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Hallo ich mache Philosophie, Technik und Gesellschaft.

  • mathematical expressions are evaluated on a computer hardware (the brain), that in "normal" cases eventually converges on a result. but sometimes it starts oscillating instead.

  • rules are for machines, not for people

  • ok i'll start with the quiz: name one civilization that lived in northern europe in the medieval age and frequently terrorized the english.

  • uhm, idk, in my mind "community events" just translates to "something that makes users addicted". i typically nope out of that as soon as i detect it.

    but, upon second consideration, some of them even sound like fun. might be worth a try.

  • one problem with data scraping is that it puts a significant network load on servers, which slows down the browsing experience for genuine humans. this is why many platforms already operate measures to detract bots. i think the most well-known project is Anubis, as is used for example on https://feddit.org/

    (it works by doing a proof-of-work. the client needs to solve a few cryptographic puzzles sothat the operationing cost for bot scrapers becomes too high while for humans it's an acceptable cost.)

  • oh very interesting.

  • eh, i'm 50% talking out of my ass here, but the waste is actually not a problem. if we wanted to, we could use it again to extract even more energy out of it ... problem is that that's currently not economical.

    "using it again" would require special reactor designs that can stimulate the material to do extra-decay. which causes the extra cost.

  • Which has never happened

    which, as we all know, implies that it will never happen ...


    actually, after reading through your whole comment, it has a few issues:

    Unjustified fears of it blowing up and destroying the world are ridiculous and overblown, especially given modern advances in reactor design and safety.

    Yes, you're right, nuclear power plants are safe as long as nobody in engineering royally fucks up. But, as we all know, engineers never fuck up and forget an important detail ... (/s)

    But this is generally just a problem with all our infrastructure in the developed world in general… we don’t renew or upgrade it… we just keep patching it and then we wonder why everything is so shitty and inefficient… because we refuse to actually upgrade things in a real way

    This sounds like a popular thing to me ... people think that replacing old things will make them better / more efficient. When that is simply not true. Banks, for example, still use programming language from the 1960s. Why? because actually it turns out that that stuff just works. Meanwhile newer languages each introduce their own new kind of problem. The same phenomenon happens in many cases. I was told that airplanes do the same, using flight control software from 20th century ... for the same reasons. "newer" does not imply better.

  • nuclear power is fine but extremely dangerous in the hands of the wrong person, not because nuclear power plants itself are dangerous but because we're 1 step away from someone making 1 bad joke about how we should use it in "other ways" and that would escalate international conflicts rapidly. and i do not trust the government to be stable enough to not eventually fall into the wrong hands. therefore, no. at least not in the foreseeable future.

  • yeah i read similar on wikipedia. also i assume that's 3300 BCE?

  • oh wow ... i didn't know that! thanks.

  • oh lol yeah gibbons are cute xD

    oh interesting. i mostly know STEM stuff but history is also cool. and literature. you could start by looking up the most influential books in your language? for arabian, i remember there's a book called Book of Kings (Shahnameh) that's quite interesting. [Edit: nvm that's persian]. And the One Thousand and One Nights are especially cool as they show how a corrupt ruler can be converted through the art of story-telling.

  • uhm ... do you have actual scientific research or is this just your guess? because yeah, asbestos is bad, but that's mineralic. sawdust is organic.

  • also don’t use emojis like that, it makes you look like an llm.

    this is false. i like them, and i do not think that they are LLM because of it.

  • it depends on what you want to research into? maybe giving a bit of your motivation and background might help? also your location (what country you live in) matters a lot.

    also btw i like the emojis. they make the text more colorful and interesting to read.

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  • the total energy released is more important than the core temperature. for example, a simple candle light can get very hot inside too, even though it doesn't cause much total heat.

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  • best not to do it alone but with a community of other people. it's quite challenging to do all that by yourself.

    if you do it with 3 people, you can have 3 types of vegetables. each does one. alone you can only have 1 type.

  • i know this meme is quite old but i still don't agree with it. sex is not about [what other people call "sexual intercourse"]. instead it's about having a pretense to meet other people. i believe that the underlying dynamic that moves you to go to parties and meet other people is mostly sexual. i.e. you wouldn't go out so much just to make platonic acquaintances. but once that you're out, you also talk to other people! which brings communication into society.