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_dark_matter_ commented on CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat   isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechu... · Posted by u/rguiscard
globular-toast · 7 days ago
It's so odd to me as a veggie that people want something that "tastes like meat". If you've been immersed in decent veggie food for a while this isn't something you crave. Why would I want to eat a bit of dead animal? It's something I might do in a survival situation in a barren place, like Han Solo or something, but not if there are fresh veggies to hand.

If you want to do this for ethical reasons, which you should, then just eat vegetables. They taste way better. You just have to recalibrate your senses to deal with the higher levels of flavour.

But if people really want "chicken nuggets" for some reason then there's no reason it should have to involve animals at all, so this is a good thing, I guess.

_dark_matter_ · 7 days ago
I'm sorry, I've been vegetarian (mostly vegan, no eggs or milk) for over 10 years, and I crave meat. A juicy burger. Spicy chicken wings. Actually those are mainly it.

I am so thankful of advances that let me eat something my brain enjoys. I get the best of both worlds - no animal harmed in the process.

Why do vegs have to neg on other vegs for what they eat? I hate that. To each their own. I encourage everyone to be vegetarian to support animal rights, but I also would never tell them that their cravings aren't real or how to go about doing it.

_dark_matter_ commented on CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat   isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechu... · Posted by u/rguiscard
swiftcoder · 7 days ago
Back of the envelope, for a family of 4 eating US quantities of chicken... you need to be slaughtering ~100 chickens per year. In a homesteading setting it usually takes a chicken about 12 weeks to reach slaughter weight, so you need to be raising a minimum of 25 at any time.

That's a pretty substantial backyard operation.

_dark_matter_ · 7 days ago
Wild to think that there's 6-7 chickens for every human in America at all times
_dark_matter_ commented on Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died   old.reddit.com/r/chess/co... · Posted by u/ntnbr
_dark_matter_ · 2 months ago
I was wondering why I knew his name - he published a series of chess puzzles based on actual historic games in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/chess-puzzles.

They were fabulous, and I especially enjoyed his commentary. May he rest in peace.

_dark_matter_ commented on My new Git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name   blog.plover.com/2025/09/2... · Posted by u/jamesbowman
eru · 3 months ago
> There's bonus information too. If a commit is not mentioned in the report, then it only changed files that didn't change in any other commit. That means that in a rebase, I can move that commit literally anywhere else in the sequence without creating a conflict. Only the commits in the report can cause conflicts if they are reordered.

This is only true in the textual level.

Semantically, re-shuffling commits like this can still cause conflicts. Ie it can break your tests. Not at the end, but for the intermediate commits.

_dark_matter_ · 3 months ago
This is why I no longer do atomic commits. I've just never had it be a benefit to walk through and guarantee that each commits tests and builds successfully. I so rarely back out changes that when I do, I test then that everything is working (and let's be honest, I back out usually at the PR level, not the commit).
_dark_matter_ commented on Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation   databricks.com/company/ne... · Posted by u/djhu9
thrown-0825 · 4 months ago
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_dark_matter_ · 4 months ago
I'm as skeptical as anyone, but have you ever heard of companies like Oracle, which got rich off a database or Snowflake (current market cap 65B)? Companies pay oodles of money for that capabilities.
_dark_matter_ commented on Show HN: An interactive dashboard to explore NYC rentals data   leaseswap.nyc/analytics... · Posted by u/giulioco
Eawrig05 · 5 months ago
Realtors pull a similar trick: instead of dropping the price on Zillow (which flags it), they delist and relist at a lower price. Zillow treats it like a new listing, so the price history looks clean. Totally skews market transparency.
_dark_matter_ · 5 months ago
I follow our local market very closely because we're considering moving and have never seen this. I've even seen houses delisted and relisted, and the full pricing history remains on Zillow. Can you share an example?
_dark_matter_ commented on Shallow water is dangerous too   jefftk.com/p/shallow-wate... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
kortilla · 5 months ago
Put them at the lowest level if you don’t know. That’s easy.

As far as schedule goes, who’s taking care of the kid? At age 3 or 4 when you do this, it’s not like they are in school so some adult has to be around at 5:45pm.

_dark_matter_ · 5 months ago
Look, I'm telling you this from my perspective as someone who tried to do the exact thing you're saying. If those things stressed me out as an adult who knows about swimming, and crucially prevented me from signing up my kids for swimming lessons at the Y, then it is going to be even more true for people who are low income and not knowledgeable. These are real barriers. Acting like they're not is just putting our collective head in the sand and letting the problem perpetuate.
_dark_matter_ commented on Shallow water is dangerous too   jefftk.com/p/shallow-wate... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
kortilla · 5 months ago
Not really access, but interest. The YMCA offers swimming lessons easily within reach of poor families that want them. A subset of the population just thinks it’s useless.
_dark_matter_ · 5 months ago
I disagree, YMCA lessons are not accessible. First off, you don't know what level your child is, and I remember being stressed trying to read our Ys website to understand what the levels meant. This is important because 2, the classes fill very quickly. You have to know what you want and sign up as soon as they're available. And finally, the classes are at very specific times, which certainly do not work for all working parents schedules. For example, it will just be tue or Thur at 5:45pm. If you can't make that you are SOL.
_dark_matter_ commented on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed After Spiraling into ChatGPT Psychosis   futurism.com/commitment-j... · Posted by u/cainxinth
evanextreme · 6 months ago
I disagree, because the television was never talking back to you. By the medium directly engaging with the person, the responsibility / enablement of this issue is more on the company than previous non interactive mediums. It would be like if a movie caused psychosis in people, and the sequel doubled down / enabled that. Even though there's no person (besides the consumer) in the loop, there is responsibility to train these systems to reduce the amount of these cases.

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