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Fiction is a variety of oft-useless drivel when the world is chock-full of compelling, urgent non-fiction.

Altho... science fiction is hardly useless, when it mentally prepares the ground.

Fascinating stuff. Reawakening my interest in arborist stuff ("arborism"?). Thank you for posting.

And just one letter away, "enteroception" sounds like a concept from the Alien films.

Sounds interesting! Elucidate?

This. It's why "unitary executive" is so attractive - he can extend his tendrils into every nook & cranny of policy (foreign and other) to personally monetize it.

It's compilers all the way down.

But so if there's distillation, and more distillation, and more distillation, what do we end up with ? A world of ELI5 ? "Grey zones are for losers" ?

I think Toronto would do just fine as New Buffalo.

MAANGO - this is the first time I've seen this.

Decisions, decisions. Microsoft/Meta Amazon/Apple/Alphabet Netflix/Nvidia Google Oracle ?

Think about it the way the US thought about them pesky Rooskies during the Cold War:

Don't look at intentions. Look at capabilities.

Nihilistic power acquisition ? Control over all hoominz ?

"We use the demo to determine how much of your wallet we try to empty."

And one of them died.

> The government is already looking for a great excuse to criminalize open source models.

Sounds interesting+scary. Do you have some source for this ?

If tasked with this, I would start with an image of a piano keyboard and ask: Why the hell does it look so weird ? Black and white keys in some infernally strange layout ? WHY ?

Which takes you very quickly to equal temperament and perfect fourths and perfect fifths. This tells us where the notes C and F and G are located on the chromatic scale, but then the rest are pretty arbitrary eh. Semitones from C to C go 2-2-1-2-2-2-1, but there is nothing heavenly ordained by this particular arrangement. E-to-F and B-to-C are a collective choice.

If I had been presented with this kind of explanation fifty years ago, I might have been less skeptical of the entire enterprise.

> The simplest and easiest geopolitical strategy that is available to any country: switch completely to renewables (solar, maybe wind)

This lessens the impact of attacks on transformers too. A serious point of vulnerability.

Proving Riemann sure would clean up a lot of contingent/dependent number theory.

So the business challenge is to balance sizable investments and relatively small marginal costs. Not so different from other digital goods.

Why didn't I see any of these in Lynch's Dune ? Totally appropriate.

In the USA ? I ask because the EU is putting effort into harmonising signaling (and all railway comms) across the union and it seems to be a fairly imposing task.

I watched a talk by Lee Smolin and he seems to have a great take on how physics relates to life. That moment to moment the universe supports and runs on spontaneity and free will. I'd love to find a really good summation of his ideas.

Eggs stave off hunger SO well. When I'm gonna be on the road, the only breakfast that fits the bill is 3 or 4 eggs - no more overpriced stale barfy airport-style crap for me, thank you very much!

The Jetsons' Rosey was never seen cleaning the bathroom, was she/it ? Some things are too implausible even for childrens' science fiction.

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!... see only the Great Oz.

I know nothing about a purported interwebz phenom called Mr Beast. In case it arises.. is his stuff safe for a 6yo ?

Consciousness requires qualia. My 0,02€.

In Helsinki, three minutes max.

> Why is the y-axis not starting at 0% for all measures?

Honestly, look at the graphs you see today. Nobody starts at zero any more, with the two stacked tildes interrupting the vertical axis to indicate an omitted range.

I imagine this bad habit started in the 90s when no affordable/free graphing software had the feature. Then it fossilised into graphing ineptitude.

In my decades on teh interwebz I've never read a good in-depth look at the Mac trackpad. It intrigues me always, how it pops back at your finger on a click, until one of those rare times that the machine locks up completely and then... the trackpad is... dead as a doornail. Intriguing.

pronounced "by-kesht"

... and setting the terms for future "user engagement".