Students should pay for the privilege and opportunity provided by the diploma, namely a way to set themselves apart from the plebeians. Prestige is something AGI will never replace.
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notjtrig commented on Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows phys.org/news/2024-07-abo... · Posted by u/speckx
Kinda sad that the ritual was a way to curse somebody. 12,000 years of hurting each other.
Side Node: computer programing is kinda cool. It is a set of incantations which actually does work.
EDIT: Hello, all you down-voters and people who say I should read the article before commenting :-) I to, don't like it when people just start commenting without reading the article.
I also don't like it when people take what a pop-sci writer too seriously. In this case, I was interested enough to read the original article in Nature, where it says this practice was for cursing (see quote at the end)
Don't forget Gell-Man's Amnesia :-)
"Howitt described how magic was employed to harm a victim using a ritual fire and a wooden object smeared or attached with a piece of human or animal fat (major sources of lipids): “In all these tribes a general, I may say almost an universal, prac- tice has been to procure some article belonging to the intended victim. A piece of his hair, some of his faeces, a bone picked by him and dropped, a shred of his opossum rug, or at the present time of his clothes, will suffice, or if nothing else can be got he may be watched until he is seen to spit, when his saliva is carefully picked up with a piece of wood and made use of for his destruction..."
>One ritual involved tying something that belonged to a sick person to the end of a throwing stick smeared in human or kangaroo fat. The stick was thrust into the ground before a small fire was lit underneath.
>"The mulla-mullung would then chant the name of the sick person, and once the stick fell, the charm was complete," a Monash University statement said.
notjtrig commented on My kid sounds like ChatGPT, and soon yours might, too shaungallagher.pressbin.c... · Posted by u/jawns
Noam Chomsky famously discovered that the building blocks of language are preloaded into the human mind, children use a hypothetical tool called the Language Acquisition Device to quickly learn grammar even with little input. I wonder is this a genetic device or something of a quantum nature?
notjtrig commented on Musk tells advertisers: "Go. Fuck. Yourself." ft.com/content/a6472867-4... · Posted by u/happy_lapper
I hope this is part of his larger plan to delete Twitter.
I have something like this it’s very nice at the warmest setting but only equal to maybe 25w incandescent. https://www.amazon.com/ONLSITY-Pendant-Lights-Outdoor-Contro... I think the defused cover on these lights make them exceptional source of light.
For regular bulbs I use Energetic Edison style bulb https://www.amazon.com/Equivalent-Filament-Daylight-Non-Dimm...
notjtrig commented on How Stone Walls Became a Signature Landform of New England smithsonianmag.com/travel... · Posted by u/rntn
There’s a very good YouTube channel that deals with the history of New England forests with Tom Wessels, a terrestrial ecologist, it’s called NewEnglandForests
notjtrig commented on Apple extends Emergency SOS via satellite for an additional free year · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
source?
> If the electrification saves money, then people will happily pay up for a technician
That’s the problem: it often doesn’t. I’d have an air-to-water heat pump heating my house today if the quotes I got were remotely cost-competitive with a replacement gas boiler. A payback of “never” or “not within the projected lifespan of the equipment”, coupled with far fewer people who can service the equipment and far less likelihood that any part you need will be right on the truck, means that a lot of houses, including my own, have a gas boiler installed and maybe will electrify in 20 years if it’s competitive then.
I’d have even paid a small premium ($3-6 thousand? Sure! But not well into five figures) to go air-to-water, but not 2-2.5x as much to buy into a possibly hard-to-service (due to lack of experienced techs with non-standard equipment, not because the equipment itself is a problem).
The UK is so far ahead of the US in air-to-water that it’s crazy to think we share a planet.
Because of this, a mini split is becoming a very common DIY project, the tool kit goes for $250 on Amazon, from what I understand you'll get a better install doing it yourself because you can purge the lines for the recommend 24 hours.
I knew people in college who got trained on new green electrical stuff and became electricians.
I felt sorry for them when they all ended up unemployed with the diesel mechanics laughing at them.
In the US the solar industry waxes and wanes in certain states due to regulations, discounts and how the power companies treat home solar.
States define the ratio of electricians to installers so with the right ratio and availability of work there are plenty of contactors who will hire electricians without expecting any work to be completed.