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go_elmo··on There’s no such thing as a tree phylogenetically (2021)
Have you considered evolutionary selection as reason for c4 not being adapted by trees?

Grasses profit much more from growing quick than trees, where new opportunities (e.g. trees dying, fires etc) are rather rare & being able to grow extremely quickly wouldn't provide much of a benefit?

go_elmo··on The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
getting what you want fast. It is literally that easy & netflix messes it up with being nondeterministic and screaming at me trailers I've never asked for. My autistic self is o.u.t.
go_elmo··on Rejected emoji proposals
My problem with emojis is finding them. No, I dont want to search hundrets of tiny images for making a point. No, I dont want to learn another alphabet with thousands of symbols. Just _write_ is so much easier. Or link it with a unicode name to be able to refer to it without searching
go_elmo··on The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early galaxies
Chances are significant that some explanations received are just not true as chatgpt does that too, unfortunately.
go_elmo··on Simulate Asteroid Impacts on Earth
no need to need luck - we'll extinct ourselves with co2 quite soon, gg
go_elmo··on Winter Is Here: Slowing Down to Fight SAD
Days being ~8h long makes getting enough sun harder - not impossible!

Trying to get 1h outside / day does it for me - usually using the commute for it, running or cycling to work.

Dont forget, we were optimized for millions of years for spending our time outside. Dont run fully outside your specifications people ;)

go_elmo··on Obsolete Sounds: collection of disappearing sounds and extinct sounds
It has nothing to do with the exposed engine. 99% of the sound comes from the exhaust, which is built do be quiet (destructive interference) or loud (constructive) of exit gases. There are 300 hp cars that are quieter than 50hp motorcycles because of that
go_elmo··on Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset?
Positional tracking required high performance, extremely high fidelity CV / ML algorithms. The guardian on Oculus being as any ML algos 'just' 9X% accurate makes me rage regularly, a tiny kickstarter being able to deliver smth better is highly unlikely imo
go_elmo··on Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset?
Its still in development, nothing shipped yet!

Meta lifted its ban on this, they will be able to ship! Also, has mucch better pixel density than quest headsets, even quest pro. Will be a bliss to read on. But provably no propper head tracking

go_elmo··on Inflation is at a 40 year high. What can history teach us?
Afaik inflation devaluates stock relative to bonds and its small 101 of economics but Im no expert
go_elmo··on RISC-V Laptop now available
Paired with linux, an ode to joy
go_elmo··on Why aren’t you using pretrained models?
Because the gap between pretraining and my data is too big and models are stupid / dont generalize well
go_elmo··on Bitcoin and Gold Both Fail Miserably as Hedges, Investments
Bonds != Cash
go_elmo··on Bitcoin and Gold Both Fail Miserably as Hedges, Investments
Youre losing $INFLATION%, very, very poor alpha sadly..
go_elmo··on Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds
Very wild idea: gaining electricity by induction instead heat since its charged matter.. but I know it doesnt make sense, as it only yields the kinetic energy which has too high entropy to be yieldable (no directed movement)..
go_elmo··on Over 90% of Medieval Manuscripts Have Been Lost, Study Says
Curl is helpful
go_elmo··on Instagram is shifting to videos – users aren't happy
You seem to forget that the user is the product, this is all not about his pleasure. As a publicly traded company you may not counter act this.
go_elmo··on FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
Opportunities to get shot, cross drug addicts, not be able to abort, lose your home because of health care costs
go_elmo··on FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores
Youll enjoy europe then, scandinavia among others is surely on top of the us in every term apart from business revenue and the army.
go_elmo··on Thoughts on the potato diet
Endurance training on an empty stomach is a great ketone pathways excercise, the first few times are hard but get easier afterwards!
go_elmo··on I should have loved biology
Lovely life lesson shared. It also blew my mind how much complexity handling non formal, discrete systems adds. Just samoling root development takes years and endless hours of tedious, non automatable work. No wonder the field progresses orders of magnitudes slower. Also, add chaos theory, quantum mechanics, differential equations and enzyme molecules to the distributed system to make it a bit more realistic.
go_elmo··on Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR
I meant cookies in a browser, where theyre used. Where do you see cookies in a VR?
go_elmo··on Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR
Block third party cookies and youre good, no? Havent seen personalized ads in years and the only sites not working are the ones Im not using anyways.
go_elmo··on Code from the FBI’s Anom encrypted messaging app
Still easier to do it digitally and e.g. physically exchange digital encryption keys?
go_elmo··on Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds
Maybe you didnt mean it that technical, but the median is very robust to outliers. So your first statement is true but the conclusion is not necessarily.
go_elmo··on Humans can't endure temperatures and humidities as high as previously thought
The cheapest, lowest risk climate engineering approach imo is to just install a f-ton of solar panels in desert regions, produce gigatons of green hydrogen and substitute fossil fuels with these. If I was the king of saudi arabia, thats what I'd do. Some australian billionaires have already such plans [0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/markets/funds/australian-billionaire...

go_elmo··on Humans can't endure temperatures and humidities as high as previously thought
I have to really really believe in the exponential - sigmoid development of green / carbon free energy and tech for this situation to be bearable. I hope the ridiculously low solar prices cause an exponential growth of installations, causing cheap peak-solar power prices for hydrogen based products to become competitive against fossil fuels. Its my only hope for the future atm.
go_elmo··on Wild turtles age slowly, and some basically don’t age at all
I disagree. If we would not age and stay 25 years old until we have an accident, we could have hundreds of children each, which would drastically increase reproduction and should therefore be preferred by evolutionary selection.
go_elmo··on Wild turtles age slowly, and some basically don’t age at all
This is one of the most important and mostly actively ignored facts that I know of. It is a uncomfortable truth regarding it as an individual but it is the only good solution for humanity as a whole.

People (mostly) don't change - they (have to) die for change to happen. I'm considering myself to be modern - today. In 70 years I'm quite sure I will no longer be by a large margin and I highly doubt that I'll be able to adapt my thinking incorporating them - just as I observe my parents and their peers not to be fully able to do so. As humanity with this we have a pool of new approaches (young) and tons of experience (older) which maximizes the likelyhood of finding the right approach to new challenges & making us survive as a species

go_elmo··on Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners
I have to object, while not many algorithms exists, one of the most famous ones, Grovers algorithm [0] is also one of the most general ones and quite powerful. It reduces search of 2^n items to about 2^(n/2) while using n q-bits. Thats just the square root of a classical algorithm. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm
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