Vow is a lab grown meat company taking this path. Last year they made a mammoth meatball that used mammoth dna with some elephant dna. I think this is a smart approach, allows them to charge higher prices for a unique experience. [1]
Other types of meat that make sense are high end sushi fish etc. where again the conventional price they compete against is high enough that it makes it economically possible to grow it in a lab.
Of course winter does not happen at the same time throughout the world. Would be interesting to see if it does the same if asked in a language spoken in the southern hemisphere.
You can use log2ram [0] to reduce the number of writes to the SD card. That's what I'm doing at the moment and haven't had any problems with my SD card, though it has been in use for less than 6 months so far. I agree though that a SD card is not the best storage option for the OS and would like to move mine over to an nvme drive.
Also the problem with GMOs is it transfers ownership of the plant from the public to the large companies that have modified it (as they will inventibly want to patent it). Is it really fair that they take thousands of years of evolution, change a gene or two, and become the sole owner of the strain? And often limiting the ability of the plant to reproduce, so you have to buy more seed from them. If it continues that way the amount of plants available under public ownership will continue to decrease.
Ah, I had the exact same idea for a website after seeing the post on spleeter here on hn a bit ago. Just tried an mp3 and it works great! Even though you have beat me to it I think I'll still have a go at making something similar to get some frontend experience :)
There are projects like Yggdrasil [0] and cjdns [1] which are encrypted, distributed networks. People will generally use these networks on top of the existing internet infrastructure though, because for now that is the most prevalent way computers are connected to each other. But there is nothing stopping people setting up their own mesh networks which could completly or partially avoid the existing internet infrastructure which governments have control over.
Also you may be interested in the SAFE network [2], it's not live yet but been in the works for some time and is getting close, more detail at [3].
Very interesting and exciting work. Michael Levin (one of the scientists in this study) has some amazing things going on in his lab. There is a few talks of him on YouTube, I have seen the following one from May this year
All sorts of work about setting the electrical potential between cells/parts of the body to certain states to induce the desired growth. E.g. growing a eye on the gut of a tadpoles.
Yeah I like the idea of visual programming but it's not gonna replace everyday dev work in my opinion.
I would like to see more apps for tablets that introduce visual programming into everyday workflows. If you haven't seen the work of Ink & Switch check out these essays on end user programming [0] and an app for basically working on ideas [1], combine these and you get a fluid interface with an easy way of doing some computation (the visual programming bit) which is something I would love to use.
But visual programming gets messy if you attempt to do something complex and I don't know if there is any way around this. This then is where there needs to be programs with strong types that can compose with each other, like the example explained in this post [2].
These concepts are all things which anyone using a computer could use, not something just resticted to people who are already "developers", and I think we have to get into that mindset for this type of software to become more successful.
I use "Ian's knot" to tie my shoes [0]. I was so excited when I first learnt this, it is very quick to do and I like that the two loops of the tied shoelace sit flat and straight on the show. Works great for short laces, and never had a problem coming undone.
Here in Adelaide (South Australia) I've found the buses have improved a lot over the last decade, usually right on time, only with the occasional delay (like 5-10 mins).
There are real time data available for our transport system which I find to be super useful so I can leave to get to a stop at the right time.
I had just recently been reading about Arweave [0], a sort of distributed file storage that claims to permanently store files/webpages using various incentives.
Seems like something like this would be a good way to archive this sort of information or build sites like Yahoo groups on top of this file storage in the first place.
May also be interested in Allen AI's OCR tool olmOCR they just released too [1][2]. They say "convert a million PDF pages for only $190 USD".
[1] https://github.com/allenai/olmocr [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18443