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This is the mistake. Linux and, I believe, OSX come with several tools pre-installed including python.

Possibly a pandoc generated html from markdown. My favorite way of doing things.

"Meet hot methane-breathing life forms in your neighborhood!"

I usually sum it up by saying that what we have is a very good bullshit generator. It is bad at reasoning but good at making up answers that sounds correct and crossing fingers that the corrector won't look twice at what they say.

I need that as a screensaver!

Oh wait, we don't have screensavers anymore either...

More like, they will fill with blood and locusts.

I was once explained the interest of quick iteration cycles (the main opposition, IMO, to a waterfall model) in a simple way:

The teacher drew a very simple chart : y = t. "This is, in a given project lasting from t=0 to t=1, the amount of practical information that you have about how to design this project. At t=1.0, you have 100% of the information. When you start, you have about zero information about it, just guesses.

Then another line : y = 1-t. "And this, is the amount of design freedom you have during the project. At the beginning, everything is possible but at the end, big changes can not be made."

"This is what we call the curse of project management."

It has really be enlightening. Make prototypes, be courageous enough to scrape entire designs, and when you have the resources for it : make a total reset for version 2.0 and redo v 1.0 correctly.

Of course, this is highly subject dependent. You don't build a bridge the way you build an experimental robot, but this explained well the interest of non-waterfall models.

But does it whip the llama's ass?

Disabled? Throttled down the speed by half? Yes. But to disconnect whole regions, you have to do conscious sabotage and even Mubarak did not manage to switch off Egypt when he wanted to and gave orders to.

e-bikes dont drive by themselves, are slow, dangerous (the roads are very narrow with no sidewalk) open to the rain and have shit carrying capacity. And I say that as a fan of e-bikes.

I live in the Japanese countryside and I absolutely need a car for living, but it makes me sad to realize that it would take almost nothing for me to get rid of the car. I spend my driving time 90% on a single road where all the places I need are. I spend 9% on another similar big axis. I occasionally go to Tokyo but to do so I park my car at the free parking on the highway bus station.

A regular bus on the two axis I use would allow me to totally get rig of a car. I am pretty sure we could automate such a bus given today's tech.

Unless I am missing something, I believe that these pictures are at 99% the cryogenic system.

2020-2021 was a very weird period. The fact that a given predictive model failed during these years is not really a strong indictment against the model. It makes sense to suspend the algorithmic trading during that time until the situation goes back to normal.

Lower the precision by adding random noise.

> Does everything need to have an application in order to be useful?

By definition yes. Other things can be enjoyable, of cultural or historical interest, or just interesting pieces of knowledge, but to claim that something is useful is to claim it has applications.

A fake identity can be taken from a real person's history.

An historian friend once told me that whenever you see "ritualistic" or "religious reasons" mentioned in archeology publications it basically means "we have no fucking clue why they did that".

Let's not be ridiculous. This room has no artificial light and almost no natural light, minimal ventilation, no water, no electricity, which is the norm nowadays even for cheap apartments.

The domestication part makes the most sense in my opinion.

However, I only see attempts to explain that genetically. Aren't there environmental factors that can influence this measure?

You can self-host. I suspect they use this: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

Also, the rust community is too nice to openly admit it, but it's goal IS to displace C as the main low level language especially for the kernel. This is doomed to attract a lot of attention

I'd rather have people too concerned about ethics than not enough.

Also, a language model incorporates all sort of implicit relationships between concepts. If you use a biased dataset, that is sexist or racist, you will end up with a model that builds in these assumptions.

I am mostly thinking of B7, because I know 2 persons in my family who get seriously depressed when they lack it.

Note that I did not say it is impossible to get these through a vegan diet, just that it takes some efforts and care to have the daily dose necessary to avoid a deficit.

Yes, I agree that almost no one calculates their nutrients intake, but when you go full vegan, you remove more than half of your food diversity, it opens yourself more easily to deficits.

> From what I can tell, in practice some amount of nutritional deficiency just isn't that big a deal for most people. College kids that live on a diet of 80% ramen still survive relatively well

People with mild depression survive relatively well, and this is what is discussed here.

I used to have very bad dietary habits when I was working like crazy at my first job, and managed to get a deficiency in vitamin C. As I was young and in good conditions, it did not trigger any medical problem, but I can tell you that my quality of life improved greatly after I started taking vitamins (and later just rebalancing my diet a bit). It was removing a constant fog from my brain.

I think this is a reason why so many pseudo-scientific dietician advice abound: "surviving relatively well" is not a good enough criterion anymore, yet that's what the medical research focuses on. Well-being is also something that people seek to achieve. Being more alert, more focused, less depressed, less stressed are things that a diet can have an influence on, and the scientific data on that is pretty scarce.

Good point. If you are concerned with animal well-being, you are probably concerned with environmental issues as well, and it is hard to not be depressed in that case.

Well, if you consider animal life to be valuable, it makes sense you that consider raising cattle for food similarly to how one would consider slavery today, and be disgusted by the results of that process.

It is easy to lack some vitamins or nutrients while going on a vegan diet. Some of them have an impact on mental health.

Unless you are very comited into calculating your intake in every mineral and vitamin, I would recommend to take some supplements if you are going vegan (which is something I support but did not totally go through yet)

Aren't you also excited of the new possibilities? I really believe that once we have left the energy crisis behind us we will witness a new golden age of civilization.

This was a 50 years project because huge installations need to be built in order to gain knowledge about different technologies and aspects of fusion. The goal of these experiments is to achieve fusion power plants. ITER is probably going to be the first large scale demonstration, though I would not rule out an unexpected innovative design to pass it at one point.

20 years ago we were joking about it being 40 year away. So yes, it is timely progress.

I am still bitter that we don't invest more on this research which has the potential to solve the climate crisis "unexpectedly".

FreeCad is a generic parametric CAD software. It is not designed for houses, but it allows to create constraints-based designs and is scriptable through python.

So not a 100% match but it checks several of your items. If you are considering something as remote as openSCAD, I think you should give a try to FreeCAD and look at a few tutorials (its workflow is not the most intuitive thing)