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Wouldn't it be more efficient to convert waste proteins into fertiliser for plants? Plus, while the article makes much of the python's ability to withstand periods of scarcity, I would think storing grains/beans would be even better... for example, properly stored grains/beans aren't vulnerable to respiratory infections..

Quite odd to label people trying to end horrific violence as "militants"...

And is it really outlandish to want to stop hurting animals that really are similar to cats, dogs and yes, us humans, at least as far as the ability to perceive pain and basic emotions. Perhaps the propaganda is actually that it is okay for non-human animals to endure horrific suffering, just so that some humans can spend a few minutes "enjoying" the taste of their flesh or breast-milk.. (the production of which also requiring huge amounts of plant-based feed, which significantly contributes to deforestation & methane emissions)

I certainly don't excuse Hamas - they are a despicable & evil terrorist organisation - and more evil than the IDF. This is quite obvious and uncontroversial though, so people often don't bother pointing this out.

If you launch a rocket from your kitchen on the 12th floor, I am allowed to defend myself, but not by flattening the entire building and killing a hundred innocent children, when you have probably gone to another building or tunnel.

There are many reporters in Gaza who are documenting the thousands of dead & injured children..

The vast majority civilians are getting killed & buried alive due to the aerial bombings where the IDF is trying to assassinate members of Hamas - they obviously don't give any warnings for such strikes.

And the current offensive isn't a response to the rockets, which have been fired for years, but to the Hamas ground invasion, which the IDF should have been prepared for 24/7 & could have completely defeated.

"Their ancestors lost their homes when they needlessly started, and then lost, a war" - the Palestinian villagers did not start any wars - the war was started by the rulers of neighboring states...

The IDF actually can avoid the vast majority of civilian casualties - they are the ones choosing to drop a huge number of bombs. They can do their job of defending Israel by actually protecting the border, and go after Hamas in a much slower & more precise way.

See this article from Israel for an in-depth examination of IDF tactics: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-cal...

Encouraging everyone to try going vegan - it can greatly reduce the amount of animal abuse and environmental damage in our world - plus these days it's easier than ever with loads of high-quality information on nutrition and recipes.

I recently made this webapp: https://foodchoices.app

I love how this sutta makes it clear what its definition of pure love is (wishing that everyone is well, unconditionally), and that this should be cultivated towards all beings, including animals.

Sadly though most Buddhist laypeople are not vegan, though some popular teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh did promote minimising the suffering of animals via such practical means as making vegan choices..

Regarding meditation, Ajahn Brahm from the Thai Forest Tradition has taught extensively not just focused Metta Meditation, but how Metta (i.e. love/acceptance) towards the present moment is a key part of other techniques like meditation of breathing. One of his books, "Kindfulness", really gets into this.

But work in social sciences will often be inherently harder to replicate due to, for example, groups of human beings being more complex than groups of proteins - so there are a lot more variables, confounding factors, difficulties doing double-blind randomised trials, and so on...

Interesting that Intel's code for this includes numerous references to LZ4, as if that's the actual algorithm the hardware originally aimed to accelerate.. So seems like LZ4 and ZSTD are quite similar?

https://github.com/intel/QAT-ZSTD-Plugin/blob/main/src/qatse...

F# is also part of the OCaml family, has a great to-JS transpiler (https://fable.io/) and F# code can also be used in .NET projects.

Much gratitude to Bram for being such an inspiration - not just developing a super-useful project but thinking about how his work can be of benefit to the most needy. All his good works continue on!

"Better for the Environment"...

What's even better for the environment is not buying a new computer unless it's actually necessary.. my refurbished M1 Air 8GB still works great - I can comfortably run a Debian VM with Vivaldi & VS Code (doing .NET development), and when I need a GPU for a few hours a month I just use a cloud instance.

