Forest fires are part of the forest life cycle. The trees grow, they release seeds, eventually they die, biomass accumulates, forest fire happens, no more biomass, newly fertilized ground, heat from the fire opens up the seeds, new trees grow.
Anyone aware of any good deepfake tts? Not for anything nefarious, I'd like to make an audio book version of my book and figure it'd be easier to get the computer to do the reading than to sit and hammer through it myself.
Google Graveyard should be a reminder to anyone who wants to get too deep into their ecosystems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AAlhrNZBhI
I really like this video. I think it's just tts from a book, but its message is great.
I really like this video. I think it's just tts from a book, but its message is great.
The idea that Javascript of all things is dead is insane. As you said, it's all that browsers support anymore.
Hell, there's a lot of stuff using javascript on the bloody server-end! That stuff isn't going away, it sure looks to me like it's doing very well.
Hell, there's a lot of stuff using javascript on the bloody server-end! That stuff isn't going away, it sure looks to me like it's doing very well.
There's a vibrant FreeBASIC community, which is a direct descendant of the Qbasic/QB45/PDS71 community.
If qbasic isn't dead, then nothing is.
If qbasic isn't dead, then nothing is.
I've been stocking up, same thing -- first time ever. I'm not some insane prepper, but reality is what reality is, and the laws of physics don't care about how many dollars you print.
I suspect the demarcation would be age. I think they stopped teaching cursive relatively recently since it isn't something most of us use on a daily basis now that word processors and the like exist.
In November 2021, my first child was born. I wrote a book to him, which I called The Graysonian Ethic: Lessons for my unborn son.
He's 7 months old now, and he's absolutely beautiful. I know he won't be able to make use of my lessons until he's much older, but I'm proud that he has this book to help him navigate through the world.
I talk about a lot of things in the book: How he has to think for himself and be aware of logical and rhetorical fallacies; Basic first principles that a young person needs to think about from a moral and practical basis; Some of the stories from his parents, grandparents, and great grandparents and how he can apply lessons from those; How to perform miracles -- how to successfully do things that most people wish they could; Different times I've failed in my life and lessons he can learn from that; Grit, and how you need to be tough; An existential crisis I had and some of the lessons I learned along the way; Building something in his life because his natural gifts won't last forever, and to think ahead because life is long and you need to remember that today is usually not the last day of your life; Environmentalism and social justice; Success, and that it'll only come if he fights for it; Economics, because I think that's important to understand for building a life, and on change and how it happens in the world and in yourself; How to handle it when you make a mistake, and constructive ways to deal with that; That the internet is not your friend; How you should embrace guilt and shame (in a specific healthy way); attraction, ways to meet the opposite sex, and a lot of warnings because attraction is a great positive and a great risk to your life; and finally how nobody owes him a thing and to be thankful for everything you get from anyone without being naïve.
Along the way I talk about science, history, geology, archaeology, genetics, and whatever other topics I need to explain my way of thinking.
I decided that if I was going to write this book, the best way to get it printed nicely was to publish it, and if I'm going to publish it, I might as well see if others might be interested in it as well, so it's available in paperback and kindle on amazon. Personally, I make more money off the ebook, but I prefer people buy the paperback since it'll be more permanent in the long run.
https://www.amazon.com/Graysonian-Ethic-Lessons-unborn-son/dp/1777932505/
He's 7 months old now, and he's absolutely beautiful. I know he won't be able to make use of my lessons until he's much older, but I'm proud that he has this book to help him navigate through the world.
I talk about a lot of things in the book: How he has to think for himself and be aware of logical and rhetorical fallacies; Basic first principles that a young person needs to think about from a moral and practical basis; Some of the stories from his parents, grandparents, and great grandparents and how he can apply lessons from those; How to perform miracles -- how to successfully do things that most people wish they could; Different times I've failed in my life and lessons he can learn from that; Grit, and how you need to be tough; An existential crisis I had and some of the lessons I learned along the way; Building something in his life because his natural gifts won't last forever, and to think ahead because life is long and you need to remember that today is usually not the last day of your life; Environmentalism and social justice; Success, and that it'll only come if he fights for it; Economics, because I think that's important to understand for building a life, and on change and how it happens in the world and in yourself; How to handle it when you make a mistake, and constructive ways to deal with that; That the internet is not your friend; How you should embrace guilt and shame (in a specific healthy way); attraction, ways to meet the opposite sex, and a lot of warnings because attraction is a great positive and a great risk to your life; and finally how nobody owes him a thing and to be thankful for everything you get from anyone without being naïve.
Along the way I talk about science, history, geology, archaeology, genetics, and whatever other topics I need to explain my way of thinking.
