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RosanaAnaDana

2,140 karma · joined November 3, 2017

Water; land cover and land use; remote sensing of forests; biogeochemical cycling; disturbance.
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RosanaAnaDana··on The Great Oxygenation Event
Really, really weird that the article doesn't even mention nitrogen, nostoc or heterocysts. I'm not sure you can have a conversation about the great oxygen holocaust without at least bringing up one of the primary reasons we know "something" about the conditions before the event, specifically that there are still bacteria around today who are putting out a pretty significant amount of effort to create anoxygenic environments specifically for nitrogen fixation; that nitrogen as a terminal electron receptor basically 'cant happen' in the presence of oxygen.

Its just weird to not discuss the evolutionary lineage that still uses pre-oxygenation event hardware (with some extreme bug fixes to deal with oxygen) to fix nitrogen.

RosanaAnaDana··on Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?
Effectively, we've been out-competed in all the low complexity niche; life adds complexity to take advantage of novel niche where there is less competition.
RosanaAnaDana··on TinyML: Ultra-low power machine learning
You also might be able to get a 'compression' sample of space in the same manner, by running an auto-encoder in training mode. Rather than trying to do some kind of hack directly, it collects the same data you mentioned, but rather, is just training on the data in an auto-encoding compression framework. Then it can 'hand off' the compressed models weights, which hypothetically, can be queried or used to simulate the environment. Obviously, there is a lot more to this, but its an interesting idea.
RosanaAnaDana··on American cars are huge and unsafe, but automakers don't want the simple solution
Source?
RosanaAnaDana··on American cars are huge and unsafe, but automakers don't want the simple solution
Have you ever been in a car?
RosanaAnaDana··on American cars are huge and unsafe, but automakers don't want the simple solution
The main business of any industry is manufacturing demand.
RosanaAnaDana··on Artificial intelligence systems found to excel at imitation, but not innovation
> Innovation probably isn't as wanted as you think.

Hollywood having given over almost entirely to franchises regurgitating the same tired plots and stories ad-nauseam would seem to agree with you.

RosanaAnaDana··on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
Is it possible to self host signal? Can signal move towards a model like the fediverse where the software development is decoupled from the hosting costs?
RosanaAnaDana··on Steam Deck OLED
Looks like I wont have to wait..

https://www.pcgamer.com/steamos-on-handheld-pcs/

RosanaAnaDana··on Steam Deck OLED
If they were on SteamOS or some other linux variant for this use case, I probably would have gone with them. The hardware is much better.

But the UI; how I actually interact with the system? I care about that.

RosanaAnaDana··on Louis Rossmann given three YouTube community guideline strikes
Also he was like, 100% in the wrong with regards to his issue in NY.

But its fine, I don't mind a bit of a used car salesman vibe. I still respect his work on RtR

RosanaAnaDana··on Show HN: Web app to generate AI pictures with logos "hidden" in them
The number of people hijacking foss tools and wrapping them up behind paywalls is hilarious.
RosanaAnaDana··on OpenAI just replaced its core values with completely different ones
> To love a product means to pay money for it.

We need a word for these kind of randian sociopathies.

RosanaAnaDana··on My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website
Quite literally yes. There are often multiple click throughs. Every Department, agency, sub-agency, all the way down to federal dog catcher has decided the most important thing is to invent a new way of getting data from them.
RosanaAnaDana··on Toyota’s advanced battery technology roadmap
This is the sense I was trying to communicate.

I'm not flooring it, but when I make a speed adjustment, it happens 'right away'. There is no delay. Its immediate.

RosanaAnaDana··on Toyota’s advanced battery technology roadmap
Idk what the 0-60 of my leaf is but I beat every one off the line when I want to. It makes me far more comfortable on the freeway to get all the power I want on demand to quickly and safely make a maneuver. I would never have considered it before owning an EV, but now that I have one, I'll definitely be considerate of it in my next EV purchase.

Previously I had only had crappy used ICE vehicles, and the acceleration was so bad it had never occurred to me how much better driving could be with good acceleration. I probably wouldn't include it in my calculus for an ICE vehicle, but I'll probably never purchase another ICE vehicle either.

RosanaAnaDana··on Toyota’s advanced battery technology roadmap
>196mi range

Oof size "La Grande".

RosanaAnaDana··on Appeals court rules White House likely overstepped 1st Amendment on social media
Welcome to Lemmy.
RosanaAnaDana··on How might life migrate through the universe?
There is another option here, where organic precursors accumulate via some currently unexplored process.

Really any system capable of creating themrodynamic disequilibrium and a chemical gradient could be an option. An example of this might be the freeze and thaw cycle of large planetoids. Swing close to the planet, warm up enough, move away, cool enough. Just a basic cycle (I believe the surface images of Pluto support the existence of such cycles). If volatile ices can have just enough warth to create bonds, there are many many many more of these types of objects than well places 'goldilocks' planets. Give it enough time and one will knock out of orbit and smash into a planet that does have adequate conditions for the development of life. Just a bunch of precursor chemistry to life, but plenty of it.

I've tried to look into deep space volatile ice chemistry but haven't exactly found great resources. But it strikes me that if a simple extraplanetary mechanism for pre-life chemistry accumulation exists, well, then life is probably pretty much everywhere.

RosanaAnaDana··on E-ink is so Retropunk
I've done 3 new computer builds in the previous 6 months.

Both Linux installs were an 'it just works experience'.

The windows box has been a total pain in the ass and I've had to reinstall multiple times.

Linux is a better out of the box experience than Windows.

RosanaAnaDana··on Naked Mole Rat’s Longevity Gene Gives Mice a Longer Life
rejct monke, return to crab
RosanaAnaDana··on Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012)
> overalls

Coveralls, or poopiesuits.

RosanaAnaDana··on Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?
Having toured a couple, they also smell like farts.
RosanaAnaDana··on Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships (2021)
I mean. It was not elegant.
RosanaAnaDana··on Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships (2021)
That's my porch cat, Sable. She just showed up one day and made herself at home. Real sweet cat. I've taken her to the vet a few times for bad wounds.

Was on the porch the other night and saw her take a 15 foot dump out of a tree with a rat ( big one too). She landed on top and made short work of the rat. She's an excellent ratter.

RosanaAnaDana··on Run Firefox on ChromeOS
I have an HP with a touch screen and yet I'm hesitant to go linux on it. Am I being silly?
RosanaAnaDana··on Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)
I guess I meant it to whomever that smurph was. In your original comment, I didn't see you calling out any individual either in the comments, or in history as being racists. It might not be clear because I believe the admins have deleted the post of the sockpuppets/ smurphs.
RosanaAnaDana··on How Is LLaMa.cpp Possible?
We can keep reaching for that rainbow.
RosanaAnaDana··on Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)
Can you show me where in the comment some one called someone else racist?

Otherwise, it seems like you are projecting yourself onto the Belgium Congo being identified as racist, which is just like a "Well yeah duh" level of racism. It seems like you are angry that the Belgium Congo was identified as a racist enterprise, which even by their own accounts is objectively true. So do you self identify with the Belgium Congo?

RosanaAnaDana··on Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (2011)
Bro you seem personally attacked. Do you feel personally attacked by an open discussion of the realities of race and racism in the 20th century?
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