Background in hard sciences, computing (FOSS), electronics, music, Zen.
When I was a young teem, a teacher put a slice of apple in a sealed container with a few fruit-flies. A week later, there were hundreds of fruit-flies. In another week the bottom of the container was covered with the bodies of fruit-flies. Quick, unforgettable lesson.
That’s one of the first problems I need solved, so thanks for asking. I used to use pulseEffects to get one place to go for system-wide volume, EQ & compression settings, and want that back.
One of the problems it had was that many FX wouldn’t work without having to install a set of non-default libraries, and the available docs weren’t too clear on that. Will be visiting Ee docs.
Sleep more. Bathe less. Think of your future self not damning you for over-doing physical stuff. Eat a little more of that sweet crap you’re not supposed to. Smile at judgers, not a word, it drives them bats. Avoid credit. Enjoy all those little critters more. Take a longer look at Zen.
So far as I’ve heard, none of them ever escaped that distant past.
Walking downtown to the movie theatre (back when they were cheap and they didn’t arrest parents for letting kids do that) to see first-run science-fiction features on a Saturday holding a bag of popcorn… and getting my money’s worth … and still enjoying them decades later after nuking my own popcorn …
The Europeans have had -many- centuries longer to screw -everything- up in -every way- and then, eventually, regret it. A bit. So, like most of us humans, who learn most lessons the hard way, they have finally settled on something they can live with … and they call it civilization. With pride.
Amongst those living there who don’t know all of that history - like most humans - they assume that things got that way reasonably. And brag about it as if it was true.
Unlike the middle East - which has had -millenia- longer to learn - and which was, is, and it seems always will be, screwing everything up in every way. While they all point their fingers elsewhere. And build very large monuments to survive them.
I think a lot of the complaints are coming from people in countries that don’t know their own histories so well. Consider the damages European colonizers inflicted on Africa and the far East up until the 1960s. Hell Europeans didn’t even stop the killings in Europe until then. But it seems they earned some hard-learned lessons since (like Helsinki’s solution for homelessness) (and making the Raspberry Pi) and keeping the peace in Europe. There MUST be some well-thought-out solutions to be shared, right?
MANY Americans aren’t ready to hear these things. The rest of us are well-aware of them. We’re glad that you’re sharing your criticisms, and waiting for y’all to share with us how to implement your well-thought-out and practical, abiding solutions.
Hah! Let’s make a list of the countries where leadership of that ilk has never existed. (We’ll just ignore that most of them did not allow elections.) Won’t take much paper.
Nothing new to that. In 1886 case Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, the US Supreme Court declared that companies are people too. With the same rights — under the 14th amendment.
Commuter? Audiobook here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwz8ANABslk
Turn the playback speed down to 0.75 and you won’t need to drink more coffee first.
"Lack of respect, wrong attitude, failure to obey authority. The Farm, immediately. - death sentence in Ellison’s book ‘A Boy and His Dog’
Might as well throw some Terminator and ‘The Machine Stops’ in there.
These sites have advice on handling and re-cycling.
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/help-my-laptop-battery-is-swollen-now-what
This next one says: “Nationwide electronics retailer Best Buy has, arguably, the best recycling program going. Its website details exactly what the store will take, and a drop-down menu in each category allows you to see any specific regulations for your state. You can bring in up to three items per day.”
Article also mentions Staples, Apple and Wal-Mart.
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-recycle-your-technology
Goodwill stores also have an E-Cycling Program.
https://www.whereseattlerecycles.com/goodwill-stores/
All of Washington: http://1800recycle.wa.gov/
mentions for E-bike batteries: Batteries Plus, Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Office Depot, OfficeMax, RadioShack, Sears, Staples, or Target. Says that Home Depot has a drop-off box for rechargeables at the front of each WA store.
Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/s? The stark contrast between these numbers remains unexplained…
Not so much. The stark contrast is the result of a set of stupid premises.
our sensory systems gather data at ∼10^9 bits/s.
Even In the ‘machine model’ of the brain this article appears to espouse … vastly simplistic as it is … the brain processes 10^9 bits of vision, audio, and kinetic clues which usually results in a limited but highly appropriate response … often in much less than a second … to gymnastic moves or crossing a busy street, driving a jet, performing on a violin, whatever. That response quickly arrives as the result of a model built on long experience of actual reality.
The authors fail to come up with -any- source (credible or not) for that ridiculous 10 bits/s number. Their model is so simplistic it isn’t even worth engaging with.
Everyone in the world is continually exposed to background radiation. That level has gone up considerably since the US began testing atom bombs in the atmosphere. The current AVERAGE level in THE WORLD is about 3 millisieverts per year. In the US it averages about 6 mSv per year (depending on where you live; it might be much higher.)
By comparison, these days: One chest x-ray delivers 20 μSv = .02 mSv. On the other hand, one CT scan delivers from 1 to 20 mSv.
One of the early pros working with radioactivity was Marie Curie. She died of aplastic anemia in 1934. Her research notes are still radioactive. Her lab was said to be radioactive as well, yet it was not decontaminated until 1991.
Ha! Funny even if partly true. Too bad he didn’t sue their asses!
I’m going to enjoy that multi-app FX stack.