Will Forte. His voice and “quirky” style I find just irritating and not at all amusing.

“Fancy graphics” also doesn’t correlate well with how visually appealing a game is. I would take Ori graphics over CoD any day.

Which is to say that prices did increase every generation.

https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1mpglp9/dc_folks_you_should_protest_by_lining_up_as_many/

The old reddit domain worked for me in a private session.

AI = sqrt((pc)² + (m₀c² )² ) - m₀c²

I wonder if it would be worthwhile to colocate large greenhouses with datacenters. The exhaust temperatures seem compatible with hothouse growing. The heat would still end up in the atmosphere, but at least it could enable growth of fresh local produce first.

High aspect ratio just doesn’t roll off the tongue does it?

I believe I see a disc brake on the trailer wheel.

Wow!

The link doesn’t go to specific article and just lands on the wapo homepage.

Yeah, black holes in media where they are depicted as a giant space vacuum cleaner is a big pet peave of mine. Unless you get really close, nothing is remarkable about the orbital mechanics of a black hole. The equivalent mass star would have burned you up at a much further distance than the gravity starts to become noticeably wonky.

It’s a shame that writers focus so much on the gravity and neglect accretion disks and astrophysical jets which do extend large distances and are visually stunning as well.

They’ll have a unique Pollock inspired piece in no time.

The problem isn’t methane production, it’s excessive soluble proteins producing a thick foam that prevents the methane from being expelled through the esophagus. Any feed produces large amounts of gas in grazing animals. What changes is the animals ability to safely vent the gas.

https://biologyinsights.com/why-does-alfalfa-cause-bloat-in-cattle/

Sometimes animals escape their enclosures and mis-feed themselves. The couple times I’ve witnessed this were the result of cows helping themselves to a field of alfalfa. Alfalfa is good as a component of a silage mix but is too rich to be consumed fresh on its own. But cows love alfalfa and are good at finding weaknesses in fencing.

Solar panels aren’t just silicon. There’s also lots of silver wire traces to collect the current. I’m having a hard time looking up typical trace pitch, but I believe it’s tight enough to substantially attenuate the bands that starlink operates on.

What could one legislator cost, Michael, 25,000 dollars?

Iowa pays its general assembly members a salary of $25k a yr. So $200k a yr in lobbying from a single company potentially buys a lot of influence.

That penninsula does have 300 valcanos, 29 of which are considered active. The valcano that erupted last erupted in 2023. So yeah, it does seem somewhat normal for the region.

The earthquake was 8th largest recorded btw. But seismographs have only really been recording earthquake intensity for around 150 years which is very little on geologic time.

My biggest apprehension about using llms for shopping is that there is no reason to think the models won’t sell priority/positive attribution as an alternative to traditional marketing. It’s the only monetization scheme that I think makes the absurd valuations make any sense. Condition everyone to offload the tiresome tasks of comparison shopping by just telling the llms what they want. Once people form the impression that the top results are what they themselves would pick or at least close to it, then the llm’s will take over the actual purchasing task. Then the stage is fully set to sell consumers as a product to various companies. Imagine if HP could move away from scammy ink subscriptions and instead pay OpenAI to get millions of people to buy their printers and ink anytime they ask chatgpt to find them a printer.

I recognize that this is borderline conspiratorial, but llm’s smell like the next evolution of enshittification and removing that pesky rational actor of pricing models.

Definitely, any changes natural or anthropogenic would be measured and to great accuracy. I just wanted to point out that the notion of the general public, especially if conditioned to distrust scientists and authorities, not noticing changes isn’t the outlandish part. See global warming denial despite years of record setting temperatures.

Ignoring conspiracy theory stuff, people aren’t very good at perceiving changes in light levels if they happen gradually. During any solar eclipse there are wide bands where only a partial eclipse is observed. It’s pretty common for people in those bands to not notice that something has changed even with 50% occlusion.