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I’m glad planting trees is happening. And yet, I think the execution will not be that great.

In my neighborhood park, there were a bunch of new trees planted this year. And yet, it looked like someone just sprinkled trees without a care about the specific species, sun, and water.

There were places that were great ideas for planting — west sides of pathways to help block the blazing afternoon Phoenix sun.

And yet, there places they planted too close to existing trees, where they won’t even get sun (plants compete for sunlight, not root space).

They didn’t bother to dig basins or to mulch (both harvests water, helps retain moisture, and feed the trees).

The species are not appropriate for the lower Sonoron, but it is what people expect for “trees” in the cultural idea of “parks”. There were no concept of designing for canopy layers (at least, overstory vs understory), much less adding shrubs or flowers to help round out the ecosystem. (“Diversity” is not really about different species of trees, but rather, the ecological function of each plant at the different canopy layers, working together to form a stronger, more resilient ecosystem).

Instead, they got their planting numbers up and everyone can pat themselves on the back for Doing Something.
I suspect gr main change caused by humans >100 k years ago will be wiping out various species and starting fires in seasons and places where fires wouldn't normally start (eg. In places without dry lightning or volcanoes - the only two other ways fires naturally start)
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I wrote an article about using Arch Linux with the (new, probably as valid for older ones) Framework Laptop 13. Should prove useful to any Linux-running peeps in any case!
There definitely were warm days, but I think overall it was a cold summer, coldest I personally experienced. I've been in Boston since 2018. E.g. night were quite windy and cold, also it rained quite a bit. It was a chilly, windy, wet summer, which is something I enjoyed. It was extremely easy to cool my house down, only worked the AC at the worst of the heat at Eco mode.
I read a book, How to Clone a Mammoth, by ancient DNA researcher Beth Shapiro.

If what she wrote holds true deep in these glaciers (which take a long time to form so they presumably weren't always buried so deep), then the answer to what the risk may be is "very remote". DNA and RNA disintegrates into very small tatters pretty easily, turns out, frustrating the reconstruction of ancient genomes. Bacteria are definitely dead on multiple counts and viruses will be shredded.
Lately I've been using Google Recorder, and then when I have text I _actually_ want transcribed I take the audio and put it through Whisper.

From there it would probably be helpful to send it through GPT, but I haven't gotten that far. I think GPT is more likely able to fix formatting than text at that point. But overcorrection here is an issue, the formatting isn't obvious, and I haven't explored the prompting in depth.

For actual correction I think it might be superior to get GPT to highlight issues and provide alternatives (using some made-up markup language), but not actually rewrite.

To get even _more_ fancy, I can imagine giving GPT the low-quality Google transcription, having it identify terms and subject, and then using that as a prompt to Whisper.
By the way, this is a terribly asked question. You embed a wide range of assumptions and made some noob mistakes as well.

You actually have a collection of different questions:
1) Where can I have a reasonable fact-based argument about climate change?
2) I've noticed I got banned, possibly due to ideology, can I avoid doing that?
3) Are opinions on climate change entirely associated with the ideological bent of people running the servers

Here's what you got wrong:
1) Climage change isn't a far left opinion. It's actually fairly centrist, for example I am a democrat but not very progressive, much closer to Republicans than most democrats. So I'm as right of the far left folks as you can get. My ilk don't question climate change, because a wide range of intelligent people have put together a good collection of resources to make a convincing argument. Even republicans are gradually coming around to the idea that climate change is real, it's human caused, and we need to start making some hard policy decisions to deal with it.

2) you said you're a programmer with a stock market hobby, so you're analyzing things. So what? Analysis is fine, but you're analyzing things far outside your normal expertise zone, and these are complicated problems with huge amounts of prior knowledge, being communicated mainly to experts in the field.

3) there are lots of people making weak, psuedoscientific arguments about climate change that are just believeable enough that quantitative people fall for them. THey sound right, they seem to add enough question to the issue, but they don't really. It's just far easier to make weak pseudoscientific arguments than it is to make strong scientific ones.
Yeah I would say FreeBSD is about on the level of Arch as far as where it starts you off after the installation. But it makes configuring either one a great learning exercise.
When someone sees the headline, the natural impulse is, "I wonder why they called it Blade Runner; if I click the link, it will tell me." But ten long paragraphs into the piece, there's no sign of an answer.
> Sorry but you've completely lost the plot here. We're talking about using Discord vs using IRC as a means of capturing company documentation, and in this task Discord is superior in every meaningful way.

No, I just double checked all the way back to the start of this thread, that's not right.

