tyler

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I'm very confused, can't you just leave a spoon in the honeypot as well? Like, I've literally done this before, dipped a spoon in to our honey jar, spun it around to keep it from dripping, put the amount I wanted in my cup of tea, and put the spoon back in the jar. But usually I just get whatever amount I want on my spoon and then I stir my tea with it. It gets 100% of the honey off, I get to stir my tea to mix the honey in, and I get the exact amount I want, no guessing needed.

I mean if you like the dipper then you go for it, but I don't really see the advantage here, even with usability, maybe just a tad easier to spin.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

you can get local honey in squeeze bottles... literally the grocery stores in colorado sell only local honey (never seen honey from elsewhere here) and it's all in squeeze bottles. Now it's not like small-batch cottage foods, but it's still local, created in the state of CO.

I get honey from my next door neighbor, and since we have catnip plants all his honey tastes like catnip, and it's good, but the stuff from the grocery store tastes just as good, it's just not a unique taste like catnip.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm guessing that depends on where you live. In colorado literally every bottle in the grocery store is squeeze and they're all locally grown real honey. I don't even know where you could live where the honey wouldn't be real. If it's labelled honey it can't be something else???

[–] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

lol do you not have any other bugs in your house? houses aren't built to be airtight because you'd literally have trouble opening and closing doors due to suction or pressurization. if they're not airtight then bugs can get in

[–] tyler@programming.dev 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's literally on their highway signs and their capitol building

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

An LLM that hallucinates an API quickly finds out that it falls to work and is forced to retrieve the real API and fix the errors.

and that can result it in just fixing the errors, but not actually solving the problem, for example if the unit tests it writes afterwards test the wrong thing.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

A common refrain I've heard about those commercial monitors is that they can't really do gaming due to input latency, since they're not built for input, they're built for commercial display and what commercial display customer cares about input latency. But I haven't verified that.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can learn on extant animals which would give you real results, not extinct animals that you have no chance of confirming your findings.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

So what science should they have done before they discovered they could use living DNA to patch gaps in the dino DNA to complete the cloning process?

None? What scientific purpose does cloning a dinosaur that is guaranteed to not behave, look like, or function like any actual dinosaur ever did? If the purpose was instead to fill gaps in “extinct dna” they would have instead tested on living dinosaurs like birds and removed part of their DNA and then tried to supplement it with the stuff they wanted to learn about. There was no purpose to cloning dinosaurs at all if you have no clue how they’re going to act.

Can you clarify the ethics of cloning extinct species? Is it that cloning is always unethical? Is it that zoos are unethical? Is it a combination of creating living creatures wholly to be in zoos thats unethical?

What I'm trying to understand is if you have an ethical issue with the process or the goal?

Both? For one, bringing back extinct animals that we caused the extinction of is completely different than bringing back animals we know nothing about.

An extinct bird 100 years ago that might have affected the ecology of the island it was on, and we find a missing piece of DNA and can use that to clone the animal would tell us some about the animal. But the animal’s behavior will be completely different. We might or might not know if it needs a specific familial structure, specific nutrients, specific types of dwellings.

For a dinosaur that we know nothing about besides its bodily remains, cloning it will tell us nothing. It’s not the same planet, it’s not the same environment, it’s not the same DNA. There’s literally nothing about it that cloning would tell us more of. The only purpose would be for entertainment.

This gets covered extensively in the two part episode of Behind the Bastards on Dr George Church and his claims about bringing Dire Wolves back to life. We literally already can see exactly what the ethical and scientific problems with cloning extinct animals are right now. It’s not some movie plot. It’s really happening and the scientific results are useless.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

We did at a Methodist church when I was a kid.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 31 points 6 days ago (8 children)

I hate this meme because it absolves the scientists of their moral obligations entirely. It wasn’t good science. It was terrible science. No ethical scientist would have ever participated especially since most of it wasn’t actually science.

They put random other genes into the dinosaurs, that’s terrible science! You can’t learn anything from that data!! For fuck’s sake, it’s some of the worst science I’ve ever heard of.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Stardew valley and terraria

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