Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 19d ago
The heck kind of lights are you running that won't go all night on a battery that fits in your palm?
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by Earw0rm 1mo ago
I'm too old and boring to go to cultural events that are likely to end in brawls. And yep, I get it on the booze thing, but they'd have to confiscate a ton of handbag booze for the nylon jacket army to make economic sense. Festiva
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by Earw0rm 1mo ago
Yep. Most "journalism" now is opinion columns. Local journalism is dead, with unfortunate consequences for local politics that bleeds into national and international stuff. National investigative journalism is hanging by a thread,
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by Earw0rm 1mo ago
They're doing this in the UK right now with security for cultural events. Since the Manchester Arena terror attack (awful, tragic, evil, and an isolated event), it has been mandatory for music and live theatre venues to have an absolut
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by Earw0rm 1mo ago
It's not that the machines were ugly or badly designed (albeit not as good as the 80s heyday), but they were unable to compete on price/performance and OS tech stack, and that in turn was making them uncompetitive in application s
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by Earw0rm 1mo ago
That's because Microsoft understood taste as aesthetic - "we can put it in a pretty box", rather than ethic - fundamental to the process of making the product. Most of their endless UI/UX fails are organisational in natu
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by Earw0rm 2mo ago
Most people love to drive, but hate to be stuck in traffic. Or for the countryside to be all freeways and the city to be all parking lots. It's not the exact same asymmetry, but there are parallels.
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by Earw0rm 2mo ago
Mostly in the past tense now, for better or worse.
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by Earw0rm 2mo ago
The current El Niño hasn't really had time to affect NW Europe yet, there's quite some lag there AIUI.
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by Earw0rm 2mo ago
Sheep and slow growing trees of course don't get along well, you have to choose one or the other at least while the trees establish, which for oaks is measured in decades. In Wales and Ireland we have the opposite problem, the sheep st
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by Earw0rm 2mo ago
The timing is curious to me. Atmospheric CO2 didn't really start picking up bigtime until 1970, and trees, even fast growing pines, take decades to grow.
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by Earw0rm 2mo ago
I'm thinking of flying over on the Spruce Goose to watch the first operational launch.
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by Earw0rm 2mo ago
Yep, exactly the sort of thing I was alluding to. The "DNA is a Turing computer and everyone is born a blank slate" model is a bit too intellectually convenient for a 20th century that gave us egalitarianism and Turing computers.
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Air pollution linked to DNA changes in sperm(theguardian.com)
5 points by Earw0rm 2mo ago|3 comments
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by Earw0rm 2mo ago
A study has found that urban air pollution - ozone and nitrogen dioxide - causes changes in general expression in sperm, with potential impacts on foetal development. More evidence of the environment producing subtle heritable modifications
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by Earw0rm 2mo ago
Nope, sorry. As someone who cares about music, there may be a superabundance of adequate, filler-level stuff which AI can adequately substitute for. But for any given mood, moment or taste, there's only a finite amount of A-grade stuff
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
This is a recent phenomenon. The original reason for low population density was agricultural work, which - even in the early days of mechanisation - was plenty physical. Living in exurbia to work and consume like a city dweller is a new kin
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
How old were you at the time? Mid 40s here and can comfortably sustain low 150s, but burn out quick past 160.
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
Absolutely, if you do strength/resistance work that'll counteract the tendency of long cardio to burn muscle. My point is just that if you /only/ do long cardio, it'll reduce the mass of muscle that you need both to
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
Strength training has more of a positive effect on body composition. The problem with doing a lot of cardio is that you need muscle to burn calories (especially so without injury and as you get older), and too much medium intensity cardio w
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
This feels like a generalisable cognitive bug with our species. "Kill all the wolves, die as a result from invisible bacteria carried by tiny arthropods - or from Type 2 diabetic heart failure, as getting out for a hike and staying saf
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
By the time you're that sick, you've likely had years of compromised health. That's going to affect personality to some extent.
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
It's massive, hugely traumatic surgery, taking the patient past what was considered the point of death a century ago, bringing them back alive, and all with the aid of some of the most powerful drugs in modern medicine's arsenal.
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
IMV creativity that matters contains a third ingredient: intent, purpose, the will to make an artistic statement of some kind about how the world is or should be.
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
That's quite a leap. The idea that _semantic_ memories are encoded so as to be transmissible via blobs of neural tissue stretches plausibility.
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
AFAIK the gut in large terrestrial vertebrates has its own nervous system that rivals the complexity of the entire system in simpler creatures. The idea that all stateful/regulatory stuff is entirely localised to the brain is a bit too
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
Flatworms branched off our side of the animal tree of life very early on. They're on the same side as molluscs, some of whom (cephalopods) are famous for having a more distributed nervous system. Granted though many/most organs ar
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
And while there's no challenging the underlying proposition "AI has value", right now 95% of corporate users are still at the "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" level in terms of model usage compute.
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
It's ethnically rational, and morally right. However. It's not rational relative to the short-term incentives of a typical corporation or investment vehicle. PE, VC, fund managers aren't paid to give a fuck about the social c
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by Earw0rm 3mo ago
So I think you're right, but my diagnosis of the problem is a little different. As in: _why_ does everyone want a middle class life? _why_ is only a middle class life that's seen as being dignified? I've friends across a wide

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