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CWIZO··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
Yes? We don't have to blindly and constantly be making progress on everything at all cost. Look around you, look at what all this progress did to the world we live in.
CWIZO··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
The law is ever changing and is not always a reflection of what's right, moral, ethical, etc.

You have plenty of historical examples of this, most prominently slavery being legal.

It's ok to defend a thing, but just because the law says so is very rarely a good argument.

CWIZO··on Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript
This looks great. I just started trying to generate some models using golang and the ecosystem doesn't seem great. Will check this out, might work out better.
CWIZO··on Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English
If you change inputs then obviously you will get a different output. Crucially using the same inputs, however, produces the same output. So compilers are actually deterministic.
CWIZO··on What is a database transaction?
I also think the article glossed/skipped over the xmax/xmin concepts. And they are fundamental to understand how different isolation levels actually work. It's quite jarring to the point I'm wondering if a whole section got accidentally dropped from the article.
CWIZO··on Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia
It's really surprising how many people don't realise where omegas come from and just default to "more fish". Fish get omegas from alge. Simply skip the middle man and all the nasty side effects that has in the form of animal exploitation and harmful substances for humans they contain.
CWIZO··on Real-time estimates of animals consumed by humans worldwide
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/16/most-dam...

Pasture raised animals are the most damaging way to raise animals for food when it comes to the environment. You've got it backwards here.

CWIZO··on Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation
Good. We do not need to bring even more animal suffering into this world. Especially when we have much better alternatives available to us.
CWIZO··on Ask HN: How many people got VPNs in response to laws like UK Online Safety Act?
I love how google (youtube) starts immediately showing me ads in the language of whatever country I happen to be on holiday at the time. For that country specific services/products. As if they don't know exactly where I'm from and which languages I speak. Absolutely baffling that they get this so badly wrong.
CWIZO··on Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
That doesn't seem very practical. The issue is that imgur links are everywhere and you wouldn't want to switch browsers whenever you encounter one. Not to mention it requires per device setup. Author's solution is much better than what you describe.
CWIZO··on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
Prime example: animal agriculture. By far the biggest driver of biodiversity loss and nature destruction. Yet people justify it constantly with trivial things like taste, convinience, tradition, etc.
CWIZO··on How can England possibly be running out of water?
It looks like we will be forever looking for solutions when we keep on ignoring animal farming in these conversations. Not even a single mention of the orders of magnitude more of water that is required for animal agriculture vs just growing plants directly for human consumption.

Would it solve everything? No. But it would solve a whole lot and the fact that someone that specialises in environmentalism doesn't even mention it shows just how far we are from solving this.

CWIZO··on Intermittent fasting correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease
It'd be surprising if that applies in this context. In the case of the individuals OP mentions, their parents would not have been exposed to ultra processed food (or barely, perhaps only after they've reproduced), so ehatever gens they passed on would not have been adapted. There's simply not enough generations in this case. Especially not for such significant changes.

In any case, it's moot as by and large the westeren diet is not good for the population, exceptions are simply that.

CWIZO··on Intermittent fasting correlated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease
Evolution doesn't work over a span of few generations. If humans are evolving to adapt to the modern weetern diet then we won't see that for a very very very long time.

You're just cherry picking examples while ignoring a mountain of literature that shows exactly the opposite of what you're saying.

CWIZO··on I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors
Ine big thing for me is the removal of the reactions & mentions sidebar.

I now have to constantly manually check in a special tab to see if someone ACKed my message.

CWIZO··on Why does JSON have commas?
> Coming from this direction, the addition of commas feels like an evil plan to have more syntax errors, with no obvious benefit

It helps to learn your history before you criticise something and claim it is useless.

JSON is the way it is mainly because it is just JavaScript and that meant that every browser in the world already supported it before JSON was even invented. It is THE reason why it is as popular as it is.

CWIZO··on Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
Great idea. However, the clip I got was spoken so fast that if I was able to actually understand any of it I think I wouldn't be learning Spanish as I'd have already mastered it.

Is there a beginner mode?

CWIZO··on Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen
If you put the knob in a different parts studio then you'd probably have a lot less lag.
CWIZO··on How the U.K. broke its own economy
While indeed irrelevant for the original point. I would encourage you to educate[1] yourself on the life these birds have before you make claims we're doing them a favour by bringing them into existence.

[1] https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch

CWIZO··on Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
OP was refering to SO being on a massive decline since then.
CWIZO··on Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs. AI (2024)
> Robots are probably amazed by our ability to keep a food tray steady, the same way we are amazed by spider-senses (from spiderman movie)

Funnily, Toby Maguire actually did that tray catching stunt for real. So robots have an even further way to go.

https://screenrant.com/spiderman-sam-raimi-peter-parker-tray...

CWIZO··on Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app
Do you have a good summary of why snap is bad?
CWIZO··on H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
A plant-based diet is cheaper than a regular diet: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-chea...
CWIZO··on H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
You're going to have to provide some sources if you'll be making such bold claims ...
CWIZO··on H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread
Are you implying cow's milk supports biodiversity? Because it absolutely doesn't. In fact, animal agriculture is the leading cause of biodiversity loss.

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob...

CWIZO··on A Brazilian special-forces unit fighting to save the Amazon
The vast vast vast majority is for animal farming. It's staggeringly inefficient.
CWIZO··on I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy
This is very surprising to me. I've got a kindle from 2013 and never had any issue with unsupported books.

Is yours super older or what?

CWIZO··on Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant
> Bluetooth for headphones so everyone doesn’t have to hear?

This is a critical missing feature. I would never ever use this unless it's in my ear alone.

And I hope it doesn't become socially acceptable to be carrying these around forcing everyone else to listen to whatever this device has to tell the user. There is already far too many noise and inconsiderate people in this world.

CWIZO··on UK 2022 rail station flow images
But there are tickets that are only valid for certain providers?
CWIZO··on Blueprint health protocol
40% of the population is B12 deficient: https://eatingourfuture.wordpress.com/science-studies-vegan-...

So most people should supplement, not just vegans.

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