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build RUN CGO_ENABLED=1 go build -ldflags="-s -w -linkmode external -extldflags '-static'" -o /rsslay cmd/rsslay/main.go 8s # github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 sqlite3-binding.c:38268:42: error: 'pread64' undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean 'pread'? 38268 | { "pread64", (sqlite3_syscall_ptr)pread64, 0 }, | ^~~~~~~ | pread sqlite3-binding.c:38286:42: error: 'pwrite64' undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean 'pwrite'? 38286 | { "pwrite64", (sqlite3_syscall_ptr)pwrite64, 0 }, | ^~~~~~~~ | pwrite sqlite3-binding.c: In function 'seekAndRead': sqlite3-binding.c:38272:49: error: unknown type name 'off64_t'; did you mean 'off_t'? 38272 | #define osPread64 ((ssize_t(*)(int,void*,size_t,off64_t))aSyscall[10].pCurrent) | ^~~~~~~ sqlite3-binding.c:41128:11: note: in expansion of macro 'osPread64' 41128 | got = osPread64(id->h, pBuf, cnt, offset); | ^~~~~~~~~ sqlite3-binding.c:38272:58: error: expected ')' before 'aSyscall' 38272 | #define osPread64 ((ssize_t(*)(int,void*,size_t,off64_t))aSyscall[10].pCurrent) | ~ ^~~~~~~~ sqlite3-binding.c:41128:11: note: in expansion of macro 'osPread64' 41128 | got = osPread64(id->h, pBuf, cnt, offset); | ^~~~~~~~~ sqlite3-binding.c: In function 'seekAndWriteFd': sqlite3-binding.c:38290:57: error: unknown type name 'off64_t'; did you mean 'off_t'? 38290 | #define osPwrite64 ((ssize_t(*)(int,const void*,size_t,off64_t))\ | ^~~~~~~ sqlite3-binding.c:41257:17: note: in expansion of macro 'osPwrite64' 41257 | do{ rc = (int)osPwrite64(fd, pBuf, nBuf, iOff);}while( rc<0 && errno==EINTR); | ^~~~~~~~~~ sqlite3-binding.c:38291:21: error: expected ')' before 'aSyscall' 38291 | aSyscall[13].pCurrent) | ^~~~~~~~ sqlite3-binding.c:41257:17: note: in expansion of macro 'osPwrite64' 41257 | do{ rc = (int)osPwrite64(fd, pBuf, nBuf, iOff);}while( rc<0 && errno==EINTR); | ^~~~~~~~~~ sqlite3-binding.c:38290:21: note: to match this '(' 38290 | #define osPwrite64 ((ssize_t(*)(int,const void*,size_t,off64_t))\ | ^ sqlite3-binding.c:41257:17: note: in expansion of macro 'osPwrite64' 41257 | do{ rc = (int)osPwrite64(fd, pBuf, nBuf, iOff);}while( rc<0 && errno==EINTR); | ^~~~~~~~~~

It's a cruel inversion: The many vastly outweigh → but are weighed as nothing. The few are feather-light in numbers → but carry all the gravity.

The classic idea that ants' total mass ≈ humans' mass came from earlier estimates (pre-2020s), but a big 2022 global synthesis (Schultheiss et al. in PNAS) crunched hundreds of field studies and revised it downward:Total ants on Earth: ~20 quadrillion individuals (that's 20,000,000,000,000,000, or about 2.5 million ants per human). Their combined dry carbon biomass: ~12 megatons of carbon (Mt C). Humans: ~0.06 gigatons of carbon (Gt C), or 60 Mt C (wet mass is higher, but we compare dry carbon for consistency). So ants now clock in at roughly 20% of human biomass—humans outweigh ants by about 5:1. Not equal, and certainly not ants outweighing us anymore. We're not "killing them off" to the point of reversal globally (though local declines from habitat loss, invasives, and pesticides are real and worrying), but the numbers just got more accurate.

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