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Lofi Girl still has an active audience. >100k for each video. GameChops has a channel as well with >5k & <100k for each video.

The Musician's story adds to the vibe. If someone can relate to the creator, it helps to create more connection with the audience than a pure algorithm. The human curated/generated animations seem more coherent...even if it's on a loop.

I like some of the new AI animations for being novel...mostly futuristic. Though this will soon become common & something new will show up.

If you are reading a deep * wide inheritance hierarchy with override methods. You will have to navigate through several files to understand where the overrides occurred. Basically multiply the number of potential implementations by inheritance depth * inheritance width.

You may not be bitten by such an issue in application code. But I've seen it in library code. Particularly from Google, AWS, various Auth libraries, etc. Due to having to interop with multiple apis or configuration.

There isn't even a Scientific consensus right now.

Humans can have a positive ecological impact. For example large parts of the Amazon were cultivated forest gardens with biochar used to build the soil. The issue lies with modern consumerism. Where large corporations capture governments & mandate ecological problems. If we get back to our roots of homesteading, growing our own food, managing the health of our soil, we can get back to being a net positive.

Odd but not surprising. There are political implications so any press is good press.

There was an emergency hearing to challenge the sale to the onion.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-funny-onion-buys-inf...

> The standard is (a) whether the act was illegal, (b) the company knew it was illegal and did it anyway.

Allegedly...

The Canadian government needs to gain control over the internet before the internet outcompetes the Canadian government...But every effort to impose totalitarianism will be mocked, resisted, & rejected. The Canadian government is cooked.

Robert Kennedy detailed how CO2 pipelines have ruptured causing people to die & become sick. And how eminent domain was used to profit companies rather than social welfare. Even though Robert Kennedy seems to believe that CO2 is the climate control knob, many Americans don't. They see Carbon Capture as a scam that enriches Billionaires at the health + wealth expense of everyone else.

This is one example where ideology becomes a mechanism of coercion to transfer wealth from the large majority to a very small group of people.

I have news for you. Don't trust anyone with data. Mistakes are made. Biases are confirmed. Reproducibility & criteria for falsifiability are not proven. Unknown unknowns exist. There are different ways of categorizing & counting things. Abstraction is a lie (the map is not the territory).

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors...

I would be happy to be able to adjust the font size. It's almost as if these orgs don't use their product...or the effort to make this small change would require a major re-architecture.

I use FF as well. I think the problem is lack of focus on core workflows. This is a problem with all major browsers.

For example, why is the address bar so tiny on high resolution screens? One would think this is an easy fix that would improve the UX for many people. Yet years go by with unresolved issues in the trackers.

Either they need to do drastic cuts & focus on fundamentals. Or a fork with less funding entanglements can. Or an alternative project like LadyBird can.

I got to work on Pivotal Tracker in 2006 during it's first rewrite. Fun project.

Same difference.

> Did Leicester believe the Atlantis nonsense? Why bring this up?

Cayce's predictions of Atlantis emerging were primary motivations for Leicester to live in that area. He created the micronation New Atlantis. The Smithsonian could have gone deeper with their journalism because there is more to the story than a "conservation project".

> I would imagine, if he lived in Bimini, he would've seen enough beachrock to know better.

Bimini Wall was discovered by Dr. J Manson Valentine, Jacques Mayol, Harold Climo and Robert Angove under 10 feet of water off the coast of Bimini in 1968. Four years after Hemingway founded New Atlantis.

https://atlantipedia.ie/samples/bimini-roadwall/

> Given that so much is passed down within the Hemingway family – immense physicality, depression, storytelling talents – it's no surprise that Les and Hilary's connections to the paranormal can be traced back to Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest and Les' mother. "Gracie" had regular conversations with the famous early-20th-century spiritualist Edgar Cayce. Digitized archives of his correspondence confirm that the two communicated. Gracie was hoping the spirit world could help her cure Clarence of physical and financial ailments.

> One of his [Cayce] predictions was that the Lost City of Atlantis would be found in the Caribbean, and he also foresaw that the Bimini islands were mountaintops.

