You might be confused because the person I’m replying to said they want “less rules” while I said “so you want them to play by your rules instead?”.

I phrased it this way because expecting your peers to deal with a greater range of behavior from you places no less of a burden on them than following the original rules does. Its not “less rules”, its different rules.

Or, to put it another way, if you’re a kid playing hide and seek with a bunch of other kids and you say “I should be able to change my hiding spot while the seeker is walking around”, you’re not ‘adding more freedom’ to the game, you’re making a different game.

To be clear I have no horse in this race, I’ve never been to this event. But to me someone showing up to something someone else created, that other people are presumably enjoying the way it is, and saying “it should be this way instead and if you don’t like it go to Disney Land” just comes across as really entitled and bitchy. I wouldn’t have said anything if they had said “I would prefer it this way”.

Something that everyone should have learned on the playground is that you can’t expect to force other kids to play the way you want them to, but that you also don’t have to play with them if you don’t like their game.

So there’s a group of people that all mutually agreed to play with each other in a certain way, and you’d rather they play by your rules instead?

I didn’t know DMT came in vape form. What a time to be alive.

You joke, but it has been successfully argued in court that advertisers can lie to you because no reasonable person would believe that advertisements are truthful.

I’m reminded of when Elden Ring first came out and we had a little panic attack about how much harder it was than other souls games.

Then like a year later it was widely considered to be the easiest Fromsoft game (if you’re just doing the required content).

Corn beats it out, and by some reckonings so does rice. Pumpkins too.

There are a few more exotic plants like tigernut and duckweed that are supposed to be really high, but not many people eat those as a staple crop. Palm oil and sugar cane are supposed to be super high too, though you probably don’t want to be eating huge quantities of straight oil and sugar.

Finally there are a few tropical trees like jackfruit and breadfruit that produce enormous quantities of calories once mature. They have a huge advantage from their large leaf crowns and root systems (that they don’t have to periodically regrow like annual plants) + the tropical weather allowing production for the entire year.

In biblical scholarship, this is referred to as eisegesis, where you read an interpretation into the text, rather than allowing the text to speak for itself.

This has reached such a level among US Christians that they often pick out single sentences to quote with little to no regard for the rest of the text it’s come from. Like, never mind reading the book with the context of its origin in mind, or even the context of the rest of the book, when the context of the sentences directly before and after the thing you’re referencing are being ignored.

When this is the text that’s being referenced: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+4%3A9-17&version=NIV

There’s nothing wrong with multi grain bread of course, but that’s clearly not some sort of special holy bread recipe that will bless you if you eat it.

I agree with you then, you can’t make a good webpage if your boss tells you to fill it with garbage.

If your motivation is to see old html pages, with minimal style, well it’s impossible to do them reliably.

Not only should your site be legible without JS, it should be legible without CSS, and infact without rendering the effects of the HTML tags (plain text after striping the tags).

At one point in time this was the standard, that each layer was an enhancement on top of the one below it. Its seems that web devs now cannot even imagine writing a news article or a blog post like, something that has the entirety of its content contained within its text. A plain .txt file renders “reliably” on anything. You are the one adding extra complexity in there and then complaining that you’re forced to add even more to deal with the consequences of your actions.

If by “take it into account” you mean they said “political parties sure are bad” then not implement anything into the system to discourage their formation, then proceed to form political parties themselves a decade or so later, then sure.

It’s not AI, it’s neural network models

These used to be called AI before people decided that only LLMs and Diffusion models were AI. Both of which are types of neural networks.

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“Fine” might be overselling it a little bit.

I would say its ‘comprehensible’ if you’ve read the book, but its still not great.

Since you have expertise in this maybe you can answer this question for me.

Do brick or stone roads last longer than asphalt or concrete roads?

It seems to me like they should, given the higher hardness of the material and the presumably greater resistance to freeze/thaw cycles. I have also seen a few brick roads near me that I can only imagine have gone a very long time with no maintaince (as I think the government here would rather cover it in asphalt than try to work with the bricks). The ground underneath the bricks has shifted over time forming depressions in the path that car tires take, but it is still fine to drive over at low speeds, as the slopes are smooth unlike the holes that form in asphalt.

I’ve tried googling this before but haven’t been able to find a straightforward answer as to how long a road like that can go between rounds of maintenance.

This is an idea from the 1960s back when they thought solar panels would be like computer chips and remain super expensive in terms of area but become exponentially better at the amount of sunlight they could convert into electricity.

It makes absolutely zero sense to spend billions of dollars putting solar panels in space and beaming the power back to earth now that they are so cheap per unit area. The one thing you could argue a space based solar array could do would be to stretch out the day length so you need less storage, but that’s easier to accomplish using long electrical cables.

FOSS doesn’t mean “we think people that make software should work for free because we like free shit”. It means:

1. When you want to modify something someone else made to your benefit you should recognize the work they did for you and pay it back in the form of contributing those changes back to the project. Beyond that, it also benefits you directly because someone else might build on your improvements (well, that, but also its easier to stop your changes from breaking in new versions of the software if other people are aware of them). Like the other commenter said, its communal development, sure lots of people do it at least partly because they want to make the world a better place, but the primary reason it works is because the various parties mutually benefit from mutual cooperation.

2. The belief that you should have complete control over your own computer, which you can’t do in practice without being able to view the source code of the software you run.

Assuming the light really was being powered by the flash from the lightning this is a pretty crazy demo of just how little power LEDs consume.

The british mind cannot comprehend the concept of high speed rail.

I’m not a hunter, I’ve never shot a dear and I don’t think I ever will. I do go hiking though.

Let’s say it comes across as “grey” for argument’s sake. But they CAN apparently distinguish all the shades of green and brown and that is why you are dressed like John Duty. Which means… they have a giant blob of “grey” moving around? Pretty sure that would stick out…

When you hear the term “red-green color blindness”, do you think that red and green appear grey to those people while they can still see orange, yellow, and blue the same as everyone else? And that they go through their lives with these super high contrast grey objects everywhere?

That’s not how eyes work. Color blindness means an inability to distinguish between shades of colors, not that they have some sort of selective filters that block those colors out, turn objects of that color invisible, or convert them to grey.

Homie. Go spend even twenty minutes walking around a park in a mountain town. Deer don’t give a fuck.

You think this because you live in a suburb where people feed them, “in a park”, or “bordering a forested area”. No unconditioned wild animal in the world, except maybe things that live on tiny islands with no predators, is chill with an unknown human sized animal standing next to it.

When I hike I sometimes see deer as close as a hundred feet or so away, but if one started walking towards me I would consider that behavior so far out of the ken that I might think it has rabies or wasting disease.

Understand that I’m not even arguing that shooting a deer is some sort of crazy achievement.

I think an open world videogame with this sort of world would be really neat.

I mean, this is already basically how videogames work, but it could be made diagetic and stylized like this.