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by nemo 3y ago
With the tech and politics of the late 1960s it would have been far easier to actually land on the moon than fake it with the vast reams of evidence we have.
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by nemo 3y ago
Personally I'm doing great, I've used the internet to train for jobs and have quite a nice job now, and also I've used the internet to learn about all sorts of things that have been quite fulfilling for me. Still, we should b
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by nemo 3y ago
Some things might get micro-optimized by AI in ways that benefit people in general, but a lot will be micro-optimized to extract more profit out of customers at their expense and to replace or coerce workers in various ways. People will wie
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by nemo 3y ago
No, it's simply unrealistic. Effort is besides the point.
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by nemo 3y ago
What's unrealistic about it? "We should all."
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by nemo 3y ago
Sorry, been busy, still am busy, really. Besides habitat loss and pesticides, there's the impacts of domesticated animals and other human-originated animals. Those overlap with habitat loss to some degree, but feral cats, rats, dogs, g
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by nemo 3y ago
I was pointing out as a fact that honeybees deplete nectar from the habitats they're introduced and they're voracious. The honey they fill their hives with is collected nectar from flowers, nectar other wildlife don't have ac
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by nemo 3y ago
Yes, Humans have been keeping domesticate bees for a long time and spread them around the globe. The wild animal that was domesticate originally lived in Southeast Asia.
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by nemo 3y ago
>How does that compare to intensive agriculture and pesticides? In general pesticides and habitat loss have more serious impacts, but when you've got a stressed ecosystem adding honeybees that deplete resources from native pollinato
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by nemo 3y ago
Honeybees aren't native to Europe or the Americas, they originated in Asia. In any habitat at all, keeping honeybees is actually adding some strain to local ecosystems. Honeybees are voracious nectar drinkers, once they're hit a h
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by nemo 3y ago
>> if isn't humanity's days are numbered >This is hyperbole. Not at all.
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by nemo 3y ago
>use "logic" and "evidence" to argue against their policies. Many times when folks who tell me they're presenting "logic" and "evidence" in a debate they're personally invested in there&#
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by nemo 3y ago
Making progress on sustainability doesn't mean regression to the past, but progress towards a globally sustainable future. Hard to say if it's possible, but it if isn't humanity's days are numbered.
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by nemo 3y ago
The Rosetta Stone is from c. 200 BCE, issued by the Ptolemies in Egypt, ruling after Alexander had conquered Egypt. The first examples of writing in an ancient ancestor of our alphabet writing in Western Semitic are from c. ~1500 BCE where
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by nemo 3y ago
Yes, that's very true. I actually have used json representation at previous gigs, I just wasn't up to adding the extra qualifiers. Whenever I've needed to use Protobufs, I've always found them very nice work, really. I c
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by nemo 3y ago
One of my big drivers away from XML is that processing used to be insanely expensive. Over the years this has improved some, but XML parsing is still significantly less performant than any other option, especially compared to JSON or YML. U
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by nemo 3y ago
The original Apple LaserWriter had a Motorola 68000 CPU running at 12 MHz, 512 KB of workspace RAM, and a 1 MB frame buffer. That wasn't cheap, but Adobe's pricing of the PostScript license was still very steep and contributed sig
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by nemo 3y ago
Relative to Canada the United States is even more difficult to legally immigrate to, consider that the US system has been constantly adding ever increasing hurdles to legal immigration for ages.
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by nemo 3y ago
>big customers are interested because everyone is raving about it. In this case the big customers are already using it. Splunk's value proposition for those customer is that they can handle with a massive volume without a hiccup. Sm
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by nemo 3y ago
Interestingly, Freud's model is very similar to Plato's tripartite soul from the Republic with the appetites, the "spirited" part of the soul, and Nous, and Aristotelian psychology has the same tripartite soul. The big d
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by nemo 3y ago
It's surreal to see so may people reading the article with this takeaway, the "What's Wrong" section seemed very clear to me and elaborated for a while including a number of citations on why the simplistic layer model wa
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by nemo 3y ago
Relative to 151 it's "only 24", OP is really not diminishing the significance of that accomplishment, but defining it more clearly.
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by nemo 3y ago
Steve Jobs at the start of Apple was inspired by Sony and wanted to market Apple's consumer electronics as high-quality consumer electronics. Jobs was always very keenly interested in marketing and for Apple a central part of marketing
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by nemo 3y ago
One other little piece of the story was MacBasic: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacBasic.txt Apple intended to ship the Mac with a user-friendly BASIC-based programming environment out of the gate, and Bill Ga
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by nemo 3y ago
Looking into it further, that's actually Apple's policy as well.
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by nemo 3y ago
This is not really an Apple thing, it's an industry trend (and a good one IMO). Apple's generally applying the same criteria Chrome is: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/net&
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by nemo 3y ago
> I just like to understand the perspective of people I disagree with. The war on drugs isn't an abstract topic, and the architects of who promoted and effected it did so out of openly racist and malicious motives which they were re
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by nemo 3y ago
J.B.S. Haldane joked that if some god or divine being had actually created all living organisms on Earth, then that creator must have an "inordinate fondness for beetles." They're incredibly diverse, this article has a nice t
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by nemo 3y ago
Again, please read the actual words of the actual policy makers of the criminalization of drugs instead of speculating and imagining what people might have thought.
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by nemo 3y ago
Oh, tiger moth - nice! I have been working on my Lepidoptera for a while always love seeing those and sphinx moths are so cool. I'm up to six species of sphinx moths, the tessa sphinx is my favorite: https://www.inaturalist

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