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I largely don't find that surprising. Industry and mechanical activity (cars) cause direct warming - see "urban heat islands", "weekend temperature effect", and as a bonus the "wee…

The first time I built a freestanding bookshelf, I put a lot of effort into making the feet level and the back straight and at a right angle to the feet. Once I put it up against t…

We have bread like that even in the more civilized parts.

Probably it's a bit like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation?wprov=sfla1 But on a more serious note that's a great paper and well worth the read.

https://archive.ph/VlvTj

Thanks for that hilarious history tidbit. The actual record makes it even better. From the wiki page for Taejong of Joseon: The king himself rode a horse and shot arrows at a deer.…

I think that's also consistent with the idea behind a hot shower. The shower doesn't help by increasing your body temperature, in fact it does the opposite. The hot shower induces …

that was my experience too!

I think these studies aren't meaningless at all, but the fact that "AI" is a loosely used term means that many people might view even more simple ML methods with skepticism, as opp…

It doesn't seem like a silly argument to me, and certainly not moralizing. Rather "I wonder..." seems to be an indirectly phrased request for information, an open invitation for so…

This is vapid politics, not a thoughtful analysis, which you would expect from the title.

That's what I told my advisor about the model round about once a month, and round about a week later I'd tell him about the new bug I'd found.

>They could make huge improvements in safety by actively preventing the use of illegally modified e-bikes that travel too fast. Or by regulating bicycle food delivery services so t…

In Germany we have rules, and one of those rules is that pedestrians on the sidewalk who are in the cyclepath (usually a too-subtle red stone) do, in fact, have to get out of the w…

Or else they'll eventually alienate a majority of their patron state's voting population, and finally get hemmed in / risk losing your military (and other) funding that their state…

I was just talking to a kiwi yesterday about diesel. The price has more than doubled already there. So there goes large chunk of the US beef supply.

I think the point is that a world with renewable electricity wouldn't need as much oil, thereby making smaller sources of carbon sufficient.

At first I took the comment about transferring nukes as a bit of a joke, but you make a fair point. Let Iceland have em!

The article in question: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/do-your-paren...

I don't watch a movie a day, but I'm at my friendly local indie theater at least once a month. It's got a more comftorable audience, more consistently interesting films, and it cos…

Just one more example here, which I think is a big one for some people - chat apps. Without Whatsapp, Telegram, and Signal, I can't really use my phone as telecommunications tool w…

Oh lord I feel old, I couldn't figure out why 67 was special until I read this.

+1 For Untilted Goose Game, it's wholesome and brilliant, also as a solo game.

People want to determine if the inportant events surrounding them are bad or good, even if they don't have a say in them. Perhaps it's even a way to cope with the lack of influence…

For who might be pulled in by the vague title, not knowing what a nostr is, thinking this article has anything to do with evolution - it has nothing to do with evolution or nature.…