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by peatmoss 1y ago
Potentially a major boon if you want to distribute nutrient bath across a large flat cell culture plate! Also, trees sway in the wind.
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by peatmoss 1y ago
As someone else mentioned, pine trees aren't a great material. But apart from that, giant monoculture forests are not excellent. Old growth forests host a degree of biodiversity and ecological function that tree farms generally don&#x2
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by peatmoss 1y ago
I keep hoping to see advancements in lab grown wood beyond what was reported a few years ago. My dream is enormous sheets of plywood with many layers of fibers all with ideal orientations, grown at sea on barges, taking up growing nutrients
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by peatmoss 1y ago
MDF includes some binders, but is essentially this. Doubt the glue-free version would stick together well, but maybe. The sawdust planks wouldn't have the properties of the long-grain wood fiber planks though. The fibers that make up n
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by peatmoss 1y ago
I've pondered this myself without digging into the specifics. The phrase "sufficiently smart compiler" sticks in my head. Shower thoughts include whether there are languages that have features, other than through their popul
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by peatmoss 2y ago
I upgraded to an iPhone 16 in part because I was interested in the AI augments to iOS. My assumption was that Apple was likely to do something tasteful, and probably not nuclear-level bad in terms of privacy. I've since disabled everyt
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by peatmoss 2y ago
I agree, but would add that many issues (left and right) here are more extreme. I think two things are a self-reinforcing cycle driving both ends of the political spectrum to extremes. First, hyper-partisanship has emerged where it was fo
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by peatmoss 2y ago
The state of web deployment in 2025 is the universe punishing me for calling java applets and other java web deployment tech "heavyweight" back in the day.
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by peatmoss 2y ago
The current odds (0.28% as gnabgid@ cites) are still uncomfortable. But also, most of the Earth's surface isn't a city, so maybe we should be even less worried. But on the other hand, I do wonder if a city-killer blast in the wron
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by peatmoss 2y ago
Ooh, thank you for the reminder to see where the state of emulation is. I played Breath of the Wild on both Switch and on PC under emulation, and the difference was night and day. The stuttering on the Switch distracted quite a bit. My PC p
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by peatmoss 2y ago
How do you imagine that literature searches are conducted in academic studies?
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by peatmoss 2y ago
Did you bother to click the google scholar link? Several dozen pages of results that fit the mold and you call it "a couple of papers"? I don't want to assume you are trolling, but seriously.
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by peatmoss 2y ago
No need to be sorry, I think you're letting your priors overwhelm your understanding of what I'm writing. What if I don't think that these methods are irredeemable or useless or epistemologically bankrupt, and STILL think tha
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by peatmoss 2y ago
Sorry, I missed your comment / didn't realize it was directed specifically at me. So, if you go back and read what I wrote: 1. I definitely did not say that economics does not strive for generalizability. Quite the contrary. I thi
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by peatmoss 2y ago
Without diving into my personal experiences with a specific department, I invite you to take a look at google scholar for peer reviewed publications grounded in theory approaches such as queer theory and critical theory in geographic studie
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by peatmoss 2y ago
Ah, I think I misread the intent of what you wrote—apologies!
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by peatmoss 2y ago
I'm an acolyte in the church of bounded rationality and the fallibility of institutions that practice science. I studied journalism as an undergraduate, and my beliefs here are like in journalism. Objectivity is impossible, like a Plat
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by peatmoss 2y ago
And yet I did not state this, and it seems you're rounding my position to an easier one to dismiss. I don't reject non-scientific scholarship. But I see the focus in some disciplines a little like twinkies and soda: a bit of them
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by peatmoss 2y ago
Geography, sociology, anthropology for starters. Take a read about postmodern epistemologies. See how many papers draw on "pure theory". I even saw this in my required coursework prior to dropping out of a PhD in urban planning.
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by peatmoss 2y ago
I studiously avoided making a normative statement that economics should take over this role. Any personal preferences I have here are separate from my beliefs about what I predict to happen. :-) I ~agree with you about the quality of ec
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by peatmoss 2y ago
I didn't dig beyond what was reported in this article, but my suspicion is that economic research will be excluded from these cuts. Assuming that to be true, that is where I'd expect to see a lot of social sciences research to be
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by peatmoss 2y ago
I think the point of comparison in the 80s and 90s were those analog systems. Expectations about lag were set by analog. We could have really snappy stuff today, but have gotten enamored with our latency inducing abstractions and haven&#x27
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by peatmoss 2y ago
My initial thought was that this was generated by an AI as satire.
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by peatmoss 2y ago
Damn, this is a gut punch. I used to love this place. Just hanging out with the old systems was a flood of nostalgia and good memories.
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by peatmoss 2y ago
Habitat destruction for wild animals? Lab meat would also be nice.
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by peatmoss 2y ago
I think the upside of industrially grown wood is better than the upside of industrially grown meat. The biological services of an old forest are more than the material they yield. Imagine cultured sheets of perfect n-ply plywood, quartersaw
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by peatmoss 2y ago
I've written similar comments in other forums and have gotten a similar response. To me, global warming is on average true, but doesn't encompass the full range of negative local impacts. Climate change feels euphemistic compared
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by peatmoss 2y ago
Or in this case (1994) Windows 3.1. I agree this story is a red herring. By and large 737s preceding the MAX variants had a rather amazing reputation, which is part of the reason 737s are so ubiquitous. The issues today are that the MAX pla
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by peatmoss 2y ago
Squeak / Pharo are alternate timeline technologies. Maybe the one where Betamax won and Al Gore read the intelligence briefing. Their lineage goes back to the Alto when people were imagining what interacting with computers even meant,
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by peatmoss 3y ago
The adaptation of The Three Body Problem that was made for Chinese audiences is the adaptation I was looking for. It's 30 parts. The acting is stilted. The camera work is strange. The special effects are cheesy. The pacing is slow. I l

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