Do you have an alternate theory as to what the various pots were made for? The techniques and resources needed to gather "a little fat/oil" and use them to make pottery seem, to me, to have a good bit of overlap with cooking.
Anything that happens only inside peoples’ minds is in a pretty tough realm to study. It’s okay to be afraid of it or to assume it doesn’t mean anything, but it would be really stretching “skepticism” to say that people don’t have visions/hallucinations of all kinds in response to meditative practice. You’d just be using “falsifiability” to avoid feeling uncomfortable.
Well danger if done wrong is a good selling point. it suggests that the method must be powerful. I'm sure some gurus exploit this (manipulative technique) to be perceived as more serious or experienced. The problem is now, speaking about the (real or not) dangers of meditation could also induce some kind of nocebo effect in practitioners. And since most people open for this stuff will be more on the irrational spectrum of humanity ... the danger of meditation may be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
We speak about mindfulness here but there is the same discussion and warnings about kundalini for example.
Obviously focusing (or not) on something and sitting for a long time will alter you state of consciousness to some degree like a trance. But are there real and objective dangers besides the rewiring of your brain?
Compare TeXmacs and LyX as visual scientific writing applications.
I have dipped my toe into TeXmacs (and bought a copy of The Jolly Writer to support the project). Basically you can walk up, bang out a couple of pages with text, mathematics, diagrams and (say) R script output nicely typeset and save as PDF or whatever. Ideal for quick papers and such.
TeXmacs does need a few processor cycles compared with LyX but you won't notice battery drain unduly on anything post Core Duo.
Addressing the actual question: I think a tag line like 'your libre scientific wordprocessor' would help.
I think they do - 5G seems to have the prospect of some realtime low latency guarantee features (though I don’t think it’s rolled out yet). With this in place and an RT audio device you could build an all in one remote jamming box without having to insist on wired internet or deal with the wifi jitter. Currently the user’s network is often the bane of things like Jamulus that try to do this in software + your internet connection
I didn't get the impression that the author was suggesting to throw out the old APIs. It seems to me like the article is a proof of concept of new approaches that could be added as new APIs, only expected to be used by people who need them, using an approach that takes advantage of modern storage technology.
> "Random access may have to wastefully read larger blocks of the data than are actually requested by the application. The unused data gets cached, but if it's not going to be accessed any time soon, it means that something else got wastefully bumped out of the cache. Sequential access is likely to make use of an entire block."
I may have misread it, but I thought he addressed this in the article.
> "Random access files take a position as an argument, meaning there is no need to maintain a seek cursor. But more importantly: they don’t take a buffer as a parameter. Instead, they use io_uring’s pre-registered buffer area to allocate a buffer and return to the user. That means no memory mapping, no copying to the user buffer — there is only a copy from the device to the glommio buffer and the user get a reference counted pointer to that. And because we know this is random I/O, there is no need to read more data than what was requested."
Modern usage of “evolution” sometimes conflates “change of the organism over time or a lineage between generations” with “Darwinian selection”. Sexual selection is an easy example of evolution that’s not due to Darwinian “natural” selection.
Sexual selection is literally a textbook example of natural selection.
"Change of the organism between generations" is called "genetic drift" if it's undirected and "selection" if it's directed. The concept of "evolution without natural selection" doesn't really exist.
Selection is how you get organisms that appear to be designed for a purpose. Sexual attractiveness is a purpose.
How does the body "up there" manage itself without being able to sense and interact with the physical (and chemical) world?