air gap over 802.11 @eqe@aleph.land

Irregular reminder that if you see me interacting with problematic people on here, I'd appreciate a DM heads up.

Gritty pooh reboot

So there's a current science "news" cycle about when lactase persistence versus dairy domestication happened in human populations, leading to a lot of shitposts about the consequences of lactose poisoning.

It seems obvious to me that folks with available dairy calories but no adult lactase, would adopt lactose-consuming microbe cultures (either externally fermenting into yogurt / kefir / skyr or cultivating a commensal gut microbiome) to avoid the downsides. I suspect the researchers would speculate in this direction too.

But the structures (and strictures) of science "news" doesn't encourage, seems to prevent, reporting that would convey this kind of holistic understanding of a developing field of research. And so general readers get an inaccurate view of what we are learning about the world.

Sigh.

Well, we're moved! An approximately normal number of disasters occurred and I never want to see another moving box as long as I live. I love our new house and neighborhood and the kids seem to be adjusting to midwestern hot summer with a minimum of fuss. We shall see how they react when winter arrives 😂

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.26.22278045v1

I'm not very good at interpreting effectiveness numbers.

If I'm reading the abstract to this paper correctly, the pfizer vaccine for kids is almost useless?

Effectiveness peaks at 50% right after the second dose but is negligible after 3 months. That doesn't sound like an effective treatment to me? My recollection for adults was like 95% effective and still 50% after 6 months??? (That was pre omicron though.)

Boosts much appreciated, would really love some help understanding.

After the fall of the western empire circa 496, the Roman empire continued on for another 1000 years til Constantinople fell in 1453.

A new world is coming after capitalism, but she won't necessarily be here anytime soon...

Saw a pickup truck yesterday that I'm pretty sure had a hybrid engine, the branding was like PowerBoost or some shit

That "just squeeze your english muffin" tiktok really did change my life

Boosting with cw

https://mastodon.social/@SexyCyborg/108661928552313846

For those of you who want a working number for businesses- the number is 6ACH. Hong Kong chose that since it's achievable at reasonable cost, without gutting and completely renovating a building, and it provides substantial protection. Detailed breakdown:
https://www.fehd.gov.hk/english/licensing/guide_general_reference/air-changes_report2021.pdf​

So, what are we looking at in this image?

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/main_image_deep_field_smacs0723-5mb.jpg

The image is stunning, a huge leap over Hubble (comparison at https://imgsli.com/MTE2Mjc3 ) and really showcases JWST.

The main target is a cluster of galaxies called SMACS 0723 (or more completely J0723.3-7327). Here's a preprint about the cluster: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05007

0723 is very far away, NASA says 4.6 billion light years. Astronomers measure these big distances as redshift, z. Our galaxy is z=0, 0743 is at z=1.38 to z=1.45

I think all of the spiky bois in the image are foreground stars (in our galaxy), so just a few hundred thousand light years at most.

The really interesting bit, and the reason for imaging 0723, is the stuff that's even farther away -- the gravitationally lensed galaxies, with their light smeared into crescents and whorls as it travels past 0723 towards us. We could see some of this with Hubble, but the added sensitivity with JWST is just spectacular. Those galaxies will be at z=6 and even deeper.

See, this is funny because
- resimulation, like all religion, is obviously false but inherently unfalsifiable
- physics based simulation like in games and VR can't even get little things like coffee cream right
- perception and reason is so far from apprehending the true nature of things that my attempt is obviously, buffoonishly insufficient to have my desired effect
- the proteins folding in my cells are already many orders of magnitude more computationally expensive than my coffee
- it's so easy to say "simulate me", the devil is in details like where your simulation captures that I got BA.5 because C316G enabled immune escape due to differential protein binding energy compared to BNT162b2

Carefully observing the fluid dynamics of cream in my morning coffee to ensure that any resimulation is as computationally expensive as possible

People's CDC looks amazing.

https://peoplescdc.org/2022/07/04/peoples-cdc-weather-report-4/