From creation.com:

> From their distribution today, it seems that after the Flood, the aardvarks headed south-west from the Ark’s landing site “in the mountains of Ararat” (Genesis 8:4). In the 4,500 years since, aardvarks have multiplied greatly to be widespread across sub-Saharan Africa.

Yep, timing checks out.

Always?

Grandmothers are going to be racist, that's just a default setting. I wish I spent more time with mine when they were around.

I have two grandmothers.

One is racist in a way that is somewhat understandable (e.g. using outdated words like “oriental” to refer to Asian people). For her, I am more or less fine just rolling my eyes and continue talking to her, because I think she is ultimately a decent human who is just a victim of her time.

My other grandmother is not like that. She is actively very racist in a way that I don’t find forgivable. I don’t talk to her after Trump won in 2016.

It’s not that voting for Trump is in itself enough of a reason for me to cut someone off, but in her case the moment he won she just dropped all pretense and started being racist in ways that I have no interest in engaging with.

It’s a little sad, it’s not like all my memories with her are bad or anything, but it’s life doesn’t always work out like we want it to.

My grandmother grew up fleeing eastern Europe from a Nazi invasion so I can forgive her for feeling certain ways that I don't agree with.

I grew up watching cartoons in a suburb. It's not my job to pass judgment on her.

Also FTR: Oriental means "Eastern" in Spanish.

Because it travels along their edge. It's apples and oranges to your AWS tunnel.

No, they claim their edge is better for residential connections to your backend. We tried multiple SF to us-east-1 and it was always substantially worse

How would you say that? I can't think of a clearer way to say it TBH.

Claude has a habit of always talking in an overly active voice, sort of personifying subjects that feels off. I don't think many people would choose to say "Traffic rides" here.

"Traffic routes via Cloudflare's network"?

It routes from closest PoP to visitor -> closest PoP to origin. Your way doesn't convey that as clearly IMHO.

The fuel consumption feels like the bigger problem since contrails last for hours vs co2 that lasts damn near forever.

They are roughly equal problems at the moment.

> Recent estimates show that contrails cause about the same amount of warming each year as all the CO₂ emitted by all flights from 1940 to 2018.

If we're measuring in terms of difficulty, CO2 is a much bigger problem than contrails.

Yes, contrails appears to be mostly solvable at a small cost in time and fuel and people have started to take action on that.

For most flights today though, if you only count the CO2 produced you're understanding the climate damage by about half.

It's one way to look at it I guess. CO2 is still the half of the damage that's way harder to fix.

Which is why work on fixing contrails is so important, it’d be insane to leave 50% improvement at a tiny cost unresolved whilst clawing back small percentage efficiency gains in co2 release from incremental and hideously expensive engine improvements.

We need to do both of course, but contrails should’ve been resolved the moment they were identified as so significant, it’s frustrating how slowly the industry responds to such an enormous opportunity (“we halved our climate impact last year” would be easy marketing)

As long as win there doesn't get used as an excuse to procrastinate on reducing co2. If you asked me I would favor a ban on all non-emergency flying which solves both problems.

Malnutrition after 3 weeks? I mean, pack 21 multivitamins.

I had ridges in my nails after an exceptionally bad bout of flu. It's not obscure or complex.

She’ll probably do that on her next 3 week trip.

How is malnutrition ever good?

"Mal", bad, in the latin

Sure, losing weight is of benefit. But malnutrition is defined as a "serious deficiency" in the intake of energy and nutrients. Healthy weight loss is not malnutrition, and you can quite definitely be missing essential vitamins and be malnourished without losing weight.

Heck, some of the worst western diets are both poor in vitamins/minerals and also still rich in calories.

Not just americans. With very few exclusions, we are all overweight, even people who do look great. The food we consuming is mostly crap.

So it's a benefit almost for everyone.

There was no malicious intent though, your analogy implies there was. And no real harm done apart from billable hours from the RubyGems guys.

You don't need intent to be fined or jailed for criminal negligence. Let anthrax or smallpox escape your lab, and kill and maim people and see how your "no malice" defense holds up.

Sure but nobody died, which makes it a bad analogy. If anything, some good came from it, since now RubyGems has hardened their setup.

I'm curious what signals they're trading on. SEC filings? Candlestick voodoo numerology?

This is false, however this is not seem like a case where trademark is being infringed. If someone else opens a store called Ikea they obviously have to shut it down.