An obvious pivot would be to Codeberg. Is there some missing feature there rendering such a move less desirable than I imagine?

The whole idea of dependence on recurring natural fires always seemed suspect to me.

It shouldn't. It's been extensively documented among modern human groups.

The major question is how much our understanding from recent forager groups applies to pleistocene foragers ("ethnographic analogy"). I'm in the generally skeptical camp. Many other anthropologists aren't, particularly those in older generations.

> pleistocene

The Pleistocene lasts from 2.58 million years ago, maybe the first time our ancestors figured out tools, to 11,000 years ago, when we Homo sapiens had been around for ~200,000 years. Isn't that too wide a range of humans and ancestors to characterize in one group?

Are you skeptical about 11 kya ancestors doing similar things? Why?

    Isn't that too wide a range of humans and ancestors to characterize in one group?

Yes, that's one reason why I have high standards for arguments from ethnographic analogy.

    Are you skeptical about 11 kya ancestors doing similar things? Why?

Because modern forager groups have survived for centuries on the margins of colonial states. The environment they inhabit is very different from late pleistocene humans and we should default to skepticism in the absence of other evidence.

Thanks.

>It's been extensively documented among modern human groups.

Do you have some sources? A quick search doesn't pull up much evidence for current hunter-gatherer dependence on natural fire regime. Or you mean anatomically modern humans?

Yes, Tasmanians are the best example that comes to mind. They had a mythology developed around lightning and subsequent fires and would then try to keep a fire going as long as possible.

Interesting, but doesn't seem to be much evidence they depended on natural occurring fire.

Here is a nice report: Fire-Making in Tasmania: Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence , Gott 2016: https://sci-hub.su/10.1086/342430

It was personally related to me that it occurs among the northern Aché by an anthropologist who lived with them and had photos of him carrying coals.

The warlpiri and the yuqui are two other examples, along with certain andaman groups.

Tasmanians do start fires, but often prefer to carry. This is a surprisingly common practice. Starting fires is a lot of work.

I'm confused, does this comment have anything to do with the paper? This paper is about fueling a fire, not starting one.

from the paper: "The consideration of fire ecology data and various factors involved in the complex process of fire ignition, combustion, and behavior, in relation to the GBY paleoenvironment and archaeology, enabled the rejection of recurrent natural fires as the responsible agent for burning (Alperson-Afil, 2012)."

But that's summarizing a paper from 2012.

When would prefer for it to have been released?

That's a 404

He presumably wanted the result to be good.

Yes, but the claim is presumably that this one is good.

I've been long fascinated by the rolling release model. But aren't you guys worried about supply chain attacks? Seems those on the bleeding edge serve as canaries in the coalmine for the rest of us.

That's the purpose of reproducible build initiatives like TFA. The idea is to ensure that identical source produces bit-for-bit identical builds on multiple machines when the packages are built.

Sure, if the source itself gets got, then it does nothing. But it at least puts up one more barrier against tampering with the artifacts.

They have a tracker for what percent of the distro is reproducible: https://reproducible.archlinux.org/

Grep'ing doesn't use tokens, it uses grep.

Reading files is always the biggest token burning when coding. If it can't find stuff quickly or has to use less and head to trim it before finding it, then you're just wasting context window

Cursor both lets you highlight specific lines multiple times per chat and is much quicker at finding stuff.

Claude has to use more tokens to read the grep output.

So what is an example use case where you'd prefer to do X without using this particular tech?

"Dear Claude, please create an eztensive testing suite for this app. Love, cobertos"

"Great idea wise customer, I will certainly mock one out just for you!"

My favorite Peanuts comic was always the one where Linus is standing at an intersection next to a 'Push Button To Cross Street' sign. He is sucking his thumb and clutching his blanket despondently.

In the last panel, Charlie Brown tells him, "You have to move your feet, too."

Was it Snoopy waiting instead of Linus?

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D'oh! Thanks, it's been a while.

I checked it out and they conspicuously omit the thickness from the FAQ "dimensions" answer. They also avoid any photos of the product that clearly show the thickness. So, guessing it's pretty thick?

I guess? I don't know the exact thickness either, but I held it up sideways behind my Samsung S10 and it was maybe a millimeter or so thicker, so it's not huge. Like 9mm-1cm. I have never thought much about the thickness of it