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> figs are pollinated by a species of wasp that literally dies inside of it

Are figs like other fruits in that a flower is pollinated and then the fruit grows out of it?

I bought a house 2 years ago and have a fig tree in the back yard. The first summer, the tree produced only about a dozen or two figs, but I never got any as they disappeared as soon as they started turning color (wildlife). This summer, the tree produced nearly 100 little figs but none of them ever matured/ripened and none were taken by wildlife. I didn't notice that many bees/wasps in the area of that tree (though all the other fruiting plants in my yard did extremely well - and I got to eat almost 1/3 of it!).

I'm just wondering if the tree produces the fig regardless of pollination but that pollination is required for ripening. Or if pollination is required to produce the fig at all (like how most fruiting plants work).
It's not fringe yet, but it is extremely well on the way to being a minority opinion. It already is when you consider the national scope.

The states where a majority are still opposed are all states nobody wants to live in for a variety of reasons including poor educational standards and lack of economic development.

There might be some relations between these facts. Maybe not. But it is interesting, isn't it? That those are the places where these opinions stick around the longest?
There are infinite parallel universes. We co-exist with many of them, able to affect them only in the grossest, most indirect ways. Often we can only observe them with special tools and by inference and detection of signals subject to much other noise.

I can rant about the interconnection of our microbiomes to the larger macro-biome (made up of the microbiomes of everything else around you) and how that makes things like living in the woods with hounds a better lifestyle than city life... but thats close to preaching :)
How was it? Are you ok?
Do people have to be constantly productive all day every day? Maybe someone just has some old games they want to play, and they want a more modern shell to do it with.

But if productivity is the only thing you recognize, I recall reading that George R.R. Martin uses an incredibly old PC to write on. I think it was DOS or maybe Windows 3.1.
If you ever had to volunteer at a school, and have to go through all the trainings, you can see how this nonsense can happen. The message is when you see something even remotely suspicious, report it. And all reports have to be followed up on. Because God forbid something bad happens to a kid, you will be blamed for not reporting or following up on something.
I mean the systemic effects are going to be rough.

But however copyright law works, if little Timmy draws a Pokemon it's pretty normal and nobody gets fined or goes to jail.

The systemic effects from this are going to be because you can get good enough "original" output without needing an actual artist, not because the good enough output will inherently violate copyright.
I was delighted when I discovered that you can also pipe stdin into Wireshark (GUI). I've not seen a lot of GUI applications that support this flow.

e.g.

> wireshark -k -i <(ssh -l root remote-host "dumpcap -P -w - -f 'not tcp port 22'")

https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Pipes.md#remote-capt...
Actually, seems like one of the reasons for Brexit was ability to do even more surveillance and other totalitarian practices without EU interfering. Not surprising given the fact that UK is one of the Five Eyes.
Also, sorry to reply to my own comment, but "drug dealers are going to give your kids drugs" is a trope dating back to the "Just Say No" days of the 1980s. It was bullshit then, and it's bullshit now. Kids have no money, and they have no idea that drugs are supposed to be kept discreet, so they're likely to tell the first authority figure they see.
Apple can nickel and dime developers because a good app on their ecosystem is profitable.

Nobody is making enough profit via the Twitter API to make it worth staying on. Twitter is a distant #3 social network that itself has never really made money.
I share that curiosity! Temporal looks great and is proven. Running it looks simple enough. I mean getting their self-hosted version deployed (to production). I was reading through their docs and that does _not_ look simple (to me). Plus the guide is open about being a work in progress (https://docs.temporal.io/cluster-deployment-guide#elasticsea...). I am going to try it at some point though.
> to little purpose besides control and profit.

It only takes a few times getting mugged, being subject to a car smash and grab, or being porch pirated to go from "we lock too many people up!" to "why aren't we locking these crazy people up?".

We are obviously messing up somewhere else before we throw people in jail.
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You can pay CO state taxes with crypto too. The governor of CO, Jared Polis, gave a talk at ETH Denver last year. It's way too late to ban.
I will immedietly vote for any politician willing to exit the EU

Willing to exit EU might however be completely orthogonal to preferences regarding surveillance laws. I mean, such politician might just as well propose similar laws like Chat Control after the country leaves the EU. And looking at some of the specimens around here that would not even be unlikely.
Is it? This site feels very web 1.0.

