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Thanks, I'll check these out. I have some hope that something like this could take off because of the popularity of Mastodon. I think the problem is that there has to be a major impetus for lots of people to switch, and it has to be completely brain dead stupid simple to set up, and to have it work fairly transparently so they don't feel like they're doing something completely new and different. Unfortunately decentralized services tend to add overhead, and user's expectations have been primed with centralized tech. We might see people care about stuff like this if we get more online censorship with government taking a closer look at tech lately.

Thank you! I hadn't heard of either of these.

Indeed, I wish there was something like it today with a modern design. Like a DHT with your public key fingerprint as a lookup. Anyone who 'follows' your .plan also hosts it as a torrent. You 'approve' followers by signing your .plan file with their pubkey, or for a fully public .plan, just sign with your private. Blah blah blah decentralized cypherpunk social media utopia.

Yeah but how does Google/Apple make money off of cloud storage when you don't need it?

In some ways it's better to just get a usb-c fob for this functionality...have a problem with your headphone jack or microSD slot? Throw it out and replace it.

I'd rather see TB+ storage on my phone.

There's a video I saw a while back of these Indian women who knitted sweaters for the elephants because there was a very cold winter that year. The elephants, normally aloof, heard them singing at the edge of the woods, saw the elephant sized clothes, came up and let the women put giant sweaters on them and left.

Install `finger` and you've practically got a social media platform.

That logo reads ambiguously...In top-to-bottom left-to-right languages you may not be sure which letter to read first, the 'M,' (top but rightmost) or the 'L' (bottom but leftmost). I'd propose making the 'M' a little smaller, and/or moving it closer to the 'L' so it looks more like a superscript at first glance. Maybe also differentiating the two with different cases and/or the 'M' in italics or script.

Time/date being the best example of this. I think I've seen every possible variation by now, except maybe putting the year in between the month and day. Drives me absolutely crazy.

I wish they'd sell prints of these

If pi eventually starts behaving deterministically we'll know we've exhausted /dev/random.

202 trillion digits is impossible to for one person to observe directly anyway, so no resources consumed.

I think some of these (or similarly sized) drones were sent to Ukraine for use in urban warfare last year as a recon tool. They may have also used them for exploring recaptured mines (the kind for extracting resources, not a landmine) which were likely booby trapped.

All they need is a slaughterbot-style shaped charge or a dollop of thermite, phosphorus or a nerve agent and you'd have a weapon that may not be super effective but would have a huge impact on enemy psychology.

Get them acting as a swarm and you've got something really scary.

Thanks, sibling to this comment posted the one I was thinking of. The study you posted appears to confirm their findings. This is...alarming.

> plants that grow over the soil where deer with CWD decompose can transmit the disease to animals that eat them

I've heard this before but the last I tried looking into it I could only find a single study with these findings. Do you know if this was ever replicated? If so, I'd be interested in reading it -- I have to wonder how careful the researchers were to isolate the raw plant material from the contaminated soil, which may have non-plant matter transmitting the prion. Plants transmitting a prion is just hard for me to believe.

To my knowledge, anything with an ISBN counts towards book sales. It's funny though how many things have an ISBN that you wouldn't call a book. Playing cards, empty notebooks, adult coloring books, etc all count towards book sales. That fad of adult coloring books from about 9 years ago boosted book sales quite a bit.

> Adult coloring books were the main driving force behind the rise of adult nonfiction 12% sales growth during the first half of 2016 compared to the first half of 2015.

https://wordsrated.com/adult-book-sales-statistics/#:~:text=....

Thanks, I didn't realize that was the complete paper.

Can anyone with access to the paper list the results by brand?

Thank you!

This reminds me of light cones and quantum entanglement.

Could you recommend a translation?

> So how much fluid does the average, healthy adult living in a temperate climate need? The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine determined that an adequate daily fluid intake is:

> About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids a day for men

> About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women

> These recommendations cover fluids from water, other beverages and food. About 20% of daily fluid intake usually comes from food and the rest from drinks.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

(Of course you can survive on less, but it's not ideal. A quick test to see if you're hydrated enough is to go pee. It should have the slightest tint of yellow to it. If it's clear you're drinking more than you need. source: first aid class I took)

I'm not convinced society would be able to recover after a collapse. We've extracted the easy to get resources already and what's left is extracted and refined with some really advanced technology. We can recycle a bunch of stuff, but that will only get you so far. On top of that, most of our knowledge is stored digitally, much of it in proprietary formats. If we don't somehow manage to recover it before the existing expertise dies out (assuming enough of it survives the initial catastrophe) we may not get it back for a very long time, if ever.

Looks like a sailplane without a cockpit. It might even use thermals and ridge lift to prolong flight time...in the right conditions it could fly indefinitely as long as it had a way to recharge the battery for operating the control surfaces.

Somewhat relevant, Greco-Roman Buddhas from the same period:

htps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist_art

I had an elementary school teacher (decades ago now, and she was old then) bring in her programming material from when she was basically fresh out of college. I don't even think she was using punch cards*, it was weird...but every one of her coworkers was a woman because it was considered rote work for secretary types.

* My memory is really fuzzy on this, but IIRC they had 1-2" holes in sheets that would either be transparent or black. Looking back they may have had some sort optical setup to read raw binary. I've never run into this since then (never really looked for it though either). She may have worked at IBM. I'd be interested if anyone knew what I was talking about.

Most literature we have today was written with a reader in mind, not a listener.

I don't even think audiobooks are necessarily bad, it's people consuming them like a hamburger while they multitask so they aren't even really engaging with the text. Let alone not really having the ability to stop, think and relisten very easily. With a text you do it basically automatically if necessary, with an audiobook you've got to fumble around for your device and hope you get back to the right spot and not break your train of thought in the process.

Talk to an estate attorney and they can give you some advice, but ultimately you'll never be able to account for every possibility, and you're going to have to trust somebody to make the right decisions for you at some point.

...and it's getting harder on the families too with nothing to really address it. It used to be one day you'd drop dead, or get really sick and be dead not long after, and your family after a terrible shock could begin readjusting to the new reality without their loved one. Now you can have what used to be a death sentence and continue living for years or even decades. But the systems which support the patient's life are not supporting their families, who have to live with the stress and financial burden of keeping their loved one alive, and the prolonged grieving process which can now take up a huge chunk of their lives and still doesn't really prepare them for death anyway.

I'm not saying that we need to get rid of medical advances that prolong life, it's just that these things have created new problems that we aren't dealing with and that not many people are really talking about.

IIRC Focault still signed a petition to legalize sex with children. Not sure why, but it wasn't an entirely unpopular opinion among (often) leftist intellectuals in Europe at the time.

The funny thing they were supposed to provide more equitible and fair decisions in issuing loans, but the exact opposite happened.