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True, but CharlesW's parent comment was specifically about "U.S. factory farms".

And even 14.5% is significantly lower than what I would have guessed before listening to the episode.

There was a recent freakonomics podcast [1] from which I learned that greenhouse gas emissions mostly come from cattle breathing, not their manure (I guess the manure imagery that often goes along with describing livestock environmental impact is just used because it's evocative?). Also that livestock farming in the US only contributes 3% of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions [2], which I wouldn't call a particularly "impressive percentage".

[1]: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/meat/

[2]: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

As a mindfulness-building experiment, I'll occasionally try writing down everything I do on a given day (before I do it). Even small things, like reading an article on hacker news, or responding to a text.

It's kind of the inverse approach to what is described in the article. I don't necessarily forbid myself from doing any smart-phone related activity. As long as I intentionally make some mental note of what I'm about to do before I do it. For some reason this seems to be more effective for me than the elimination approach.

Any idea what the "roll-around mouse" thing is that he mentions? The only Google results for that phrase are cat toys

Maybe not cirrhosis specialists

Probably the medical industry as a whole has less of this, I'd assume.

Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one who prefers cotton boxers to synthetic boxer briefs.

Pros of the cotton boxer:

* More breathable

* Less scratchy

* Less "death grip on your junk"-y

* A lot less expensive

Cons:

* I guess they dry slower, so if you need to hang dry your underwear and have them be dry by the next morning, you'd have to use synthetic? But that's about it

I've tried synthetic boxer briefs from ex oficio, duluth trading trading, meundies, calvin klein, saxx... They are all categorically worse than plain cotton boxers.

Would love to see a more up-to-date version of this. I know MIT sold [1] a bunch of its address space not too long ago.

[1]: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/05/mit-goes-on-ipv...

Anyone know if one of those lines will be discontinued? Seems odd to maintain both the macbook and macbook air

Sounds like a timer interrupt invoking a scheduler. Interesting!

Math is different in that one feels there should be something close to "absolute truth." That is, given a set of axioms, it is possible to verify with complete certainty whether a proof follows from those axioms or not. Though when proofs become so long and abstruse that only a handful of people can even read them, perhaps that's no longer true. In other fields, it's more clear that nothing is known with 100% certainty. That differences of opinion or experimental error could always lead to uncertainty.

I feel like I retain information more easily when listening to audio on 2x. Listening to audio is significantly slower than reading, and often by the time the speakers get to describing the results, a lot of time has passed from when they described the context. Shortening that time gap is helpful for retaining the information for me.

(Of course if you're playing the audio so quickly that you can't even make out some words, then I'd expect comprehension to go down)

I use the inoreader web app, which works quite well. I don't think RSS is the type of thing that really needs its own native app anyway.

This article sounds unnecessarily biased. All art has stylistic and thematic influences. Nothing in Van Gogh's experimentation with or usage of Japanese elements looks egregious to me.

I see. It seems like training a model for a hero with only targeted spells would be much faster than training a model for a hero which can cast spells at arbitrary map locations. I don't play DoTA, so not sure how many such heroes exist, or if a team comp of only heroes with targeted abilities would even be viable

What are the 170,000 discrete actions?

Rough guesses for available actions:

  32 (directions for movement)

+ 10 (spell/item activations)

  * 20 (potential targets. heroes + near by creeps)

+ 15 (attack commands. 5 enemy heroes and ~10 near by creeps)

Which still leaves... approximately 170,000 actions unaccounted for

Hawk decals pasted on windows seem to do a pretty good job of fooling birds, but wouldn't fool humans. So do scare-crows

Just checked the gmail 'dark' background color, which always looked pretty black to me. Is actually #111111

Maybe that google art face detection thing could be a place to start?

https://www.blog.google/topics/arts-culture/exploring-art-th...

Web-based applications will all be the same, CLI programs will mostly be the same between any nix operations system, homebrew is conceptually not that different from any other package manager. Most IDEs are very portable. What's the main hurdle in switching from macOS to any other nix?

I also had trouble following this article.

The Tesla vulnerability at the top seems to be simply a misconfigured kubernetes cluster, through which the attackers were able to get at AWS credentials. But then all of the subsequent examples are malicious images hosted on dockerhub. Were malicious images involved in the Tesla exploit in some way? What's the connection?

The very next sentences after that one are:

"What drives us is our mission to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable, clean energy, but we will never achieve that mission unless we eventually demonstrate that we can be sustainably profitable. That is a valid and fair criticism of Tesla's history to date."

Yeah, I really liked those strips :) Made myself a transmogrifier when I was younger too

Reminded me of this interview with a japanese garden designer, and his consideration of how the elements in a garden change at different rates. Plants that grow/bloom seasonally, moss that spreads over the years, and rocks that don't change at all in human time scales.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWcmuk2tN7M&t=529s

I think how trains stay on tracks [0] is also a good example of this.

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a25581/science-behi...

As the article says, they don't seem to actually call anything.

I decided to try switching to a linux laptop (x1 carbon) recently for many of the same reasons listed in OP's article. Though my employer maintains a reasonably well polished flavor of debian, so I haven't had to deal with the slew of driver-related annoyances that usually come with trying to run linux on a laptop. So far so good.

+ keyboard is great

+ after getting used to the trackpoint, I like it

+ matte screen

+ working in a dev environment that matches your production environment is presumably useful, particularly when working with docker.

+ first class package manager

+ noticeably lighter

- UI isn't as slick. maybe one day I'll try a WM. i3 or something.

- occasional driver issues

Not setting a surge cap is hardly "wild west."

The author says that training their own model would have been too hard due to lack of training data, but evidently Rekognition had sufficient training data to make it work? Why can't NYT use the same training set Rekognition uses? Does Amazon somehow have a secret non-public collection of celebrity photos?

Why do you prefer YAML to JSON in this context?

I think the 'mobile phone' form factor is the import point here. When I use a desktop or laptop computer, it's at least somewhat more intentional. But pulling out your phone is something you can do anywhere. So the ways in which it changes how your attention works are probably different.