FishFace

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 19 hours ago

I mean literally noone is born lactose intolerant. You'd just starve.

Genetic lactose intolerance develops some time later through a variation in gene expression. But the effects of lactose intolerance also vary more than that, because if you continue to consume milk your gut biome changes to reflect the abundance of nutrients.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

I don't know of one, but it sounds like something that could make use of the route-planning ability of Osmand with extra steps...

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago

I typo'd "undirected" if that affects anything.

My point is, people talk about this as if it's the plants having a nice chat and a cup of tea and talking about politics. It isn't - it's more like a dog being able to smell some dog piss and understand something about the dog that pissed there.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 17 points 22 hours ago

Someone doesn't know what OCD is

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

What other understanding of sentience would we fucking use?!
The mycelium network thing is way overblown - it allows some crude, ~~undetected~~undirected signals to pass.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 22 hours ago

The administrative overhead and the overhead of engineering everything to with multiple vendors is what is massive

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 23 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Dividing between providers is not what people would be doing if the resilience of cloud services were as is being memed about.

Doing so is phenomenally expensive.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah that is important context.

Looking at UK government stats the difference is starker here - over 100 deaths per billion passenger miles for motorcyclists, only 3 for car occupants, and 27 for pedestrians.

The note of panic in my mum's voice when talking about the possibility of my getting a motorbike is still out of proportion though.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

We mainly had non-summative assignments, so those had names on. Exams were all done by student-number, with a fold-down section where you wrote and signed your name.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

In fairness I also didn't feel like I was reading eyewitness accounts of this kind of thing so maybe it doesn't actually happen (or almost never, or did in the past but no longer)

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I checked the stats in my country, where 55% of contributing factors are assigned to motorcyclists in collisions involving them. Due to how this data is produced, that doesn't mean 55% of accidents involving them were found to be the fault of motorcyclists, but it means that a significant number of motorbike accidents are the fault of the rider, whichever way you slice it.

Rates of serious injury/death are about 2000 per billion passenger miles for motorbikes, of which 100 are deaths. Haven't been able to find the same stats for GA though.

There are arguments that comparing passenger-miles isn't reasonable for activities like GA and motorbiking which are done for pleasure as well as for transport, in which case flying looks worse.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Presumably not in California or wherever else there are sensible data protection laws?

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