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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.detoScience Memes@mander.xyz•spoopy figsEnglish
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    4 days ago

    FYI they are very fucking small nowhere near as big as in this image. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_wasp

    Forcing her way through the ostiole, the mated mature female often loses her wings and most of her antennae. To facilitate her passage through the ostiole, the underside of the female’s head is covered with short spines that provide purchase on the walls of the ostiole.

    In depositing her eggs, the female also deposits pollen she picked up from her original host fig. This pollinates some of the female flowers on the inside surface of the fig and allows them to mature. After the female wasp lays her eggs and follows through with pollination, she dies.[15]

    After pollination, there are several species of non-pollinating wasps that deposit their eggs before the figs harden. These wasps act as parasites to either the fig or possibly the pollinating wasps.

    As the fig develops, the wasp eggs hatch and develop into larvae. After going through the pupal stage, the mature male’s first act is to mate with a female - before the female hatches. Consequently, the female will emerge pregnant. The males of many species lack wings and cannot survive outside the fig for a sustained period of time. After mating, a male wasp begins to dig out of the fig, creating a tunnel through which the females escape.[16]

    Once out of the fig, the male wasps quickly die. The females find their way out, picking up pollen as they do. They then fly to another tree of the same species, where they deposit their eggs and allow the cycle to begin again.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.detoProgramming@programming.dev•Nobody knows how the whole system works
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    12 days ago

    Also this interpretations is just wrong.

    Jacob is right that AI is changing the way that normal software development work gets done. It’s a new capability that has proven itself to be so useful that it clearly isn’t going away. Yes, it represents a significant shift in how we build software, it moves us further away from how the underlying stuff actually works, but the benefits exceed the risks.

    The benefits most certainly do not outweigh the “risks”, because they are in fact not at all risks, but an actively happening disaster of environmental, social and cognitive nature.

    Also the entire argument of “when you go deep enough nobody actually fully understands anything” is stupid. The people that actually understand the deepest are the people that are creating all our cutting edge technology. Modern processors wouldnt exist without people trying to go as deep as possible.