I heard somewhere that he sold futures to the Atlantis land that Cayce predicted would emerge in the Caribbean. But I can't find anything to verify that claim. I misread the article I posted above, thinking it did verify that claim. But it didn't.

I heard these claims among others in this episode of the "Dark Jounalist". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRIyt8Jvp70

Presumably he has sources for his claims. I didn't find the sources for some of the more interesting claims with a casual web search.

No mention of Bimini Road. Nor Edgar Cayce's predictions. Nor the selling of futures when Atlantis arose.

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/a-profile-of-leicester-le...

Nor the sonar detected "nartual rock" pyramids under the ocean. This happened more recently but I digress...

> So agencies will not have any power to actually regulate.

And that is a bad thing? If it is, I'll take it. The agencies have been ineffective at their stated missions. They have been revolving door power grabs since the end of WW2. You know, that time when we let all those "former" Nazis into prominent roles of government agencies?

It's not like the EPA stopped PFAS from contaminating water all over Earth. Or microplastics being embedded in the penile tissue of most men...Among the other "miracles of modern science". The EPA is too busy going after small landowners doing water management.

And if agencies are so wonderful. Why don't we have a Department of Peace & a Department of Prosperity for All? So the agencies cannot make up their own laws anymore? Cry me a PFAS laden river.

Do you believe that governments might want to use social media platforms to try to divide the population within their own country?

Only saying this because it's how people in power legitimize their own power over everyone else. External boogie men help as well. Of course foreign influence is a real factor that works against people in their own country. The USA has done many foreign influence operations that has been detrimental to those people. I'm not surprised that foreign governments would do the same over here.

All in all, the general population often suffer downstream from these games of power.

> But what Perplexity is doing when they crawl my content in response to a user question is that they are decreasing the probability that this user would come to by content (via Google, for example).

Perplexity has source references. I find myself visiting the source references. Especially to validate the LLM output. And to learn more about the subject. Perplexity uses a Google search API to generate the reference links. I think a better strategy is to treat this as a new channel to receive visitors.

The browsing experience should be improved. Mozilla had a pilot called Context Graph. Perhaps Context Graph should be revisited?

> In a world where users ask Perplexity these Help questions about my SaaS, Perplexity may answer them and I would lose all the insights because I never get any traffic.

This seems like a missing feature for analytics products & the LLMs/RAGs. I don't think searching via an LLM/RAG is going away. It's too effective for the end user. We have to learn to work with it the best we can.

> What is this post about https://rknight.me/blog/blocking-bots-with-nginx/

He is asking Perplexity to summarize a single page. This is simply automation for opening a browser, navigating to that URL, copying the content, pasteing the content into Perplexity.

This is not automated crawling or indexing. Since the person is driving the action. An automated crawler is driven into action by a bot.

Nor is this article added into the foundational model. It's simply in a person's session context.

If for some reason, the community deems this as automated crawling or indexing. One could write an extension to automate the process of copying the article content & pasting the content into an LLM/Rag like Perplexity.

People have realized that the systemic rot is far bigger than one Bad Orange Man, a Putler way out in Russia, & the horde of "science deniers". The high of frenzy from the 5 minutes of hate has worn off. Yet the problems remain...

> JS devs aren't as obsessed with their software ecosystem as PHP or Ruby devs.

Sure, individual developers like vanilla js. However corporations like Next.js & React. Because "everyone knows Next.js & React". And the same JS developers who love to tinker in their free time insist their job use Next.js & React. It's a challenge for me because I like to use my own stack that I developed. So I'm mainly focused on freelance or contract work as a sole developer. I'm happy with the tech but I sometimes have to take on work using other stacks. I prefer to avoid JS for these types of gigs.

My experience with Rails back around 2010 was attempting to transcend the constraints Rails imposes on the developer. Which led me to nodejs. People like me left the Rails ecosystem & those who liked Rails largely remained.

> I "love" the government? That's news to me. I am not sure where you got that information.

