khrbrt
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Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
They're going extinct by habitat loss from climate change.
Comment · 7 months ago
A fun application of this is hooking mushrooms up to synthesizers for groovy beats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbP2DgDp890
Their channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BionicandtheWires
> We connect bionic arms to fungi and plants so they can play music and be creative. Our art explores new ways of thinking about the natural world.
>All life creates bio-electrical signals. Our equipment converts them into signals that control the bionic arms. Recent research suggests that fungi and plants exhibit surprising levels of intelligence, including decision-making, learning, memory and the ability to respond to sounds waves.
Comment · 8 months ago
Has it? I recently tried to organize a little AoE2 LAN party but we got stuck because the DE was too heavy for our old computers and the HD Edition was no longer for sale on Steam.
(Apologies if this was answered in the video, I'll watch it later tonight)
Comment · 11 months ago
Dunno, but I like the Chinese Doomscroll substack for a daily glimpse into what they're talking about. https://substack.com/@weibo
Comment · 1 year ago
We've had protectionist tariffs for the auto industry for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
Comment · 1 year ago
Meanwhile China is building it's own giant telescopes: https://www.science.org/content/article/china-quietly-prepar...
And will soon launch their own version of Hubble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuntian
Deeply embarrassing as a US citizen.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is the first I've heard of "direct-join union"s. DuckDuckGo only brings up variations of this article, or the pages to join individual, employer specific unions.
Where can I learn more about this type of union? Is there one for US IT workers?
Comment · 1 year ago
None of those cases are "generative" AI.
Comment · 1 year ago
Combining engineering teams of very similar products will inevitably lead to consolidation. The key leaders of these teams will leave. The open source projects will starve. No customers will start a new project with these products when it's obvious they won't exist in a few years. Red Hat just lost all of its advantage in selling services for existing customers if these products now belong to a different company.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
A club I'm active with posts everything to Meetup and Facebook. Meetup is the "official" source of truth for posting events and photos and limited chats related to the events themselves ("Where are we parking?" type questions). Facebook for social chat and announcing "unofficial" hangouts/parties.
Comment · 2 years ago
>Our results show that regulators must consider mass economic grid defection of PV-diesel generator-battery systems as a very real possibility in the near future. To prevent utility death spirals and increased carbon emissions, it’s imperative we have rate structures that encourage solar producers to remain on the grid.
>The worst thing regulators can do is allow the electric utilities to increase unavoidable costs for their short-term profits. This can backfire, as utilities will lose customers entirely in the long run. With solar and battery costs continuing to decline, this problem is only becoming more urgent.
Nationalize all the power companies, run them with low cost to consumer, zero carbon to the planet mandate.
Why do we even allow private utility companies to turn a profit off a natural monopoly?
Smaller movies could get a huge boost if they cost less to see than the big franchise releases, and the difference in filled vs empty seats would really add up.