Cobalt Chrome ring wearer here (and my wife). Not so niche I guess

True, a sample size of 1 means it is extremely common

Rings that can't be adjusted are ubiquitous. Walk into almost any store that sells rings, most open-air stands that sell rings, and you will find some. It's true they aren't usually preferred, but they are common.

TWO! Mine's cobalt as well. My wife picked it out when I'd lost my original gold ring (temporarily, cough). Besides looking interesting, apparently it was much less expensive than gold is these days.

I don't see even when dreaming :)

You remember your dreams?

Sometimes.

He's working on Hister now. I really like it.

are you able to share what you're working on that's 250k LoC?

It's a life tracker, that has come to include everything but the kitchen sync (journal, workouts, food, Garmin stats, music, podcasts, books. Etc.)

Mental models existed before coding. The pyramids were not built by just a couple of guys hauling some rocks together. It was a highly structured organization.

Or the East India Company or many other great organizations that achieved big things before computers.

Maybe if they don't like the results of the elections, they'll hold new ones until the "good" result comes out (true story, happened in Romania (a EU country) two years ago).

There was proven massive illegal funding of advertising for one candidate and the election result was annulled and rerun under the existing statutes and regulations under Romanian law, ordered by professional judges in a public legal process that was procedurally fair and had appropriate evidentiary requirements.

Stop parroting lines from organisations dedicated to delegitimising liberal democracies.

Haven't american companies outsourced manufacturing to China for a long time now? I think they have enough experience with dealing with China.

What about hakarl? "Rotten" icelandic shark meat. It stinks to high heaven. Yet somebody thought "let's eat this". I can't imagine how hungry they must have been. And, if it doesn't decompose for 6 weeks under sand, it's toxic, so you die if you eat it. I'm sure they knew that. Yet they still tried it... Must've been a helluva famine.

> Yet they still tried it... Must've been a helluva famine.

Humans have lived at subsistence level, one bad harvest away from famine for most of history. Our modern abundance is very recent (1-3 generations) thing depending on where you were born.

So I think a tremendous amount of food discovery was a combination of food accidents didn't want food to go to waste, and desperation level eating anything to delay death from starvation.

I mostly agree with you, but referencing Michael Levin, I'll contend that even individual cells have quite some intelligence. Granted, different from ours, but really good at solving the kind of problems cells have to solve.

Agreed. Michael Levin's work and discoveries are mind blowing! I was actually referencing that with the "electrical signals" nod (as well as neuronal activity) and Alan Turing's reaction-diffusion theory of morphogenesis with the chemical gradients. I'm not a molecular biologist so i don't know anything about the details, but the emergence of global phenomena from these local interactions fascinates me.

There's no intelligence without teleology. Intelligence and information are only meaningful concepts of you assert (necessarily without any evidence except the circular kind) that some differences matter.

Do the cells "have" to do anything? Do we? Sure, they might die if they do the "wrong" thing, but 1. Who's to say the inert state of "dead" matter is any worse than the state of a living cell, and 2. Cells clearly aren't always optimizing for their own survival anyway

Maybe it helps with weight loss (I wish)

It seems to aid in digestion, soothe upset stomach, so maybe it does.

It did help Mr Creosote.

But it was just wafer-thin!