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> Yes, in the Wilamette Valley the indigenous folks maintained Gary Oaks and prevented other trees from growing there. Yes, and that's a fancy way of saying "used periodic burns" t…

Technically it is, but in practice they often speak very obscure protocols over non-Ethernet links. Honestly, I think it's an advantage at this point. Way too much diversity to eas…

Nope. The woods in Oregon (Willamette Valley) and WA were planted and/or allowed to grow by settlers. There are true old growths along the coast and higher up the mountains. If you…

> Oxygen levels run at roughly half of what our lungs expect. Carbon dioxide is present at concentrations enormously higher than in the outside atmosphere. The air is laced with hy…

> Causality goes the other way - it's not the compact nature that reduced fertility but the fact that dense neighborhoods are rare and pricey in the US. They're unfortunately not r…

Look at Houston vs. NYC. Both have approximately similar populations but completely different approaches to city design. NYC is at 52 and Harris County (that contains Houston) is a…

Indigenous practice resulted in the deforestation of the American West so a lot of forests in Oregon and Washington are new growth.

There really, really are not. Tokyo is the prime example of the urban density runaway spiral. Japan has a declining population, yet Tokyo prices are skyrocketing. Some people now l…

And I can tell you that (a) is actually where the children _are_. And (b) is where the people go to die. > Sure, with big lots, kids have lots of space in their own backyards. And …

> I personally think it’s just opportunity cost. Nope. It's just time and personal living space. It's THAT simple. Go on, try to plan your day with transit and no car if you have 3…

I speak 5 languages, lived in several countries, and got my first car at the age of 30.

No, they're not. They are places where cities go to die. Walk in Tokyo and try to find children there.

Keep building these bike lanes and 15-minute neighborhoods. So that people don't even think about having children. Make sure people have no personal space and no personal time. Tha…

400 years is nothing. At this speed, all the Galaxy would have been colonized long ago. This subplot in the book is at least reasonable. Somehow aliens capable of pico-scale engine…

If you're colonizing systems so stealthily that it's not visible, then why bother doing that at all? Even a single solar system has more than enough resources.

You need to use antiretrovirals constantly to control the HIV. It's not worth it for the HPV that is mostly benign (and only rarely causes cancer).

Then it's even weirder. Detecting planets around stars is trivial, yet nobody is running to get that prime real estate? Still makes no sense.

"Dark forest" doesn't work from a game-theoretical standpoint. It assumes that it's cheap to destroy entire planets and solar systems. Yet no-one seems to be colonizing other syste…

Microsoft in the 90-s and early 2000-s was a serious company. Windows NT and Office were engineering marvels. Windows 95 was a brilliant hack that allowed 32-bit GUI programs to ru…

Unions sound great in theory, but they aren't working all that well in practice for high-paying fields that require specialized knowledge. It negates the main advantage of that: be…

Forgejo has a better PR UI. Github has degraded so much that its UI can't even _show_ _the_ _fucking_ _diffs_ without clicking on "Load Diffs". Github is just the laziest default. …

Here's what I did. Step one - migrate my build workflows to Docker. My Github actions are now basically: "checkout / set env vars from secrets / docker-compose builder run make". I…

Not really? They would likely pass through Earth completely invisibly.

There are very few computer-era symmetric ciphers that were truly broken. RC4 is probably the worst example. There are no reasonable attacks even on the good old DES. And by "reaso…

Just treat webhooks as a hint. Write your code to work as a "reconciler" that checks the state of the remote system and reconciles it with the local view of that system. Run reconc…