People made very general complaints, and you said bots solve all their problems. You also said that Discord matches or beats IRC in all situations.

I agree that discord bots will solve that particular problem.
To be fair its a correspondence. Not usually peer-viewed as they are supposed to contain no new research, and be a point-of-view discussion on issues that are of general interest to the reads of said journal.
I suspect the principle arises from elimination; the other prospects are too daunting to consider. "The universe is chaotic and false and your memories are lies because you were just created whole as you are", for example, sort of ends the conversation. Doesn't leave you much room to try and eat something tasty. And evidently even a little belief in a coherent universe is self reinforcing.

So I suppose the principle comes from the pragmatism involved with being embodied agents with needs in a hostile environment.
Give it another watch. I did recently and was surprised how funny it still is. It's rather timeless, mostly innocent, absurdist humor that still makes me laugh.
Don't give DJI any ideas about starting a streaming service.
I think the worst I've been is 4 breaks in 15 minutes plus a nearly 2 minute sponsor segment. It's a plague.
In my experiences, cannabis is about as addictive as coffee/caffeine.

By that, I mean it's unpleasant to quit after continuous usage due to various withdrawal side-effects but only for a relatively short period of time (3 or 4 days max).
Your division of "experts" vs "most folks" is doing a lot of work here, and speaks to my point.

Most folks don't really know how to use say Android fastboot or recovery modes either, yet we wouldn't call a device with a wiped system partition "bricked".

Most "bricks" are things like a bootloader getting erased. Reflashing that through the standard process of JTAG or another debug protocol is a straightforward action (after all, the manufacturer has to get the first bootloader on there to begin with). The port pinout and config info just hasn't been publicly documented by the manufacturer, which is what pushes it into the domain of "experts".
I normally set the brightness of displays so that they are similar to the brightness of the environment (which is the general recommendation for ergonomics). Similar to how bright a piece of white paper would appear in that environment. I’m thus usually not “staring directly into a high-nit source”, regardless of the display technology.

The problem with e-ink is that their “white” is light gray instead of white, and their “black” is gray instead of black.
Yes you can use other rewards programs to get frequent flyer points but you could also get dollars instead if you wanted
Anything that has any sort of deposit will turn that thing into a monolithic cylinder in no time.
Probably why everyone involved liked it: It's evocative across multiple interpretations.

In addition to yours, "runner" works as a kind of diminution of the job, runners being minor functionaries who shuttle back and forth at the beck of their superiors ("No choice, pal.")

That what Deckard's running is a "blade"—death—only emphasizes either his powerlessness or his victims'. He's a pageboy being made to do murder. Or a janitor cleaning up mere "hazards".
This will also assuredly fuel some interesting ideas about the origin of the Piri Reis map. A 120k year old ice sheet could mean that humans once lived on Antarctica.

It does make one wonder if any ancient sea fearing humans happened to carve a world map into a durable material such as granite which could have survived until the modern historic era. Maybe such a map, or other mythological artifact fueld the Roman idea of Terra Australis Incognita

/End rampant unsupported armchair speculation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_Reis_map

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Australis
I learned a lot about programming by taking a book like this that was written specifically for the TRS-80 (which I did not own), and translating the programs to what I owned instead, which was a Sinclair ZX80. This primarily involved translating between different flavors of BASIC, but also deciding what I could arrange to leave out and still have an interesting game, due to the relatively constrained resources of my machine. Excellent experience.
Dung beetles do this too.
> How much of that is attributed to the value of his worthless brand?

I don't know, but I think most of it is probably real estate. Also, can his brand really be called "worthless" if its worth billions of dollars?
Are those materials linked anywhere? The opinion pieces linked in the letter are not persuasive, it would be better to see the actual source materials before deciding to sign such a strong accusation.
Nope. How could you get any easier than plain DNS? That would require a torrent client and bittorrent protocol. The beauty of this hack is that it exists on top of the ubiquitous DNS system.
Here is an article from 2021 that covers that topic:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42398-021-00184-8

From the conclusions: "... as shown by recent outbreaks of diseases caused by supposed to be extinct microbial pathogens immured in glacial ice for centuries, there is a serious risk for future epidemics (or even pandemics) to happen more often."
Have you actually owned one of these machines? They do not, in my experience (two different units over many years) toast more reliably than other toasters. The primitive analog "sensor" just isn't that accurate and a simple timer actually turns out to be pretty effective.
Analogies are useful, even when they're not serious. Yeah I didn't mine that strip mining one too much. This one's fun because it targets complexity and power, both of which have shot through the roof since the early days.
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Have you returned to using cannabis?
Or a befuddled asking of the same "Why?". Or an honestly curious asking.

