kalkulat 3d ago • 100%
I'll give Chap1 a shot. PKD can be a headscratcher.
kalkulat 4d ago • 100%
Derange the home stove, the Ford, or the range?
kalkulat 4d ago • 93%
Either greed or religion has killed the most people before their time. One of them has to go.
kalkulat 4d ago • 100%
Similar to my path, sounds like. Started when I noticed how much the acceptance of physics theories depended on POV. Already questioning Western religion/philosophy wholesale, Watts got me started looking at multiple Asian POVs, that brought me back to Jung, Gurdjieff, Polanyi and Bohm. There was no cure for any of that, so back to restart with slightly less naive realism. I am, whether or not I think, therefore.
"Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that precious little fragment as well. " — Philip K. Dick
"Geothermal does currently cost more per megawatt hour than wind or solar, but those more-established renewables require big batteries to keep power flowing around the clock."
kalkulat 5d ago • 100%
I'd bet that 'lemmings' wouldn't work.
kalkulat 1w ago • 100%
I specially liked the part where he collected $50k by clueing the affected companies.
Meanwhile in North America, Canada's VIA is operating on a shoestring and being further threatened ... and in the last 50 years the US has pulled up most of the rails that were installed in the previous century. We're stuck with airplanes, hybrid metro-transit, and what's left of Greyhound. But, hey, we've got a world to police!
hi, i'm daniel. i'm a 15-year-old with some programming experience and i do a little bug hunting in my free time. here's the insane story of how I found a single bug that affected over half of all Fortune 500 companies:
kalkulat 1w ago • 100%
Sabine is a very competent physicist. That's why her viewpoint - right or wrong - is well worth hearing. The fact that the Nobel went to a computer scientist instead says a lot about the state-of-the-art.
kalkulat 1w ago • 100%
Sabine knows her shit. May she coax some physicists into getting back into experimenting... and away from Big Science funding.
kalkulat 1w ago • 100%
Leave the poor things alone. They already don't kill each other all of the time.
kalkulat 2w ago • 100%
"The change would force the companies to prioritize the government’s social and economic objectives over corporate profits."
That starts to sound good. What are those objectives?
kalkulat 2w ago • 100%
Good thing is, your ham (amateur radio) license will not not require you to learn the morse code. To get into 2-meters and above VHF/UHF (handheld/repeater/packet), where most of this action would be happening, you'll pass a 30-question written test to show you know the rules. You can learn them from a book or join a class. You'd also be able to use voice on 10-meters (near the CB band)
Learn the needed details here: https://www.arrl.org/getting-your-technician-license/
You might find some people on CB doing this stuff ... why not? But the article was def about the ham scene.
kalkulat 2w ago • 100%
I noticed in that video how Al Gore looked as he listened. Sagan died in 1996. Gore released his documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth', 18 years ago in 2006. I believe Sagan would not have been surprised at the film's reception, nor surprised by how little impact it has had on effective response to the threats it outlined. You can lead a horse to water....
kalkulat 2w ago • 100%
If we are realistic enough to put the fight against further global warming on a wartime basis, then we can operate things on a wartime basis. Which means planning things so that everything is focussed on winning the war. For example gasoline rationing would encourage people to plan their use of gasoline for maximum efficiency. It means people can get only as much as they can justify.
Rationing was used in the US during WW2. To see what that meant, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_States
kalkulat 2w ago • 100%
I'd like to encourage the author of of this to leave the line- and paragraph- breaks in the source text. This is impossible to read as is.
"Witnesses testified on how the greenhouse effect will change the global climate system and possible solutions.”
kalkulat 2w ago • 50%
The wonderful thing about burying CO2 is that nobody can tell you didn't. If it leaks out, nobody can tell it did. If you can get paid for it, that's the most wonderful thing.
CO2 is like nuclear plants in that way. When Rocky Flats had a big fire in their weapons plant, and plutonium fell all over the Denver suburbs, they just didn't tell anyone about it.
kalkulat 3w ago • 100%
Sugar daddies ...
kalkulat 3w ago • 100%
A new Linux OS may emit unfamiliar sounds if some network app is still running and set to use them for notifications. Quitting the (sound-making) app(s) and/or the network connection will can avoid that problem. Of course you can just turn the sound volume all the way down.
Suspended OSs may sometimes 'wake up for no reason' if some vibration causes the mouse, for example, to jiggle around enough.
Logging out of your user account before suspending/sleeping the machine will stop that stuff without having to dig thru settings. Faster to log back in than to reboot.
kalkulat 3w ago • 100%
This Cat-4 started just down by the Yucatan and worked up 140mph-sustained winds in a couple of days over the Gulf of Mexico. I'm wondering how common that's been before.
kalkulat 3w ago • 100%
I ran into a very old saying yesterday: A fish rots from the head down.
kalkulat 3w ago • 100%
Quite the contrary! The idea is that today's curricula and methods of instruction have changed a lot over two centuries. Here in the US, it is not uncommon for secondary arts teachers and programs to be dropped whenever schools are feeling a budget crunch. Now we see similar things going on in major universities. Often ones with more administrators than professors.
In the high school I attended, and later in one that I taught in, the separate building for the sports program was as large as the rest of the school. I thought those were fairly clear statements of what the district's priorities were. 'Education' is a very broad word that can mean many things in many places.
A society has been formed to share the ideas of quantum physicist, philosopher David Bohm (1917-1992). "I can tell you one thing. David Bohm knows a lot more than just a little about physics." - Richard Feynman
"Michael Straight, a former jockey paralyzed from the waist down, was left unable to walk for two months after the company behind his $100,000 exoskeleton refused to fix a battery issue. " “I called [the company] thinking it was no big deal, yet I was told they stopped working on any machine that was 5 years or older,”
(Added as a matter of curiousity, not to divert or disavow the our very real AGW.) This occurence is usually blamed on the 'Little Ice Age' ... cause still uncertain. The LIA is implicated in 500 years of misery for many Europeans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
Related, relevant advice on SSD reliability (dated 2015, still relevant? inquiring minds want to know): https://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-retention
Turning gas-fueled cars into electric ones can be four times cheaper than buying a new EV.
I imagine there are many US people living in places with 100+ degree days for months in a row -- Places which seldom got above 90 a half-century ago ... who do not understand that driving a car with AC to a home with AC is making matters worse. The situation is urgent, yet we keep hearing 2060 2050 2040 2030 deadlines as if a fix could somehow be delivered by then . BUT: If we got to zero -tomorrow- , it'd stay as it already is for centuries. Every day without HUGE changes NOW it's getting worse.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19494425 > > The artist naming convention also followed a somewhat similar pattern, with names ranging from the normal-sounding "Calvin Mann" to head-scratchers like "Calorie Event," "Calms Scorching," and "Calypso Xored." > > That one of you? ;-)
"...more research is needed to see if these drugs are safe and effective for people with Alzheimer's.