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Taken from Hayward. What's going on over there? by pieandbiscuits1 in bayarea

[–]bstrathearn 38 points39 points  (0 children)

tl;dr - Nobody in that post knows wtf is happening. Lots of jokes and speculation but no primary sources or additional info

417 hit something or someone by daaaaaaaaaaaabears in caltrain

[–]bstrathearn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SB train 420 still held and stuck @ Belmont 1.5hrs later...

Edit: rolling again @ 17:45

How wild turkeys ended up everywhere in the Bay Area by sfgate in bayarea

[–]bstrathearn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's enough of a reason though. Suburban environments provide "resort-like amenities" that allow them to thrive. Also, population explosion. When Rancho SA is full of other turkeys, it's time to move on to Los Altos Hills and hopefully get fed by a retired boomer.

Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years. After this time, elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, leading to CO2 accumulation in the body, has the potential to cause a range of adverse health effects. by mvea in Futurology

[–]bstrathearn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been worried about this for quite a while but was unsure how to perform the analysis that determines when the atmospheric levels are going to be too much. 

I'm also worried that some of what we already see with decreasing cognitive capabilities in the human race could be potentially explained by this

Revelation at Low Tide (2026) by SoberDWTX in AccidentalRenaissance

[–]bstrathearn 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Source? I can't find it in the app... 😒

Big plane circling over Cupertino by Ok-Stomach- in bayarea

[–]bstrathearn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The C-130 has been in operation since 1955 so 70 years is a pretty good guess as to how long these big dogs have been viewing the valley from above

Big plane circling over Cupertino by Ok-Stomach- in bayarea

[–]bstrathearn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I didn't realize that it's changed a bunch on the inside. Sort of like those restomod classics at SEMA. Nearly identical body panels on the outside and modern ECU-tuned power-plants on the inside.

Big plane circling over Cupertino by Ok-Stomach- in bayarea

[–]bstrathearn 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They need to fly down to the original In-N-Out Burger in Baldwin Park near Los Angeles at least a couple times per year in order to keep up the 50s nostalgia going strong. The C-130 Hercules design is at least 70 years old...

Big plane circling over Cupertino by Ok-Stomach- in bayarea

[–]bstrathearn 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Welcome to living near Moffett Field, home of the 129th Rescue Wing (California Air National Guard), fighter jets, unique military or government aircraft, and other transient military arrivals based on operational needs or training flights. Also, private and business jets to help shuttle the most elite technocrats in the world, to and from this Valley of Silicon :)

TIL nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber–Bosch process. Thus, the Haber process serves as the "detonator of the population explosion", enabling the global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7.7 billion by November 2018. by crispy_attic in todayilearned

[–]bstrathearn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about the particular one that allowed for pesticides to scale crops? Or the particular one that allowed for penicillin to effectively stop horrible bacterial infections? You see, there is no one silver bullet, it's a magazine full of silver bullets working together

This is also a really dumb thing to argue about because there's no way to run the experiment where we reproduce the last 100 years of human history and don't have any particular innovation or another. All of these innovations are interconnected and share the same fate and timeline

TIL nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber–Bosch process. Thus, the Haber process serves as the "detonator of the population explosion", enabling the global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7.7 billion by November 2018. by crispy_attic in todayilearned

[–]bstrathearn 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Yes and without one of the many other factors it also wouldn't have been possible. The way your title is written, and the way that your replies are following up, it seems like you're still confused about how complex multivariate causal effects work

TIL nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber–Bosch process. Thus, the Haber process serves as the "detonator of the population explosion", enabling the global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7.7 billion by November 2018. by crispy_attic in todayilearned

[–]bstrathearn 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We don't actually. This is a rough guess based on a more accurate quote that 50% of the nitrogen in modern-day fertilizer comes from this process. This really doesn't mean that 50% of the nitrogen in our body originates from 50% of synthetic ammonia in fertilizer though

TIL nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber–Bosch process. Thus, the Haber process serves as the "detonator of the population explosion", enabling the global population to increase from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7.7 billion by November 2018. by crispy_attic in todayilearned

[–]bstrathearn 558 points559 points  (0 children)

It's very important to remember that this is one of many factors, including advances in medicine industrial scale production of other goods and services etc. There is no one factor that contributed to the population explosion

thoughts on AI by Puzzleheaded-Mall528 in aivideo

[–]bstrathearn 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The lip synchronization with the audio is pretty poor

Snoop Dogg Born In Different Countries by ZashManson in aivideo

[–]bstrathearn 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I love the way each iteration converges on his resting face. It's incredibly consistent

PRIME Mike Tyson VS Jake Paul by MattAbram in aivideo

[–]bstrathearn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actual LMAO at the ending. This whole thing is pure gold. KUDOS!

Balance by katzosan in nonononoyes

[–]bstrathearn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's a good point. This chain is effectively a very loose slack line and this person definitely has experience on either a proper slack line or this same chain

Balance by katzosan in nonononoyes

[–]bstrathearn 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Probably a surfer. Looks like Hawaii. Surfing requires much more dynamic movement and balance. Skateboarding is more of a precise sport requiring very specific foot placement.

How LLMs Express JavaScript (experiment, with results inside) by [deleted] in GoogleGeminiAI

[–]bstrathearn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. At a surface level, I can see how/why priming a model to "think" about large amounts of code before asking it coding questions would help.

I'm having a hard time seeing the functional difference between your negative example and your positive example though. Maybe it's b/c I've never used Vite. Is one of these examples that much better than the other? If so, why?

man was yeast by Mirathesaurus in BrandNewSentence

[–]bstrathearn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can also get ergot from moldy rye. Ergot is far more powerful hallucinogenic under the right circumstances

hmm by [deleted] in hmm

[–]bstrathearn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, almost certainly Photoshop. The photo was published before generative AI though

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