cleansingfire

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Cambrian Explosion: When Complexity Met Complexity(medium.com)
3 points by cleansingfire 3mo ago|1 comments
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by cleansingfire 3mo ago
Proposes a structural account of the cambrian explosion. The precambrian was the first life, with evolution dominated by geology alone. The cambrian explosion occurred when life finally became the dominant complexity encountered by other li
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by cleansingfire 5mo ago
Yup. Try to treat the source of the pain. Of course. But dont act morally superior because you don't need acetaminophen.
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by cleansingfire 10mo ago
Except that ADHD is older than screens, and exists without drugs or addiction.
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by cleansingfire 10mo ago
The medieval period was called the dark ages largely because of our ignorance of it. The Medieval spans about 1,000 years. There were plagues which made labor immensely more valuable, & wars that lasted generations. Any blanket statemen
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by cleansingfire 10mo ago
Day Traders only exist because of this. Bull markets allow them to exist.
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by cleansingfire 2y ago
When you twiddle your thumbs, your thumbnails always point the same direction relative to each other. So the bolts relative rotation will maintain that. Imagine a stripe on the face towards us of the bolts, and twiddling action will not rot
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
I'm concerned about the same mechanism that causes permanent loss of taste with zinc lozenges, and if it applies here. I don't want to poison the nerves in my genitals. It isn't a common or widespread effect, but it is severe
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
Also demonstrated by the picture in the op of the brick wall. Note that it wasn't smashed or knocked down, but looks as if it was cut.
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
He claimed alcohol was a mystic sacrament, in an interview I read long ago. That's an awfully destructive spirituality, but it was very much his choice, whether rationalized addiction or not. Personally, I've seen that destruction
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
The button has no downside, with a possible benefit, so always push it. Also refers to discredited Bystander effect nonsense regarding Kitty Genocese murder: "there is no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses obs
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
Only affects Apple silicon chips (intel unaffected) with ProMotion display. Just a quick Exit clause for people with older machines.
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
If they understood significant figures, it would be less suspicious. Besides, when a vendor uses their own special metric, instead of a well known standard, I lose respect for them.
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
Similar to https://roadtolarissa.com/oracle/
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
Reversible computing cannot lose information or energy. No dissipation allowed.
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
Assuming the bottom is even accesible! I believe it's somewhere in the Amazon ios app where I see a promise of a useful footer that is always pushed off the page by infinitely scrolling things they're pushing at me instead.
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
Amazon doesn't even organize or allow you to search for SHOES by size. Their search is about forcing crap down your throat and is actively hostile to getting what you want. I wish the reviews were the worst of it.
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
I thought of Krokodil also. Considering that tiny amounts of impurities can cause terrible consequences. MPTP impurities in MPPP caused parkinson's, and bad commercial synthesis of tryptophan by Showa Denko caused EMS, it seems likely
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
Original Lamport paper here https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
I think this is why the Dunning-Kruger effect exists, and why casinos make money. Unreasonable hope is necessary if you are going to do anything interesting. Failure often teaches more than success. Knowing we will die is intimidating. htt
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by cleansingfire 3y ago
It is brilliant satire, written as if by a machine claiming to own empathy, while demonstrating none.
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by cleansingfire 4y ago
Statistically they were americans. Foreign terrorists are historically negligible compared to domestic.
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by cleansingfire 4y ago
Wow! An analog dead reckoning computer with a beautiful display. I'm especially intrigued by the cam based CVT (constantly variable transmission.) I'm glad to know this exists. Thank you for sharing the details.
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by cleansingfire 4y ago
After reading this https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/5e4j2i/tifu_when_i_ac... I put a sticker over the logo. Helps me not grab wrong laptop at work too.
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by cleansingfire 4y ago
Paraphrasing the title: Management Blames Employees
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by cleansingfire 4y ago
I had to work harder than expected to get this. I interpret the cartoon as distinguishing between meaning and form. Until I read it aloud, I couldn't stop interpreting the strings as open close open close in both directions.
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by cleansingfire 4y ago
We have a GPS time server (so stratum one) that is set to GPS time, so it's off from UTC by almost twenty seconds because they don't ever apply leap seconds. I love it. Another part of the org pressed me to correct my time to matc
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by cleansingfire 4y ago
You prompted an idea I find fun: If film grains are randomly or chaotically distributed, and fractal over enough orders of magnitude, grain might not be error but a medium which interprets and conveys information differently, with unique ad
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by cleansingfire 4y ago
Noise can improve recognition of marginal signals,so this might not just be aesthetic. I first learned about this in vision, but it's generally true. https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/research-news/add-no
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by cleansingfire 4y ago
It's so refreshing to be reminded that much of what we're looking at may just be the equivalent of useless self help books. Nobody goes broke oversimplifying problems and selling cheap fixes, and as technologists who have seen the

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