Why do surgeons wear green?
Same reason they wear blue too: Less visual strain on the eyes.
Readit Newswoodpanel commented on Japan's Creepiest Station tokyocowboy.co/articles/d... · Posted by u/ewf
Was thinking so too, green is a colour that makes humans feel something is 'off' / makes us feel uncomfortable. The Matrix used the same colour tone to differentiate inside/outside The Matrix.
> that makes humans feel something is 'off'
Uhm, yo do realize that the human eye can differentiate the most colors in the green spectrum? Green is literally inscribed in our genes to not be "off" but rather our home.
woodpanel commented on Show HN: I Built a XSLT Blog Framework vgr.land/content/posts/20... · Posted by u/vgr-land
When you want to grant the very state, that actively protected ethnically targeted organized gang-rapes-to-prostitution-rings, with enough trust to even remotely care about children having unlimited access to pornography, maybe you are part of the problem.
As someone who values fast typing, and optimizing it as a way to minimizing the gap between thought and implementing it (e.g. from smart auto-completes to vim mode, etc ) I can hardly fathom how any like minded person can willingly throw away this amazing tool called hand-writing.
Sure, it doesn’t „scale“ into large texts as good as a keyboard, but beats „the digital“ still when it comes to immediacy, expressiveness and intimacy.
hand writing comes with close to zero dependencies: no software, no os, no booting time, no charging - just hand, surface, and optionally an instrument. It is offline first, offers great privacy, and fun.
This whole discussion seems to be driven by modern intelligentsia dismissing that they themselves most likely used cognitive foundations built by their hand-writing as a starting point into their own current skill-realm. For the vast majority of people (the non-intelligentsia) hand writing is an essential tool, and we shouldn’t deprive them and our kids of developing the cognitive links that come with using it.
In short: You don’t use keyboards for small or quick amounts of texts, just like you wouldn’t handwrite a code-base.
IMO The bigger „threat“ to hand-writing is proper voice assistants.
woodpanel commented on OpenMower – An open source lawn mower github.com/ClemensElflein... · Posted by u/rickcarlino
Lawn mowing seems like such a useless thing. I mean domestic lawns themselves, especially in a crisis of biodiversity loss, are such a waste of possibility. I had to stop the video when I saw the mower was going for a patch of clovers, thus reducing plant diversity to a single boring, useless species
„biodiversity“ as in „just let the place rot and get covered by weeds until trees and over stuff planted by you collapse due to the massive-and-aggressiveness of pests and pesty weeds.
Has anybody ever said “enforcing the rule of law is racist”?
This is America, we’ve had plenty of explicitly racist laws without a canard like this for “the Dems”.
You make it sound like no one ever demanded to „defund the police“
woodpanel commented on What if A.I. doesn't get better than this? newyorker.com/culture/ope... · Posted by u/sundache
They didn't answer much of the "What if," though... Am just imagining the massive financial losses taken by so many, and if a bailout becomes necessary, because too-big-to-fail now means Microsoft, Google, Facebook et al since we transferred so much of financial engineering economics onto them since '08.
Last time I've checked each of these companies were still hugely profitable. So it's not going to be your average FANG in trouble here, but rather VCs and others who've jumped onto the AI-craze
> Though flights have been a part of US immigration operation for years, the speed and scale of the ICE program today is unprecedented. Since Trump's inauguration, there have been more than 1,000 deportation flights to other countries, up 15% over the January to July period last year, according to Witness at Border.
What this is really saying: Trump administration continues long-standing US government policy (incl. previous Democratic administrations) of deporting flights , improving effectiveness by 15%.
A couple of questions arise for me:
a) is this a good policy?
b) is the execution being done in a legal manner (due process, etc.)?
c) why did the Democratic Party not advertise their immigration enforcement to the electorate, when that was probably the most foundational issue the opposition ran on?
Re c)
Propably a result of wheighing the options here: curbing the enthusiasm of your opponent's base vs. that of yours. You loose more of your own base than you're going to win from the opponents.
From this perspective, it can be quite logical why the DNC stayed silent about this. After luring your base in with "enforcing rule-of-law is racist"-rethoric, admitting to enforcing the law would be a bit of political suicide.
Does it seem like hacktivism is at an all time low? In the 2010s there were a lot of groups calling themselves anonymous which attacked petty tyrants at the state and local level who were trying to cover up crimes. Now we're diving headfirst into a fascist takeover of American government and it feels like the only hackers you hear of anymore are criminals or state actors from eastern europe
> a lot of groups calling themselves anonymous
That is of course one way to put it. Antoher would be to consider these groups part of the "intelligence community".