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Turns out, once I got to read it on desktop machine, they weren't links at all but captions for images that weren't showing for me on mobile.

Anyone else unable to access what I assume are supposed to links for the centred bits of text throughout that article? I had a hard time understanding parts of it...

Pretty sure your maths is off - even if it did steadily fall by 20% every 20 years, it'd still have a population of 16 to 17 million in 100 years' time. So no, not especially dire.…

It was the period of the most rapid population growth globally. And the period during which antibiotics became widely available.

I don't care for the use of terms that imply appreciating the fine arts is somehow on a "higher plane" and places those who do so above those who don't, but I do think it's worth a…

Definitely not my experience - the flavour definitely deteriorates too, often becoming quite bitter.

Commercial avocado dips seem to avoid turning brown - admittedly they're usually pretty tasteless but I'd be curious what stops the discoloration.

Yep, they're definitely still rising, despite a slight drop in 2020 (thanks, COVID). Not sure there's any point in talking about per-capita emissions. That US emissions have been f…

I haven't upgraded to ChatGPT 4 yet, but given it can now supposedly do web searches (including searching github?) I've signed up for the wait list. Is it worth it, based on feedba…

Well there's certainly a conceivable one, and it's one probably many would agree would be much nicer one to live in. But accepted, not a realistic one any time soon.

Curious, how did "received" end up with multiple spellings then?

"almost always" - agreed, but the specific case where your application has clearly gone into a temporary mode where no user interaction is permitted (other than perhaps "cancel") I…

How would that explain the voice/phone network being out? And you'd think packets would still be able to make it through the network even without DNS.

It baffles me how they can have one single point of failure for their entire national cellular + fibre voice & data network, and for it to take so long to fix.

Isn't iOS still essentially the same way? It was one reason I stopped using iOS devices as I frequently wanted to open, for instance, pdf or image files from multiple apps.

Good managers for dev teams should have enough technical knowledge themselves and demand explanations from participating devs why a candidate is or isn't good enough to see through…

And yet some of the worst performance issues I've had to deal with were in code typically dealing will merely 100s of items, but using algorithms and slow network-based operations …

Oh I suspect it was quite common in much of Europe for fairly long periods too, when there very limited options for travel for vast majority of people, who were in fact farmers. Ye…

Arguably any period of history where the majority of people lived as subsistence farmers and rarely interacted with others not part of the household was an anomaly though, and very…

I was curious to know what sort of studies had been done in that regard, I didn't notice anything mentioned by the article, though admittedly I only skimmed the 2nd half. FWIW I do…

> any condition that doesn't impact survival until sexual maturity Diseases that impact even just appearance can surely make you less attractive as a mate though. And larger goiter…

I gather the GP's point was we that previously we'd eat kidneys or livers or tripe etc. in "unprocessed" form, whereas now they're all only used for pet food or gelatin etc. Whethe…

Sorry, was meant as a reply to the post you were replying to!

That light pollution has only existed for a tiny tiny fraction of the time since life first evolved on Earth. It's entirely conceivable that in another 1000 years (a blink of the a…

"High-resolution images of Australia..did not yield signs of civilization." I'd been living here my whole life when it flew over, and hadn't had much luck detecting such signs eith…