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Can I get this, but for geology?

Passionate hobbyists are often a great source of technical information, and usually more objective than industry sources. The thing to watch out for is people who have become so ab…

Infantino’s justification has been to “grow the game”, but I cannot imagine how football could possibly get any bigger, except maybe in the US.

> the loss of the Amazon (it's pretty much lost already, isn't it?) No, it’s not lost already. We should attempt to preserve what remains, not assume failure is inevitable.

Good question, with a couple of possible answers: 1) maybe those species aren’t as unchanged as we think, because our evidence of the past is limited to things like skeletons, and …

We must prepare for the possibility of a malicious secession of Exeter City, likely with Chris Martin as president.

Is that from the San Francisco Examiner? Do you have sources for the family information you mention?

Yeah. Nobody is innocent here. Someone linked to The Market for Lemons below. This is exactly right. We now live in the World of Lemons. Everything is lemons, because we can only p…

Wikipedia sources the claim to an article by Jerry Pournelle in BYTE magazine, from 1985.

I don’t think anyone can lay claim to a plot of land in perpetuity. Reverence should and does fade over time. Maybe when you are initially buried, that plot of earth belongs to you…

Here’s one: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79981854/how-to-run-mode... -5 points, closed as not related to software development. It’s not a particularly great question, but cl…

If you have a billion year long civilization, it would probably be easier to genetically/medically engineer humans to live forever, so that a 75,000 year space voyage doesn’t seem …

A definition that is debatable at the edges doesn’t have to be debatable at the center, so I don’t think it follows that we need to completely throw out the concept. Nature doesn’t…

All forms of entertainment are entering crisis, because there is so much of it competing for attention, and so many years of back catalog that are still entertaining and available …

"Is 50% faster than Postgres on transaction workloads" - That is a very big claim! 50% faster on everything? Is it a strict improvement across the board or are there tradeoffs that…

Yeah, money ruins everything. I’ve recently enjoyed blogs on Gemini (the protocol, not the AI), which is massively unpopular even by its own low peak in ~2021. In other words, it’s…

It certainly wasn’t going to happen while compute kept getting cheaper. A sustained period of rising compute costs is unprecedented, so who knows what might be possible.

Welcome to the era of thinking more carefully about computer resource usage!

Have the WMF done something bad that needs counterbalancing or are they just forming a union out of some sort of principle?

Surely you call a recovery truck to come pull you out and do an emergency charge on your battery, similar to how they’d provide you with emergency gas if your tank ran dry? Or tow …

Small land area, mountainous, northerly latitude… it’s not that wind and solar won’t work, but I don’t think you can automatically compare costs to giga-scale solar farms in spacio…

> Speaking of memory, the new Outlook uses between 490 MB and 636 MB of RAM while idle, with individual sessions varying based on mailbox size. Outlook Classic, doing the same job,…

Yeah, so don’t do that.

There’s probably a big marketing opportunity for anyone who can make more memory-efficient alternatives to some of the bloated apps that have normalized the need for >16GB RAM in a…