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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.

  • The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike

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  • Maybe I wasn't clear. I meant the maintenance cost for the road (and the bike, but I suspect the road is the bigger cost). Clarified in the original.

  • If you could travel back 50 to 60 years and introduce one piece of modern music to a band or a musician of the time, who would you choose and what song would you expose them to?

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  • I was thinking show some breakbeat to some early house producers, but now I'm thinking Venetian Snare's Cubist Reggae.

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    What's a bad habit you use to have for a long time but finally fixed?

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  • Caffeine is not particularly harmful at common doses..

  • The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike

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  • Maybe you're using the internet wrong?

  • The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike

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  • I'm a big fan of bikes, I always ride locally. But I suspect this is assuming a paved road, and a well maintained bike, right? In wonder how that changes when you account for maintenance costs? Alternatively, what would mountain biking look like on this chart?

    Edit: did I word it that badly? I mean, a bike is only that energy efficient because you've already spend a craptonne of energy building the smooth road. Comparing it to a person walking is not, unless you also do a comparison across rough terrain (that is still easily navigable by a person on foot)

  • LLM D&D Alignment Check

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  • Those logos are just as closely related to the companies as to the code

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  • No? Then is correct in that sentence.

    Edit: misread the threading

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  • I think there's some difference between tolerating shit colleagues (most of the "non-devil" cops), and actively trying to change the system from within (at least some of the democrats). I guess maybe there are some actively progressive cops, seems like that'd be a hard mission though..

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  • I guess enshittification has been moved off the backlog then..

  • Sept

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  • On par for Microsoft software in general. Seems like every week I discover new bugs in outlook.com..

  • Sept

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  • The developer who was there when I started my last job believed that libraries should be avoided at all costs. He wrote a CSV reader from scratch in python. It didn't work in many edge cases. He didn't like it when I pointed that out. Nor when I showed him that his "better way" in another case was more than 10x slower using a profiler... At least he was using git, but the git history was full of long series of identical commit messages unrelated to code changes, because PyCharm has an option to reuse the previous commit message on a new commit...

    He eventually quit and I spent 3 years refactoring his garbage before we finally had a tech team who could take over (I'm a scientist, with self taught coding skills). Pretty sure even after we had a tech team of 7 if was still a better coder than most, purely because I was interested in how coding works, and trying to understand underlying concepts.

  • Joe Rogan on Trump's mass deportations: "I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals"

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  • More useful than comments like yours

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  • Even then, there's some differences between them and within them.. I'd happily vote for Mamdani if I was in New York, for instance.

  • Seeing lemmy all over Google search results gives me hope

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  • Tbh I still get mostly motorhead

  • Does almost anyone actually feel like being a normal person?

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  • Weird

  • Does almost anyone actually feel like being a normal person?

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  • Everyone is weird in some way. Some of us try to hide it, some don't. How much you do is a choice (but also heavily influenced by how conformist your communities are).

  • A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman

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  • Oh yeah, I saw that a while back. Hilarious! Also kind of unusual (though lots of people have used smaller samples from toys and instruments)

  • A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman

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  • All good, was just wondering.

    I do DJ (non-professionally). I generally think there are two skills with DJing:

    • Taste, library management and music choice, which is not a technical skill, but does take a bit of effort in preparing for a set
    • Actual technical mixing skills, which many DJs (including me) barely have, but some take to a level that is on basically a form of musicianship.

    I don't think AI can really help you do either.. but I guess it could make a mixed set and you could pretend to play it, like a Casio keyboard

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  • Are you speaking from experience? 'Cause that's not even vaguely related to how any of the DJs I know (including a couple of professionals) got started. The prime motive for most DJs is sharing cool music, and Casio keyboards don't do that..