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s1gnp0st··on 12 months of record ocean heat has scientists puzzled and concerned
> The huge temperature anomaly — which climate change alone is unlikely to explain
s1gnp0st··on Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died
I am disgusted by the totalitarian urge which has been normalized by the pandemic. Your trauma is not my problem, and I will not permanently alter my behavior to satisfy your ever-escalating urge to dominate me.
s1gnp0st··on Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died
Let's wear them forever then. You first.
s1gnp0st··on Crypto 'mixer' convicted of money laundering on Bitcoin Fog
A blockchain is a uniquely stupid place to commit crimes. Think about it.
s1gnp0st··on Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children
That's pretty inefficient if someone wants to avoid buying any of the products affected by the case.
s1gnp0st··on Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children
This is very cool, but why doesn't it list the names of companies involved? (or did I miss it?)
s1gnp0st··on Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G12 laptop review: First major refresh in three years
I've been repeatedly disappointed in the build quality of the X1 series. My last one had cheap USB C sockets which wore out to the extent that it made charging impossible. The one prior to that had severe coil whine. I'm back on Macs despite preferring Linux to macOS.
s1gnp0st··on Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003/XP and newer
For when you simply must run a secure, modern browser on your ancient, swiss cheese operating system.
s1gnp0st··on How Does Bluesky Work?
It's virtually guaranteed that different relays will take different views regarding disinformation, harm, etc.

This is probably good, too. I personally don't want my hand held, but recognize that others justifiably want someone else to filter out gore, or even opinions they find sufficiently off-putting.

I don't want to ram particular content down anyone else's throat, but I'm 100% opposed to anyone making that decision for me.

s1gnp0st··on SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
True but the funny business buys a lot of fault tolerance, and predictable performance if not maximum performance.
s1gnp0st··on Chlormequat in food and urine from adults in the United States from 2017 to 2023
Both are responsible, the one who spilled gasoline, and the one who flicked a match.
s1gnp0st··on Who's winning in Sarah Silverman's copyright suit against OpenAI?
I can think of several large organizations who would love small AI companies to be pushed out of the space with a tax.
s1gnp0st··on Chlormequat in food and urine from adults in the United States from 2017 to 2023
Yep, and how do we even begin to model the interactions between these?

The burden of proof is upon those introducing novel substances into my food.

s1gnp0st··on 'Baby Bust': Why Fewer Young People Expect to Become Parents (2013)
Free time might be a prime causal factor here. Both the wealthy and working poor may have too little leisure to achieve above-replacement birthrates. That would explain why there are places on Earth with high birthrates yet low GDP per capita.

I'm also suspicious that "wealthier" countries are subjected to more substances which disrupt fertility than poorer countries.

s1gnp0st··on 'Baby Bust': Why Fewer Young People Expect to Become Parents (2013)
Biological systems where the cost of reproduction increases without an increase in the available resources cease to exist. How could it be otherwise?

People often consider their desires to be prime movers, when there they are perfectly aligned with the systems of incentives they inhabit.

s1gnp0st··on I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals
Right. There's also the sophomorically named "TRAMP" for connecting from a locally hosted emacs session to files across a wide range of protocols including ssh.
s1gnp0st··on In case you missed it: America got much bigger continental shelf
There must be oil.
s1gnp0st··on American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be
You can build beautiful structures out of concrete. I was just going for a cheap building material. I'm not married to the particulars.
s1gnp0st··on American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be
Your tolerance for subway violence may be higher than mine, given I have a small child.
s1gnp0st··on American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be
Yep, I fully agree it needs to be an entire pipeline designed to get people back on their feet and into functional lives.
s1gnp0st··on American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be
You will have to solve the epidemic of homelessness and crime in high-density areas of the United States before people will accept using mass transit. I fully support doing so - I would for example support a national project to build cheap concrete housing for all who need it - but that's the barrier.

I used to live in Portland and Tri-Met and my bike were my two means of transportation for many years. I would absolutely not use public transportation in that city today.

s1gnp0st··on The Ozempic Plateau
You're presenting a false dichotomy. Endocrine health is just one example of where doctors ought to investigate before more extreme interventions like these weight loss drugs.
s1gnp0st··on Running Open Genera 2.0 on Linux
We will carry this beautiful artifact forward with us until all its lessons have been learned.

There was composability and fine control in these systems that is still not present in modern systems. That's not needed for everyday consumers, but boy is it lovely when you're a programmer.

s1gnp0st··on Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features
I'm sorry for whatever caused you to feel the need to respond this rudely to the discussion, but I was talking about myself in my comment, not you.
s1gnp0st··on Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features
Yep, I think it's a useful phenotype, not a disease unless the degree to which the otherwise useful traits manifest causes one to struggle to live a happy life.
s1gnp0st··on Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled
This is an outright lie. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35399297/
s1gnp0st··on [dead]
For context, this appears to be referring to fines imposed on senders of bulk SMS, not recipients, nor legitimate consumer-to-consumer messages.
s1gnp0st··on San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels
It's defensible to want leadership roles to be able to collaborate in person, but the area is saturated.
s1gnp0st··on San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels
You are digging for a reason to be mad at a person for mentioning he has friends. That's pretty pointlessly nasty.
s1gnp0st··on San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels
Whatever answer keeps you from moving to Texas.
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