Tlaloc_Temporal

I’m for Canada divesting it’s interests into more than just the states. We should have strong relations with lots of polities around the globe, not just the nearest one that will take us.

A lack of sovereignty is exactly why we shouldn’t be looking to the states for everything. Already we follow them too closely down a dark path, and are too dependant on them for too many goods and services.

I’m here on Lemmy partly to understand how a decentralized system works, and how to build and support that in other places. To see how much freedom each server has, and how well they can operate together. Falling in line with a polity on a different continent doesn’t sound like it would do us much good, as we would be beholden to people in a very different geopolitical position. I’d rather be allies than last among equals.

I think my position might change with evidence that such a united polity doesn’t just become Empire Mk176, but I can’t find it in me to want to integrate ourselves with other nations when our integration with another nation is the cause of so many of our problems.

I also think there is something to be said for having multiple levels of membership in the EU currently. Going from nothing to a full member is a huge change that could take multiple decades before bearing fruit, while much smaller changes could encourage growing closer more easily.

I would very much like to have many EU standards on chemicals, food, technology, and labour, while also supporting those standards globally. Yet I see little point to adopting the Euro, even ignoring the issues with tying different economies together. I don’t even know if that would prevent us from forming other organizations, like CANZUK.

In any case, this would be the work of decades, much more direct interactions, and many more conversations. We still haven’t fully switched to metric after 55 years.

It’s older than genAI by at least a decade.

Guncotton might just be easier, and far more effective.

I’m pointing out flaws in your reasoning. Bulbous and small aren’t good categories, especially when you recognized that raspberries are different.

I would contest that the nature of a cultural berry is being a small sweet fruit that typically wants to be eaten. Strawberries sit alongside gooseberries, raspberries, cherries, and all the other traditional berries in this. Strawberries are certainly unique in their structure, but that doesn’t change how we eat them.

The botanical berry definition has little to do with the cultural definition besides taking the name. Try looking at the botanical definition of tree sometime. Does Bamboo count? Palm trees? Ginkgo? It’s a strategy for than a rigid group.

“Dark” here apparently means “unsern” or “hidden”, but it’s incredibly confusing.

Bayberries/waxberries aren’t really smootth, and Yewberries aren’t very bulbous.

Haskap berries are lumpy and mealy, are they not berries?

Do groundcherries count with their paper husk? Tomatillos? Cherry Tomatos?

Are cherries berries? Rose hips?

Cherry chili peppers are bulbous and smooth, are they berries?

Raspberries and blackberries often have little hairs growing off of each fruit, does that mean they’re not smooth? If hair is ok, kiwifruit are bulbous, but hariy.

True, we can optimize the cycles more. Like double expansion piston engines, or that crazy proposal for a hydrid steam-mercury super high pressure power plant.

I’ll believe it when I see it. They have so many material science challenges ahead of them and aren’t very forthcoming with progress.

Unfortunately, there’s no way to get energy out of waste heat that won’t be spent pushing that heat a little harder. Already a significant amount of energy is spent cooling data centers, any attempts at energy recapture will just make that cooling harder.

The best we can do is something like district heating, because heat pumps can get over 100% effective efficiency.

That’s giving Russia a bit too much credit.

We should be starting domestic manufacturing that just does x amount of rail each year. Fully funded, doesn’t matter where, just pick a place and go.

I think more important would be non-chaotic answers. It doesn’t matter too much if their not identical if the content is roughly the same. But if you can get significantly different answers from trivial changes in prompt wording, that really does break things.

Still doesn’t mean it’s correct though.

Especially the LED backlight ones. Those are so bright they blind you, then switch brightness rapidly.

200+ dwarf planet candidates. Lots of them have very low densities, and most are too far away to know hardly anything about them. Pluto was only confirmed to be in hydrostatic equilibrium with New Horizons, and Quaoar has a Dwarf Planet name, but probably isn’t in hydrostatic equilibrium.

It’s not the specific bodies I’m worried about, it’s a useful idea of a planet. Finding dozens or hundreds more of them should be exciting, not a reason to throw up our hands and disqualify them.

I think “Planet” should be a gravitationally rounded mass that’s not a star anyway. Those can be divided into rocky and gaseous, and further divided by principal composition.

Smaller than that isn’t usually worth having a name, but moons can be just as interesting as free orbiting planets.

The distinction between minor and major planets is decently clear in our star system, but if we define it poorly it won’t help us understand other systems or why the major ones are important. It’s definitely not enough to disqualify minor planets from being full planets though. Go ahead and declare 8 major planets arbitrarily, but don’t try to justify ignoring the other few dozen planetoids poorly.

Of course it would be a .ml community…

Memory leaks are often difficult to deal with, and many contemporary languages basically encourage them. I know many applications that suffer significant performance issues due to memory leaks, and way too many that simply don’t care about memory footprint.

A language that treats memory management differently from the start makes all these problems much easier to deal with, if they appear at all. The real question is if the other costs of using the language are worth the somewhat niche performance gains.

You need that living habitate to survive 6 months in 0g minimum, plus move it planetside without breaking anything.

You could expand the habitate to a larger area later, true, but there’s still like 7 mass cycles that need to be maintained long term, and this system needs to be robust enough to trust a few dozen people to. Otherwise, it’s just an extension of Earth’s biosphere and is dependent on regular resupply.

1 in 7 means lots of friend groups just don’t have players. It’s very likely that many children will grow up without really knowing what roblox is.

Ceres would be a way better start. Lots of water for shielding, consumption, and fuel; easy access to asteroid orbits; and a shallow gravity well to make transport easy.

Similarly, many of the icy moons around the gas giants would be good, also with decent mining, but better science opportunities too!

Our Moon is good too. Close, big enough to not need zero gravity setups. That’s actually about it really, it’s just right here. May as well do Orbit I guess.

Start with Antarctica and the ocean floor. That’s still 80% as difficult, and rescue can take 30 minutes, not 3 days or 10 months!