Yes, there are plenty of rude replies, but sometimes it helps to assume what somebody really means is they failed to do a context switch. Exchanging more details can help turn a 'madness' into a method. Even if they were outright rude, doing this can lead to an answer that might not otherwise be given (even though that answer may be provided by someone else).
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Me too! Still think about it decades later.
Jesus mining bitcoin and minting fish nfts. No wonder they crucified him!
I just started getting into SDR. This is some interesting work in this space, unfortunately there isn't a lot of development to make exploring this space easier.
>Methinks thou doeth protest too much.

I love this argument. It was championed by Freud, I believe, and goes like this:

"When I say something and someone responds, there are two possibilities:

1) They agree with me, which shows I am correct!

or

2) They disagree with me, which means they are in denial, which proves I am correct!"
“Inevitable” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this comment
We can already do quantum field theory on a curved spacetime, so part of the backporting is already done. The problem is partly the quantisation of spacetime that you point out. Gravity can't be quantised like the other forces, it just doesn't work
They are dynamical systems, there is no equilibrium. See also: climate charts for the last few ice age cycles.[1] In the bigger picture we want to modify Earth's climate and definitely do not want to end the current interglacial period, to be fair we've already done that, but returning to a "natural" pre-human climate cycle on the 10,000 year scale is not desirable.

1. https://energyeducation.ca/wiki/images/8/8f/Ice_ages2.gif
Wolfi packages are served from https://packages.wolfi.dev/os which can be used with apk tools or apko.

The built Chainguard images are all on the cgr.dev registry.

Wolfi is completely OSS.

The policies regarding Chainguard Images have changed over time, so if there are docs that don't properly reflect this, please let me know and I'll get them updated.
So all this only works if the consumers can not switch back en mass to piracy. Its sort of implicit. Either free computing dies or these companies.
You can't cancel the dead.
As a counterpoint - we do both, but these two things have different goals.

Checks from the point of view of an end user are the gold standard if the service is functioning and functioning well enough. I very much agree with this. For example, with the case of postgres, something like sharp increases or decreases in query throughput or query durations is something to alert on, because this will negatively impact the applications depending on it.

However, we have incrementally implemented additional checks and dependencies between checks to speed up troubleshooting complex systems during an emergency. Instead of on-call having to, e.g., check postgres, check patroni, check consul, check consul server cluster, go back, check network, check certificates... zabbix can already compile this into a statement like "postgres is down, but that is caused by patroni not reaching the DCS, but that's caused by the consul client being down.. however, the service is running and the certificates are fine and the consul-server cluster is also fine".
Oh nice, I did most of this in school, and during my non-CS engineering degree. Thanks for sharing!

Always wanted to dip my toes into ML, but I've never been convinced of it's usefulness to the average solo developer, in terms of things you can build with this new knowledge. Likely I don't know enough about it to make that call though.
>The disadvantage of Word is that it has absolutely terrible output

This is a moot point if most people are reluctant to pick up latex and those who do are greeted by often unreadable, esoteric code that produces error messages such as "badness". This is the problem with latex and its derivatives, not their output.
> [citation needed]

Are you sure about that? You may be suffering from a cognitive distortion. I suggest you make an appointment with a qualified therapist.
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I have also wondered if internet-connected fridges use more electricity. Having a computer and touchscreen and wifi collecting data 24/7 and sending it to samsung can't be cheap power-wise.
exactly. everything is corruptible anymore.
I'm looking forward to it getting used more for audio production.
As well as "niner", but I didn't want to delve into all the subtleties.
My memory is fuzzy but I believe he was a collector of nude art. Nude children were found in some boxes of this art. But there were boxes and boxes, to the point he didn't know what he had and hadn't looked at most of it.
That most of the time doesn't work, because it somehow loses where was the beginning of your selection and you also don't have any visual feedback. This also doesn't work on non-editable text.

It is really better to just use mouse.
> There's a whole long standing organization of sysops dedicated to silencing and blocking the (few, I've never even heard of one myself) places on the WWW that the sort of stuff that you are talking about would come from.

I was thinking more along the lines of subreddit trolls, who will come in and spam shock/csam images trying to bait the mods, not actual CSAM distributors with known IPs or whatever.

The BBC will certainly attract that kind of internet denizen. They would have to have employees (or automated system) staring at their post replies constantly, watching for this kind of stuff.
They both have a concept of neighbors but the deck of cards is simpler, it’s a good illustration, no?
What? How so?

