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Brometheus commented on Fluorescent mammals are far more common than earlier thought   theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/Petiver
londons_explore · 2 years ago
Fluorescence is one way to defend against the harmful bond-breaking abilities of UV light.

I suspect in many cases it is simply the biologically cheapest 'sunblock'.

Brometheus · 2 years ago
Why is it on the belly then and not on the back? Countershading?

Dead Comment

Brometheus commented on The Anti-Ownership eBook Economy   nyuengelberg.org/outputs/... · Posted by u/Tomte
esafak · 3 years ago
And both deprive the creators of income.
Brometheus · 3 years ago
Incorrect.
Brometheus commented on Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface   commitmono.com/... · Posted by u/ecliptik
Brometheus · 3 years ago
Commit Mono, hmm? I like it.
Brometheus commented on GPT-4 details leaked?   threadreaderapp.com/threa... · Posted by u/bx376
astrange · 3 years ago
I recommend reading comments like this and substituting "a baby" for AI. A baby also can't be aligned and is capable of deciding to destroy the world. It's not gonna do it though.
Brometheus · 3 years ago
A baby doesn't output propaganda at 6GB/s in computer readable text.
Brometheus commented on YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers   androidpolice.com/youtube... · Posted by u/prhrb
Verdex · 3 years ago
I don't really understand either side of the equation here.

So, on the one hand you have people who use ad blockers. The first retort that comes to mind here is: Well, we'll take our business elsewhere. Which is odd because without ads they aren't paying and them leaving is the goal.

Of course on the other hand ... when I read the title my thoughts weren't that I would be okay because I don't ad block youtube. My thought wasn't that I should buy youtube premium to avoid ads. My thought WAS that if I ever get falsely flagged, then I'll just buy a nebula subscription (or whatever) and never use youtube again.

In fact I went over to nebula to check it out.

Somebody has to pay something for youtube to be viable. But youtube got big via offering a free service and now if feels like they're trying to pull up the ladder behind themselves.

Brometheus · 3 years ago
They could also, like, go back where they would show a meaningful ad every 10 videos. and not 4 with every video you attempt to watch.
Brometheus commented on Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs   ev-edition.com/2023/06/ri... · Posted by u/belltaco
pipnonsense · 3 years ago
It is called Title Case and part of a lot of (American?) news organizations style guides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case

It confuses me, a non-native English speaker, a lot too. I hate it.

Brometheus · 3 years ago
Me too. They should just use the German way.

Nomens are big and other Words are small.

Brometheus commented on Douglas Crockford on JavaScript   digest.browsertech.com/ar... · Posted by u/lrsjng
calrain · 3 years ago
What is one of those 'really clean' languages that we should be using then?

I'm interested!

Brometheus · 3 years ago
Smalltalk

u/Brometheus

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