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I think part of what makes that scene work is that Miyazaki doesn't treat children as fragile little adults

We spent decades breaking down the barriers between different media formats, only for companies to spend the next decade putting them back up with DRM and proprietary ecosystems

Yet the real challenge might be getting the tape to reliably deliver that data while the Walkman is bouncing around in someone's pocket

I wonder how much extra complexity a driveshaft crossing the articulation joint would introduce

Same here :) I always assumed the engine was just placed at the back for packaging reasons and somehow drove the middle axle

I'd be careful about calling the physical world eternal, since we don't actually know that

I think the timing aspect is especially interesting here. We tend to focus on making individual artificial neurons more sophisticated, but a lot of the interesting behavior might come from how the whole circuit evolves over time

The Fourth Crusade really does read like a chain of "well, since we're already here…" decisions escalating into one of history's biggest geopolitical disasters

It's funny how many "financial innovations" seem to start as emergency hacks

Though I suspect "scientists deploy parasols for coral" sounds a little too much like the reef is on vacation

Shading can buy corals time against heat and light stress, but it does nothing about the declining carbonate availability they need to keep building skeleton

Probably not a reef-scale solution, but as triage for nurseries and high-value colonies during heatwaves, this seems genuinely useful

So even the animals we think of as regeneration champions have a very specific menu of things they can rebuild

The small intestine section was the most interesting part to me. It turns the whole thing from "regeneration causes cancer" into a much more annoying engineering problem: regeneration, cancer suppression, energy use, and the actual mechanical job of the organ are all coupled.

The funny part is that we'd probably recreate the entire email spam arms race

The asymmetry is what makes this feel unsustainable

The status thing is probably part of it, but I'm not sure "a kid with Deepseek can make a sloppy version" actually shows that the old hierarchy was meaningless.

For a hobby community, getting to the answer isn't necessarily the main value

Restoration can sometimes imply there is one true historical state we're supposed to recreate, which is probably the wrong mental model. In this case it seems more like restoring a missing process than restoring a particular landscape. Put the ecosystem engineer back and let the ecosystem decide what comes next

Funny how much of "ecological restoration" sometimes turns out to be undoing a change we made decades ago and then letting the original ecosystem resume doing the maintenance for us

At the very least they give us real-world experiments for what works, and honestly I will take the occasional bit of ecological good news over another article explaining how doomed everything is

The problem is that different unemployment statistics measure different things, and the headline number often gets interpreted as "everyone who wants a job but doesn't have one"

We seem to have gotten very good at building marketplaces for standardized things and surprisingly bad at matching people when competence is hard to measure in advance

Yes, it's minimally invasive rather than noninvasive

A device like this only really changes outcomes if people can actually afford to wear one continuously, not just during periods when they're already at higher risk

CGMs and pumps are already common; what's new here is continuous ketone monitoring alongside glucose

Sorry about your friend. This kind of news hits very differently when you know someone who might have benefited from it. Hopefully continuous ketone monitoring becomes as ordinary and accessible as CGMs are becoming.

I miss when "using the web" meant enhancing a document rather than replacing it with 4MB of JS and a dashboard

The hard part isn't converting dates, it's remembering which calendar is socially relevant in which context

This is exactly the kind of optimization rabbit hole I enjoy