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The whole segment never fails to crack me up on a bad day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OplyHCIBmfE

This is the answer. The only people buying dedicated sound cards these days are those doing audio engineering or production work, needing access to dedicated inputs and interfaces. Motherboard sound chipsets cover nearly every other use case.

While I agree, it isn't any less addicting than a Googled phone, sadly. I'm in agreement with the OP that I need something else, but I'm finding it both hard to get away from the iCloud infrastructure and also just part ways with a smartphone.

If I could get a dumb phone that could still run Google/Apple/Any Maps for GPS purposes, I'd be first in line.

The sin is the opinion itself, everything else is secondary.

Can I ask, what sort of things are you 3D scanning, and for what purpose? I have an iPhone 12 Pro that I'd like to utilize for similar uses, but I can't think of a practical output for them.

And Mozilla Corporation’s entire business model is built on Google’s financial support. Does that make Mozilla’s (or the ACLU etc.) work inherently suspect or anti-democratic?

Ignoring the merits of whether or not it’s a good idea to have kids due to climate change: I feel like the author doesn’t appropriately consider the cascading effects of climate change.

Kids aren’t in my present life plan (I’m too young atm) but I can already see that the biggest barrier to kids in my future right now is just the extreme wealth inequality and rising costs of having children. Compound that with an inevitable climate migration that will shift the balance of wealth in the USA, and you’re likely to see greater difficulties for new middle-income families (who are, as the author notes, still among the most privileged on the planet).

Furthermore, the real effects of climate change that our children are likely to have great difficulties with, in my mind, are ecological destruction and the eradication of micro-ecosystems leading to global calamity with food. I feel, without much evidence to support it, that we’re likely to see a spectrum of symptoms that lead to targeted devastation and mass-death of various species. It’s not any one of those things, it’s everything all at once.

Now, I love the argument that this all is not a reason to not bring in kids because we will need bright, young minds to dream and live futures that we won’t get to have. And that gives me hope, which is something we should all allow ourselves to have.

I completely agree and have felt this happen to me personally. I maintained employment throughout 2020 but have felt quite a strong pull towards reconsidering how I spend my time and energy, and how much of it goes to "work."

Out of curiosity, do you know any literature that I could read to understand the eternal debate about Diogenes that you mention? I'm trying to understand the more philosophical questions around work and our modern culture finding itself in a quite a jolting self-aware realization about work, time, attention and our liberties -- and I'd love to read some of the existing foundational lit in this space.

I studied comp sci, so really just doing this out of a deep curiosity and an understanding that I didn't get the opportunity to study any of this in college.

> you can read ACM recommendations on CS curricula

would you be able to point me to this, please?

random question, but where would one acquire old out of date imagery of this part of the world?

For example, I know through Google Earth's timelapse feature that Gaza has been consistently scanned by satellites over the last 3 or so decades. But the images on Google Earth's timelapse feature are of very very low quality. But viewing the timelapse is evidence enough that this information is out there.

Good opportunity to share one of my favorite Vimeo documentaries about Union Glacier in Antarctica: https://vimeo.com/107231188

Indeed. Especially as companies like Palantir serve the tools on a silver platter.

This is dumb. Predictive policing algorithms predict where the police will be, not where crime takes place: as crime data is simply a measurement of policing activity.

If there is bias in policing, it would therefore be amplified.

Ban police from using this technology.

Kodak still makes Ektar and Portra color film, I believe.

Is his book available for purchase anywhere? Sounds fascinating.

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Anyone have a non-paywalled link?

Can someone walk me through how I can set up the data to plug into this dashboard?

If I had a series of CSVs, how simple would it be to just attach it to these visuals?

Makes sense, now that Apple owns them.

Thanks! Follow up question: how do I zoom in once I have loaded in a GeoTIFF from one of those sources?

Where do you get the maps to make these?

I'd love to hear more about the legal tech space in general.

So I see that in order to communicate outside your local network you need to connect to a pub.

Can you set up a private, invite only pub? Say for an organization or team?