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connorgutman
Joined 8 years ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
Regardless of the official definition, the word “habitable” is highly subjective. Extremophiles like tardigrades can survive being frozen and/or completely dehydrated. A planet with an eccentric orbit like this one could hypothetically support species capable of entering some form of extreme hibernation during part of their year.
Comment · 2 years ago
Whelp, time to move to a small island in the middle of the Pacific.
Comment · 2 years ago
Couldn’t the underlying tech be applied to non-novel proteins by a bad actor?
Comment · 2 years ago
I’m gonna throw up.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah OWUI = Open Web UI. I was referring specifically to rcarmo’s setup though.
Comment · 2 years ago
Wasn’t aware of LiteLLM, thanks! Are you using it instead of OWUI’s pipeline feature or alongside?
Comment · 2 years ago
Correct. IMO the official Claude app is pretty garbage. Sonnet 3.5 API + Open-WebUI is amazing though and supports STT+TTS as well as a ton of other great features.
Comment · 2 years ago
My degree in AgSci has nothing to do with farming?
Comment · 2 years ago
I’m a programmer with a degree in Agricultural Science so my opinion is oddly relevant to this subject. Please shut up and stop shitting on people’s dreams. Not everything is about profit and scaling. Anyone can and should learn to farm regardless of their background or education.
Comment · 2 years ago
That’s an odd and hurtful statement to make towards a stranger online. Trust me none of this is a side show for me. I’m an agricultural scientist who deeply cares about global food security and part of that is going to have to be GMOs. The fact that we can’t even
try
supplementing certain developing markets with golden rice because of a NGO in America where food security is mostly an afterthought is criminal.
Comment · 2 years ago
You’re not wrong but this is akin to saying that we shouldn’t treat gunshot wounds because we need better gun control. We can do both.
Comment · 2 years ago
You are philosophically correct but the flaw with this argument is time and $$$. With each passing year millions of people around the world die or go blind from vitamin A deficiency. Most of these cases are due to an over-reliance on white rice in particular, making golden rice essentially a drop-in solution for much of the world’s poorest. The goal is (or should be) to stop the bleeding with golden rice while also investing in and providing education around more diverse agricultural production.
Comment · 2 years ago
Been furious about this one for years. When the alternative is death and/or going blind who the fuck cares if there’s side effects? No one is saying it should end up in American grocery stores without proper testing but it could save and improve millions of lives around the world. For those who don’t know Greenpeace is essentially leading the campaign against GR via millions in “Zero GMO” funding. That kind of mindset won’t last long once wealthy nations start experiencing crop shortages caused by CC. Maize production will be first.
Comment · 2 years ago
As a Gentoo cultist… no thanks!
Comment · 2 years ago
They won't even bring it to iPadOS!