This could be just me but in my mind web 2.0 is solving the problem of form submission/link clicking redirecting users away from the current page.

Thus web 1.0 are static sites where the only way to get new content is to manually refresh.
Of course. For any opinion a person can possibly hold, there is someone somewhere who would consider it dangerous. But I'm excluding such outliers.
EU commissioners propose laws, they don't vote for them. The EU parliament will probably reject this.

As a brit, let me tell you that leaving the EU will not solve this problem. Your local politicians will just do that anyway.
Can't wait until Linux devs get around to accessibility. I'd leave Windows in a heartbeat. It's only getting worse, accessibility-wise.
Seinfeld was about how comedians get their material, not nothing. Hence the opening, ending, and interspersed shots of Jerry doing standup related to the events in the show. Though, they somewhat dropped that in later seasons.
They are different even today in first world countries. Where I live, becoming a police officer is a three year education (equivalent to a bachelor's degree) and it's not easy to get accepted to the programme. Training on what the law actually says, de-escalation, handling mentally ill people etc. is an important part of this.

As a consequence, most cops are good human beings who care about their community.
The wording suggests to me that there can be ee/ subdirectories scattered all through the directory tree, and within those the different licenses apply.
I grew up in Connecticut. Killingly is not an unsafe area by any stretch of the imagination. It’s quaint by all my measures.

This is absurd. I’d have been very quick to retort to the officers, upon being informed that there were sex offenders all throughout the neighborhood, that it was their job to fix that and they failed.
My only issue is that GPT training set is locked like 1-2 years ago. I often find myself looking for recent stuff in Google.
What kind of company produces things but not by collecting components and reshaping them?
I think the shared experience of watching this bizarre thing together is what really makes it great. Seeing people comment on the absurd actions in the chat makes it so much more enjoyable to witness.

It's great, and I love the glitchy animations!
The whole idea of caring about "canon" is fundamentally bollocks anyway when it comes to stories
This was over a year ago. Wyze and HA were having spats over API access. Unifi did not have a plug-in and I ended up having to install Homebridge.
I agree that qualified immunity is a harmful and bogus precedent that needs to be eliminated. But my point is that if they are acting outside written department policy, then they're no longer acting as an agent of the state in the first place. Like when a cop beats their spouse, they can't claim qualified immunity as if it were part of their policing duties. The same standard should apply during daylight hours when they depart from the mandate of their employment.
This recently happened to a large number of women that are Twitch streamers and they are all very upset. You are free to seek out and read their explanations as to why, I'll include a few tweets.

https://twitter.com/qtcinderella/status/1620264657926885380?...

https://twitter.com/mayahiga/status/1620586546083803136?t=c7...
I wonder if the tide will ever turn? That it would become a competitive advantage to build enterprises with values other than maximizing the returns to their shareholders.
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OSS-Fuzz is an amazing program. The awards are really generous (in my experience), but more importantly, continuous fuzzing enabled me to make major changes to large codebases written in C without having to worry about introducing new security issues. If you maintain an open-source project, especially one written in an unsafe language, you should definitely check it out.
With hot mess I mean things like undefined vs null, various surprising comparisons, truthiness, lack of a primitive integer type...
As others pointed out, that just can’t possibly be correct given the median pre-tax number and actual US tax rates. If you made the median individual income of $45k and lived in a high tax state like California, your net would be ~$37k.
FreeDOS might be as better choice, since it has modern conveniences like USB support and (I think) TCP/IP drivers.
"Beamforming" (and the author is right to be skeptical of that term) is some really cool magic. My understanding of the history is that a lot of the technology comes from military radars. Development there was driven by power and compactness, and the relatively novel need (at the time) of building a radar that could both track targets and scan for new targets at the same time. Before that, you'd have a scan radar (antenna turning round and round), and a tracking radar (antenna pointed at the target). With beam forming tricks you can scan without moving the antenna, and then quickly jump back to get some additional tracking data. These days track-while-scan is easier because we can use computer models to do things like track interpolation, but back when this stuff was being developed that was much, much harder.

Twenty years ago when I was doing my PhD work, we were working primarily on passive radars (technically something called Passive Coherent Location (PCL)). With passive radars you have some transmitter of opportunity (a TV tower, or cell tower, or somebody else's radar), and want to observe the energy from that transmitter bounce off other things. One thing that's hard about that is that the transmitter is usually closer than the target, and the target doesn't reflect all its energy, so the returns from the target are many order of magnitude weaker than the direct return from the transmitter. So you need to design your antenna or antenna array very carefully to get only a small amount of the transmitter power (don't want to saturate your analog side), while getting as much of the target power as possible. You can do that with static antennas with "manual beamforming", but dynamic approaches allow you to correct for things like multi-path and changing atmospheric conditions.

