Beryl

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Beryl ,

There are 850k people living in La Paz, Bolivia with the equivalent of 13.2% sea level oxygen and they seem to be doing just fine.

Beryl , (edited )

There are 850k people living in La Paz, Bolivia (elevation 3650m) with the equivalent of 13.2% sea level oxygen and they seem to be doing just fine.
And granted, the natives of the region display some hemoglobin adaptation, but still...
Even Aspen, Colorado sits at about 15% sea level oxygen and I'm pretty sure people don't wear breathing gear while skiing there.

Beryl ,

Partial pressure of the gases you breathe is what matters though, that's why astronauts could breathe pure oxygen for days during the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo missions and be fine (as long as there's no fire :/ ).

Beryl , (edited )

The partial pressure of oxygen in the Apollo 1 capsule was about 16.7 PSI.

I had always assumed they just compensated with oxygen pressure to match atmospheric partial oxygen pressure, but I checked and indeed you're right, but it was only that high an oxgen pressure for testing purposes on the ground. Once in flight, they would have dropped it to 5 PSI. It also makes sense as to why that Apollo 1 fire was so violent. Thanks for that learning opportunity ! :)

Beryl ,

Won't you please think of the shareholders?

Beryl ,

Much better title than the clickbaity one they went with for the video.

Beryl ,

That record ? CO2 levels at their highest in millions of years and still growing faster than ever.

Beryl , (edited )

Economics actually says it's far cheaper overall to stop polluting right now than trying to mitigate it in the distant future. But that goes against the short-termism our economic indicators are built around. The line must go up, and shareholders need their maximized profit next quarter. Meanwhile pollution will only become more of a problem the further away in the future you look. And that sounds like a problem for future us.

Beryl , (edited )

TL,DR : CO2 concentration in air is easily measured and has been used as a proxy to monitor the level of potentially infectious particle people would release in a room while breathing. The idea is the more people breathe, the more they release CO2 and also possibly infectious particles.

It turns out that CO2 also plays an important role in buffering the pH of the aerosolized particles in which viruses like SARS-CoV2 travel from one person to the next. Dissolved CO2 is slightly acidic and prevents the particles from becoming too basic, which would destroy the virions. Thus higher CO2 concentrations in ambient air significantly extend the survival of the airborne virus and therefore the average time these particles remain infectious.

A CO2 concentration of just 800ppm (parts per million), while usually considered a value consistent with a well ventilated room, is nevertheless enough to significantly extend the lifespan of viruses. This means we should strive to lower CO2 concentrations in rooms as much as we can during epidemics.

Beryl ,

Exactly. Or maybe inject the bleach directly in the body, as some of the most stable geniuses have suggested.

Beryl ,

Somewhat reminiscent of something that's been going on for a few months now...

Beryl ,

Dr Becky is an actual astrophysicist (PhD) and her content is great and based on a thorough analysis of published science. Maybe watch the video first next time ?

Beryl ,

Besides, helium leaks make radio chatter way more entertaining.

BOINC 8.0.2 major release is available for Android, Linux, MacOS and Windows

BOINC is a platform for volunteer computing. Scientists at universities around the world use it to process computationally intensive datasets (sky surveys, protein folding, etc) for FREE using the computers of volunteers. Volunteers get to contribute to cutting-edge research and put their hardware to good use. This is a major...

Beryl , (edited )

Do people really run BOINC on Android ?

Beryl ,

It works by using the processing power of your device (it can utilize both GPU and CPU) to run scientific calculations when you're not using it.
It can detect if you're using the device or not and use its processing power accordingly, and you can customize what fraction of your device it can use and when. You can also decide what scientific endeavors (astronomical surveys, protein folding, etc.) are allowed to use your compute power.

That makes BOINC a great way to heat a room in winter provided you're not annoyed by the eventual fan noises (or if you're not in the room), since the energy used will also help scientific research at no extra cost for you. This also means that depending on your settings, it can melt a mobile device battery in no time.

Beryl ,

There's really not much hope for humanity. Everywhere people are falling again and again for slightly different flavors of populist conservative corrupt assholes with a dictatorial liking. Like it's ever done the world any good before.

Beryl ,

Oh I agree with you, but I wanted to alude to what's going on in other parts of the world as well, where it's not at the outright fascist stage. Yet.
(I also called it dictatorial, so...)

Beryl , (edited )

Artist's view of bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria and look like this. They attach to the bacterial wall with these fibers that look like spider legs, and then inject their DNA into the bacteria by contracting the sheath that attaches to the DNA-containing head. They kinda work like a syringe.

Beryl ,

So, the guy who will happily slender everyone and their dog doesn't like it when you attack his character?

Beryl ,

Juste because yours is genuine doesn't mean theirs can't also be. That's the beauty of LLMs. They're just stochastic parrots.

Beryl ,

"81% of the untapped coal reserves" It would be great if you kept it untapped .
Also, lol at "100% of the Scottish wisky industry".

Beryl ,

This proposal is bonkers. Imagine aaaall the nudes that will have to be manually assessed by police (until they outsource it because it's cheaper), and then you have to believe they won't keep anything and that there are zero bad apples.

Besides, if the tools are already in place in the apps, it's only a question of time before the detection system is repurposed for censorship of anything a totalitarian leaning government doesn't like. Memes about our dear leader? I'm afraid we can't allow that !

You can't have a backdoor that works for the good guys only.

Hundreds arrested, roads barricaded in New Caledonia as riots continue ( www.reuters.com )

SYDNEY, May 16 (Reuters) - Armed forces were protecting New Caledonia's two airports and port after a third night of violent riots that have killed four people, the Pacific Island's top French official said on Thursday morning, adding at least four alleged instigators were under house arrest....