I apologize if I'm incorrect. I think there's a common implicit bias that favors using force against the population. When that force does not do anything meaningful to protect anyone.

> I don't really know how the government "caused" COVID

COVID came out of gain of function research from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Which genetically engineered the Coronavirus to cross the species barrier & become contagious. The NIH & Eco Health Alliance funded this research.

Still many biolabs do Gain of Function research around the world. Funded by the NIH. The only effective purpose for these labs is to create bioweapons. Guess who will be affected by the bioweapons? Us...

> Trump administration's handling of it was completely incompetent

I'm not happy with how he pushed the experimental shots that got many people sick. And killed an unreported amount of people.

> I'll concede that the Reagan administration's handling of the AIDS epidemic was pretty evil.

Fauci was heavily involved with AIDS. I find Robert F. Kennedy credible. He wrote a book called "The Real Anthony Fauci". Which details Fauci's involvement with AIDS. And how AZT was killing people with AIDS. As AZT killed people with Cancer, which was it's original intended use.

If Mr. Kennedy is defaming Fauci, then Fauci can sue. Fauci hasn't sued Mr. Kennedy. He would have to go through discovery.

Re: TB. There are many risks for TB transmission. Unpasturized milk is an orders of magnitude smaller risk than people gathering in a public place or immigration.

> This really isn't hard

Yet the governments that you love so much supports Gain of Function Research. Which literally caused Covid among other pandemics. And is suspiciously linked to AIDS. Yet you are worried about unpasturized milk? Your priorities are completely wrong due to your belief in governments. The same governments that cause all wars, genocides, & most pandemics.

So I agree...this really isn't hard. Unless you frame things the wrong way.

Rome polluted the water in Roman cities with lead. Modern civilization pollutes the water all over the world with lead then PFaS. Good job!

It wasnt too long ago when the scientific institutions whipped up hysteria & paranoia against the public & dissenting scientists. Where dissenting scientists & researchers where fired, blacklisted, & harrassed.

Protecting one's own interests in keeping rights protected is not paranoid thinking. The problem is "science" has turned into a religion. Where the faithful use their faith to justify locking down & taking away the rights of others. And transforming the economy in their favor. The integrity of the scientific institutions has turned cynical & beholden to capital interests. It's obvious.

Hypocrisy in how the Covid policies were enforced don't help. BLM rallys & the political elite should not be exempt from Covid rules when the rest of the public is locked down.

There comes a point where oopsies need to be harshly condemned. Even if the oopsies are not cynical. We don't let our children get away with oopsies. Why should the "experts" get a free pass? The "experts" are not supposed to make oopsies.

I can see the logic of seppuku in stopping misconduct. Not saying that should be policy. But real consequences to incompetence or cynicism by "experts" is needed. If the corporations & government cannot deliver these real consequences, then the public must pick up the slack. Or incompetence & cynicism are rewarded & grow more prevalent.

The general public was harrassed by law enforcement due to the policies based on pseudoscience. Playing my nano violin.

> I didn't look because a claim without evidence can be dismissed without evidence

I did look & could not find anything. I think marketing fuels a hysteria against raw milk. The reason why vendors say it's "not fit for human consumption" is to avoid action by the regulators. e.g. Having the authorities raid the farm & seize property. https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming-news/dairy/raid-on-...

> I really don't want to get tuberculosis so I probably won't drink raw milk regardless

Nobody is asking you to. You have the freedom not to consume raw milk. But some people do want to consume raw milk. And there is scant, if any, evidence of the alleged problems. So why are Authorities making this illegal? I doubt it's to "protect public health". The public who wants to drink raw milk don't want the Authorities "protecting their health" in this way.

> The "ones you meet" are the ones who didn't die

Can you link to any instances of an outbreak of disease from unpasturized milk among the Amish people? Or even among the general population? All I know about is one time over 150 years ago the milk got spoiled on a train in Chicago. Which is why we have pasturization.

I found this study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6140832/, which seems to indicate that raw milk consumption has benefits.