And the voices. “Billy…”

“You fucked the whole thing up.”

“Billy, your time is up.”

“Your time… is up.”

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  • Low level programming C

    Could be pretty much any computer

    rust

    Need a lot of memory (8-16 GB) if you are planning on dissecting any existing projects

    Machine Learning programming with Python

    Start with colab / huggingface and get a feel for what level of hardware you need for the stuff you’re doing before you start buying stuff

    If you want just a general high quality system with upgradability etc, frame.work or System76 are supposed to be good high end providers.








  • Yeah. You would have had to triangulate your way around to getting the information that is exactly the information that you knew already that it was.


    “Sir, I need you to go to the oil that you used and check if it is non-hydrogenated or hydrogenated. It should be printed on the back of the label.”

    “What do you mean, I never had this problem before”

    “Yes, I’m aware, they have changed the oil constitution recently. I’ll be able to resolve this problem for you, I just need to know if the oil is hydrogenated or not.”

    “I don’t see what that has to do with anything”

    “Can you just check the back of the bottle, please? Then I’m sure we’ll be able to get your recipe working again”

    “Okay, well I didn’t actually use oil, I used toothpaste because it was expired and I wanted to get rid of it”

    “Aha! Okay, I understand sir. I’m glad we were able to get to the bottom of the issue you’re having. So, if you make the recipe with toothpaste, it definitely won’t taste the same or have a good consistency. I think if you switch back to using oil you’ll find that the pancakes still taste the same as they used to”

    “But I think I should be able to use toothpaste.”

    “Absolutely. Is there anything else I can help you with today?”



  • Just to put some context:

    • Predatory scorpions a couple feet long
    • Armored millipedes larger than a man; they were probably herbivorous but as the article notes they “would have had few, if any, predators.”
    • There is a theory, possibly not real well accepted but it makes sense to me, that trilobites were the creature that way-back-when invented effective predation shortly after evolving vision. (Before which the world was a fairly benign place.) The theory further supposes that the Cambrian Explosion was caused by every other organism on the planet having to scramble not to have their soft blobby flesh munched on at leisure by a limitless army of armored, invulnerable hunters, which they couldn’t see or avoid, but who could see and follow them.

  • plants still absorb 90% of green light

    What are you talking about

    (Your statement is technically true I think; I assume that plants like all opaque nonreflective objects absorb most of the light of any wavelength that hits them. But that doesn’t mean they’re using the green stuff for photosynthesis)

    green light holds the highest proportion of the energy radiated by the sun

    What are you talking about

    green light has too much energy

    What are you talking about

    However, this is not to say that green lights ability to efficiently evaporate water is not a factor in this evolutionary development, hell it’s probable that these two things are heavily related

    What are you talking about

    Did you read this recently, and just automatically assume that that thing about green light is probably heavily related to this other thing about green light because they’re both green light? I’m not tryin to be a dick about it by saying that, but that doesn’t sound automatically probable to me.

    So essentially, while absorbing all green light would provide the plant with more energy, it’s not capable of handling this energy so plants evolved to limit their intake of green light.

    This part for all I know could be true. (Or, the thing that linked paper says which this is kind of a simplified version of.) I couldn’t completely make sense of the paper just from the abstract, but to me it looks just from a first glance like it’s not real convincing as an overriding proof that what they’re talking about is (a) necessarily exactly how it happens in biological systems or (b) wholly responsible for plants being green if it does. It’s just a theoretical indication of one way that you can do the regulation, which also doesn’t work real well if you’re choosing to absorb green light.

    The thing I linked to claims that the green color is a result of an evolutionary trap (presumably based on evolving under conditions of green light unavailability and then having the machinery too complete to go back and redesign to absorb green light? Once green light became available again when the retinal-based organisms weren’t around anymore? Maybe.) I’m not convinced either explanation is proven but IDK if you can say just based on this one paper that it’s absolutely definite that that’s why and how it happens.