There is also https://nat.dev - $5 with no expiry

Just imagine how much tech debt can be generated by an overuse of GPTs... One concerning scenario is if software needed for e.g. garbage collection or food warehousing has some critical bug, but the AIs can't fix it, and the human employees (and even consultants) have a very hard time figuring out what's going on too..

Thanks, I wasn't aware RTK now has a saga-like "listener" feature - will look into it!

What I like about sagas are their simplicity & power (once one understands how generators & effects work), plus the eventChannel feature which lets one integrate with non-redux events. Good TypeScript support is a problem though, and I've had to resort to typed-redux-saga :/

In my experience redux-toolkit + redux-saga for async stuff usually work really well. In case of performance problems one can go with profiling + targeted optimisations (e.g. a separate store, some locally managed state).

"Google killer" is hyperbole, but I think Google does have a challenge since chat-based search may be much harder to monetise & thus less profitable. One reason is because people are used to having ads on the search results page, but ChatGPT presents itself as a human advisor, and in this context I suppose people would be quite unhappy to have ads injected into their conversation.

TRT by the way comes with likely risks such as heart disease & turbocharging any existing prostate cancer

I've found Web Components to be a very nice way of adding interactivity to a server-rendered application (e.g. server-side Blazor). Lit works quite well and has options to avoid an extra build step (https://lit.dev/docs/getting-started/#use-bundles)

You're right, although farmed animals eating grass has its own complexities such as deforestation, low yield per hectare, methane emissions & "non-arable land" actually being a vague/relative category where hardy food crops like alfalfa can often be grown. But overall if the world moved to exclusively grass-fed meat it would be a massive improvement.

The limited compassion of human beings.. Most people don't care that much unless they're directly affected. This limits the willingness of society to do what's arguably in our best interests, like preventing severe environmental problems by limiting unnecessary consumption, or contributing to a culture where we help provide everyone with basic necessities like food - we may be the ones needing help in the future. I think not caring that much for others also contributes to meaninglessness, unhappiness, and mental health problems.

I don't know the solution, but am trying to "work on it" through e.g. donations & vegan advocacy - I think reducing the abuse of animals in factory farms is a "low-hanging fruit" for reducing suffering & ecological problems - it's usually much more efficient to eat plants directly instead of feeding them to animals.

Yep, I'm also grateful to have discovered i3, only several years ago for me. Thanks to its low memory usage it's helped me save a decent amount of money as I'm able to easily develop on a Linux VM running on an 8GB M1 and don't need to upgrade to 16GB.

I was "compelled" to get MacOS as I develop an iOS app using flutter. I needed a lightweight power-efficient laptop so got a second-hand 8GB M1 and can fairly comfortably develop (VSCode + dotnet + nodejs + many tabs in firefox) inside a Debian VM running i3 with zram & UTM... Perhaps it depends on how memory-hungry one's development actually is - a massive Java Eclipse project might not work nearly as well.

Sadly the vast majority do not..

Please, lets not waste electricity & emit more CO2 for the sake of unnecessary eye-candy..

I find this very disappointing - to me one of the main points of EA is trying to maximise proven effectiveness & minimising unnecessary overheads. Where is the evidence that hosting so many in-person conferences is much more effective than a rare large in-person conference + many "mini-conferences" online?

There are still many organisations that seem to be doing excellent work aligned with the EA ethos. The Life You Can Save, GiveWell and Animal Charity Evaluators are still updating their charity reviews. I hope the brand damage doesn't reduce their donations!

Also check out the VSpaceCode extension bundle - it reduces the need to use the mouse, but unfortunately not completely.

Thanks for sharing.. While we can admire & protect many aspects of nature, there's no reason for us to take other animals as our role-models..

Our tastes mostly come from our distant ancestors. Some of them are clearly harmful in the modern world, e.g. people eating too much delicious sugar leading to obesity, diabetes, etc.

Just as we evolved to mostly eat cooked meat rather than raw meat, we can also evolve to stop eating killed meat altogether.. A more environmentally sustainable & compassionate world is critically important for our future well-being (and possibly survival).