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marmetio··on Prehistoric Images and Medicines Under the Sea in Cosquer Cave
Both comments said it was natural. Only your original comment sort of insinuated that it wasn't.
marmetio··on Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction?
I was thinking of the same channel, but the video "why you don't want to do anything after binging 4 hours of YouTube videos".

https://youtu.be/zBgCRJluWTc

marmetio··on My 2022 self was wrong about meditation, monitors, and sleep
Not who you asked, but Healthy Gamer GG has a lot of short meditations that only take a few minutes. There's a course on his site but a lot of the same information is scattered throughout his YouTube.

https://youtu.be/86sYinrLuPA

marmetio··on Prehistoric Images and Medicines Under the Sea in Cosquer Cave
My comment has the exact same information but with different wording and it has a score of +5. The different reception can't be due to the information content, can it?
marmetio··on The teen mental illness epidemic began around 2012
You can probably generalize and say that most teens stress about competing or despair about their prospects. I'd nitpick your use of stats, but I don't want to miss the forest for the trees.
marmetio··on Prehistoric Images and Medicines Under the Sea in Cosquer Cave
> flooding that occurred when the seas rose after the end of the last glaciation

The planet did this one to itself.

marmetio··on Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
That's what the "site:" operator is for.
marmetio··on Ask HN: How do you find stuff on the internet now?
I've reverted my expectations about search engines to what they were in the early days, dusted off my old research skills, and accepted that I'm going to have to do some work myself. I still use Google, but its ability to approximate a reference librarian is diminished.
marmetio··on Simulation of tsunami from dinosaur-killing asteroid that brought 2.5 mile waves
Occupational safety doesn't happen just because you think it should. Recognizing when financial incentives are insufficient is important to designing a realistic solution.
marmetio··on As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
Tracking it is your hobby. It's not a waste if you enjoy doing it.
marmetio··on As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
If that's true, then clearly they're doing something about it, so I don't understand why you think they're not doing enough for security. If it is aliens, why would they confirm it and start a race to get alien tech first? You can wait a bit for them to figure it out. If it's not aliens, why would they reveal the details of classified information?
marmetio··on As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
They already responded to FOIA requests, briefed Congress publicly and privately, and announced AARO when they didn't have to. We're pretty well-informed, and Congress has some oversight. It's very ordinary.
marmetio··on FreeCAD Day 2023: Report and continued discussion
Maybe. Blender has had an organization behind it for about 20 years [1]. FreeCAD formed its organization less than 2 years ago [2].

It'll be a while no matter what, but their success will largely depend on how well their roadmap aligns with the needs of their potential financial backers.

[1] https://www.blender.org/about/

[2] https://fpa.freecad.org/

marmetio··on As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
We have AARO for addressing the threat. Why is that not good enough?
marmetio··on As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
If it was just a science thing or they didn't care about the security risk, I don't see why they'd keep forming new organizations that are increasingly secretive.
marmetio··on As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
> it’s affecting military training operations and putting our fighter jet pilots at risk
marmetio··on As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
Then maybe they can mitigate the risk without you knowing about it.
marmetio··on As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
Many of the characteristics of Qui-Gon Jinn are consistent with midi-chloreans as described in Star Wars teachings. Initially described in The Phantom Menace and further elaborated in the Expanded Universe and then by various Jedi masters. Jedi masters engagement with these creatures was through intense meditation. And according to their estimates there may be more than 5 billion of them.
marmetio··on As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
We had AATIP and now we have UAPTF. They do stuff and brief Congress about it. Why is that not good enough?
marmetio··on As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
What do you want people to get out of those analyses? They quantify the incredible observations, but they don't explain how those observations could be possible, nor rule out other explanations.
marmetio··on A single line of code brought down a half-billion euro rocket launch
True. I should have said "if it was needed".

Had they validated more, they would have realized they made the wrong thing.

marmetio··on A single line of code brought down a half-billion euro rocket launch
A bounds check wouldn't have helped. The value would have saturated instead of rolling over, resulting in a similar failure.

The mistake was an incorrect specification. A programming tool can't identify that you've made the wrong thing, which is why we need "rigamarole" to validate the spec. That's what the systems engineers are for.

marmetio··on Astrée Static Analyzer for C and C++
I believe the "level" referred to is soundness. Codesonar is self-admittedly not sound [1], and instead focuses on other valuable aspects of static analysis. It's a different type of tool.

[1] https://blogs.grammatech.com/how-sound-static-analysis-compl...

marmetio··on How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird
Could do. There's zoo pandas. There's the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone where they're less likely to get shot by farmers protecting livestock. Anti-poaching guards for wild rhinos. Seagrass restoration for manatees. Programs for people to grow baby mussels in fish tanks so they can be relocated to the ocean. Hunting programs for deer culling. Giving out free native plants and seeds to help native birds. Lots of options depending on the needs of each species.
marmetio··on Estimating square roots in your head
I would never do this much work in my head :-)

You can get a decent answer just by glancing at the fixed scales of a slide rule [1]. This is also called a nomogram, and you can make your own custom ones programmatically with PyNomo [2].

[1] https://youtu.be/dT7bSn03lx0?t=11m45s

[2] http://pynomo.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

marmetio··on GNU Radio in a Direct-RF World [video]
What would you do if they were?
marmetio··on How to Beat Stress and Anxiety
You can ask the author for the missing footnote by leaving a comment on the page itself.
marmetio··on How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird
A managed population is wild. You can do a lot without having to keep an animal captive in a zoo.
marmetio··on Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s
With fresh figs, you're supposed to turn them inside out when you eat them. If you really wanted, I guess you could pick out the wasp if it's still noticeably intact.
marmetio··on How we plan to de-extinct the Dodo bird
I guess if you dumped them in the wild and wished them luck. But they would probably actively manage the species.
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