1) Does this require that the atmosphere forever stay at the current CO2 concentration, or will it continue to work well if we manage to clean the atmosphere properly?
2) Does this also pave the way for more permanent CO2 cleanup of the atmosphere?
3) Since they have really economical extraction of H2, could they just ramp down the CO2 extraction and instead buy in CO2 emitted from industrial processes? I'm not sure if this is an interesting suggestion or not, since the CO2 goes into the atmosphere either way, but at least we would be getting two usages out of it.
Reddit has lots of niche content that is extremely valuable the one time you use it, and I'm sick of seeing sites with valuable user-generated content dying off because the incentives of the owning company are misaligned with their community.
Would it be possible to just re-implement something like Reddit on top of IPFS? Ideally that knowledge should never be allowed to die off until truly no one cares about it.
I really miss Japanese duvet/futon covers; the corners have holes for the duvet to stick through, and the duvet has velcro straps that attach to loops on the cover. Every duvet/cover I own lacks this totally basic thing that prevents the duvet from falling all to one side of the cover.
Maybe it's good for GitHub, GitLab, etc. to be as open and liberal as possible with its definition of open source, but I think there is definitely an argument to be made that businesses making source available without actually open-sourcing it should pay to have it hosted. GitHub didn't become proactive about asking users to add licenses to repos until far into its existence, and there's plenty of code there that doesn't have an explicit license, but I think participating in the open source community should actually require that your source is open. License proliferation is already an issue, but adding non-open source to GitHub seems especially dangerous to me. The license should be highlighted in bright red with a big note saying that users are not allowed to do what they will with the source code.
This looks amazing! Also, I had no idea that tutoring was over $100/hour, but it makes sense, being a specialized skill that's employed on a freelancer basis (meaning half or more time is spent traveling or finding clients).
I've been really frustrated trying to study more advanced math topics (functional analysis, complex analysis, abstract algebra, etc.) that I think are super interesting but are just out of my reach (Tristan Needham's books come to mind). There is the math stackexchange, which is wonderful help from volunteers, but you're not necessarily guaranteed an answer (and definitely not a timely one), sometimes the answers leave out key details ("exercise for the reader"), and I think having videos of worked solutions from tutors will just fill my need better.
I had been thinking that maybe AI would step up here, but I like having human access better.
By "your favorite books" does this mean that I can take a picture of a book, or upload a PDF or something? For IP reasons I'm certain your app can't come with any of my favorite books.
I don't see this in the demo so I'll ask here: what does the UI look like for identifying unknown faces? In Picasa there was a tab somewhere with unknown faces grouped together by what it thought were the same person. It had a really good flow for this that was perfect for doing genealogy work with loads of old photos.
There have been several really good episodes of Oxide and Friends discussing the danger to open source posed by license proliferation, the danger of copyright assignment, the danger of conflating downloads or FOSS project popularity with income and a viable business model, and appropriate stewardship of a shared project. This is an area that sort of bleeds over between engineering and politics, and as politics go I think this is an a very important topic for developers to understand well and engage with.
The part about musculoskeletal issues really hits home for me.
Can anyone recommend a book or site to learn to diagnose and fix musculoskeletal issues where possible? For example, I've had one leg longer than the other for most of my life, and it has caused my a lot of back pain. I went to a physical therapist and he figured out pretty quickly that the two major pieces of my pelvis were twisted and not aligned with each other, and he had a simple move I could do to crack it back into place (essentially just squeezing a pillow between my legs). Now it's part of my morning routine, and I'm working on hip flexibility and strength as well.
But I also get other misalignments and I would like to feel empowered to free myself from pain where possible.
The gold rush scene is the most captivating to me. The film style looks like it's from the 70's/80's (reminds me of Little House on the Prairie), but the footage is from a drone standpoint. I find it magically immersive in a time when none of the technology to make the shot would have existed.
Steven Pinker's _Better Angels of our Nature_ is a great read on the subject, as well. Essentially a history of the decline of violence, but also including economic aspects that support humans becoming better.
