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Really, really weird that the article doesn't even mention nitrogen, nostoc or heterocysts. I'm not sure you can have a conversation about the great oxygen holocaust without at least bringing up one of the primary reasons we know "something" about the conditions before the event, specifically that there are still bacteria around today who are putting out a pretty significant amount of effort to create anoxygenic environments specifically for nitrogen fixation; that nitrogen as a terminal electron receptor basically 'cant happen' in the presence of oxygen.

Its just weird to not discuss the evolutionary lineage that still uses pre-oxygenation event hardware (with some extreme bug fixes to deal with oxygen) to fix nitrogen.


Are these the bacteria that literally all other life on earth depend on to split N2 so they will be able make protein and reproduce?


What is the great oxygen holocaust? Odd choice of words.


99%+ of species were driven to extinction, first from their environments becoming bathed in oxygen they were powerless to resist, and then from the whole planet freezing over for an eon (except maybe some equatorial refugia). Volcanism eventually restored enough CO2, with the oxygenators frozen, so the ice could melt.


Informative


Effectively, we've been out-competed in all the low complexity niche; life adds complexity to take advantage of novel niche where there is less competition.


You also might be able to get a 'compression' sample of space in the same manner, by running an auto-encoder in training mode. Rather than trying to do some kind of hack directly, it collects the same data you mentioned, but rather, is just training on the data in an auto-encoding compression framework. Then it can 'hand off' the compressed models weights, which hypothetically, can be queried or used to simulate the environment. Obviously, there is a lot more to this, but its an interesting idea.


Have you ever been in a car?


I was in a car this morning, why?


Source?


As luck would have it, I do have pictures of myself in a car. However, for privacy reasons I would rather not upload pictures of my face on the internet. I'd be happy to provide the picture to a trusted third party auditor of your choosing (eg. Deloitte, E&Y, KPMG, PWC) for verification, provided that you pay the fees :^)

Now, I don't imagine that there would be any privacy related issues related to providing evidence regarding whether a Chevrolet Impala was considered a compact car or not, so I look forward to receiving correspondence from your auditor and whatever evidence you have that Chevrolet Impala was considered a compact car.


The main business of any industry is manufacturing demand.


> Innovation probably isn't as wanted as you think.

Hollywood having given over almost entirely to franchises regurgitating the same tired plots and stories ad-nauseam would seem to agree with you.


Is it possible to self host signal? Can signal move towards a model like the fediverse where the software development is decoupled from the hosting costs?


They are actively working against self hosting, which is why I want matrix to succeed and signal to die


If they were on SteamOS or some other linux variant for this use case, I probably would have gone with them. The hardware is much better.

But the UI; how I actually interact with the system? I care about that.


you can run Bazzite on them


Looks like I wont have to wait..

https://www.pcgamer.com/steamos-on-handheld-pcs/


Also he was like, 100% in the wrong with regards to his issue in NY.

But its fine, I don't mind a bit of a used car salesman vibe. I still respect his work on RtR


The number of people hijacking foss tools and wrapping them up behind paywalls is hilarious.


Really just shows how little effort is put into making those foss tools easy to use for the layperson (NB: not implying that they should, just that they don't). Turns out people will pay to be able to use a slightly simplified version of something cool, that they would otherwise need to "figure out" a bunch of stuff to get it working.


Going from cool to usable for general public is a lot of work. And most of it isn't fun or rewarding. I get why open source doesn't do that, and why you would want money to go from solving a problem for your self to solving a problem for others in an easy way.


> Going from cool to usable for general public is a lot of work. And most of it isn't fun or rewarding.

As a frontend dev, this is my favorite part of the work! I wish there was an easy way to find open-source projects wanting UI help in particular. Is there?


Oooh! Ooh! There's a guy who just posted a tool that has a limited license UI. He said he was going to work on rolling a new one. You should reach out maybe?

This guy! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38044782


You have to with this tech. If your thing takes off and you don't, you're stuck with a huge bill. Then you get leapfrogged anyway.


I think it's the same as restaurants "hijacking" cheap ingredients and serving them up behind a paywall. Just because you think you could make a tool yourself doesn't mean it's never worth paying for, even professional chefs will pay for something pre-made and easy when they're hungry.


What do you mean hijacking?


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