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by whyenot 1y ago
Drugstore beetles are also a huge problem for natural history museums because they will eat all kinds of biological materials like dried plants. I am curator of a medium sized herbarium and we have been fighting beetles since 1945. PDB (par
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by whyenot 1y ago
> My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs You mean like this? [2025-07-17 18:05] Pallet #3027 stacked: Coast‐live oak, 16" splits, 0.22 cord. [2025-07-17 18:18] Moisture check → 14 % (prime burning condition). [202
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by whyenot 1y ago
I guess Zuck got the shaft?
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by whyenot 1y ago
Wow, $200/month for the privilege of being monetized and tracked even more closely than Chrome does. Sounds like a real winner.
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by whyenot 1y ago
I don't think it's unreasonable to demand that if you are going to live on your property in your RV, that you also have a sewer/septic hookup for disposal of your grey water and sewage. That stuff should not be going down a s
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by whyenot 1y ago
Ferdinand Prosche. Oh you mean the association with the Nazis, like Henry Ford?
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by whyenot 1y ago
Your are asserting a lot of facts here. Please provide some references so that those of us who are interested can learn more.
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by whyenot 1y ago
Yes, I also appreciate the skip ahead feature that lets you fast forward over the sponsorship ads that a lot of creators have started insetting into their videos.
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by whyenot 1y ago
Why are you posting this on some brand new dummy account? If you feel so strongly about this, post your opinion on your regular account.
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by whyenot 1y ago
I wish Kevin Drum were still here. I often didn't agree with his politics, but his blog posts were always insightful, and I wonder what he would say about our current situation.
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by whyenot 1y ago
Is Google your default search engine? If so, you should send them an invoice. :)
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by whyenot 1y ago
Their reckoning day is coming when Google stops paying them $500m+ a year to be the default search engine. That payment alone account for 80% of Mozilla's budget, and has made them fat, wasteful, and directionless. It's really ups
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by whyenot 1y ago
What is going on with the window reflections (for superwood-facade)? It doesn't look right.
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by whyenot 1y ago
The irony is that grading blue books is something that might be a great place to use AI. Grading essays takes a lot of time and is inherently subjective. Anyone who has done this type of grading knows that there is "drift" when
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by whyenot 1y ago
Whataboutism like this is a rhetorical tactic to deflect uncomfortable or difficult conversations. I'm not sure I agree with OP about software engineers and business executives being the "worst thing for the planet," but it d
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by whyenot 1y ago
Lyme disease does exist on the west coast, including in the Bay Area. A friend in Los Altos got Lyme disease from a tick in her yard. This is the worst time of year for ticks in the Bay Area. I've picked off over 100 ticks while doing
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by whyenot 1y ago
The way I see it, this is more of an indictment of Reddit and their slow response to enforce their existing rules on doxing and witch-hunting. The influencer did nothing wrong. She is just sharing her cancer journey. The fact that she does
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'I Have Cancer,' the TikTok Star Said. Then Came the Torrent of Hate(nytimes.com)
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by whyenot 1y ago
> Higher concentrations of CO2 enables a higher tree line. While this may make some intuitive sense, [CO2] actually has very little bearing on tree line. The major factors are temperature and length of the growing season. Trees need liqu
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by whyenot 1y ago
That's kind of surprising. Jeffrey pines are most common on the eastern side of the Sierra crest where they will grow down to about 6,000 feet. I wouldn't have thought of them as growing well at over 12,000 feet, but I guess they
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by whyenot 1y ago
It took me 58 minutes to do my not that simple taxes (both state and federal) using Turbo Tax. The cost was about $200. Based on your time estimate, it saved me 1-2 work days of time. That seems like a good bargain to me. What I don't
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by whyenot 1y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but there is literally a Share button in Canvas right below each response with the option to export to Docs. Within Docs, you can also click on the Gemini "star" at the upper right to get a prompt
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by whyenot 1y ago
Another advantage that Google has is the deep integration of Gemini into Google Office products and Gmail. I was part of a pilot group and got to use a pre-release version and it's really powerful and not something that will be easy fo
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by whyenot 2y ago
I wish people would focus more on increasing dog lifespans instead of stuff like this. How about a Bernese Mountain Dog that lives 15+ years instead of 7 years.
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by whyenot 2y ago
Please provide a link to back this up. The Eater.com article you linked to elsewhere is from 2016 and refers to a specific enforcement action where a company plead guilty to food adulteration for adding excessive cellulose to parmesan chees
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by whyenot 2y ago
Cellulose is not "wood pulp" or "sawdust." Only about 50% of sawdust is cellulose. The rest is hemicellulose, lignin, resins, and oils. Any plant material that you eat contains cellulose. It's just about the most be
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by whyenot 2y ago
I know you put it in quotes, but only about 50% of sawdust is cellulose. The remainder is hemicellulose, lignin, resins, and oils. Some shredded cheese use pure cellulose as an anti-caking agent, not sawdust.
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by whyenot 2y ago
My experience using Waymos in SF is that they are a little less expensive than an Uber. The other advantage is that you aren't stuck with a driver who hits on you or wants to share his opinions on the best way to slaughter goats.
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I think ChatGPT still has a small lead, but Gemini is pretty darn good. One of the things I really like about the version I am using is the integration with Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc.
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by whyenot 2y ago
Correlation vs. causation is addressed in the article: Note that these studies aren’t suggesting that heavy ChatGPT usage directly causes loneliness. Rather, it suggests that lonely people are more likely to seek emotional bonds with bots

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