Beryl ,

Jeebus ! The number of people commenting here who don't have any knowledge of the situation is annoying.

France vowed in the Noumea Accord of 1998 to gradually give more political power to New Caledonia. Since, under the agreement, New Caledonia has held three referendums over its ties with France, ALL rejecting independence. Now, the last referendum in 2021 had something like 94% people voting to stay French BUT the independentist had called for a boycott of the referendum. Turnout was about 44%.
In 2018, New Caledonians rejected independence at 57%. In 2020 it was 53%. In both these votes, the turnout was 80% +.

So this is not a case of France imposing control on the local population, there seems to be at least a small majority of people who wish to stay French.

New Caledonians have French nationality, the vote in all french national elections (presidential, parliament, etc. ) and could absolutely vote in local elections if they moved to say Paris or Marseille.

The thing is, the electoral lists in New Caledonia were frozen in 1998, and so anyone who came to live there legally after that can't vote in local elections. This is now being reversed, allowing citizens who have lived there for at least 10 years to vote, and that's why the independentist party is rioting, they fear the independentist vote would be diluted by these newcomers, which presumably would vote to stay French.

Beryl ,

Germans will be glad to learn that fighting climate change ranks high among the ways you can prevent immigration.

Beryl ,

And that thing is called greed. (see also : egoism)

Beryl ,

Whiskers don't make sense on a creature that doesn't walk on all 4 anyway. They are only useful if they have a chance to contact something in front of you before the rest of your body.

Beryl ,

The skin smoothing is also crazy. That wall 2 meters behind has more details and texture than their faces.

Beryl ,

That's a common way of thinking in people with little to no ethics. They think everyone else is the same, and thus if you dig you're surely going to find something.

Beryl ,

If you look at who is quoted in the article doing the condemning, it's pretty much all repented trumpets or never-trumpers, who are a vanishing minority in the Republican party. I don't think this will have any negative impact on the MAGA Republicans' view of Noem.

Beryl ,

This would go down just like the proverbial chess playing against a pigeon.

Beryl ,

More like fig 1. A and fig 1. B

Beryl ,

More like fig . 1a and fig. 1b

Beryl ,

"Once I put this salve on a small wound, and a couple of weeks later it was healed, which proves it's basically a panacea that probably also cures cancer."

Beryl ,

But aren't the seas the sharks of the seas ?

Beryl ,

Not only do you write the article for free, they will also charge you for the privilege of publishing in their journal.

Beryl ,

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Beryl ,

That's what terms of service, didn't read is for. They summarize and grade the ToS of all kinds of services for you(spoiler : it's all terrible). There's also an extension for your favorite browser.

Beryl ,

Business yes, but crypto? I struggle to imagine anything that could be of less value in times of war.

Beryl ,

I think it mostly comes down to increasingly unfair distribution of wealth, which leaves people with no hope to better their standards of living.

Our civilization creates things with constantly increasing productivity, which should lead to better pay and less time spent working, and more time to live a fulfilling life.
Instead, all this added wealth is funneled towards a few mindbogglingly rich individuals.

This happens with the help of a sizable fraction of the population, which have become convinced that their mediocre situation is in fact caused by even poorer and more miserable people, rather than the assholes siphoning everything and everyone from the top of their already obscene piles of riches. And there's no sign of this changing anytime soon. No wonder people are desperate.

Beryl ,

An even bigger problem is that wages have become disconnected from productivity. 1000015612

Beryl ,

I've been using DuckDuckGo for a few years now, and I never went back to Google. Maybe give it a try !

Beryl ,

Presenting to the emergency room with hyponatremia, from hypo meaning low, natron meaning sodium, and hemia meaning presence in blood. Low sodium presence in blood !
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e1480fb6-962b-4cd4-962e-faaa2222b24c.png

Beryl , (edited )

You should try DDG's "bangs" then. They are shortcuts you can type to narrow your search or use another search engine from DDG's interface.

!gm Singapore will search for Singapore directly in Google Maps

!w Singapore will search for the word in Wikipedia

!g will search in Google, etc.

Beryl ,

Exactly, the egg floating doesn't mean that it's not edible anymore, just that it's old.

Beryl , (edited )

Except that "there are 26 climate feedback loops that are ignored by most models" is a clear misrepresentation of what the article you linked to actually says, which is that this scientific team has identified 26 amplifying feedback loops, including some that the researchers say may not be fully accounted for in climate models.

"Some may not be fully accounted for" is a far cry from "ignored by most models".
Spreading this type of false narrative on climate science only helps the people who use the "we don't know enough about the climate to take any action" excuse, please don't contribute to it!

Beryl ,

"McDaniel said it remained “a concern” for her that Pennsylvania could go from recording 260,000 mail-in ballots for Trump’s Oval Office victory in 2016 to 2.6m in 2020."

Gee, I wonder if something happened in 2020 that had people prefer not to gather in crowded areas. I guess we'll never know...

Beryl , (edited )

They did, but some offshoot survived and came back for a little while in-between empires and republics. The 19th century is quite a complicated period in french political history, with a lot of experimenting with different political régimes. In the span of one century, there were 2 empires, 2 monarchies and 3 republics. And a couple revolutions too, because France.

I found this timeline that ends just before the beginning of the 3rd republic :

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Beryl ,

English isn't my first language, but I'd read it more like " the case brought by the corrupt AG" rather than " the corrupt case brought by the AG".

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