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Recommendations for privacy-focused, open-source alternatives to corporate apps in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop, what's up with Proton recently?

How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Everybody reading these comments and considering the implications needs to go read Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's a first contact story set in the near-ish future, and really goes into consciousness and intelligence. Very thought provoking if you thought this comment chain was interesting.

Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just putting it out there, but the National Weather Service has a free API here.

If I construct a huge glass box and cover a fully grown tree - then fill the entire thing in water, what would happen to the tree in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

What would happen then if you took a tree which only has leaves at the top and submerged it to just under the leaves? Does the bark need to be exposed to air as well or would it just rot out like timber does?