Quick google search of the AZ law says it will tax solar energy exported to other states and divide the proceeds among the local residents, which sounds a bit more nuanced than your summary. Not saying it's positive, but it's not clear to me that it's negative without more details; some form of this could incentivize more of the land to be used for solar, for example. I actually thought that this sort of law would be disallowed by the fed, since they reserve the right to govern interstate commerce.
Reminds me of the TiVo creator interview in "Programmers at work." There's a line somewhere that you should not cross, lest involved parties take action. The line for TiVo was making it possible to skip commercials. This feels like it has crossed a line as well, especially with text like "eliminating the need for Spotify Premium." If this actually becomes popular, Spotify would have to lock down their API's.
The readme says that I can convert Jupyter notebooks, but to what extent does this actually work? What if I've imported custom JS to render mathjax or added custom CSS? What if I've added inline graphics or videos?
Honest question, is this not something that people can bring a class action lawsuit for? It's malicious and wanton property damage for the purpose of profit. I don't think they have a legal right to do that just because they have the commit keys to the app.
Duolingo is cool, but I really think that having students produce something other than answers to multiple-choice questions would lead to higher quality learning results. It should be much more possible now especially, with all of the AI advances.
I guess maybe I can appreciate the candor used here, but holy smokes! Telling the entire world that you fired the CEO because you think they are a liar is really unprofessional, in my opinion. You just don't do this. You come to an agreement quietly and the CEO moves on "for personal reasons" or something and people read between the lines. I would not trust anyone on the board to not throw me under the bus after a thing like this happens.
What's most surprising to me there is that she actually recognized Snoopy as a dog. He's a pretty abstracted drawing, walking on two feet and pointing with human hands. There's something interesting to be said about perceptual development there. I believe that Daniel Everett said that even the adult Piraha couldn't understand abstracted 2D drawings at all.
I haven't listened to Oxide & Friends, but I absolutely love On The Metal. The guests are eminent and extremely interesting, the hosts are passionate and fun, and there's always a wonderful chemistry among the hardware geeks on the show that just makes me so excited to get into hardware and see what the future brings for us. Highly recommended.
Couldn't you still game that by choosing the starting side? If you want heads, and you start on heads and get a tails for the first round, you could start on tails on the second round to try to get another tails and reset to step 1.
What's the point of having a separate codepoint for the Angstrom if it's specified to normalize back to the regular "capital A with ring above" codepoint anyway?
Related: I wasn't in the US at the time, but I think a close 6) would have to be the intense polarization and ongoing "culture war," wherein one side was already being told that something else coming out of their mouth was literally killing people, and doubting the veracity of the statement. Wearing a mask is slightly panic-inducing anyway (ever try to muzzle a dog?), and coupled with the fact that one side of the political isle took up its championing, this allowed some members of one side to wear the mask sanctimoniously and some members of the other to avoid or disbelieve any rhetoric (scientific or otherwise) promoting their use. As long as the more general lack of cooperation carries on, the US is at risk of not being able to unify over important things like public health.
I hope I don't regret asking, but I'm genuinely curious about the details here. What religious/political implications are there (in the US, I presume?) for babies and mothers dying a lot in the old times? I've never seen this discussion become polarized before.
Can anyone say how FDLIBM improves protection against fingerprinting? They sort of gloss over this completely but I bet it has a very interesting explanation.
Back in 2013 or so Quora was absolutely amazing, flowing with content so fascinating and enriching that I had to unsubscribe from updates because I would just spend my entire day reading there. I was sad to come back many years later and find it mostly overtaken by ads and spam.
But being able to request it and having a built-in backdoor for anyone with a key are different things. It has happened before that the Chinese government figured out network equipment backdoors that were put in for the US government. All your company secrets are there for the taking for anyone with the resources to figure out that backdoor. Especially now that people know it exists. Shouldn't this at least start the clock on expiring this hardware?
I wonder why GitHub never implemented "does this other existing ticket already cover your issue?" suggestions like StackOverflow. That would probably help in a lot of these situations.
Reading some of the other comments that say that Functional Programming in Lean is a good enough introduction and a learnxinyminutes is unnecessary, I feel I need to clarify that y should be somewhere between 5 and 15. Functional Programming in Lean is going to be probably 20 hours or more for me.