I decided that if I was going to write this book, the best way to get it printed nicely was to publish it, and if I'm going to publish it, I might as well see if others might be interested in it as well, so it's available in paperback and kindle on amazon. Personally, I make more money off the ebook, but I prefer people buy the paperback since it'll be more permanent in the long run.
https://www.amazon.com/Graysonian-Ethic-Lessons-unborn-son/dp/1777932505/
It's ironic, the SJWs claim to hate racism and racist policies, but back explicitly racist policies, actual systemic racism.
That being the case, there's definitely something poetic about a backlash.
That being the case, there's definitely something poetic about a backlash.
I know. I've been talking stagflationary recession since at least 2020. It was possible before that, but shutting down the economy and giving everyone a bunch of money basically put a final nail in the coffin.
tbf, debt's gonna debt.
Financial guys might call me a retard, but I think it's a moral good and a practical good to carry as little debt as possible because shit happens.
Financial guys might call me a retard, but I think it's a moral good and a practical good to carry as little debt as possible because shit happens.
No, that's true. There's nothing to be done about it.
The only reason I've been forcing myself to remember the second part is that it's really easy to forget yourself when facing an unambiguously evil foe. You can fall into the "Hitler drank water! Ban water!" trap.
At that point it isn't about the movement, it's just about keeping my own feet nailed to the floor, not losing myself to the moment and giving up my own principles.
The only reason I've been forcing myself to remember the second part is that it's really easy to forget yourself when facing an unambiguously evil foe. You can fall into the "Hitler drank water! Ban water!" trap.
At that point it isn't about the movement, it's just about keeping my own feet nailed to the floor, not losing myself to the moment and giving up my own principles.
tbf, he was awarded it for being anyone but bush. Adolf Hitler could have been elected on a blue ticket and he probably would have gotten the nobel peace prize
It's funny because 10 years ago this wouldn't have been a remotely controversial viewpoint, but the morons have allowed themselves to build an echo chamber so pure they don't realize they're completely insufferable to the vast vast majority.
It's sad because the backlash isn't going to be fair to groups of people who were part of the affected minority groups who didn't care about SJW bullshit and just wanted to be left alone.
It's sad because the backlash isn't going to be fair to groups of people who were part of the affected minority groups who didn't care about SJW bullshit and just wanted to be left alone.
These people imagine themselves the new aristocracy, and so they think they're fit to judge others like they do.
The only shame is that people who don't know are denied exposure to some of the most interesting, fun, insightful people on the fediverse because a bunch of witch hunters made up some charges.
(That said, I'm glad I was able to bully myself onto the list, those nazi gestapo piece of garbage deserve the police state they're creating for themselves)
The only shame is that people who don't know are denied exposure to some of the most interesting, fun, insightful people on the fediverse because a bunch of witch hunters made up some charges.
(That said, I'm glad I was able to bully myself onto the list, those nazi gestapo piece of garbage deserve the police state they're creating for themselves)
I'd say it's a natural result of massive oligopolies, combined with the retarded labor policies we've implemented through covid.
There are very few cell networks in Canada. Rogers, Fido, Bell, and Shaw, providing coverage over an area larger than the US. If there's a problem with one of them, that's a huge percentage of the population unable to communicate, because there's no other options. The same companies have internet oligopolies. If a piece of key infrastructure at Rogers goes down, there's a huge chunk of the country without Internet.
Second, I strongly believe that WFH is going to ultimately be career suicide for 98% of people who get into the habit. Lots of people are working from home, and they don't have access to their coworkers, and they don't have access to the equipment, and they aren't in the office, and maybe they're being distracted by other stuff.
It drives productivity down, and I suspect that WFH is one of the reasons why all these big tech sites and big infrastructure has gone down in the past 2 years.
There are very few cell networks in Canada. Rogers, Fido, Bell, and Shaw, providing coverage over an area larger than the US. If there's a problem with one of them, that's a huge percentage of the population unable to communicate, because there's no other options. The same companies have internet oligopolies. If a piece of key infrastructure at Rogers goes down, there's a huge chunk of the country without Internet.
Second, I strongly believe that WFH is going to ultimately be career suicide for 98% of people who get into the habit. Lots of people are working from home, and they don't have access to their coworkers, and they don't have access to the equipment, and they aren't in the office, and maybe they're being distracted by other stuff.
It drives productivity down, and I suspect that WFH is one of the reasons why all these big tech sites and big infrastructure has gone down in the past 2 years.
I don't think it would happen. The market is too integrated with other stuff around the world.
The stock market would basically have been one room back then, today you've got pension funds, ETFs, retirement savings plans, and all sorts of stuff constantly buying in.
The stock market would basically have been one room back then, today you've got pension funds, ETFs, retirement savings plans, and all sorts of stuff constantly buying in.