It depends on what type of licensing. One way it could be beneficial to them (and this is me purely speculating with no checking) is that any work done from outside of their company on their code base is basically free labor. Yeah, they’ll lose some potential revenue from people running their own instances of the code, but most people will use their app.

Let’s hope it was a counting error, not a death flight.

It’s renewable in the same way that whale oil is renewable

I’m not clever enough to come up with a good example on the spot, but you could have something along the lines of a scheme where the word selection corresponds to a not-obvious code. For example, if you wanted to secretly send the word “hello”, and you’ve previously given your receiver a code word “apple”:

Hello > 7 4 11 11 14 Apple > 0 15 15 11 4

Adding the code word to the secret message, you’d get:

7 19 0 22 18 > H T A W S

Then your message could be something like:

How are you doing? Today, I went to the store. Avocados were on sale. When do you want to meet up? Saturday looks good for me.

There are definitely way better methods to do the encoding part, and probably also better ways of doing the concealment part.

There’s a whole bunch of different steganographic methods. You wouldn’t necessarily have to apply them to audio signals, you could apply them to the text itself. It’s certainly trickier, so you would want to keep the plain text very short so your ciphertext doesn’t get too long or weird

At the end of the day, most of what people care about isn’t age, it’s cognitive function (though age itself is important; why care about the America of 2040 if you won’t live to see it).

Many of these people in power would fight age limits, but they are usually so sure of their abilities, that they may not fight cognitive tests with published results.

For example, if you give someone a Montreal cognitive assessment, and their reaction to it is:

Yes, the first few questions are easy, but I’ll bet you couldn’t even answer the last five questions. I’ll bet you couldn’t, they get very hard, the last five questions

And those last 5 questions are:

What month are we in? What year are we in? What day of the week is it? Where are you right now? What city are you in?

You might think that person shouldn’t be in charge of the country.

Oops.

Feeder can do keyword filtering on titles, but not on a per feed basis, and only with simple wildcards. I’ve been able to filter out a bit with it, though.

If you look at news sources that aren’t Fox, they mention that there were about that many arrests per day during bidens presidency, too; it’s a big country.

I’d believe that there would be some people in government who would hold off of arresting known threats to make Biden look bad/trump look good. There’s plenty of documented evidence of that sort of thing going on in the past.

I bet some of the scary examples they sprinkle in there were cases like that, or cases where ice just took custody from local police and called it and arrest.

Oh wow, they really did a good job of explaining it. It’s not too complex. I think it probably would be able to filter out some of the fluff.

If it’s open source, you could perhaps tinker with the algorithm. My main desires for rss feeds are:

• a way to filter out fluff affiliate link articles (e.g., 8 best gadgets on sale for prime day)
• a way to cluster articles on the same topic (i don’t really need to read 5 articles about the same news item)

Any clue if nunti could do that?

For ultimate effect, let’s figure out how to turn the ground under solar panels into peatlands.

The main problem with mowers is that they can’t get around equipment very well, so there ends up being labor intensive trimming that needs to be done

All the concern about this dye is based on a 1990 study where they fed rats 0.5%, 1%, or 4% of their diet by mass with the dye. Only the group with 4% of their diet had an effect on thyroid stimulating hormone, and follow on effects on t3 and t4. This increased stimulation of the thyroid is what they hypothesized is responsible for potential tumor growth. That dose is ~5,000-15,000 times higher than a regular diet. Increasing sugar or alcohol or literally anything else in your diet by that amount will have dire consequences.

Furthermore, the authors mention that a 100x dose human trial had increased TSH, but without changes to t3 or t4. This (and other factors they bring up in the paper) show that humans don’t respond like rats, so these rat studies can’t really be applied to humans. Even a massive overdose wouldn’t have the same potential for causing cancer in human as it does in rats.

All that said, there’s no benefits to the consumer to have food that’s just more red. Banning red 3 isn’t going to make manufacturers stop dyeing food red, it’s going to make them switch dyes, which might not be able net positive.

The FDA’s notice even says this:

two studies that showed cancer in laboratory male rats exposed to high levels of FD&C Red No. 3 due to a rat specific hormonal mechanism. The way that FD&C Red No. 3 causes cancer in male rats does not occur in humans. Relevant exposure levels to FD&C Red No. 3 for humans are typically much lower than those that cause the effects shown in male rats. Studies in other animals and in humans did not show these effects; claims that the use of FD&C Red No. 3 in food and in ingested drugs puts people at risk are not supported by the available scientific information.

They mention that they are forced to ban it due to a technicality of the law:

The Delaney Clause, enacted in 1960 as part of the Color Additives Amendment to the FD&C Act, prohibits FDA authorization of a food additive or color additive if it has been found to induce cancer in humans or animals.

So even if we know for sure that a substance is fine for humans, if there’s any animal that could be given cancer by ingestion of any dose, it legally should be banned.

For example, if you did a study where you fed dogs chocolate for a year, and they developed liver cancer due to the constant poisoning, you could petition to have chocolate banned as a food edditive.

The most crucial part of the process is that you and i will be the ones paying for the energy used for carbon capture, but the fossil fuel companies will be the ones profiting from selling the energy.

I’m in the midst of planning out some built-ins. When looking for inspiration, it is so annoying how many videos/blog posts, etc, on creating built-ins start with “buy IKEA cabinetry”.

If you are buying cabinets, you aren’t building cabinets. Yeah, there’s assembly involved, but watching someone buy a cabinet, and then just paint it and put different hardware on it doesn’t help me at all.

For example, I’m trying to figure out the right way to have the cabinet doors interface with adjacent window trim. I.e, do I cut the trim to fit the cabinet doors, or do I alter the cabinet doors to fit the windows trim.

The “ikea cabinet” people can’t have these choices cause it’s not possible to alter them since they are built of chipboard.

As someone with only a casual interest in 3d printing, are the open source 3d printers worth the effort it takes to make them vs buying one?

If I recall correctly (i.e., I’m talking out my ass), when people have late fees that continue to stack up, some percentage of people will decide to just stop using the library. This results in them keeping the books, and also removes them as customers. This ultimately costs the library more than they gain by having fees.

Also, there’s the saying “a fine is a price”. The idea is that by having a late fee, people are okay paying the late fee. Shame is often stronger than modest fees.

You just have to slowly start printing all the pieces for your own Von Neumann probe printer

Oftentimes, yes. Mine has a series of little rooms. They are often used by teens working on homework together.

Ah, so it’s just pinching a little bit of the bag or something?