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Re:Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland
on Sunday December 05, 2021 @12:28PM (#29450918)
this feels like a phenomenal advancement on this front. now if only I could read about it without slipping into existential panic...
Re:Fakelish – Fake English word generator
on Sunday December 05, 2021 @12:21PM (#29450865)
Can anyone tell me more about how this works? Most of these don't resemble English words at all to me lol, wondering what the generative procedure/parameters are in the first place
Re:The magical miniature worlds of terrariums
on Sunday December 05, 2021 @12:08PM (#29450748)
Love this, but as a writer/interviewer, I'm a little thrown by this being part of the article framework:
> Some may claim that this is simply a modern fad, a case of "hashtag horticulture" that lends itself to eye-catching posts. But terrariums have a long and fascinating history that predates social media by more than 150 years.
> "People will often say it's been driven by social media..."
OK, it's a century-old fad... I understand there COULD be an issue if someone jumps in because of ~aesthetic~ only to grow bored and toss their terrariums. But so what if someone discovers terrariums "as a fad"? Or if then they build a social following around it? They either actually enjoy it, which is great, or they're so committed to a performative image that it's lucky they latched onto plants in jars and not something more intense. Just a weird angle imo that doesn't deserve the few sentences it takes to address lol, just jump straight into the interesting stuff
Re:Too many species have been lumped together into Homo sapiens
on Sunday December 05, 2021 @11:40AM (#29450525)
Other people bringing up cultural differences is appreciated, because to me that warning implied pictures of cadavers. Upon assessment, don't think I've ever looked at a skull (or any other decontextualized bone) and considered it "human remains." An entire skeleton, sure, but even then...faux skeletons are such common imagery throughout America, I've become 90% desensitized to what they're a representation of.
Re:Custom research-backed solutions to any business problem [algorithm]
on Saturday December 04, 2021 @01:22PM (#29442965)
Well no, not an actual computer algorithm. There might be a linguistic case for a classical human-powered algorithm, if we extend it past things like logic problems: "a set of instructions for solving a problem or completing a process/task." But even as a mathematical concept, people were creating and applying the idea of an algorithm literally thousands of years ago because we're the original computer, right...so...kind of a throwback here lol