eleitl @ eleitl @lemm.ee

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No, just laminated ones. Closed at one end. Easy enough to make or buy. You can even improvise the propellant.

Amazon was always a sweat shop. A place to work just long enough to be able to cash in your stock options and put Amazon on your resume.

I never understood why they never just bundled a bunch of carbon composite front loader barrels with electric ignition along with a laser pointer. No need for any metal nor 3d printing.

I was never banned. I stopped participating after the API debacle. I still read on sub daily via old.reddit.com but it is busily dying. It will probably be dead before they kill off old.reddit.com.

My phone runs open source ROMs. I don't have a TV, but I do have an nVidia streaming box -- I don't assume anything I watch there is private. My doorbell is an electromechanical device hooked to a simple wire.

60% of people in UK are certified morons. Slightly higher than I expected.

I will buy the next Google tablet. To only use it with GrapheneOS. My current Galaxy tablet with LineageOS isn't immortal.

Like in statistical thermodynamics, the collective choice of an ensemble is not a choice at all. Individually, we do have degrees of freedom. The larger the aggregate, the less degrees of freedom.

You can run a router VM but I run my opnsense on a thin client directly.

Highlights

        Consolidation and synthesis of multidisciplinary research on societal collapse.
    
    The review identifies theoretical tensions and themes in extant research.
    
    Indicates future research and research in futures studies sprouting from the findings.


  

Abstract

Because of concerns that ongoing climate change could lead to a possible collapse of human civilization, the topic of societal (civilization) collapse has emerged as especially relevant, not least for the futures-oriented studies. While this has led to extensive research on societal collapse, there is a lack of consolidation and synthesis of the research. The purpose of this article is thus to systematize the extant research on societal collapse and suggest future research directions. This article offers a systematic multidisciplinary review of the existing literature (361 articles and 73 books) and identifies five scholarly conversations: past collapses, general explanations of collapse, alternatives to collapse, fictional collapses, and future climate change and societal collapse. The review builds the foundation for a critical discussion of each line of inquiry by focusing on theoretical tensions and themes within each scholarly conversation, ending with a discussion of how these conversations inform futures research.

It's 67 in Germany, up from 65 recently. Meanwhile, life expectation continues to fall.

I never understood how programmers had no clue how the hardware worked. How can you write high performance code without understanding memory access optimization and opcode pipelines? Why even attempting rewriting old Fortran array code to C and then to C++ without understanding that Fortran array code fits cache lines just fine, while your newly shiny refactored code doesn't, so now you wonder why your code performance sucks?

Just use DACs within the rack. Single mode fiber patches and SFP+ optics are also cheap and easy to find.

One of my expected sentinel events is diesel rationing. That's going to have an immediate effect on industrialized agriculture and transport. Fertilizer taxes on Russia and Belorussia are also not a particularly smart move at this point.

It beggars belief how fast things are unravelling. And how few notice.

I have 5 person annual plan which is still useful if you're not limited to English -- e.g. French is a bad match there. But I will be checking out Mango for sure.

Duolingo has gotten worse since they fired their human staff and started embracing AI slop.

Just develop fully autopoietic artificial photosynthetic systems. Piece of cake.

May I interest you in this resource? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m

You might have heard of these fossil fuels we're busily running out of. And fossil is still 80% of primary energy use so there is no renewable energy transition, and renewable infrastructure is being built almost exclusively using fossil fuels.

So this means future energy rationing. What's the business case for AI?

They won't.