wizofaus

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by wizofaus 3y ago
Turns out, once I got to read it on desktop machine, they weren't links at all but captions for images that weren't showing for me on mobile.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Anyone else unable to access what I assume are supposed to links for the centred bits of text throughout that article? I had a hard time understanding parts of it...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Pretty sure your maths is off - even if it did steadily fall by 20% every 20 years, it'd still have a population of 16 to 17 million in 100 years' time. So no, not especially dire.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It was the period of the most rapid population growth globally. And the period during which antibiotics became widely available.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I don't care for the use of terms that imply appreciating the fine arts is somehow on a "higher plane" and places those who do so above those who don't, but I do think it's worth acknowledging that it takes signific
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Definitely not my experience - the flavour definitely deteriorates too, often becoming quite bitter.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Commercial avocado dips seem to avoid turning brown - admittedly they're usually pretty tasteless but I'd be curious what stops the discoloration.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Yep, they're definitely still rising, despite a slight drop in 2020 (thanks, COVID). Not sure there's any point in talking about per-capita emissions. That US emissions have been falling since ~2007 (and China appears to be leveli
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I haven't upgraded to ChatGPT 4 yet, but given it can now supposedly do web searches (including searching github?) I've signed up for the wait list. Is it worth it, based on feedback here? I'm particularly interested in how i
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Well there's certainly a conceivable one, and it's one probably many would agree would be much nicer one to live in. But accepted, not a realistic one any time soon.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Curious, how did "received" end up with multiple spellings then?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"almost always" - agreed, but the specific case where your application has clearly gone into a temporary mode where no user interaction is permitted (other than perhaps "cancel") I would think was the exception. But sim
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by wizofaus 3y ago
How would that explain the voice/phone network being out? And you'd think packets would still be able to make it through the network even without DNS.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It baffles me how they can have one single point of failure for their entire national cellular + fibre voice & data network, and for it to take so long to fix.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Isn't iOS still essentially the same way? It was one reason I stopped using iOS devices as I frequently wanted to open, for instance, pdf or image files from multiple apps.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Good managers for dev teams should have enough technical knowledge themselves and demand explanations from participating devs why a candidate is or isn't good enough to see through that though. Further personally as a tech lead I'
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by wizofaus 3y ago
And yet some of the worst performance issues I've had to deal with were in code typically dealing will merely 100s of items, but using algorithms and slow network-based operations that caused everything to run sluggishly most of the ti
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Oh I suspect it was quite common in much of Europe for fairly long periods too, when there very limited options for travel for vast majority of people, who were in fact farmers. Yes, the farms were small, but most of your energy went into
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Arguably any period of history where the majority of people lived as subsistence farmers and rarely interacted with others not part of the household was an anomaly though, and very different to how pre-agricultural societies lived.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I was curious to know what sort of studies had been done in that regard, I didn't notice anything mentioned by the article, though admittedly I only skimmed the 2nd half. FWIW I don't think I've ever met or known of anyone be
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> any condition that doesn't impact survival until sexual maturity Diseases that impact even just appearance can surely make you less attractive as a mate though. And larger goiters can impede breathing or swallowing. So I'd be
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I gather the GP's point was we that previously we'd eat kidneys or livers or tripe etc. in "unprocessed" form, whereas now they're all only used for pet food or gelatin etc. Whether that's true because steak i
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Sorry, was meant as a reply to the post you were replying to!
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That light pollution has only existed for a tiny tiny fraction of the time since life first evolved on Earth. It's entirely conceivable that in another 1000 years (a blink of the astronomical eye) it will no longer occur - so trying to
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by wizofaus 3y ago
"High-resolution images of Australia..did not yield signs of civilization." I'd been living here my whole life when it flew over, and hadn't had much luck detecting such signs either. More seriously though, I wonder if t
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by wizofaus 3y ago
A plausible hypothesis, sure, but not much more. It'd be interesting to actually investigate it properly.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Plenty of people I know handwrite faster than they can type! And have they tested those using shorthand? What I could believe is that our brains might be better at remembering the sorts of movements our hands make while handwriting (essenti
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by wizofaus 3y ago
But why shouldn't the same be true of typing? (I did mention in my other post I can sort of see why handwriting is a movement more akin to other ways we manipulate the physical environment - but in fact I use the "swipe" styl
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> probably sculpted by our evolution I can't really begin to imagine what selective pressure could realistically have acted on this, certainly given the tiny period of time over which any substantial percentage of the population wou
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Just as bad as having 31 days a month, for randomly chosen months. If any periods of time need to fixed it's surely weeks and months. How about 5 day weeks (3 working, 2 not - and yes, therefore 10-day "fort"nights) and scrap

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