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Comment · 2 hours ago
Are there any projects/plans to send more probes to interstellar space? I mean Voyager is great and all, but it’s old and it seems it’s days are counted. More contemporary technology could bring us farer and more data on the long run.
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Comment · 2 hours ago
Having HackerTube videos as playlists inside YT makes the video selection available on any device with YouTube app on it, like TVs etc.
Comment · 1 day ago
As a irregular Vitamin D supplementer myself I wonder if the effect is that significant for so many people anecdotically, why didn’t have have of Europeans and Russians have severe depression historically.
Comment · 6 days ago
I assume it was heavily AI generated. Still very cool data and vizualization
Comment · 1 month ago
Today I want to present a concept which was meandering through my brain for some weeks: Autopoiesis. The main thing is that it goes one step further and not only adds project/repo specific skills and context into a repo, but a fully functioning AI platform, configured for the specifics of the repo at hand. Of course, the AI platform's source code is not part of the repo, and I don't dare to write one (or let one write) from scratch. But with the power of containers, configs and some scripting plus semi-clever arrangements, we can add all of that with as little overhead of 20 KByte (unoptimized).

What do you think of that concept? Is it worthwile to follow that path, or is it a dead end?

Comment · 2 months ago
Is there any of this ”bacteria converting plastic to fuel/food/neutral stuff“ actually applied anywhere at scale under economically reasonably conditions?
Comment · 2 months ago
First thought was: ouch, government data got leaked and added to the database.
Comment · 3 months ago
can you tell a bit more about how you got scammed? I was in Cairo twice for business and our hosts organized nice trips through the historic sites and new museum. I intend to go there with my family one day
Comment · 4 months ago
Is there an way for me as user to be sure that the no upload promise holds? I mean yeah I could use the dev tools, but it would be cooler to have the browser eg prohibiting visually any upload of data beyond the pure url request
Comment · 4 months ago
Sure that works, but it breaks the flow
Comment · 4 months ago
It’s my daily news driver and the app I am spending most time in. Have to find ways to limit the amount of sources, though. FOMO is a factor.

Only annoying thing, but I guess out of this app‘s influence is that the embedded safari doesn‘t use the Adblock plugin. AFAIK that’s an iOS/Safari restriction. This leads to huge amount of ads on same pages I open directly in the app. Any clues maybe?

Comment · 6 months ago
Isn’t Communism the original here? It’s often claimed that all historic attempts to establish Communism don’t work cause it wasn’t done in the right way.

In all seriousness, this pattern is probably hard to avoid in any reasonably complex entity/environment. If any such situation would be solved in a global solution (aka silver bullet), it would be used by everyone. As this seems not possible, any framework like Agile, Communism, … can only be a guidance to be applied locally, and broken internally and by external factors in many ways

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