Explanations of reasoning and math often appeal to intuition as a shortcut and to connect with the student, but that is not the foundation.
Thanks. Looks like the complete answer would be something like, "There was a book about 'bladerunners', black-market couriers of medical equipment like scalpels, and they liked the name and adopted it for the unrelated film."
Yes there are some points where it is, e.g. elections, whistleblowing, witness protection etc., which goes to show that in general, in Western democratic societies, anonymity is not a requirement for free speech.
I would love that, too, but it's not possible today. Everyone would offer 25 year warranties, close up shop in 5 years, and reopen as a new subsidy or company.

The only way I see it working is to hold some large portion of the revenue in a trust and relinquish it to the company over the warrantied lifespan. The company would have to operate at a loss for a while to books those reserves, so there would have top be something like a zero interest government loan to cover the cost, which can't be escaped through bankruptcy.

Or maybe a contract like the shitty cell phone plans in the US. Buyer agrees to pay for the full price of the appliance over the warrantied lifetime in installments. If you want to sell it or trade it in early, you either have to finish off the payment or transfer the contract. The company would have to service the product (within reason), or the contract is voided, releasing the buyer from payment obligations. Again, this system can be easily gamed, too, in today's market, but I just can't imagine a scenario that doesn't require a major paradigm shift.

I do a decent amount of 3d printing and I cannot count the number of random letter Amazon brands for filament that have popped up over the last year. Most are simply rebranded waste from larger manufacturers. Once the product gets below 3.5 stars, the brand disappears and a suspiciously similar new brand pops up with the same spool design and 20 5-star reviews overnight.
how would a site like this even get paid? from appliance company commissions?
You can keep a copy of every track of music on spotify on a single 4U server, 20 drives or so. That's ~100TB, assuming 5MB per track.
Every movie or tv show episode is another couple of PB in 720p or so.

Extrapolate the last 20 years of HDD capacity growth (around 300x), and assume that will continue, every single piece of media will fit on a single drive.

I know those assumptions aren't a given, but it sure feels like we're heading towards a world where you can just have a local copy of everything always.
To be honest with ourselves, until we have standardized licensing/accreditation that is fully recognized, we aren't really engineers.

I would love to see a day when redundancy like this is just a standardized, accepted practice rather than a stand-up debate. Easier said than done of course.
That's substantially more than many countries charge Corporation Tax on profits.
I find myself thinking about that a lot - mainly "how many more hours would have needed to be spent at stage A to avoid the hours being spent now to recover from problems our software is currently causing". And often if I'm honest with myself it's hard to see that the extra investment of time earlier on would have necessarily resulted in a net productivity gain. It would however likely be a less stressful way to work (building fire-proof code rather than putting fires out all the time), and rather more satisfying. As an engineer of any sort I think it's perfectly reasonable and justifiable to want to produce something of quality even if it takes longer and the consequences probably won't be that terrible if you just release the first thing you can slap together. Unfortunately others are almost entirely motivated by the (not entirely irrational) fear of what happens if you don't release something quickly enough.
I like runit, which is actually from Void Linux but can be used on FreeBSD. There's also OpenRC, again not limited to BSDs.
"unknowingly". I don't believe it.
The voice of Max:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Navigator
There is no (general) right to anonymity, but there is, at least in some Western countries, a right to privacy.
The kagi universal summarizer has been pretty descent on my end. But I've only lightly tested it on two pages.
Weirdly, it doesn’t seem to be DocC (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/docc)
Are there consultants you can go to when your product isn't dystopian enough that have scoured all the cautionary literature to build like a database of ideas they can bring out to help? Sounds like a good business model - throw in an LLM and you could probably get VC funding.
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I will add as a user who dealt with it I will add that there is a ( paid ) solution that works well for my RM2[1]. It can be done on your own, but the amount of work made it worth the money Davis is asking.

After that.. all of a sudden I started using it a lot more.

http://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
I've actually come across and started using Pyjion recently (https://github.com/tonybaloney/pyjion); how does Pypy compare, both in terms of performance and purpose? There seems to be a lot of overlap...
The story I heard was that Rubens was originally developing a script around Pee-Wee as a Pollyanna type character. He was walking across the studio backlot and noticed a lot of people use bicycles to get around the lot. He requested his own bike, and the studio gave him an old (40s?) Schwinn which he just fell in love with. He realized Pee-Wee would too, and it became the MacGuffin for a new script.

The original Pollyanna script was eventually developed into the sequel Big Top Pee-Wee.
When I was into card magic a few years ago this move by Lennard Green was the one that impressed me most:

https://youtu.be/KnSGHHeFxa0?t=33

Also, at the end of the video his laser routine is really nice.