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There was this Nobel Prize winning guy called Norman Borlaug. He gave an alright Nobel acceptance speech. Now seems to be a good time to dust it and start reading. Pretty sure it is a short and crisp read.

With the arrival of near infinite phonebooks, the drive and know-how to remember 100s of phone numbers is lost to humanity.

Passwords present added complexity to those of phone numbers. On top of a name to number (allowing a few collisions) passwords are required to be of certain length, contain an upper case letter, lower case letter, number, special character, and more importantly, a preset lifetime.

Password managers seem to be a safer and low stress bet for the vast majority. There will always a few exceptions who can do it all in their head. They don't tend to advertise their presence.

Coming at it backwards

Jackie Chan was a martial artist who fought (on screen) his way into the film industry. Hard to imagine Keanu Reeves becoming a martial artist anywhere near the caliber of Jackie Chan's

There are obviously those like Gary Oldman, who, unless you paid close attention to the credits list, won't be able to tell that he worked in the Fifth Element, Harry Potter, and the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy. Did he learn new skills for the movies he worked in? Most likely yes. Does he retain those skills? Only as much as he practices them or else like in all of us, I'd wager that those skills atrophied away from the moment respective films wrapped up shooting.

If anything, those skills look more like accessories to the critical job of acting on screen.

The word 'screen' is mentioned in some form or the other 19 times vs the word 'food' in some form or other mentioned just 3 times. 'Diet' in all it's forms gets a grand total of 0 mentions.

So, screen, then presumably manage and treat more than look at ways to prevent? OK

What in the $&=>! Going on

Canada's IBS is making similar headlines https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/canada-could-face-sharp-rise-in-inflammatory-bowel-disease-by-2045-global-study-warns/

My pea brained understanding is that IBS increases the chances for cancer in the bowels, colon, etc

Looks at Optus Australia, Medibank Australia Yea, nah not really Governments might find it easier to do something for the noisy customers at best

In the context of VFX/3D art jobs that you've mentioned, it can be that the ability to do everything on a Linux system. What that entails is beyond me. I'm far removed from the area.

Taking the stab all the same.

At a high level, can you get the software working on Linux system? Can you get the codecs and whatnot installed and working? Can you get the data to be processed prepared for working in the environment? Can you convert the processed data to the format that is friendlier for consumption on a wide range of platforms? Are some questions that pop to the top of the mind. Basically if you can run a non trivial part of the business without making a fuss, I'd consider you proficient. What you can and cannot do outside of this scope is, well, none of my business.

At the risk of being downvoted to oblivion, trying to understand better here.

How does the CEO's anti-LGBTQ stance reflect in the Brave Browser product's quality?

How does the CEO's anti-mask stance reflect in the Brave Browser product's quality?

In all honesty, I wish the association with cryptocurrency is not there. Business choices, unless there's a new way to run business, will bring these things onboard. Not defending the business choices in anyway. Merely stating my understanding of them.

The way I use Brave is, delegate it pages that absolutely cannot be viewed through Dillo browser with all CSS and images disabled. Though on mobiles, Brave is my default. On any week, I find myself reaching for Brave less than a handful of times.

Calculated misery by Tim Wu explains a lot too

Not a biology or medicine expert by any stretch of imagination. Would a study of their bloodlines reveal anything?

Taking it one step further

Garbage is more a side effect that we want to pass on to the poor sod next in line

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-change-calls-for-managed-retreat-from-beachfront-properties-20250124-p5l6xp.html

I see that the available land area is shrinking at an increasing pace. Pretty sure water resources are dwindling similarly too. I see zero reasons to so much as congratulate pregnancies these days. The gains, which are codified in laws in the form of rights, to me, look basically like promises made by lawmakers to their citizens. Lawmakers are people too. And people keep their promises on a best effort basis. With dwindling resources, I see the ability of lawmakers to uphold rights shrink and dwindle too.

Like I said at the start, verboten, and I'm fine being alone on this. Though would be good to have company.