Could we partially back up the Internet Archive to Filecoin?
According to https://file.app/ storing 1PB of data to Filecoin for a year would cost $2,336, that's an amount that could be crowdfunded.
Of course, IA has much more than a petabyte of data, but it wouldn't be impractical to save the most important ( however you decide that ) parts of it.
I’ve been coding and engineering for over thirty years. Most of us old fogeys are like that. I’m only middlin’ productive, compared to many of the folks I’ve worked with.
If you do something continuously, for a long time, you tend to get fairly efficient at it. That’s just basic common sense.
I don’t particularly care if I’m “better than” anyone else. I’m retired. I’m not looking for work, and I’m not interested in being BMOC.
I am pretty good at what I do. I am also the only person on our team that has the luxury of working on the project full time (see “retired,” above).
I’m a really decent chap. I like working with folks; particularly those that are better than I am, and I have no interest in fighting with you.
You call it “boasting,” but it’s really just a simple declaration of basic facts. I’m good at what I do, in my small context.
I’m currently starting to learn a bit more about stuff outside my comfort zone, like AI, and there’s no way that I could pretend to be any good at that. I’m learning here, and you guys are my teachers.
It’s really discouraging to see this level of cynicism. I consider myself to be fairly cynical, but I’m an amateur, compared to a lot of folks, these days, and that’s a real shame.
You know, immediately projecting the worst onto people we don’t know, isn’t conducive to a happy life. That’s something I learned, long ago.
In any case, I’m pretty much an open book. I definitely share stuff here, that I wouldn’t, if I were still in the rodent rally, but it is not my intention to make others uncomfortable, and I sincerely apologize for coming across that way.
Sorry, maybe my post sounded more serious than I intended it to. I wasn't trying to be combative, I was merely pointing out the irony of lecturing someone about insulting people on a professional forum, when your first post could easily be interpreted as bragging and insulting the people you work with. I'm sure you didn't mean it that way and had good intentions. There's nothing wrong in principle with saying you're good at something. I think it's the direct comparison with specific people and the implication that they are slowing you down that has the potential to be interpreted negatively.
Below (above?), I answered why I have to hold back. I'm working with a designer, who can't devote as much bandwidth to the project as can I. I have to wait on him.
It's all good. I spend extra coding time, doing things like testing, and adding animations (what I'm working on, today).
This is HN. People brag here, like crazy. The main difference seems to be that it's usually "LinkedIN bragging," or "humblebragging."
I'm not really into humblebragging. I find it rather creepy and dishonest, quite frankly, and I won't do it.
There's a lot of stuff that I'm really good at, and a lot more stuff that I'm not good at. I don't hide either.
Low carb doesn't mean you can't eat food with carbs, it means most of your diet is protein and fat, and you restrict carbohydrate consumption.
He can have a low carbohydrate diet while eating vegetables, as long as he eats less vegetables than meat.
Some vegans believe that it is unethical to kill animals, and that they should have the same rights as us. Of course, they're wrong because animals aren't able to think.
Others believe that meat is bad for the environment, however I don't know if that is correct as I haven't done any research on the topic.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone suggest that "animals aren't able to think" before. Could you please explain what you could possibly mean by that?
Animals are mostly sentient. The degree of "consciousness" is debated. Sardines don't even have a cerebral cortex, which to me puts them on the level of insects - vegans might object, but they won't object to squashing flies and using insecticides.
As for the environment, depends on the animal - this is usually about methane (from cows) and land encroachment (also, because of soybean crops or whatever).
As a vegan with things like sardines and insects is that, at least currently, we can't gauge if they can suffer or not, so err on the side of caution and don't eat them.
Plants have no brains or analog at all, plats reacting and signalling is no different than a bacteria moving along a concentration gradient.
The animals I mentioned do, even if very simple ones. If you really want to question this bivalves are a better example, as I've seen many debates in vegan circles about them.
> plats reacting and signalling is no different than a bacteria moving along a concentration gradient.
No different than pain receptors, you mean.
> Plants have no brains or analog at all
No brain, yes. But what of "no analog" if the qualifier for suffering is deliberately clouded in ambiguity?
The only reason the brain matters qua suffering is owing to the capacity for consciousness. Plants have no brain, well, sardines have no cerebral cortex.
If you're going to trivialize the cerebral cortex based on whim/feeling, you can do the same for the whole brain. By extension it makes as much sense to attribute the possibility of consciousness to insects as it does to plants, because you're throwing the particulars of the brain out the window. Some "magical unknown thing 'X'" is giving them consciousness - but there's no reason "magical unknown thing 'X'" has to be specific to a brain.
> What could you possibly do with the information that plants feel pain?
Keep the goalpost planted at "suffering" which requires consciousness. So we're still at #3. The analogy of the plant is just to reflect that there's sloppy conjecture used to project the capacity for suffering onto certain animals that by all the counts should not (where suffering entails a conscious awareness of pain and despair).
If they really did, you'd expect to see calls to mitigate insect deaths as part of their usual dialog. They're apathetic. If you ask them, ostensibly they might object to killing insects to stay consistent, but they won't bring it up.
THat's pretty much in line with naturally expected behavior, because intuitively we don't expect much from insects.
I don't feel comfortable speaking for ALL vegans, but in my house, we gently move spiders outside. We would also be totally fine with killing a mosquito. My general theory is that it is fine to hurt an animal if it attacks you first, but it's cruel to do it whenever it can be avoided. Just like all other forms of violence.
I also avoid killing insects and spiders, especially if they aren't dangerous and aren't bothering anyone. We don't use pest control to "keep bugs away" either.
According to https://file.app/ storing 1PB of data to Filecoin for a year would cost $2,336, that's an amount that could be crowdfunded.
Of course, IA has much more than a petabyte of data, but it wouldn't be impractical to save the most important ( however you decide that ) parts of it.