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LOL, yeah I couldn't figure it out back then.

That is an old reference. I bow to the senior geek.

I don't hate writing in cursive, It's simply that I do it so badly that I use printing for almost everything except my signature. I deeply admire people who write cursive well. It is a beautiful form of communication.

I had a penmanship teacher in high school advise me to use printing because at least she could read it. I suspect that it pained her to give me that advice, but for me it was a gift.

Maybe part of it is the natural genetic variation in humans. I could read it, but it wasn't easy for me. My eyes are old too.

:) Love the early research. It seems to me that your product could be useful, particularly since those gloves are hard to put on.

We are definitely disagreeing. How much more completely can I express that without being disagreeable. I have no further use for this conversation. Go to sleep.

As mentioned by the other commenter,it is called the _bronze age_, so the components of the bronze alloy are part of the discussion. My point is that extended supply chains are vulnerable. And yes, in my view climate was a proximate trigger. However, once triggered, the collapse became more impactful because of the extended supply chains.

I have no idea where you're from

I'm from the US and looking out my window to the street below I notice that that more than 90% of the vehicles are still running on petroleum. The impact of high petroleum prices seems obvious to me.

An unrelated question, but why do you think petroleum prices are not correlating with with the straight closure. If, as you opine, the world has changed then why did prices rise in the first place? Was it market speculation based on an outdated worldview, or was it something else? I do not know.

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A PhD that did not use a spell checker? How would you describe that?

The lack of consistency in the usage is also telling. Also, perhaps the author simply a christian apologist. I am an archaeologist with 10+ years of experience, so now you know my bias.

The study of the LBAC is compelling these days because of the similarities to our present day situation. Other commenters have noted the the possibility of AI driven collapse, but another possibility is our dependence on oil.

Bronze is the combination copper+tin. Copper is common in earths composition, but tin is much more scarce. The scarcity of tin necessitated the expansive trade networks to acquire the resource. To my way of thinking this correlates to our dependency on oil which while not exactly scarce, is not evenly distributed across the world. Our global supply chain for oil is fragile in the same way that the supply chain for tin was to the bronze age empires.

As for the article: I found the authors use of dating systems inconsistent and confusing. Some references are listed with the BC/AD nomenclature while others omit it entirely leaving the reader confused as which era he is referring to. Also, the use of the BC/AD has been supplanted by the use of the BCE/CE nomenclature in scientific references for 20+ years. This could simply be due to the fact that the author is a historian, but one would think a PhD would know better. All of this made me wonder if perhaps the author relies too heavily on AI.

As well as dating in the Old Age.

I got it. It is a good one :)

There was a localized weakening of the geomagnetic field geological proof

This is an interesting theory. My question is: What methods are you using to test the change in magnetic fields? Put another way, what is your middle range theory from an archaeological perspective? How are you dating your samples? etc.

I just finished listening to a series of podcasts on Crusades I-IV. It is interesting to note that logistics were as important then as they are today. Many battles were influenced by the simple things like food and water availability. In the IV Crusade, financial logistics became one of the key factors.

As for the article, when the institution that trains future generals says we have a problem then we should _listen_.

"see WWII" ... I agree, however it is very unfortunate that we have off-shored so much of our industrial capacity.

Also worth remembering that Gaza is effectively an island when it comes to logistics. This made it easy for Israel to cut off food/medicine/fuel. Essentially medieval siege warfare transferred to the present day.

Also, post the limerick to HN.

hmmmm .... this prompted me to visit google street view in an area I lived in for 5+ years. When I was there it was a homeless haven. Hundreds of tents and hundreds of people lived there. Now when I go back and look at all the old photo dates, all the homeless have disappeared, as if they were never there. But the homeless were there when I was there.

It's easy to blame Google, but then again they kept a record of what they did and you can see it for yourself.

Thank you :)

Cool ... I'm a sucker for maps. I checked at 4:41 PM PDT (utc-7) and saw a _bunch_ of trains around London. What are all those people doing riding trains at 12:41 AM London time?_

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Yes, of course you are correct. I should have been more specific in my response. I can print("Hello World") and I am not an engineer. I have a BS in accounting but am not a CPA, and that is also highly regulated.

The point I am trying to make is that we are building a society on software that has no legally binding standards but has serious impacts to all of us.

I used to be a sysadmin at hospitals. There is software in everything like biomed devices, imaging machines and even the humble email system that I maintained.

Other examples of critical software systems include banking and voting.

I have never _ever_ called myself an engineer even when I was encouraged to.

It is foolish to leave this field unregulated.

You can definitely prove a human created something.

I was there too kilroy. (Easterby/Kings Canyon/Roosevelt/CSUF) Growing up in the 60s I don't remember it being that hot, but it definitely got there before I left a couple of years ago. I blame the CVP, not climate change, for the increased temperatures. Perhaps I'm wrong.

Terrific project!

Most folks already know the internet is not a safe place to express political thought. The powerlessness the public feels is obvious.

A "satisfactory looking answer" was what I got yesterday when I queried Google about a Pyodide question. It produced some code in html format that was supposed to work, but failed on execution. The AI generated result was incorrect and it was only 30ish lines of code that was supposed to print "hello world" to the console.

"YavaScript" made me smile.

Loved the design and the grasshopper had me pawing at my screen to make it go away!

The use case for less capable software is that it is cheaper. Why buy a mansion when all you need is a bedroom?