.
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by mythrwy 3mo ago
The doll is missing that part!
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by mythrwy 3mo ago
Some friends and I lit a wheat field on fire with Roman candles in Oklahoma when I was 18. We were having a blast driving down the road shooting candles out of the car window when we topped the crest of a small hill and looked back to see s
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by mythrwy 3mo ago
Not the mountains. They are great in summer.
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by mythrwy 4mo ago
The internet doesn't have 10000 IQ points though. So where will it get the knowledge to be that smart?
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by mythrwy 4mo ago
Right but it looks back well before that.
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by mythrwy 4mo ago
I notice the study is "in the past" when models weren't as good and also it appears to focus on office workers writing text. Ya, using AI to write your emails isn't that huge of a time savings. But coding is different ma
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by mythrwy 4mo ago
That is one option. Another is we discuss actual policy positions rather than using presumed pejoratives to brand everyone who doesn't agree with us as "literally Hitler!".
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by mythrwy 4mo ago
Democratic political leadership were fighting Trump 10 years ago long before No Kings. I don't think they have done much real, if anything.
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by mythrwy 4mo ago
AI can presumably make a preferable podcast no problem.
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by mythrwy 4mo ago
Headline: "A large comet is approaching the earth and all life is expected to be wiped out within 20 days" HN: "The scrollbar is two pixels too narrow on the article!"
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by mythrwy 5mo ago
I've wondered the same thing but Gemini (free, just in the browser) helped me complete a GIS/radar app that Codex/GPT didn't seem informed enough to do. Really gave some excellent suggestions and I was impressed and feed
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by mythrwy 5mo ago
My "digging for roots to eat" skills have also atrophied. Fortunately I don't need those much anymore because of modern agriculture. I wonder how much of this "you are gonna lose your skills!" stuff matters. And if
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by mythrwy 5mo ago
She is reasonably intelligent. Not necessarily intellectually inclined but not stupid by any means. And I'm with you, I can't wrap my head around it either. To be fair I didn't really get her choice of movies before AI (super
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by mythrwy 5mo ago
My girlfriend mindlessly watches those sometimes. I think they are from China maybe. I heard one in the background last night and it went something like this: "A girl becomes pregnant in college and it turns out to be triplets. But she
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by mythrwy 5mo ago
probably not
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by mythrwy 5mo ago
"Ever since I was just a simple Perl script I wanted to be a DJ on SomaFM"
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by mythrwy 5mo ago
The US does have potash mines for example around Carlsbad New Mexico. But these cover only a percentage of domestic need. Perhaps they could be scaled up not sure.
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by mythrwy 5mo ago
I started at age 39 though and did pretty well up until a year or two ago (16 years total). Like many people I've been sad about the loss of a career I spent years developing skills in and I'm 55 now and won't be quickly retr
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by mythrwy 6mo ago
$100? So, like 4 aspirin tablets US hospital billing prices?
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by mythrwy 6mo ago
It can be both (and in my opinion is). There are groups that would love to be in full control of visible information and parents rightly concerned about social media use by kids.

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