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I'm excited for these, especially with them likely coming for stable Firefox soon, too. My $DAYJOB hands out Ubuntu laptops and every time, we have to scrape off the Firefox Snap, because e.g. saving images doesn't work and the Downloads directory is in some mystical place somewhere underneath ~/snap/. These APTs will almost restore the usability of other distros...

I'm having a hard time figuring out, if these exist elsewhere, but over here, I can buy dried soy shreds, which are really great for pasta.

So, those are roughly meatball-shaped. There's also smaller one's which kind of work in sauces like minced meat.
They don't taste like meat, more like wheat, but they give you the same protein and chewiness and can be kept in a cupboard basically until the end of time.

Well, it's dumb data, so we don't speak of federation (which happens between services), but basically yes.

Anyone can download the data and the TL;DR for your right to using the data is:

You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors.

As a result, there are also many servers which mirror the data, i.e. provide a separate copy you can download, which is effectively like federation.

I'm not sure, what you're trying to tell me. If someone's broadly built and muscular, but happens to have a vagina in their pants, they still need a higher dosage than someone who isn't broadly built and muscular. Well, that's assuming the medication doesn't cause trouble with e.g. an uterus (and assuming they've got an uterus to go with their vagina).

That's what I mean with "nature is messy". Whatever assumption you make about whatever categorization, you'll find lots of examples that don't fit. It's easy to think in categories, but you have to always be aware and accepting that it's going to be mildly wrong.

And especially a doctor should know what they're doing, treating people according to their actual needs, not according to some category that may or may not fit.

Ültrafast

Wenn beim Angelsächsischen mal wieder das Sächsische durchkommt...

Well, certainly not everyone agrees that people should be entitled to an opinion here, because we have science on that shit. And science tells us that nature is messy.
Whether we're talking about psychological gender or biological sex, proclaiming that there's only two categories is provably false. It's like proclaiming that all colors are either orange or blue.

I guess, you're allowed to be wrong. Hell, you're even allowed to be wrong publicly. But if you are, you're not entitled to not being corrected.

I genuinely just thought that's what it was. I had not heard of them rebranding...

Yeah, at this point, it feels like beating a dead horse, but somehow they're still doing Embrace-Extend-Extinguish...

As the others already said, it's like that in the YouTube title, but funnily enough, this actually ties back into this story.

You see, there's three ways of going about content moderation:

• Basically don't do it and tell advertisers to go fuck themselves.
• Completely overdo it with shitty word filters.
• Actually have enough moderators to make sensible decisions.

Companies being companies, the third option is, of course, not an option.

And so, you've got eX-Twitter trying to do the first option.
While, for example, Google and TikTok are firmly on the second option.

And that is why you cannot write "fuck" into the title of a YouTube video. Nor any other word that could in certain contexts be bad for advertisers.

There's a comic, titled "Loss", which is infamous, because it's incredibly fucking depressive. People don't enjoy being reminded of it. And so, of course, it has become an internet culture / meme thing to do precisely that, but in a sneaky way.

In particular, the comic has 4 panels and an arrangement of characters in a certain, recognizable pattern. So, over time, it's been reduced ad absurdum to just this pattern.

Well, and in the meme above, it becomes apparent that it's replicating the Loss pattern, when that fourth panel has the DNA flipped on its side. So, the joke is that we have the pattern-seeking brain for recognizing Loss.

I'm rather certain, the way it works is that it removes parameters that are named like well-known tracking parameters. For example, most webpages use Google Analytics, so you see UTM parameters everywhere.

A "reset your password" link could theoretically use a parameter that's named utm_content, then it would presumably get removed by this feature, but I see no sane reason why one would name their password-reset parameter like that.
In general, such tracking parameters are usually named in a way that it will rarely clash with other parameters a webpage may want to use, so for example they may have a prefix like utm_.

Yeah, that's true. Maybe you could pull off two or three cycles without hotswapping the brain, but eventually you'd have to rejuvenate yourself by just teach everything you know to one of your clones.

...which sounds an awful lot like just having children. 🙃

Well, yeah, to some degree this was a shit take of "ackshually everything in the universe has existed in some form, at least since the Big Bang, quite possibly longer".

But to some degree, it also just felt like a weak explanation for the excitement, because even on Earth, you can drill into some rocks and find material which has been left untouched for a similar timespan.

While Earth also formed 4.6bn years ago, its crust did not cool out right away, so it would be valid, if they're specifically excited about this (comparatively) tiny timeframe.
But reading the actual article, it rather sounds like the more obvious excitement is, that it is simply dust from an asteroid and it hasn't been mostly burnt up from the usual way of asteroids entering Earth's atmosphere.

which at 4.6bn years old dates back to the dawn of the solar system

...unlike all the other dust, which popped into existence three days ago.

Type erasure sure does go brr...

In this thread: Trying to guess the programming language based on a single keyword and angle brackets. 🙃

Interesting. Yeah, it sounds like the only real way to prevent aging, would be to create a clone of yourself, let that clone grow up until their body is fully developed and then organ-harvest them to replace all of your organs one-by-one, until you've eventually ship-of-theseus-ed yourself. Well, and repeat that process every thirty years or so.

Certainly not quite as sexy of a process as some skincare lotions promise...

I find this idea genuinely terrifying. Having seen lots of factual information, you start to see where things logically fit in and you're able to deduce so much more new information, but you're also just able to tell when aunt Marge is spitting straight horseshit again.

Now imagine growing up in e.g. a creationist household, maybe even home-schooled, where you're told things just are a certain way, even though it makes absolutely no fucking sense. At no point, you start to see logical patterns. At no point, you develop an intuition for new information. And if someone bullshits you, your only 'defense' is whether you trust them on a personal level, meaning aunt Marge's horseshit is to be considered unquestionably correct. What a dismal and vulnerable position to be in.

Hmm, I have no expertise in this field. I recently read that aging happens, because when cells replicate their DNA a gazillion times, then sometimes they introduce slight inaccuracies or mistakes, which I guess, means tons of tiny chunks of our body will have slightly different DNA from what we got born with...?

From the little I've just read about telomeres, it sounds like they help to prevent some of these mistakes. Is that you mean?

Well, in the short-term, yeah. But for the mid- to long-term, it's quite a traditional investment. Pay some money now to build renewables and decommission coal power plants, but eventually break even, because the running cost per kWh produced is quite a bit lower.