Our particular work was in very low cost versions of this, with the end goal of spreading transmitters all around ("netted radar"). Good for cost, good for sensitivity, good for counter-stealth, but meant a very limited budget for any station. With the technology available now for building antenna arrays, we could have done so much better than we did back then. Amazing how the technology has changed in just a couple decades.

This seems to have been driven by consumer products. Wifi, cell phones, bluetooth, etc. The miniaturization, cost reduction, power reduction, etc. The technology came originally from big military radars, but what's driven the revolution seems to be the volumes and demands of consumer products. That's definitely going back into military and high-end civil technology, which is going to drive even more interesting requirements. A fun case study in technology.

(I have no non-public information on military radar technology, US or otherwise.)
Awesome read, the tactics you've adopted are incredible!
Poor Eddie :)
I think it's inevitable that sub-societies will form that accept technology only in ways that preserve the humanity of our interactions. We use the term "disruptive" all the time around here, but what's being disrupted is increasingly close to the heart of human life: the ability to engage with the ideas, emotions, and opinions of another human being, and to know them as a person. If a computer can convincingly impersonate anybody, putting any words you choose in their mouth, and at the same time can generate convincing words on any given subject, it can flood electronic communication with noise that's impossible to remove. It can destroy the trust we have in any interactions not had in person, and we've allowed our society to develop in such a way that interacting only in person is no longer practical.

I know that it's expected that a man of a certain age will begin to say these things, but I think it's true now in a way that it was not true about "those young whippersnappers with their motorcars": we've taken a wrong turn, and I don't like where we're headed.
I personally choose to believe that "free will" is actually just a desire to do what you want, and exercise change for that purpose. Maybe that was predetermined by the simulation (as all things are), but people have varying degrees of willingness to reach for their desires, especially if they would have to proactively create change in their lives in order to do so.

Even if everything you do was predetermined by the simulation... the simulation is simulating you, so even inside it, you will do what you would have done otherwise.

-Emily
QOI caused a huge burst in interest for image formats. Audio is a little harder to work with and understanding so I can imagine less impact for QOA (still good though). What I'm really looking forward to is QOV (video).
Word wiggler. Pipe chatGPT from one computer to another via keyboard emulation and fool the corporate spy software with long email drafts that take you hours.
It's not an either or bud, it's both. IF you are allowing laws in place that these police officers are able to use as justification then your government is just as at fault as the officers. It's pure idiocy not to blame both. Where do you think the officers get their power from? It's like you're failing to reach the logical conclusion and blunting your own thought process because you hate cops.

Cops AND the government giving them the power to do stuff like this are both to blame.
Oh right. A bunch of "new features" with exactly zero explanation as to what they are and "priority access" when the API responds nearly instantaneously. But keep drinking that kool aid to justify your $20 purchase.
It has the potential to be contaminated with salmonella, and they felt mitigating that risk added enough value to counterbalance the loss of the bloom.
It's revolutionary to Dart in the sense that you can use strict typing when communicating with the database. This is very helpful as you get much more help with autocomplete and other language tooling.

Granted there are still lots of gaps to fill, but we are surely getting there. The biggest new feature we are working on is database migrations.
It's hard to believe that it doesn't have something to do with "narcissism".
My parents are from an eastern block country. This never happened.
Quite OK article :)

A few years ago, a guy made his own video compression format, but I can't find it anymore, is it still available online?
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> It's even worse when you think about just how many Dunkin' Donuts there are. It's likely the kids didn't even have to cross a major intersection.

Maybe in Boston. They're not THAT common in CT and other states.
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Being a cop in the US has become vastly less dangerous which changed the dynamics around who becomes cops.
Roughly translates to: I prefer liberty with danger to peace with servitude/slavery.
The first paragraph of that Wikipedia page: "Personal income is an individual's total earnings from wages, investment interest, and other sources. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a median weekly personal income of $1,037 for full-time workers in Q1 2022. For the year 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the median annual earnings for all workers (aged 15 and over) was $41,535; and more specifically estimates that median annual earnings for those who worked full-time, year round, was $56,287."

