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That’s under the assumption that evolution works as taught in gradeschool. Under big-step evolution, no such contradiction exists.

Indeed the evidence would tend to point towards big-step being the primary mechanism of speciation (fossil gaps, bizzareness of many intermediary states), but this is such a strange proposition to folks who have a P != NP prior that they tend to dismiss it out of hand.

I was hoping this would be about Oregon’s “humongous fungus”, which would seem to be larger than this in every metric (3.5 square miles vs 0.15; 7,500+ tons vs ~6,000). Unfortunately it makes for a far less impressive tourist attraction than it sounds – especially when you drive 8 hours to get there just for it to be covered in a foot of snow! (still a beautiful trip I do not regret in any way, a must for anyone in PNW).

https://thatoregonlife.com/2020/01/largest-organism-humongou...

I was hoping this would be about Oregon’s “humongous fungus”, which would seem to be larger than this in every metric (3.5 square miles vs 1.5, 7,500+ tons vs ~6,000). Unfortunately it makes for a far less impressive tourist attraction than it sounds – especially when you drive 8 hours to get there just for it to be covered in a foot of snow! (still a beautiful trip do not regret in any way, a must for anyone in PNW).

https://www.sciencealert.com/haunting-sounds-made-from-the-w...

But if we don't have completely unfounded attempts at saying "my side good, other side bad!", what political discourse would remain?

If I’m sitting down to watch something with someone, it’s because we’ve decided to allocate that particular time to watching that particular thing. The idea that I’d talk over the content and cause both of us to miss what’s going on in the thing we specifically wanted to watch is what’s bizzare to me.

That’s fine and all, but I actually consider it to be the übervector. There’s something very relaxing and human about having a dedicated ad break when you can get up, chat with your viewing partners, reevaluate whether you want to be in front of a screen at all, etc. that the Netflix-style firehouse to the face of pure uninterrupted content does not allow for.

It’s good unless you want a repl (they pretend to have one but it’s miserable: >6s latency all the time when it updates), or you plan to use any native modules. The error messages are also significantly worse than node’s. I used it for a bit, but node with ‘—loader tsx’ does everything I want nowadays with none of the downside. If I was building a simple server, perhaps with websockets, and I was sure it need native modules, I’d consider using Bun. I have several such services live now actually.

Yes, I also have adblock on my computer. When I’m watching broadcast television, on my TV, I do not.

This already exists. Channels like Freakin Reviews are experimenting with deep fake product review AIs. Bit different because their entire channel purpose is product reviews, but the results are so compelling that it will certainly spread.

On my laptop sure, but not iPhone or TV.

That is indeed the entire point of the thread. I fear your reading comprehension is not up to this task.

Anyways, I don’t have a twitter but you can feel free.

I really don't care to discuss this further, but all your points are addressed somewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40150716

Good day.

The catch with all those things that "actually save people from dying" is that they happen to be the same things that "could potentially kill innocent civilians". Any pharmaceutical researcher, surgeon, civil engineer, utility worker, and yes – defense contractor, has the ability to kill innocent civilians. But they by and large continue to do their work on a belief that by doing X job to the best of their ability, they will have a positive impact on the world that will leave it in a better place than if either nobody did the job, or someone with less experience than themselves executed it poorly.

Regarding defense specifically, there is no shortage of ways for maniacal dictators to raze entire cities to the ground under the justification that "bad guys were in the tunnels". That is, in effect, a solved problem – many times over. Accordingly, that is not where the research money is being spent. Rather, the goal of most new "Defense" is to achieve those same mission goals (kill the bad guys) with as little civilian casualties as possible, or to protect our own assets against such attacks as well as possible.

"which berthed them" makes perfect sense, and fits just as well as any other past participle would in that context. Just because a usage of a word is rare does not mean an experienced author cannot choose to invoke it. In fact, the opposite. Again though, I think the author knew damn well what they were doing and intended for it to be a pun (which would still be arguably berthed-forward).

There is no categorical semantic difference between "berthed" and "birthed". They are both past participle tense verbs and fit equally well with no changes needed to the rest of the sentence. Perhaps you simply have more experience hearing birthed in that context and perceive it to fit better? But in reality they really are grammatically identical.

