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I draw the line at public points.

It's a global thing; most of those countries look to immigration to solve their depopulation problem. Education needs to be global. I guess LLMs do that now in many ways; we don't …

Indeed. As I see it (and I have lived in socialist and capitalist countries as well as developing countries) there are really only two problems. 1. People in power don't want the s…

ie. China is the future, US is the past.

Many fungi have pan-tropical or global distribution. See p158+ in PDF https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annur...

ROFL. Banned in Australia. "Requires age verification." Next up: Ethnomycology of nanny state....

I'm aware of this guy but the presentation is a bit full on for me. My buddy who is in to botany says apparently his podcasts are really good: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zJDjlu…

Congratulations! Add a water feature ... it will attract birds. And next to that some smaller shrubs. Then once the trees grow you can put climbers and ferns in them. And throw dow…

1. Sashimi goblinu 2. Goblin penis soup.

Primarily this fixes the bug in the interface which is allowing the user to input data that does not match their declared destination. However, a second benefit is that you can the…

For these people, replace the buttons entirely with a voice-activated destination request on proximity.

From the people who brought you USB-C. Great to see a step in the right direction, especially in this economic and political climate, and lovely to see it published via Mastodon. G…

Pasta itself was not frequently consumed in Italy before the industrial revolution as it was too labor intensive and thus prepared only on special occasions. 'Real' Italian cuisine…

Two San Diego posts at once! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090867 Go team!

Two San Diego posts at once! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083314 Go team!

No. I2C is popular for a reason. It is cheap, fast enough, well understood, available everywhere, uses less lines and less physical space than almost all alternatives (excluding on…

Yes, an air conditioner can be made as follows. 1. Identify a locally viable deciduous tree species. 2. Plant this species on the afternoon aspect of the sun in your location. So f…

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I have a ton of handwritten German stuff from the 19th century. My grandmother could make a fair stab at it, but nobody left can read it. I've shown modern Germans and they are at …

I found a copy of the oldest film ever shot in China in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) library in London. The camera had been personally loaned to the French adm…

Baby got backplane . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X53ZSxkQ3Ho&t=80

SaaS was always destined for this, with or without AI. Excluding the small subset with network effects, the nominal nature of a remote execution aid in basic business process was a…

No worries as they'd had their vegemite for brekkie providing all the salt they need to offset the constant sweat. None of this soft modern electrolyte bullshit, just beer dregs on…

My sentiments exactly. I would like to trade the time spent giving away ideas to AIs for time spent in nature. Actually it's a well executed front for a build-me-a-technical-tradin…