That graph seems to be just incorrect. All three of the links it's supposedly sourced from don't have it on their pages. There is a remark of "own work," so I think a Wikipedian assembled it themself. Given that it frankly contradicts the article it's in, I would assume that it's in error.
> Honestly, taking some of the power out of mod’s hands might improve Reddit.

Yeah, I think turning reddit into an absolute free-for-all of astroturfing, spam, and brigading would really improve discourse.
The given title here is much more informative than the article title of "WA outback proves no match for Aussie nuclear know-how".

> Besides, what's kph?

Kilometres per hour.
There is almost no evidence type safety helps at all. Anecdotally, I don't find I have bugs in Python that could be caught by typesystems easily.
Unfortunately, city design alters people's perceptions of where it is acceptable to walk. I moved from walkable Vancouver to car-centric Mississippi, and I already look at people with suspicion when they are walking on the road in the middle of nowhere. I wonder where their car is and why they are walking there.

> This was in Killingly, Connecticut, a suburban town in the northeast part of the state. The Rivers' lived near an elementary school, library, state police barracks, sidewalks, crosswalks, many Victorian-style homes, and the aforementioned donut shop. The kids gathered $7, and off they went.

Street View shows that the town looks quite walkable especially for suburban America. It just boggles my mind that people would consider calling the police on a 7 and 9 year old for walking on those streets.
> "objectively simpler" is just false. You might prefer it, but that doesn't mean it is simpler.

I meant in terms of the complexity of the code needed to parse them. In that respect they are clearly objectively simpler. The entire field of parser theory exists entirely because of non-sexpr syntaxes. Parsing sexprs is an elementary exercise.
Potential technology is an infinite set. A gigabyte contains 2^800,000,000 possibilities; a number billions of digits long. Many are junk or functionally duplicates — but many are not, and even out of that we choose a small subset that we think is worth pursuing.

Saying “everyone with means to develop would need to choose not to” is like saying “every writer would need to choose not to write this book”. It’s not inevitable.
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Cases like this are all too common across the country.
I can't take amphetamines, because I suffered three psychotic episodes in the past.
The unfortunate part is that the alternative is for only government entities to have this technology. If open source can make a credible attempt at creating live deep fake technology, the government already has a team working on it.
That is really cool! What a fun way to visualize beamforming!
Bad laws notwithstanding, I think GP getting downvoted for giving police the benefit of the doubt. In today's America, I think it's fair to be a skeptic first when it comes to the cops.
Actually, the most relevant statistic (which is, of course, much more difficult to calculate) is how much tax each pay relative to their disposable income—ie, the amount left over after necessities such as food, shelter, and clothing have been paid for.

With any vaguely reasonable calculation of this, it becomes painfully clear that the poor pay far, far too much (because they have, effectively, no disposable income) and the rich pay far, far too little (because almost all of their income is disposable).
> Most people would say that’s going to extremes.

Maybe, but most people I interact with wouldn't. Except, perhaps, the smartphone part, but most people are far more dependent on their smartphones than I am. I don't view my efforts as going to extremes because they aren't imposing a huge burden or loss on me.

To me, the "why do you want privacy" question is a very odd one. In my worldview, my desire for it is literally no different than my desire to have curtains on my windows. I find it somewhat amazing that this is something others struggle to understand.
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There's almost no chance your core issues are the same as they were 23 years ago.

I'm willing to bet you're dramatically richer, and you're certainly 23 years older and closer to death. Your views on real estate, music and culture, investment and taxation, and issues relevant to schools and the raising of children would almost certainly be unrecognizable to you in 2000.

Your brain now is trying to link them together, to argue that in fact your worldview has been consistent the entire time. That's something your brain wants to do to rationalize this.

But the reality is that the consistent worldview you've held this entire time is that you believe that people like you should get what they want.

It's normal, nothing to feel bad about, we all do it. But it's helpful to recognize what's actually happening.

As someone more articulate than me once said, we all saw things the same we just saw them from a different point of view.
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But this comes after pulling the plug on the third-party apps without a word of warning or even acknowledging that they had done it. So those devs turned around and said, well, guess we'll go work on Mastodon apps now. Presumably there was a noticeable drop in engagement as those users cut back their time on twitter. So now twitter is like you can come back if you pay, but we can't tell you what that will cost.