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They keep pushing back the date of the LUCA - I think it's meant to be 4.2 billion years ago now, a time when Mars was more nurturing than it is now, maybe moreso than Earth at the time? I hope we find out it started on Mars and jumped to Earth, how cool would that be?

Yeah I agree with you. I think it's a good approach to check vibes against data and vice-versa, and not blindly trust one over the other - use one to look critically at the other. They both have defects.

With my own kids what has worked is setting aside time, before bed where they _have to read_. It can be anything they want, they pick books from library most of the time.

The risk of this approach might be that it could suck the fun out of it making it a chore, but that has not been the case - they both like to read books now.

Creating that space for reading has been essential. It's impossible to compete against all of the other things otherwise.

Sometimes vibes includes things we're trying to get away from like stereotyping visible groups of people.

Sudden failure in a big battery like these is usually due to a single cell failing, which can usually be replaced and then the battery pack is back to the 70% capacity or whatever. Probably in this context of scale it's worth doing the work of replacing bad cells.

Best enjoyed with Boards of Canada

That does make sense, thanks! Very simple and effective.

@errorzero - if you have the time would you be able to give more information on the Scales? This section is very interesting.

This is fantastic errozero nicely done! It's very musical, the drone is a nice touch and really glues it all together in a subtle way.

Mixxx is a great piece of software, even better that it's OSS and runs linux. Exciting to see a new major release.

I've been using it lately (2.x) just mixing internally and with cue points set up in my tracks, and using the laptop keyboard for shortcuts. Works really well. For the occasional xfade etc I do have an external MIDI controller mapped to the xfade, levels, and eq but could get away without it for my style of mixing.

Been DJing off and on for 25y and producing electronic music for 30y.

Name things well when writing computer programs.

Their point is that an increased housing supply should shift it to a buyer's market - it's not just how many tenants there are but how many housing units vs how many tennants.

FYI in case you didn't read the article - it's not about LLM coding but about a blind software developer who uses a screenreader at 800wpm to read code. It's really astounding to hear how fast that is I recommend checking it out!

Before Facebook there was Myspace and Orkut (which was huge in Brazil) - things were definitely pointed that direction.

Let's hear about these novels - are they good? Are you publishing them?

Looks like imagen offers unlimited culling for $144/yr or $18/mo

Aftershoot has culling plan $120/yr billed annually

Not sure how they compare in quality

Do either of these offer suggestions on which of the duplicates to keep? That to me is the killer feature - it can be paralyzing trying to assess which one is "best" and I think a well-trained AI could do a good job of it.

I think a really valuable feature in a photo library app would be something that can identify sets of very similar or identical photos and decide which one is the "best" and offer to discard the rest.

I must be wasting so much storage on the 4 photos I took in a row of the family pose, or derivatives that got shared on whatsapp and then stored back to my gallery, and so on, and I know I'm not the only one.

It's because your awareness and agency is part of the circuit.

I 100% agree with you on the "signal feedback inside an analog signalling system".

I've done a lot of tripping, and I've come to this same hypothesis independently. I believe this explains a great deal about the visual geometric and fractal patterns you can see on psychedelics and also that analogous things happen within the auditory processing system, memory, emotions, and so on when you trip.

So much of tripping comes down to turning up the gain on signalling in your brain, which causes feedback pathways to start resonating. This results in colour saturation, tracers, geometry, exaggerated patterns and edge detection, echoing, reverbs, increased impact of thoughts, and following thoughts down deep rabbit holes etc.

None of this is to reduce the experience, I love psychedelics and think they are super important. But that's whole other discussion.

I had to scroll up and down for a while, looking for the rest of the article. There wasn't any.

If you're asking me personally, it's because I don't have any problems with eating too much sugar so I would never want to introduce an artificial sweetener into my diet when it carries potential strange health risks.

I think people get hung up on finding sugar substitutes when the root is eating sweet things constantly. You don't have to eat and drink sweet all the time. Many modern diets (not just n. Amer) are totally overindexed on sweetness.

Drink water, eat good foods, enjoy a bit of jam on your toast or whatever here and there and get lots of exercise and you'll be fine. You don't need aspartame and xylitol and stevia to be healthy.

I wonder if the similar molecule Xylitol has the same problem. It seems like so many artificial sweeteners have dangerous health effects, I don't trust any of them. Unless you're diabetic or something, regular sugar seems to be the healthiest choice (in moderation!)

Vimeo and self-hosting are two alternatives. Are they realistic alternatives? That's another question.

For anyone interested in ultra, trail, and endurance running, check out Shawn Bearden's "Science of Ultra" podcast

https://www.scienceofultra.com/podcasts/

The series covers the breadth of science that's relevant to this sort of training, running, racing. Highly recommended for the HN running types.

These are almost universal in Indonesia too

Is that quote correct? It's either paradoxical or I can't read.

A lot of those labels are really good and underground and fully worthy of support too imo. I think the smaller labels are really important to keep alive.

- Libreoffice

- Internet Archive

- Wikipedia

- Bandcamp - a bit off-topic but the music industry has become an exponentially distributed winner-takes-all game. I resist by buying underground music on Bandcamp - it's an exemplary web platform, gives generous cuts to the artist, and you own the files. Even if I only listen to the song a couple times it feels good knowing 80% of the money is going straight to talented artists and 20% is going to a beacon of hope on the internet. Money spent on Bandcamp feels good.

Money doesn't stink, but your hands might.