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Jetroid··on Sudan, last male northern white rhino, dies in Kenya
Kudzu is an invasive species because it out-competes other types of flora. It is not an invasive species purely because of human control. True, humans have helped it affect other species by moving them, but if Kudzu somehow (perhaps a form of geological change happens in thousands of years like a land bridge, or continental shift, or maybe the seeds are simply moved by some migrating population of bird) reached these new ecosystems by it's own means, it would still be an invasive species.

My point is that unless there is some way to restrict which 'biomes' different organisms can inhabit, some invasive species will outcompete others, particularly if some less competitive species are evolved for specific niche environments only found on Earth. This segregation is not likely to happen naturally as it has on earth, and thus the idealistic diversity and preservation that yohann305 was hoping for wouldn't occur without human intervention and control.

Jetroid··on Sudan, last male northern white rhino, dies in Kenya
You'd still need some human control, to stop invasive species (eg the Kudzu vine comes to mind) from killing off other species.
Jetroid··on An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
I knew a guy who ran a business which designed and sold PCBs. He'd make up different names to stamp on PCBs. Designed by Joe Bloggs, Code by Derek Smarts, Layout by Jamie Simple, etc. He wanted the business to seem bigger than it actually was.
Jetroid··on Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
Compared to the source article, it's relatively mundane. I don't claim otherwise.

I'm not a photographer. I don't claim to be. Maybe this event I experienced seems much more common for someone who describes themself with 'dev/design/photo/animation', but for me it seemed pretty unlikely. I don't take photos often (The last photo I took in my gallery of my smartphone is dated December 2017).

The crazy thing for me and my experience was how close in time the two images were (considering neither of us are photographers/regularly take photographs), and how you can match the patterns in the sky to estimate my position relative to hers. Something like this had never happened to me before.

One man's junk is another's treasure and all. :)

Jetroid··on Two Photographers Unknowingly Shot the Same Millisecond in Time
Reminds me of the time when my sister and I took pictures with very similar composition of the sky - and you can see the same clouds in each photo.

https://jetholt.com/connected-minds/

I love things like this.

Jetroid··on Cherry’s new switches may help bring mechanical keyboards to more laptops
Mechanical Keyboards have always been a curse in disguise for me. Sure, the feedback is nice but the 'click' sound is very distracting and breaks my flow.

It's even worse when a coworker/housemate/other person has one. I swear that sound is not impeded by walls.

Jetroid··on Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings
It'd probably be valuable to add settings that consider allergies. Vegetarian and gluten free too. Looks interesting, though!
Jetroid··on 2012 Wine bug "Drawing in Photoshop CS5 is almost impossible" now fixed
This seems like a very naive view to me. This attack on Wine is by extension an attack on Linux, or otherwise I don't understand it. Wine exists for convenience for Linux users to use Software that has not been made available on Linux.

Some advantages of Linux:

* Can choose from a variety of window managers to suit your needs, from windows-like (Chalet, Zorin), to developer focussed (eg i3)

* Linux is free. Windows 10 isn't, unlike you claim. Unless I'm been mislead, the Windows 10 for-free offer was simply an ugrade for existing Windows installs; not a free to all offering. It's therefore unavailable unless you've already 'bought-in' to the Microsoft ecosystem.

* Linux has had updating figured out for years and lets you update in the background. Windows still pesters you do reboot.

* Package managers are a much more efficient way to download and install software than any way I have seen on Windows.

Some disadvantages of Windows 10:

* Bundled with a lot of bloatware (from what I have seen)

* Tracking / selling user data (PII? Not sure.)

* Ads on the start menu

Plus, with the existence of Linux, at least Microsoft doesn't have a full monopoly over the PC OS market. That said, I'd rather have myself be nestled firmly in the hands of a community than a corporation.

I still wonder why Windows exists when Linux is such an excellent OS. /s

Jetroid··on UFO spotted by US fighter jet pilots
I've always loved this book. I still remember the phrase "HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND LET NO ONE LEAVE UNSATISFIED!" to this day.

I think it presents an incredibly realistic view of an ETI visiting this planet, especially if life is common in the universe. They don't come for us; hey are just passing through.

I have to wonder, realistically, how modern governments would respond to such a visitation.

Jetroid··on The strange magic of Swindon’s seven-in-one roundabout
It's more that they're shoehorning such a divisive political event into an otherwise completely unrelated article that insults me.

The connection is tenuous - brexit only being mentioned because it happened in Britain.

It just gave me the distasteful feeling that brexit was the only part of british culture - other than our penchant for roundabouts - that this commentator knew about. Part of british culture that half of the country probably still feels burned by.

Jetroid··on The strange magic of Swindon’s seven-in-one roundabout
That, and the video had that very insulting 'brexit' joke. Poor taste.
Jetroid··on GitHub Pages – Usage Limits
Any tips on how to configure this? I'm pretty sure my setup has the problem that ploggingdev talked about.

I acknoledged the issue given, but considered it better that the content the user is accessing was hidden for their privacy - the link between Cloudflare and GitHub is backbone-of the internet stuff and has a whole different set of risks. Would be nice to plug it.

Jetroid··on Thank HN: From Google form to $1k in revenue in one month
Shrewd, this story is just going to bring more visitors. :-)
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