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The person you're responding to is incorrect, fruit fermentation produces methanol: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8125215/

The primary mechanism of methanol production during fermentation is from pectin degradation. Grain contains considerably less pectin than fruit, so grain fermentation produces less methanol than fruit.


The person hes responding to isnt a person at all. Its a 3 day old account spamming shit all over the board and is weirdly combative


It's illegal to ship queen ants across state lines (let alone from out of the country) without a USDA permit, so you'll be hard pressed to find many sites willing to admit to it.

That said, Bugs In Cyberspace is well respected within the invert space - I'd be shocked if they were engaged in any kind of illegal insect trafficking. Roach Crossing is another solid place to buy from as well.


There are, just not lowercase characters that are valid hex.


The irony of this comment is that deportations were higher under Biden than during Trump's first term, which makes it seem exactly like it was "written by teenagers, based on emotions." The administration with the highest deportation rate in the past 60 years was the 2nd Clinton administration.


It depends on the AA battery, but you'd need 6 - 8 to get equivalent performance.

The Google Pixel 9 has a 4700 mAh battery at 3.9 volts. The total energy is around 18.3 watt hours.

A high capacity rechargeable AA battery is 2500 mAh at 1.2 volts, or around 3 watt hours. If you wired 3 AA batteries in series, and then 2 of those series in parallel (for a total of 6 batteries), that would give you 3.6v at 5000 mAh. 3.6 volts falls within a normal discharge curve for a lithium ion battery, so you probably wouldn't need a boost converter.


I don't use it at all for a variety of reasons, but I rarely bother to get into discussions on HackerNews.

Looking at how new it is, and how quickly things are changing, it seems likely that I could adopt it into my workflow in a month or two if it turns out that that's necessary.

On the other hand, I've spent the last 2 decades building skills as a developer. I'm far more worried that becoming a glorified code reviewer will atrophy those skills than I am about falling behind. Maybe it will turn out that those skills are now obsolete, but that feels unlikely to me.


> I'm far more worried that becoming a glorified code reviewer will atrophy those skills

A co-worker who went all-in around a year ago admitted a few months ago he's noticed this in himself, and was trying to stop using the code-generating functionality of any of these tools. Emphasis on "try": apparently the times it does work amazingly makes it addictive like gambling, and it's far too easy to reach for.


They actually asked for quantitative evidence.


Yea I read that wrong.

Quantitative should be easy. OpenAI's ARR is $20b in 2025. Up nearly 6x over last year. If it isn't useful, people wouldn't pay for it.


Isn't it mostly from corporate clients who pay based on FOMO and force everyone to use it to justify spending?


People who heavily utilize any of those _do_ have the associated skills atrophied. It's just that in all of the listed cases, the actual associated skill may not have actually been important.

The younger people at my job have atrocious spelling.

My ability to do mental math is much worse than it was when I was regularly doing math without a calculator.

People who have exclusively learned digital art do not have the muscle memory built up to seamlessly transition to analog art.

Almost everyone I know has awful handwriting.

So the question then is "What is the actual skill that AI tools are replacing?" And if the answer is "thinking," then that should be terrifying.


This tracks with a report[1] that nearly half of consumer spending now comes from the top 10%.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp50...


The point of dog whistles is that most people can't hear them.


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