I also went to a/the top CS school. When I graduated I would have never considered working at a defense company. Now, after bouncing around big tech and startups for a few years, I am a few days away from accepting a position at one. What changed? Appreciation for how entirely insignificant to downright harmful the rest of the industry is, perhaps. I made changes that impacted tens of millions of users in... no significant way whatsoever. Certainly not anything they'd remember on their deathbed. And what else is out there? Finding better algorithms to keep people hooked on their phones watching ads for longer, making more bullshit "AI" products to strip communication of all personality, and hundreds and hundreds of healthcare startups begging me to help them "cut out the middleman" in X healthcare system and replace them with... themselves! Idk. If I can make one anti-drone system take down one more suicide drone than it'd be able to without me, I'm 100% sure whoever would have been on the other end of that kamikaze will appreciate my efforts a hell of a lot more than the 2^25 people I fed a slightly different arrangement of pixels than they'd have gotten without me.

> But it is more common in English to use birthed as created than this kind of extended nautical metaphor.

The question isn't whether birthed is more common than extended nautical metaphors in general, the question is given that a nautical metaphor is already in place, what is the likelihood that metaphor is being extended, versus trampled and replaced with another?

> If it were berthed it would make more sense to be something like "The destiny of all books is to become unmoored from the time where they were originally berthed".

Only if the author is assuming the ship has been berthed many times. It might just as easily have been berthed once and adrift ever since. Being berthed in no way implies repetition.

It does. They were tied to a point in time. They are destined not to be. It’s really very simple. I’m sorry you can’t understand it.

Mixing metaphors and claiming a now-unmoored vessel is more likely to be contrasted with one in a state of being “born” than “berthed” is what “doesn’t work”.

Especially considering “unmoored” is a nearly exact antonym of “berthed”, whereas a ship is never described as being “born”. Christened, perhaps. But certainly not born.

You’re reading “created” into it to justify that interpretation. If you assume he meant created then sure go with birthed, but that doesn’t prove anything beyond your initial assumption.

A “berthed”-friendly interpretation would be “all books start off tied to a particular point in time, it is their destiny to become free of their temporal bounds, to drift through eternity”

To be berthed is to be attached to your home, as a boat. It makes way more sense to keep the nautical analogy going than to switch it over to biology. This was likely a transcription error and/or pun.

Why not? If we’re starting with this nautical analogy (unmoored), immediately flipping to a biological one is odd. I strongly suspect this was a transcription error and/or intentional pun - the two are pronounced identically.

Pretty silly to name your company a common word directly related to the product, then get upset at others using that same word for their product. It’s like if Grindr made angle grinders then got mad at a different company releasing an angle grinder they called “Grinder”.

> In Canada, Icon Creative Studio is trying to unionize. This comes at a time of huge union wins in North American animation, including the new one at DreamWorks.

This is the same DreamWorks animation guild that just had its entire TV staff laid off in flavor of overseas vendor studios? Odd. Plus the piece itself seemed rather anti-union. The whole reason this guy split off was because of bullshit union restrictions.

And if we do blow up the plane with nukes, there will still be new passengers. They’ll just be red-hardened. Maybe even rad-metabolizing. Evolution loves well-adapted organisms!

The answer is 100% not to allow more 4 wheeled vehicles to take over the small amount of space the two/four legged individuals have left. I have 80% a mind to push every food carrying robot into the street where they belong when I see them coming by on a sidewalk making everyone leap out of the way to avoid their drunken careening.

How would reflog help without a ref having been created?

And I just don’t know what’s special about “this morning” in your sentence. If theres some important intermediary state you’d like to keep track of, by all means commit it. But to commit just because the day has ended is odd to me.

There’s always ‘stash’ too.

You in fact do not need to commit at the end of the day. You can just… wait until the work is done.

That can all be true and it still be the case that very many people were forced to be vaccinated unnecessarily, and suffered more damage from that unnecessary vaccination than they would have otherwise. Healthy youth, for instance, should not have been forced to inject themselves with these experiments.