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by xipho 2y ago
I'm not putting steaming poo on my badge, it's the concept of customization that's easily shared- "For the social let's all use our lab's logo, and tonight we can use our student org's logo, and tomorrow f
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by xipho 2y ago
It's not just paper, perhaps at least run the numbers? Though I completely agree it's likely more environmentally costly. My initial thought process evolved from coming back from yet another conference, and tossing yet another lan
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by xipho 2y ago
> question of whether it actually saves anything is clearly relevant Agreed. Just like re-usable plastic bags are now possibly worse than 1-time use unless they themselves are used many times. > A receipt that can be rotated is someho
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by xipho 2y ago
This! Now make them required at conferences (easily done because professional societies), someone sell the service. We have to pay $600 just to go to present our papers, make it cost less by $50 if you come with your own. I for one welcom
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by xipho 2y ago
Cool. Badges, commemorative pins, small tradable items are mainstays at cons, conferences etc., their market doesn't need to be created, it's their to be fed. So make this type of thing work across time and you have created value
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by xipho 2y ago
I completely agree. Thinking more along the lines of- whether or not something is better may not drive a market, people loved Tamagotchi but vanilla stuffed animals last generations... but Tamagotchi still work for many. Something that has
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by xipho 2y ago
Nice. I've thought of various similar applications (probably because I saw such somewhere). For example conferences require lanyards with passes attached. Most contract with some company to handle all their creation, then also require
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by xipho 2y ago
I mean what can possibly go wrong when a company that deprecates (and that's generous adjective) almost anything older than a couple years provides infrastucture for something that should last many decades? Edit - karma losing posts
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by xipho 2y ago
Replace "Mushroom" with insects, fish, bacteria, and viruses, and many other branches of the network-of-life. Inventorying our Earth is far from done.
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by xipho 2y ago
Completely agree. Was looking for citations too and this was the first I hit, wish they pointed forward.
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by xipho 2y ago
According to https://www.lakesidepottery.com/Pages/Pottery-tips/ceramic-r... there are no food safe epoxies, including Kintsugi...
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by xipho 2y ago
Just a thought experiment. I was implying that chess is a game, not a board. That game can be encoded/coded without any need for a Z variable, can't it? My Rook doesn't go up and down an ladder, it doesn't need a 3D arr
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by xipho 2y ago
If chess were 4d then it wouldn't be playable on (2D) computer screens would it?
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by xipho 2y ago
Very cool. I've long wanted to make an 8-bit throwback style "species page", think an EOL or wiki-page, or our own TaxonPages effort (example at https://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/otus/850075/overvie
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by xipho 3y ago
You can watch this happen on the weekends, typically, sometimes, for some very long sessions, sometimes. https://www.twitch.tv/georgehotz
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by xipho 3y ago
Maybe we could print out knowledge on dead trees and store them somewhere, perhaps make it publically available? (stolen joke, not mine).
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by xipho 3y ago
Natural history collections may still be interested in such. They merge the concept of needing small footprint size labels (e.g. 4 point Times) that go under the physical specimen. The label must not take a lot of space, so for 2mm long in
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by xipho 3y ago
Seeing a large palm caterpillar seemingly OK at one moment, turning your head, and looking back to see it completely deflated as if a baloon, black goo oozing out, with upwards of 40 larvae anchored to it and spinning their heads around as
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by xipho 3y ago
More species on HN! More shameless plugs. The nomenclature of these animals is curated in our open-source TaxonWorks. The result of that work is shared on a custom site via exports and post-processing https://www.wcolite.com&#x2F
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by xipho 3y ago
https://speciesfilegroup.org and https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup , among others.
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by xipho 3y ago
I would first engage, if you haven't, the spider community at iNaturalist. It is likely that others are thinking along the same lines as you. We (Species File Group) are trying to build out open-source tools (e.g. TaxonPages, 'di
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by xipho 3y ago
At present it's just the data being dumped from TaxonWorks and re-integrated into the existing front-end (separation of concerns nicely done). In the future we hope efforts that wrap TaxonWorks APIs and tooling, "companions"
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by xipho 3y ago
Disclaimer- shameless plug involved. Humans are one species, a complicated on for sure, Ants are well over 15k species. Of course not all are found together, but many species are. As the article notes the diversity of their social structur
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by xipho 3y ago
> Will "Our climate and ecosystems" have human representatives who relay these decisions and enforce them? You mean things like earthquake detectors, disease monitoring, our weather services, climate predictions, air-quality t
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by xipho 3y ago
Our climate and ecosystems. See any introductory 101 ecology class where you learn all about the trivial ways populations can grow, fluctuate and crash. Disease, access to "energy", reproductive strategy and potential, population
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by xipho 3y ago
But can OP please share their settings.yml? Vim plus plugins I've been using for over a decade are still faster for me than what I've been able to get setup in VS Code, it has been frustrating. Some of the promising plugins have
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by xipho 3y ago
What teachers are saying is that socio-economics prevent any type of education from happening in many cases, i.e. there are many, many children who are going to struggle mightily unless the totality of their life systemically improves. Cou
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by xipho 3y ago
Biodiversity value as well. Our natural history collections reference specimens that can be hundreds of years old, the labels can be cryptic (see Notes for Nature efforts) and reference places no longer here. Early geological survey work
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by xipho 3y ago
No, and the author notes exactly this, or conveys the sentiment, but I suppose that's TLDR.
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by xipho 3y ago
That's not at all what they did. They explicitly made endpoints to doll out the prizes, to ensentivize collaboration. That tactical aspect of the the whole project and how they set it up is worth highlighting on its own.

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