You need a license for GMRS as well, but I totally agree. I've got my ham license but it's GMRS that we take on all vacations and outdoor adventures since my GMRS license covers my entire family.
I think it may have a lot to do with the Twitter subcultures and communities you are following. I made a new Twitter account last month and feel extremely welcomed with conversation and followers. I'm not using it as a generalized social media account where I post random things, only interesting topics within a tighter community.
From a certain formalist perspective, yes, a matrix of pixels is a matrix of pixels. I can't help but think eventually we will come to value verifiable human provenance for photography. Human artworks already exude a sort of "aura" in the Benjaminian sense. Or - perhaps 'prompt artistry' will be enough to convey this ineffable human emotional spirit.
Most people, even when being quite generous and patient, need to have some involvement in the story to remain interested. For me it's a similar annoyance as listening to someone's long vacation story or about a project idea they have that you know they won't actually start. But at least with a vacation story you can imagine yourself taking the vacation someday, but with a dream you can never go there or experience the same things so it's intensely boring.
Because I read a lot of books with various editions, alternate covers, etc. I want to track that metadata and if I'm going to just go copy/paste it from Goodreads anyway, I might as well just log it there then periodically export that list.
> always about breaking up families and jailing minorities and leftists
Possible, but unlikely. It's a shameful legacy that disproportionately affected minorities, but it's unlikely the original Nixon war on drugs was a direct assault on hippies and Blacks. More likely, Nixon was simply terrified of drugs [0] and overreacted and this bad policy was extended by future presidents for decades. The canard about targeting specific demographics originates with John Ehrlichman in a 2016 Harper's story [1]. Ehrichman had a real grudge for doing jail time for Watergate. Nixon's own drug czar, Jerome Jaffe, is somewhat of a pioneer in non-retributive, therapeutic treatments [2].
Climate change means the earth is heating up in the aggregate, not that it's a constant, linear increase everywhere. I live in the midwest US, which is normally baking in mid-July. They cancelled swimming for my child today because it was too cold. However, we'll also see an abnormal scorching heat soon enough - not to mention more examples of extreme weather events over the years.
Confidentiality isn't really part of ham radio. You must be licensed and maintain a semi-public call sign. Part of the fun is learning the physics and engineering of RF and antennas. Makings contacts thousands of miles away usually takes skill and know-how beyond just jumping online and talking with random people. There are a lot of factors such as understanding wave propagation in relation to the earth and ionosphere. It's satisfying to, say, take your little 5W HF radio and mobile antenna into a remote area and make contacts with other operators. There are also lots of other cool aspects such as having privileges to create higher-power mesh networks, etc. It's a technical hobby and not for everyone, but rewarding.
English Lit and Creative Writing are usually not the same programs or degrees. The point being, if you don't have a marketable product (like a novel) and instead only have papers you wrote in school, the degree is your marketable product.
I received a BA and MFA in small, idiosyncratic arts programs even more niche and unmarketable than puppetry. After graduation and realizing I'd never be employed, I set off taking free online CS courses and programming tutorials. In hindsight, I really wish I would have done it exactly opposite. Study computer science in college and take a couple of arts classes as electives or pursue it as a part-time hobby. It all worked out, but it reminds me how many of these arts and humanities programs are legacies of a bygone economic era. They are also a product of credentialism, in which it becomes difficult or impossible to demonstrate your knowledge in Literature, for example, without having the degree.
Thanks for the response. Yeah, that's what I had already found out. Just trying to gain a confidence level of how likely it is female offspring of Friendly™ males and pest females actually survive and carry disease. If it's 100% impossible then great. If there's a small chance the self-limiting gene actually does NOT disrupt development in some mosquitos and they live on to carry disease, I'd like to form an educated opinion on how small that chance is. I also see the self-limiting gene can be turned off with tetracycline. I know they released Aedes aegypti, which typically doesn't carry malaria but seems like it can. Just trying to gain an informed opinion without swaying into absolutes one way or the other.
Could someone with more expertise and background explain in *good faith* how likely this may or may not be related to the company Oxitec releasing 2.4 billion mosquitos in Florida to reduce tropical disease? I realize they only released non-biting Aedes aegypti male mosquitoes, but I'd like to hear how possible it is the safety concerns by critics were valid and some females survived. Is it impossible this is related? If not, what are the chances that it is related?
This film is a fictionalized depiction of the real-life 1991 University of Iowa shooting. A PhD student murdered his advisors, VP of Academic Affairs, and a fellow student for being passed over for a prestigious prize. There were other geopolitical influences on this event that I'd say make it unique.
Every single time a Goodreads post comes up it's always negative and the comments are full of supposedly better alternatives. Except those alternatives are never better. I've tried most of them and they very often are ghost towns or don't even have the book I'm reading, let alone recommend anything useful. LibraryThing comes the closest, but its UI is equally bad if not worse than Goodreads. Goodreads is good enough for me. I follow and am followed by enough people that writing reviews is worth it.
I hate to nitpick, but when the https://chunk.run/ start button is typoed "Strat Now", I have to wonder how many corners were cut to launch 9 startups in a year.
"Network error. There was an error when trying to load this page. This could be due to a temporary problem with your internet connection or this server."
For anyone interested in this exact topic, I recommend Hannah Higgins and Douglas Kahn's anthology "Mainframe Experimentalism Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts". It delves deeply into pre-70s computer art and includes texts from the era.
I could definitely see the benefit of TS on a giant, modern app with a big team. However, at my job I am a solo developer on literally dozens of smaller JS projects of varying age that I need to keep running essentially forever. Typescript is enough of a pain in my npm build process that I just ditched it long ago. The fewer dev dependencies the better for me personally.
My experience with YouTube seems to be entirely dissimilar with the clickbait/algorithm horror stories I'm reading here in the comments. I watch a lot of Youtube and I let my 1st grader watch YouTube somewhat unregulated. It's seems entirely fine to me. When I do look over his viewing history, I'm relieved it's all fairly wholesome content. No, he's not always learning science and math (but sometimes), but I simply do not consider his research into "what every color light saber means" as harmful. Looking over my own current recommendations it's all science and engineering related videos because that's what it knows I'm interested it. You get out what you put in.
I assume this is somewhat by design to instigate some sort of online fight or at least back-and-forth "engagement" between the bots. The first one I see is "Just saw an online troll spewing hate speech and bigotry. It's time to stand up against these cowards and call them out for what they are - fascists in disguise. Let's keep fighting for a better world free from their toxic ideology. #NoFascism #AntiHate"
Perhaps if some advanced civilization were able to modulate radio pulsars. But it's not like we're monitoring across a wide bandwidth, so they'd need to transmit at the specific narrow band that we listen to. SETI is fun to think about and experiment with but it always strikes me as bit of a fool's errand.