kyleperik

Algorithmic social media blasts content from strangers, Chat Wells is an experiment in opposition to that trend.

Sit down next to strangers and chat for a while. See what they're up to, post about something yourself and check in every so often to see what's changed.

Lots of stories about being bored in class and making programs, so I thought I'd share mine.

The functions feature allow you to define and graph equations with x and y. Well other variables also factor in including program defined variables such as z. That enables 3d orthographic graphs to be drawn.

Then I took it a step further and translated the results into a matrix and used that data to make real 3d projections of my graphs (or other shapes)

A bit serendipitous as my father just gave me back the calculator I used, I will be passing that down to my kids.

Uxn runs on its own VM, so each emulator emulates this VM, just like every java implementation emulates the JVM, etc. In other words, the emulator isn't designed for any specific physical machine to begin with.

The most prevalent use of GMOs in agriculture by far is resistance to roundup herbicide, enabling free use to knock out other weeds. Other GMOs are rarely viable on the wider market, likely because natural mutation and selection are just more efficient for improving varieties.

> what is actually bad about improving food?

With that said, I'd suggest you reconsider your opposite premise that GMOs invariably improve food.

I agree your mentioned echo chambers are unhelpful, just try to avoid feeding into it with equally uninformed opinions.

Along the same lines is a general theory of mine that many people in this era generally underestimate the cost of coordination, and overestimate the efficiency gain of bulk processing.

People don't generally read hacker news because of its polish, but because of its novelty. There's plenty of polished backwash to read elsewhere.

For me, undeveloped personal insight is just the kind of content I find most interesting here.

I have seen little consideration made to the carbon cycle which produced this result of methane output in landfills.

It doesn't come from nothing. Methane is a compound generally produced by the breaking down of organic compounds in the absence of oxygen (anaerobic decomposition)

Organic compounds generally gain carbon from the atmosphere. So where is the extra carbon entering the system?

Should the focus not be on disposal methods but on ensuring sustainable regeneration of farmland in this case?

> The need for altogether different technologies that are less opaque, more interpretable, more maintanable, and more debuggable — and hence more tractable—remains paramount.

Good luck, sounds more reasonable to hire some kind of an AI therapist. Can intelligence be debugged otherwise?

I don't think it's correct to say it's not good to buy lattes or new cars, but I think we should be aware of what it costs you verses the alternative.

I think it's common knowledge that new cars deprecate extremely quickly, so for most middle class individuals it's better to go with a used car to avoid losing loads of money in the long run.

A medium latte costs at least $3. For daily drinkers that's about $90/month, which is at least triple the value of the beans and milk it took to produce.

Frugal living alone doesn't make you rich but I think it can really help you if you're in debt (like most Americans)