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xipho
·hace 2 meses·discuss
He's streaming live "right now". https://www.twitch.tv/textfiles
xipho
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Come spend some time with the TaxonWorks community, docs can always use love. https://taxonworks.org.
xipho
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Inspirational stuff, with lots of great references to the OGs at the bottom, and source available. Now can it be merged with the look/feel of https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/. ;)
xipho
·hace 4 meses·discuss
I've tried a lot of note management but always come back to [potwiki](https://github.com/vim-scripts/potwiki.vim) + "Vim". Only one necessary functional bit in the whole thing, write CamelCase and your word is linked, hit enter on it and you're there.
xipho
·hace 4 meses·discuss
As if by magic from here on HN - https://www.science.org/content/article/can-wealthy-family-c...
xipho
·hace 4 meses·discuss
One could argue all science is still funded that way. My team is funded by a philanthrophist. NSF "royalty" re-distributes the peasant's taxes to do science. Etc.
xipho
·hace 4 meses·discuss
When AI is done consuming (and it basically has, except for redundant human-human social network interactions), then will there be a renaissance of re-exploring the natural world? Without understanding its complexities I would posit we're doomed to short and ugly end. Perhaps AI is just what we need to start to re-appreciate it "at scale".
xipho
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Anyone chime in on how they typically engage something like this? No way am I dropping my primary contact info into something so outwardly cryptic. Phone number? Hah! Do you scaffold a new identity/email (semi-automagically)?
xipho
·hace 5 meses·discuss
This is the way. I get plenty of feeds, recommendations etc. from others, enough to keep me busy. Follow who I want, and drop in when I see they have something new.
xipho
·hace 6 meses·discuss
That too! There seem to be a lot of YT videos that are memes on this theme as well though. He alludes to the fact that people make build videos that are essentially adding a couple of pre-existing more or less built components together. This is another level.
xipho
·hace 6 meses·discuss
That's no meme- it's a fully operational crazy custom build. A remarkable video that doesn't end in "like and mash subscribe".
xipho
·hace 6 meses·discuss
Ok, I'll bite. What if solar panels turn into breeding grounds with perfect environmental temperatures to create viruses that kill us all? Who is to say the sun won't blow up tomorrow? Why not enumerate all the things that might happen to distract? There is a nice quote going around re a weather scientists who gets asked annually what's it going to be like this year? He's tired, and notes "this year, and every year for the rest of your life is going to be the hottest ever." That's in large part to oil, full stop.
xipho
·hace 8 meses·discuss
"But here’s the thing: this massively understates the opportunity.

The solar system is the Trojan horse. The real business is the financial relationship with 40 million customers."

Soooo... they have a good thing going, there is an opportunity to fsk them over? Like more centralized fees?
xipho
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Notes on mushroom clouds are sobering.
xipho
·hace 10 meses·discuss
Related, the OG, with research behind it- https://colorbrewer2.org/.
xipho
·hace 10 meses·discuss
I've pitched Blender to NSF Review panels and the higher ups that come by those to visit as the way science should do software. Would love to know of others as successful as this, particularly as it crosses boundries to industry.
xipho
·hace 10 meses·discuss
If the only two examples that are presented are "SpaceX" and "Latin America" can we not dismiss any further importance on the conflict-of-interest aspect alone? A completely failed experiment, and a company that can create millions simply by tweeting- who buys this?