We need sunlight prescriptions
Readit Newsperfectritone commented on We're learning more about what Vitamin D does technologyreview.com/2025... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
It's incredible how many hacks there are to make PDFs semi-usable.
perfectritone commented on Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system newyorker.com/news/annals... · Posted by u/dmazin
"...it is closely followed by wind power—which is really another form of energy from the sun..."
By that logic, fossil fuels are also a form of solar power.
Clearly we need to put all food inspection reports online in the US.
People would stop eating
easy hack: maintain a garden in an area with poor soil. between clearing, aerating, digging, mulching and weeding you can get all of your cardio AND some fresh veggies!
And, critically, how much are we willing to collectively sacrifice to move that percentage of people in a positive direction?
This begs the question, at least to some extent. A big lesson of modern economics is that lots of things are win-win.
For example, if you could eliminate years spent in prison by spending more on K-12 education, that looks like a big sacrifice if you don't have the prison counterfactual to compare to, but it's potentially the cheaper path.
Unfortunately it's not all economics. The prison system in the US exerts its power on the population using fear. The goal is to have a certain amount of people in prison, not to save money by getting them out. There are myriad ways to achieve reducing the prison population if that was the goal.
perfectritone commented on Weather forecasts have become more accurate ourworldindata.org/weathe... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
> I think it likely depends...my Apple Watch corresponds exactly to what GFS says. GFS is OK for medium range
which is interesting, as i'm noticing the "within 15 minutes" level of notice on rain starting/stopping to have been close enough. the daily forecast last week said no rain even though the conditions really looked like it could at any moment. my iDevices pinged with rain starting soon even though the same apps forecast still did not suggest rain. it started raining with in "good enough" range of the app's notifications.
the update to the native weather app have all been very good over the past 2 OS updates. maybe they have integrated whatever company they purchased for good, but for my local area on the globe, it has been pretty good. i haven't traveled in a good while, so maybe my market is in the sweet spot of getting a lot of attention??? BigD in case you're wondering
Apple acquired DarkSky and sunsetted their API in the past few years. It always seemed more accurate to me than any other weather service. Sad to see it go.
https://metastatus.com/ seems to be suffering a hug of death now...
It really should be a static page.
perfectritone commented on · Posted by u/1970-01-01
"We appreciate your interest in our content. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to allow international traffic or online transactions"
Well that just sucks! Any particular reason (yes, I fired up a VPN )?
That's one way to limit bandwidth
I'm left curious as to why our taste receptors are so attuned to sweetness if high sugar foods weren't historically correlated with being high in energy.