CidVicious

joined 11 months ago
[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Doesn't take a lot of observation to see that small rodents are in fear of just about every encounter, largely because that's what keeps them alive.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

and let the birds, mice, etc... live without fear.

LOL, that's not really how mice and small birds work.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

LOL. I mainly got the idea of using genetic modification to increase diversity of a small population from the book Seveneves.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It seems very plausible that if you can make a generation ship, you could make something like CRISPR to artificially increase genetic diversity/eliminate potential birth defects. Or perhaps just store genetic material for more people than the actual colonists on the ship. You'd probably want to hedge your bets in case there's a low survival rate. There's a lot that could go wrong. Ecosystem failure, negative effects of radiation, or just good old fashioned murder.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 60 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I dunno why they wouldn't display both. Also cynical me thinks this is a more useful change for advertisers than users.

That said this would probably be useful for post ranking on the back end, if they're not already using it. There's always been a noticeable thing on reddit where posts on large subs with little activity don't seem to bubble up much on /r/popular. Which makes those subs seem even deader because they don't get new blood.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah realistically society would be fucked if people didn't age. You think we have generational wealth now? Ho boy.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago

I think life situation is probably more important than strictly age. If you're an independent 30 year old working a full time job you probably don't want to date a college student that lives with their parents.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 months ago

Long time google assistant user, but them putting Gemini in it is what I'm afraid of, not the solution.

This is yet another "google released a product, didn't know what to do with it, and made zero updates over the last decade, so now they're killing it." I don't think they've ever fixed the bugs that existed the first day I bought mine. The speaker is handy for casting to, but also cast is a shitty non-open protocol.

Kinda just agree with the "everything in this space sucks" unfortunately.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that will fly even with this joke of a supreme court

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

I did not find it that difficult, but there was a lot of up front homework to make sure you had a compatible hardware configuration due to needing hardware which was supported by the limited number of Mac configurations. I recall running into a problem where I wasn't getting a picture on my monitor and I could not figure out why since my video card was supported and the drivers were ok. The problem as it turned out? I had my monitor connected via DVI and macs had never supported DVI so there were no drivers. Once the install was done, it pretty much Just Worked. Linux installs are pretty easy these days but debugging problems can be very difficult. The hard part of the hackintosh was keeping up with upgrades, since they needed to be done manually (due to potentially breaking things).

 

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