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anon25783 commented on Sperm are very different from all other cells   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/viewtransform
snickerbockers · 3 months ago
There's this fascinating phenomenon called "micro chimerism"where somehow they've found that some of the cells in women's bodies are actually descendents of cells from past sexual partners, and they can be found in places far removed from the reproductive tract. the relation to your comment is that the tonsils and throat are known to be susceptible to this.

Fun rabbit hole, in since cases they think it's the result of cells from offspring winding up in the wrong side of the umbilical but there are also cases where there was never a pregnancy in which case it has to be wayward sperm but that's absolutely bizarre and far too orthogonal to the sperms primary objective.

And AFAIK they don't have any idea of why this is beneficial to the woman or even to the man who created the invasive cells.

anon25783 · 3 months ago
...Huh. So does this increased biodiversity mean that I have, perhaps, stronger immune defenses or quicker healing in certain oral tissues due to hybrid vigor[1] in the back of my throat?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis

anon25783 commented on TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsl... · Posted by u/franky47
pornel · 6 months ago
Is there a mainstream language where this still holds true?

From what I've seen most languages don't want to have a Turing complete type system, but end up with one anyway. It doesn't take much, so it's easy to end up with it accidentally and/or by adding conveniences that don't seem programmable, e.g. associated types and type equality.

anon25783 · 6 months ago
pretty sure the C type system is not turing complete, but that doesn't necessarily make it superior
anon25783 commented on Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women   english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/domofutu
anon25783 · 7 months ago
Woman here. The thesis of this article is a gross overgeneralization. There is no doubt in my mind that, if sex robots became more commonplace, some women would be using them. Though we tend to be into different things, our sexual interests are every bit as diverse and salacious as men's. If men exist who are interested in some specific kink or sex toy, it's practically a certainty that there exist women who are into the same thing.
anon25783 commented on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data   theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/perihelions
isthisfoss · 7 months ago
Why is this a bad thing if their job is to audit budget and spending? The article also does not go into technical details on what this supposed god mode actually is.
anon25783 · 7 months ago
The DOGE is mainly staffed by former employees of Elon Musk's companies, many of them being in their early twenties and one being 19 years old [1]. The presence of so many Musk associates is a conflict of interest: supposing "god mode" means that DOGE has unfiltered access to the private data of US citizens, there's not much stopping Elon Musk from exploiting that data for personal gain. And besides, would you want your private data to be in the hands of so many very young people who have little prior experience in anything?

[1] - https://www.newsweek.com/doge-list-staff-revealed-2029965

anon25783 commented on Sam Altman-backed nuclear startup signs major data center contract   oilprice.com/Alternative-... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
trashtester · a year ago
Why do you think fusion will be cheaper than fission power? Fusion will, at least for a significant time, require investments in the fusion plants as well as maintenance and operations.

The only way I can see something like fusion become cheap quickly, is if all labor becomes cheap because of AI.

anon25783 · a year ago
I think you're right, and I also wonder: Considering how hard it is for us to engineer a fusion plant that merely "breaks even" in terms of energy made usable to us, will fusion plants ever be competitive with fission plants? Like, I understand that hydrogen is a lot cheaper than plutonium or enriched uranium, but iirc we never had an issue getting fission plants to break even. As far as I'm aware, the technology for exploiting fission was obvious as soon as they realized that radioactive decay could be hot enough to boil water, and at risk of sounding glib, everything else about it is just safety measures. Whereas there is no fusion equivalent of "The Pile"[1] from Fermi et al.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1

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anon25783 commented on Is Economic Deprivation the Real Cause of the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis?   afterbabel.com/p/financia... · Posted by u/paulpauper
IncreasePosts · a year ago
I have an easy fix for you. Quit your job, and take 5 months to ride your bike from Lisbon to Istanbul.
anon25783 · a year ago
And where will this person sleep? What will they eat? How will they speak all the local languages from Portuguese to Turkish? What if their bike gets stolen?
anon25783 commented on GitHub Disabled the Xz Repo   pony.social/@cadey/112182... · Posted by u/luu
sunshowers · a year ago
I think this attitude really underrates the network effects of GitHub.

I personally am okay making an account on another forge to submit a bug report or patch, but most people aren't. And so I keep my repos on GitHub.

I do plan to soon set up mirroring to another service though. I haven't found a great zero-effort solution to mirror repos from an entire organization though, including ones that are created after mirroring was initially set up. Do you know of any tools which have that functionality? (If not I might write my own at some point.)

anon25783 · a year ago
You could host bug tracking separately from git, with Bugzilla perhaps?
anon25783 commented on GitHub Disabled the Xz Repo   pony.social/@cadey/112182... · Posted by u/luu
1attice · a year ago
Less puckishly: in general, as a movement/culture/economic ferment, we probably should have been more hesitant to introduce a de-facto single-point-of-failure into, like, all the things.

I mean, nothing _mandates_ that NixOS packages pull their source from github (or any other git hoster) but the standard practice is basically just this.

The nix cache will prevent the impact from this specific disablement from being, well, disabling, for most folks most of the time, for a while at least, but caching, by definition, is ephemeral storage, and sooner or later, it, ah, ephemes? Is that a word?

There are also a lot of packages that have to be built locally, e.g. nonfree packages like nvidia drivers; at least _one_ of these packages (how popular? how critical?) will probably fail to build on this account, and this in turn will cause a certain (unknown) quotient of misery. Somewhere, some lights are going out. (How many? How soon? With what mitigation?)

Anyway. Nix is obviously not the only product to rely on github as a de facto backing store, so

anon25783 · a year ago
Yes! There are alternatives to Github, people! Diversify! Switch to Sourcehut or Gitea or Gitlab or even DIY with Gitolite. git is a decentralized peer-to-peer system, we shouldn't let Microsoft have a monopoly on its use.
anon25783 commented on My Clients, the Liars   lesswrong.com/posts/h99tR... · Posted by u/paulpauper
avalys · a year ago
The fact that perjury might seem like a "good idea" to a criminal, or the only chance to stay out prison, doesn't mean it should be permitted.

The purpose of the justice system should not be to give guilty people the best chance to stay out of prison.

Yes, if you're guilty, lying may be your best defense. That doesn't mean the justice system should encourage it! If you're guilty, the justice systems want you to go to jail. All the protections exist to protect innocent people.

anon25783 · a year ago
Ah, so of course you yourself, or someone you care about, would never be a guilty person, right? You would never find yourself, say, breaking a law that you didn't know about, or doing something that's technically a criminal act but seemed innocent enough at the time (the classic insider trader's lament), nor would you ever have a close family member who is charged with a serious crime. Or if you did, you would bravely accept the judgement of the court without taking exception.

You know, it would be terrible if I was found guilty of willful copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which carries "A fine of not more than $500,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both, for the first offense"[1]. If I had committed such a terrible act as torrenting seven movies, the insult to my conscience would surely move me to accept the felony penalties with civic stoicism - after such twisted malice from myself, the additional moral consequences of pleading "Not Guilty" would be too great to bear.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...

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