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  • Friday Facts #440 - 2.1 plan | Factorio

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  • Will be interesting to see what is meant by "some small features." I know it's most likely just UI improvements but I see they haven't ruled out the possibility of new items or buildings.

  • What’s the best crisps flavour and why is everyone else wrong?

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  • Fun fact: most brands don't contain any prawn and are vegetarian

  • Now Presenting: The Prickler! For all your local transportation needs!

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  • As a fellow fan of cigar ships, one thing I like about ship design in Factorio is how it's often easier to build a large ship than a small one. Cramming everything into a smaller space needs loads of thought going into belt design, balancing and circuit networks. Good job

  • We're not so different.

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  • So if I'm reading this correctly, only the part of you that is made of electrons does this, and the rest of you doesn't?

  • What do you think about voice notes?

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  • I occasionally still get messages on my mobile provider's default voicemail, and honestly by far the biggest issue is the fact that it very slowly reads out the sender's full number and the exact time of the message before even starting. Without that it would still be bad, but probably 10 times less bad.

  • What is your favourite moon(s) in the Solar System?

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  • The view of Jupiter from there would be super impressive as well. From what I can gather the apparent size is 19 degrees, or 40 times the moon viewed from earth.

    Still not quite as extreme as it appeared in the 1998 game Battlezone sadly

  • Recommend some Aerospace and STEM Fediverse spaces?

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  • The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles.

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  • Who else is thinking of that one scene near the start of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?

  • 100 experts were unable to agree on whether aging is an illness, or when it begins

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  • Thanks very much for this response! Good information for people like me who are interested to read more.

    I think the point I was trying to make is that there are multiple reasons instead of one, and none of them are simple or easy. Understanding how those six things happen is subtly different to asking why they happen, which might be why we've got such a range of comments here and why the scientists in the article couldn't agree on their answer.

  • 100 experts were unable to agree on whether aging is an illness, or when it begins

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  • In the informal sense that everything breaks eventually then yes. If you're talking strictly in terms of physics, humans increase entropy just by existing, by eating calories and generating body heat, and that would still be true if we didn't age.

  • 100 experts were unable to agree on whether aging is an illness, or when it begins

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  • Yes, I've heard similar things before and that's probably the closest thing to a true explanation. It's a purely genetic line of reasoning which raises a lot of questions though: What's the biological clock that controls the timing of when genes activate? Which/how many genes are responsible for aging and does everyone have all of them? Could animals be selectively bred for longevity indefinitely? Some of these questions might have partial answers already but I don't know them.

    Thanks for the paper, it's interesting and I definitely couldn't follow the whole thing. It says at one point that the findings are consistent with the theory that organisms age to make way for their offspring. I've heard of the slightly different version where it's just random genes that don't have any benefit but the downside isn't bad enough for them to be selected against.

  • 100 experts were unable to agree on whether aging is an illness, or when it begins

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  • It's funny how everyone tends to assume that there is a very obvious and well-known reason why we age, and people are usually shocked to find out that, like the article demonstrates, science kind of doesn't really know. We know a lot of the mechanisms of course and I'm sure any doctors here can explain them, but it's not like there's one simple and universal explanation.

    Edit: some commenters have pointed out that aging is very well studied so I'm crossing out the part that could be misleading and will add only: it's complicated

  • If I only have a plug in keyboard for a tower computer, is that enough to operate it

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  • Some people here can remember a time when most computers had just a keyboard and no mouse!

  • better Mastodon feeds

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  • Sushi-loving pacifist Galaxy Of Fame!

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  • It's one of the nice features of space age that it encourages sushi in a few situations, Fulgora probably being the obvious one that most players will recognise.

    Congrats on completing the game, you're ahead of me in that regard!

  • "hall of the whale king"

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  • This was fun to watch, it's how artillery was meant to be used!

  • Lutris maintainer: "I've removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what's generated and what is not."

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  • I'd offer you a counterpoint (ignoring the issue with Lutris and AI for a minute):

    If you choose not to judge your own actions by the expected consequences of those actions for everyone involved, then how exactly are you supposed to judge them? If you're following some rule that disagrees with the utilitarian view, then by definition it's a rule that in your own opinion leads to a worse outcome for everyone.

    It's of course completely fine to not be utilitarian, but trying to claim that all utilitarians are either stupid or evil is just incorrect.

  • Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes

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  • Good news but it's depressing and honestly shameful that it has taken so long. In any sane world this would have happened at least 50 years ago.

    also, wtaf:

    The BBC understands ministers have offered the Conservatives the chance to retain 15 hereditary members of the House of Lords as life peers.

  • AI slop repository with 8k stars on Github that doesn't even compile

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  • Genius

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