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by yummypaint 2y ago
Considering how much money is routinely set on fire by the US tech industry, this is a bargain for the best web browser currently in existence. What alternative do you suggest? Google and Microsoft are certainly worse. Firefox is vastly sup
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by yummypaint 2y ago
I think the idea is that by posting about it online you form a small piece of an informal survey we all conduct continuously. There are more people in your position than people who fly on empty planes, so the reasoning still stands.
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Wonder if anyone is looking into splicing those spider silk genes into a fungus. Maybe the mycelium could gain enough tensile strength to hold pressure? Maybe exude the proteins and form strong tubes around itself? Fungal structures are alr
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by yummypaint 2y ago
It's also directly constitutionally mandated. Given how important free communication has always been understood to be, I would argue the intention behind that would extend to telecom/internet as a utility as well. Yet we keep gett
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Don't forget the DOE. The pipeline for training nuclear physicists to work at national labs industry and medicine is already being wrecked. Undergrad summer research funding is mostly gone this year where I am. Very bad for the country
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Ads in edge that Microsoft won't let you block. Ads in the start menu instead of things that could be useful. Ads in a goddamn word processor while kids are trying to do their homework. Total surveillance of everything displayed on the
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by yummypaint 2y ago
I order stuff from them all the time in small quantities to a university, and a normal person's credit card should be much more convenient for them than dealing with procurement beurocracy, net90, etc. The plastic scintillator is chemi
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Plastic scintillator from Eljen isn't very expensive, especially if you only need a few cubic inches. You can do very well with optically isolated pixels stacked together, followed by a common diffuser, followed by a drift gap, then 4
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Article about the related Bezmenov interview from the early 80s about long term KGB strategy against the west: https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/ “What it basically means is: to change the perception
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by yummypaint 2y ago
It's all predicated on having competition, which of course companies hate. Once a company becomes both a monopoly and "too big to fail" it isn't really a company anymore, but functionally a piece of government run by une
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Somehow they made something inferior to VR chat as it existed when zuck began this farce. Something gets ruined when too much money is just dumped on a vague idea too quickly. If they had 2% of the budget I assert it would have ultimately s
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by yummypaint 2y ago
If fox news fell under new direction now, is it even possible to deprogram people? Would be quite sad if the thing that saves US democracy is a propaganda outlet changing hands between oligarchs, but at this point I would take it.
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by yummypaint 2y ago
This is the problem with monopolistic for-profit publishers. They have little incentive to fulfill their structural role once they don't need to compete for subscriptions. Researchers are still the heart of peer review but our time and
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by yummypaint 2y ago
The economy is fine, but we are in a gilded age of income and wealth inequality. The 3 richest men in the world increased their wealth by roughly an order of magnitude in about a decade, meanwhile minimum wage hasn't moved in a quarter
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Why not tie it to IP law? When a compamy stops repairing/supporting a product, then applicable patents are moved to public domain and the software + firmware become open source. This would ensure that there is always a strong repair ma
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by yummypaint 2y ago
This only serves to further hamstring any hope of slowing the climate crisis. Instead of climate scientists and experts making sensible small policies in service of general goals laid out by congress (i.e. Clean air act etc), we will have t
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Yeah their built-in nuclear data, for instance, has never had sufficient citation info to use it for actual research, and it's unclear who would play with such information without having any possible interest in publishing. Mathematica
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by yummypaint 2y ago
I think part of the problem is the cyclic thermal stresses on the station will eventually cause it to break apart and become dangerous. Im sure something could be done about this like maybe wrapping it all in aluminized mylar but it would t
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Temperature and fertilizer overuse are the biggest contributors. At the very least show up to vote for people who aren't climate deniers. We need cultural shifts away from things like recreational air travel and eating meat as the main
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by yummypaint 2y ago
"Move fast and break things" isn't an appropriate philosophy for critical public infrastructure
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by yummypaint 2y ago
The way this works in civil engineering is that the engineer refuses to sign off on an unsafe design. If costs have to increase to address the issue, then they do. If management doesn't budge, then they bleed money while twiddling thei
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Hurting the shareholder is the only option to actually fix anything. Until the C-suite and board are forced to face the music caused by rich people being parted from their money, they'll just continue patting themselves on the back and
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Fortunately keeping people happy isn't the purpose of wikipedia, and it's good that the editors haven't lost sight of that.
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Yeah i don't get the unnecessary vagueness. They are the smallest atoms. It's like they are afraid of accidentally educating the reader.
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Yes, even the "best" modern web search tools still don't come close to human curated subject headings. Library science survived the blockchain fads, hopefully it will remain resilient to the AI hucksters who already think goo
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Things work the same with any resource, not just actual money - it could be team size, or processor cycles and memory bytes. If you free up 200 ms of CPU cycles and 500 megs of RAM, someone else can deploy their functionality using these n
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but most companies don't actually have any internal documentation worth retrieving. Fix. Your. Shit.
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by yummypaint 2y ago
Did we read the same Aquinas? My experience with him was that all he does is repeat his unjustified starting assumptions ad nauseum, then declares he has proven that god exists or whatever nonsense he was claiming.
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by yummypaint 2y ago
We didn't evolve reading and writing. Literacy is just a recently developed hack. Memorization was the only way for the vast majority of human history.
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by yummypaint 2y ago
I always thought it would be nice if whenever windows throws up a nag box, there were a third button labeled "no, and fuck you" that increments a counter in the lobby of MS headquarters or something.

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