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New comment by s1gnp0st in "12 months of record ocean heat has scientists puzzled and concerned"

s1gnp0st — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:14:35 +0000

> The huge temperature anomaly — which climate change alone is unlikely to explain

New comment by s1gnp0st in "Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died"

s1gnp0st — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:38:39 +0000

I am disgusted by the totalitarian urge which has been normalized by the pandemic. Your trauma is not my problem, and I will not permanently alter my behavior to satisfy your ever-escalating urge to dominate me.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died"

s1gnp0st — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 18:14:12 +0000

Let's wear them forever then. You first.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "Crypto 'mixer' convicted of money laundering on Bitcoin Fog"

s1gnp0st — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:49:10 +0000

A blockchain is a uniquely stupid place to commit crimes. Think about it.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children"

s1gnp0st — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 17:18:54 +0000

That's pretty inefficient if someone wants to avoid buying any of the products affected by the case.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children"

s1gnp0st — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:37:33 +0000

This is very cool, but why doesn't it list the names of companies involved? (or did I miss it?)

New comment by s1gnp0st in "Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G12 laptop review: First major refresh in three years"

s1gnp0st — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:42:36 +0000

I've been repeatedly disappointed in the build quality of the X1 series. My last one had cheap USB C sockets which wore out to the extent that it made charging impossible. The one prior to that had severe coil whine. I'm back on Macs despite preferring Linux to macOS.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "Supermium – Chromium fork for Win 2003/XP and newer"

s1gnp0st — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 20:11:54 +0000

For when you simply must run a secure, modern browser on your ancient, swiss cheese operating system.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "How Does Bluesky Work?"

s1gnp0st — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 23:55:09 +0000

It's virtually guaranteed that different relays will take different views regarding disinformation, harm, etc.

This is probably good, too. I personally don't want my hand held, but recognize that others justifiably want someone else to filter out gore, or even opinions they find sufficiently off-putting.

I don't want to ram particular content down anyone else's throat, but I'm 100% opposed to anyone making that decision for me.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud"

s1gnp0st — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:20:50 +0000

True but the funny business buys a lot of fault tolerance, and predictable performance if not maximum performance.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "Chlormequat in food and urine from adults in the United States from 2017 to 2023"

s1gnp0st — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:04:30 +0000

Both are responsible, the one who spilled gasoline, and the one who flicked a match.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "Who's winning in Sarah Silverman's copyright suit against OpenAI?"

s1gnp0st — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 03:58:04 +0000

I can think of several large organizations who would love small AI companies to be pushed out of the space with a tax.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "Chlormequat in food and urine from adults in the United States from 2017 to 2023"

s1gnp0st — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:56:52 +0000

Yep, and how do we even begin to model the interactions between these?

The burden of proof is upon those introducing novel substances into my food.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "'Baby Bust': Why Fewer Young People Expect to Become Parents (2013)"

s1gnp0st — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 19:40:29 +0000

Free time might be a prime causal factor here. Both the wealthy and working poor may have too little leisure to achieve above-replacement birthrates. That would explain why there are places on Earth with high birthrates yet low GDP per capita.

I'm also suspicious that "wealthier" countries are subjected to more substances which disrupt fertility than poorer countries.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "'Baby Bust': Why Fewer Young People Expect to Become Parents (2013)"

s1gnp0st — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 16:44:19 +0000

Biological systems where the cost of reproduction increases without an increase in the available resources cease to exist. How could it be otherwise?

People often consider their desires to be prime movers, when there they are perfectly aligned with the systems of incentives they inhabit.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals"

s1gnp0st — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:44:58 +0000

Right. There's also the sophomorically named "TRAMP" for connecting from a locally hosted emacs session to files across a wide range of protocols including ssh.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "In case you missed it: America got much bigger continental shelf"

s1gnp0st — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 16:03:01 +0000

There must be oil.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be"

s1gnp0st — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:42:02 +0000

You can build beautiful structures out of concrete. I was just going for a cheap building material. I'm not married to the particulars.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be"

s1gnp0st — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:41:07 +0000

Your tolerance for subway violence may be higher than mine, given I have a small child.

New comment by s1gnp0st in "American society wasn't always so car-centric. Our future doesn't have to be"

s1gnp0st — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:40:05 +0000

Yep, I fully agree it needs to be an entire pipeline designed to get people back on their feet and into functional lives.