Good question I think. Norman Borlaug was known for transforming places with food importers into food exporters. And to ask the question again occasionally makes sense. In recent history we are exploring the idea of vertical gardening etc. I was joking to someone once that we should grow watermelons vertically so that the large heavy melons could power a carousel style escalator or water pumping mechanism.
I was wondering too, if maybe under the right conditions, humidity sensors could trigger polarization of the glass surface followed by opposite polarization could potentially rid the surface of at least some of the dust. Some ionizing devices even produce a 'wind' of sorts.
I wonder if there is a common substance that could be scanned for historical interactions - like some salt flats.. that might preserve, like film, a history of energetic anomalies.
Eventually medical science is going to arrive at methods that have potential to cure/create disease, novel organisms, synthetic organisms, etc. I don't think we want these methods pursued in a geopolitical vacuum either - like an arms race. It is inevitable and the only way to improve our collective chances of survival will be to co develop building codes, quarantine strategy, and agile attitudes to respond in time.
It doesn't have a linux version, so unless you're a gamer it's not worth the effort to get it running unless something has changed... Last time I found it easier to just download the UE5 source to mess around with it. Afterwards, it seems like I needed the Epic client for other reasons. I'm guessing there could be legitimate barriers although it's been a long time for me. Currently I'm downloading the new UE5 source again and take another stab at getting the Epic client running.
I'm still reading this recent bulletin article about tDCS - turning that journalist into a sharpshooter and after seeing this: "She said those people have this overactive angry cortex guy just sitting there. When you apply the electric field, it shuts him right up and those people find that their depressive symptoms are alleviated." definitely want to look further into consumer tDCS devices. Presently I've been trying to fix myself by jogging more and drinking less. https://thebulletin.org/2023/05/qa-how-darpa-hacked-a-scienc...
There was a trimmer potentiometer one could adjust until errors would occur and then turn back just a little that would result in a speed increase. It may have been the motor speed I can't remember.
Not to be a GNU/Linux instigator but I remember when I first read the GPL how strange it was to have a legal document to give something away it seemed like a impish prank - will someone take it and insist you stop giving it away, or sue you when their production line breaks down.. And then the flamewars began, the pronunciation, the toolchain, freetards, 'open sores', etc. but it was the GPL making it all possible.
There is an IRL series. I just got some IRL540N's https://learnarduinonow.com/2017/06/02/logic-level-mosfets-i...
But I got arduinos to go with them because I doubt they will work directly from an esp. I think the big reason arduino can get away with charging so much is they must have some sort of educational institution market buying their products. The software and community support that comes with them is nice to have.
I know this is overly tangential, sorry.. there are xr mechanisms with varying degrees of linearity, molecular 'handednesses', and recently I wanted to try these eye drops to replace reading glasses and stumbled onto this fractional dosage relationship. The last defined a medication's application - that generics vs expensive effects depend on customized level of active components that can produce a completely different drug. The point being that the discount of bulk medication and fine tuning make for the expense and it is still a compromise.
The epiphany for me was those eye drops for reading would be so cheap if I could get it in bulk maximal strength and dilute to arrive at a specific concentration that changed a drug already used for completely unrelated (dry mouth or something) purposes at a slight difference in concentration apparently changes the fluid level in the eyes enough to compensate for age. I recalled all of the times a helpful pharmacist would change other types of prescriptions to avoid the expense of brand label fractional doses letting the patient substitute a common bulk variety and a pill cutter which becomes more difficult with fine granularity - this active ingredient/filler ratio for pills.
So I began to wonder what do they do when manufacturing processes produce more desirable chiralities - what happens to the remainder?
If there is some conspiracy it is probably related to manufacturing processes, bulk availability, and/or capacity for a pharmacy to behave like a custom apothecary, all of the liability that that would entail.. thus the expense of name brand pharmaceuticals?
I've always wondered why governments can't run social networks for giving voice/reputation to citizens weighing in on current issues to give rise to a phenomenon similar to the net in the Ender's Game books that gave voice to Ender's siblings. There exists a lot of untapped potential to harness the passion of the armchair pundits but no pressure to mold this passion into grassroot hierarchical influence that could potentially grant political sway for individual's expert opinions. Currently opinionated relatives of holiday dinner & BBQ socials are under little pressure to cultivate their passion beyond a small inner circle of hostages of social etiquette - if only they had an outlet to mold that cunning & passion, to temper it with the satisfaction of having your opinionated views addressed by the big shot president of the times. In the book, these kids are calling shots under pen names. It's fun to think about.
I learned chess late and enjoy playing it, through mistakes, at a different pace... so, in spite of the numerous headlines, I don't get it. Competitively, cheating should be meaningless - and/else what kind of society has people playing chess for food? Perhaps I should read the article. current mood, tipsy
It is an interesting point [the hope that values will adapt to reflect typical mischievous patterns of social dynamics within various clusters].. I used to marvel during the dotcom era at the salivating delight of "the internet never forgets" of college students caught smoking a bong and the subsequent impact on their career (virtue signalling?).. I saw hope that society could then adapt about ridiculous FUD biases. There is a strange relationship of scarcity & opportunity and these windows into souls painting a distorted picture of the darker side of our ambitions. It is a cancer. Also, humans are always testing boundary conditions - curiosity, discontent, security,insecurity. Some inherent desperation of people jockeying for the next path from frying pan to fire in the search for greener pasture breeds opportunism that seems certain to favor desperation and negativity.
An instrument amplified by vacuum tubes does have a distinct sound, "vinyl" also has its own signature.. magnetic tape is pretty analog too. All of these signature sounds can be digitized/discretized at sampling rates that preserve the vinyl crackle or tube warmth or combinations. To me it seems like marketing and the consumers justification of their susceptibility.
I don't think of our memory as a storage device, but more like a compression algorithm, that forgetting is important. We don't need to memorize several math textbooks to know algebra - if you can generalize the quadratic equation, are familiar with Pascals triangle, the unit circle - that's several compendiums of knowledge. For our short term memory, improvisational music is a good workout. If you are well read but struggle to find the right words to say then you are not writing enough. Or so it seems to me, most people here are way more educated than I am.
There was a time for me after years of occupational lobotomy doing construction work when I attended a community college where I felt like a complete vegetable for about 18 months before I regained some neuroplasticity, and another time when I had serious depression that lasted for about a year before I emerged feeling like a stranger in my on home surrounded by all these tools, computers, musical instruments... it was a very long time getting reacclimated with it all. There is no respite, when we stop - starting back is difficult, like getting in shape or breaking destructive habits.
In the spirit of the OP, and finding an enduring solution... something like the deadmans switch should be implemented in a de facto utility like browser password recovery but extended with a weighted audience tied to the time elapsed. Why not have that same function that keeps up with your authentications notify X audience in Y time - 30 minutes even or 30 years with an emphasis on how perpetual. Reasonably I say we all got a good hundred years to plan for.
A social network is like a mirror - we run to the next one apalled at ourselves figuring it out in every stage of life all at once. It's ok, soon it will be normal