Check out “radiative sky cooling”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDRnEm-B3AI

There might be some way to do something with this.

Larry Finger, your work has made a significant positive impact on my life and I’m sure many others. Thank you.

Now can you work on a driver to allow communication between the living and the dead?

USA! USA! USA!!11!!

That’s like half of the training I got to get my A+ certificate to work on personal computers.

I was shocked about this, I’d assumed it was well trained trauma doctors in the ambulance with you at your most critical moment.

Nate is amazing, he and some of his guests are exactly who I learned this from.

To some degree, fission also, though it has a few other problems like safety and security concerns around nuclear materials, locations of fuels and whether they are in friendly nations, other things the fuels can be used for and all the politics that goes with that, etc.

But we need more than just energy. At some point, regardless of our energy, we are going to destroy Earth’s ecosystems using up other resources, using this energy to mine unsustainably, etc. More energy just means we kill ourselves faster. We should not be looking for more or cleaner energy with which to kill ourselves with, we should be looking to continuity of our species and that requires living sustainably within the bounds of our environment.

I never understand this line of thought. The amounts of energy we use is never ever going to go down. It just isn’t.

If we don’t develop practical nuclear fusion before our fossil inheritance effectively runs out we sure will. It will also go down following ecological collapse caused by using all that energy. Infinite energy doesn’t make up for a collapsed ecosystem.

Listened to some yesterday and today, I dig it, thanks!

I hear you on Busdriver, I tend to not listen to the words and just hear it as a sort of instrument so it doesn’t matter what he’s saying. But for those that do, I could see it being too much, same with Kool Keith.

I’ll check out Brother Ali, I’ve heard of him but not his music.

Look into underground hip hop, there’s all sorts of awesome music of much higher caliber than mainstream rap/hip hop.

Mf Doom, Busdriver, Kool Keith (and his many many aliases), Aesop Rock (not ASAP Rocky or whatever), and I’m sure lots of newer stuff I’m not even familiar with. Digable Planets are pretty big and they’re good (and old, like me)

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I tend to hear the vocals as an instrument and often have no idea what the words are. It’s happened before where once I learn the words I don’t like the song as much anymore either because the meaning of the words is distracting or the meaning is way different than the meaning I’d put on the song.

Ah gotcha, I wasn’t quite understanding that.

I still personally believe that the basic effect described by Dunning-Kruger does in fact exist on some level. If it’s not due to cognition, that seems to imply that essentially everyone at every intelligence level accurately estimates their own intelligence, that would be weird.

Dunning-Kruger became popular because it gave a name to an apparent phenomena.

The basic effect Dunning-Kruger is about is real and apparent everywhere. The specific formulation as stated from that pair may have some errors but throwing away the idea due to poor science isn’t smart.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dunning-kruger-effect-isnt-what-you-think-it-is/

To establish the Dunning-Kruger effect is an artifact of research design, not human thinking, my colleagues and I showed it can be produced using randomly generated data.

First, we created 1,154 fictional people and randomly assigned them both a test score and a self-assessment ranking compared with their peers.

So, the experiment with completely fake data disproves Dunning-Kruger? How is this science?

Devo

Super Furry Animals

Weird Al

Frank Zappa

I care, and so do many others, it happens to some with empathy when they grow out of their preteen years.

Because if I do, then that proves Gnome is terrible and all the devs should drive off a cliff?

See, this is a good comment. You like KDE more, awesome! Enjoy! Your attitude makes me want to try it again.

If we lost the open source community will have gained.

I find some software annoying too but I’m not 12 so I don’t feel the need to shit on people volunteering their time to make software for people.