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Comment · 2 months ago
How many pages would be required to store all the information that a shopkeeper knows about one of their regulars?
Comment · 2 months ago
>Transoceanic shipping has recently implemented its sulfur-free requirement

While probably a good thing for ecosystems, this has removed an unintended "geoengineering" effect. Sulphur dioxide forms a relatively effective reflector for incoming solar radiation.

Comment · 2 months ago
1. The further back we go, the less reliable the methods of estimating such properties. We only have values for a "global temperature" from the past few years or so.

2. Weather and climate are names for the same underlying nonlinear system. This system is the archetype of a chaotic system - predictions of values and corresponding locations becomes increasingly unreliable and then impossible on larger timescales. Climate modelling was the very thing that lead to our current understanding of sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

Comment · 2 months ago
It might make more sense if you consider that the three objects are not usually aligned, due to the tilt of the moon's orbit around the earth. In the case of the full moon, this allows us to see the fully illuminated moon even when we are between it and the sun.
Comment · 2 months ago
This is literally backwards - plants absorb CO2, not methane!

The obsession with CO2, specifically emitted by fossil fuel use, for me indicates geopolitical motivations (for both standpoints).

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
I suppose millions can die in slightly more comfort.
Comment · 2 months ago
This reality is wild. It would be like arms manufacturers holding weekly demonstrations of how much collateral damage their latest designs cause in an attempt to increase sales.
Comment · 3 months ago
Can this be called "Capitalism" when SpaceX is now a public company?
Comment · 3 months ago
regexes > Claude. Even Anthropic knows this.
Comment · 3 months ago
I got my agent to fill it out for me, but it won't tell me my score!
Comment · 3 months ago
>how, exactly, AI can be integrated into daily life.

Aka "what is it good for?"

Comment · 4 months ago
You're saying that as long as it proceeds as expected, then all will be ok. In the worst case (eg, at the 2,000ppm you indicate as an upper range, or after some mis-step in the process), what ppm chlorine gas would be created, and what would happen if you got a noseful of that at close quarters?

This is just terrible advice.

Comment · 4 months ago
To draw a parallel - airport Ubers are still $5, but you can't buy a 2nd hand prius any more!
Comment · 4 months ago
Please don't tell me you're recommending that people smell their DIY chlorine chemistry to determine what they've made?

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