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naught101

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I'm a climate scientist by trade. Interested in interesting things. Ecology, complexity, politics, social change, music.

  • Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages

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  • A messaging app is extremely hard to "spin up bespoke solutions" for, because a solution's success is 99% dependent on the network effect.

    Perhaps when a protocol like signal but decentralised is available, then we might be able to say that.

  • Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber

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  • whelp, I guess that's the end of that joke thread

  • Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber

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  • So no harder than email then

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  • I just did. The age verification is the only thing that looks slightly confusing, and anyone keen enough would deal with that fine. It's not a technical skills/knowledge barrier, it's just reading comprehension.

  • Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber

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  • How bad this is in practice is something you can choose to mitigate simply by regularly talking to normal people.

    Source: I'm a climate scientist, I do this all the time (and only rarely get looks of complete confusion)

  • Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber

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  • No, farmers know barley, average people bearly know

  • Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber

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  • Do you think creating a Lemmy account is that much harder then creating a reddit account (or any other website account)?

  • Pete Buttigieg warns Democrats can't go back to status quo after President Trump

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  • I'll believe it when I see it in action

  • Pete Buttigieg warns Democrats can't go back to status quo after President Trump

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  • I skimmed the article, but it didn't seem like he said anything of any real substance?

  • Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages

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  • I can totally see Australian politics being OK with signal leaving, since that would push users on to other less secure/more compliant apps

  • Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages

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  • Well that would be incredibly fucked.

  • Modern-Day Robber Baron Under Attack...For Reasons

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  • Shit is interesting right now. We're at (or approaching) the climax of western society. I wanna see how the story resolves.

  • Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster

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  • Sounds like that shit with dodgy smoking detection in a hotel from last week..

  • Safety Net

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  • Right, but I'm asking where you're getting your evidence for this consensus.

  • TIL about Salad Theory

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  • This is what happens when you apply maths without regard to meaning. Perfect example of the adage "Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in a fruit salad."

    Hofstadter and Emanuel's Surfaces and Essences explores the idea of categorisation in a more serious way.

  • TIL that underfloor heating was invented by Neolithic peoples

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  • River rocks will if you get them too hot too fast, because they have water inside, and it boils. Drier rocks are usually OK, they might crack though.

  • How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life?

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  • Interestingly, this is basically the approach of some of the best management/leadership thinkers these days (e.g. Cynefin). I think the basic premise is "the world is changing so fast that any plans you make now might be meaningless in a decade, so focus on what's knowable in the here and now, and your next step". Dave Snowden from Cynefin points to Ana's "The Next Right Thing" from Frozen 2 as excellent advice 😅

  • How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life?

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  • Pretty good approach. Most of the most interesting people I know started adult life doing one thing, and eventually switched to another thing. Maybe after one or two years of an undergrad, maybe after 15 years of a career.

    I've got one friend in his late 30s who has been a highschool teacher for over a decade, and is still thinking of switching careers to be a train driver. He does public transport activism a bit too. I reckon you could head into the train network with IT skills anyway - maybe as some kind of network operator. Not quite the same thing, but aligned..

    I would say that you should absolutely take maximum advantage of any electives offered to get as broad a taste of what's available as possible. That's what will give you ideas about where to head next.