There's always money for the military. But climate?
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So... they found a neolithic site that was re used over the course of millennia... radiocarbon analysis has yet to take place but the stratigraphy suggests between 2200 BCE and 10,000 BCE for the oldest parts of it...
They found evidence of primitive metal working, archery, and a ceremonial burn pit / funeral pyre for sending off the deceased... and the site is essentially some concentric circles of raised earthen mounds, and ditches.
... I mean yes this is a very cool discovery, but does this not just seem to be an early, small, sort of proto settlement for hunter gatherers who lived in an area rich enough in game that... they didn't actually have to be so nomadic?
Its got primitive ceramics (not that surprising given the abundance of clay at/near the site) suggesting longer term habitation... they say they believe there was fencing as well.
Could be a sort of set aside 'sacred place' or could be that, but within or near a larger encampment made of much more temporary structures, tents, teepees, lean-tos, etc?
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Gobekli Tepe is dated to ~6,000 BCE.
And features actual stone monuments, primitive etched symbols, possibly a proto-language.
How is something arguably less advanced in many ways, from approximately the same time period 'practically impossible'?
Yeah, I... ok, I haven't read the entire actual post, but uh...
Yes, Steam is not perfect, but... just run it on linux.
Via Proton.
A project massively spearheaded by Valve, that functionally has resulted in, among other things, extremely significantly improved game support on older hardware.
Also....with... a great many older Steam games... at least on linux, sometimes even on windows... you can just download the actual game files, and then move them out of the Steam directory, and ... back them up, run them outside of Steam.
Its usually much, much trickier to do this on Windows, but still.
Yes, this doesn't work if its reliant on hooking into Steam for whatever various services... but like... you can do this, I've done it many times for fucking around with more intensive attempts at modding a game.
And you of course can setup Proton without using Steam... at all.
I am honestly baffled that Kaldaien, who has been modding PC games for quite a while... seemingly doesn't know or realize this.
I guess they just don't have much linux experience?
... fucking MSFT doesn't even support Win98, XP, or 7 or 8.1, and 10 is basically on its last legs.
How can Steam be reasonably expected to work on OSs that aren't even supported by their own publishers?
Ok, I've now read his post.
Like don't get me wrong, I super understand the frustration of being a modder and running into unending stupid edge cases where you need something to work that just does not have an actual 'responsible party', because it lies at the convergence of systems that 2 or 3 or more entities built to work between them, at that point in time... but that just is the nature of this beast.
A whole lot of this screed seems to be frustration with stuff like that, and... weirdly being angry that deleting your steam profile results in your posts being deleted?
???
I think Kaldaien needs a big fuzzy hug from a penguin.
Could be a rave.
???
Could be raspberry.
Disney happened, that's what.
[taps microphone]
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Ahem.
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Yaccitey-Yacc, Don't Talk Back.
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[leaves stage]
Thanks for the silly gif, stealing that lol
Huh. Well, glad you found a solution!
Welp, thats a big DERP from me, oops.
I just try to evangelize Northstar and related stuff as much as possible, I have been too zelatrous here, haha!
Unfortunately I have not played TF|2 in a while, due to significant wrist and arm injuries... this soldier has to take medical leave rofl.
But the PT is working, ... slowly, but with real progress... and I am very much looking forward to being able to jump back in.
On top of the prior point lies another major issue with any sort of "general intelligence" test: defining "general intelligence". Intelligence comes in many forms: linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, existential intelligence, and more. The IQ test does not test all forms of intelligence.
This, a million times this.
Intelligence is not simply a thing like an INT stat in an rpg game that just generally makes you more cognitively capable and/or knowledgeable with just consistently broad applicability.
Theres a ton of research that's gone into how to actually teach children and people things that suggests... sure, there is to some extent a broad cognitive ability, but there is also a huge multidimensional component, more domain specific element to different levels of aptitude with different kinds of thinking.
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Like, me, I'm autistic.... innately good at clear cut and logical things, innately terrible at anything approaching fuzzy logic, like socializing.
I had to put a massive amount of effort into learning that... people often don't literally mean what they literally say, how intonation works, how context works in social situations...
... whereas I excelled at learning how to read and write and do math, how to do logic and critical thinking, apply frameworks of thinking across different fields of knowledge, memorize knowledge sets from books or what not.
Kinesis intelligence? Eh, I'd say I'm decent at it naturally, but that's been greatly augmented by 10+ years of Karate, a bit of shooting range practice, learning the basics of a few instruments... but I'm no where near as 'body' or 'dexterity' intelligent as many others I've met.
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Anyway, yeah, theres a lot of interesting empirical research nowadays that shows different areas of the brain being more or less engaged in certain kinds of activities, and then trying to basically reverse engineer how all that works, but its enormously complicated.
Also: Epigenetics is a thing.
Nature gives you your DNA... but Nurture changes which parts of it are more used, more activated.
Its all enormously more complex than reducing a person down to a single number.
Oh right and the other big one: implicit cultural bias in the IQ tests themselves. I think this is (somewhat?) less of a problem in actual legit IQ tests these days, but for a very, very long time, it was a huge problem that just resulted in basically scientific racism.
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tl:dr;
anyone who is boasting about their IQ without a gazillion caveats is doing the dunning-krueger thing, overestimating their actual cognitive abilities.
Haha yeah, god help you with applying custom KDE themes system wide, the standards have changed so many times over the years lol, shit breaks all the time.
If you don't want everything resetting on update, you could always switch over to Bazzite, its got a GNOME and KDE flavor for the Deck/Handhelds' desktop modes, helps you setup Decky and other stuff in a pretty automated way.
=D
I recommend some variant of the h264ify plugin if you're having weird video issues with firefox based browsers.
There's some nonsense going on with some of the codecs Youtube uses + FF... YT used to let you more manually set your codec preferences, now they don't, but the h264ify plugins basically allow you to set those prefs yourself, and by default just disallow the problematic ones.
Fortunately, this update contains the antidote to your tears:
Download Bazaar, scroll a bit down on the curated front page and...
Oh look, Viper, a launcher/wrapper/mod manager for TitanFall 2, that allows you to join private servers.
... Did you not know there is a small but lively and active TitanFall2 community? That has the whole game working on linux, has its own custom Proton branch?
I got 135 once as a kid, and then as an older kid, younger adult, studied up on and learned many of the flaws with IQ testing, one of many being that... you can study for them, and perform better.
That's not supposed to be possible if it is measuring some kind of fundamental, inherent quality about you that cannot meaningfully change.
The deck has the oldschool green design as a keyboard overlay style, and you can use Decky and CSS Loader to mod the rest of steam to look like that, and you can even find KDE themes that look like that.
This should be mandatory for all interviews.
I don't yet have it, but I'm looking at getting a Royal Kludge 70 RKS.
USB Wired / Bluetooth / 2.4 Ghz Chicklet
Has a 3150 mAh battery, claims to be able to hold a charge for two weeks of wireless usage.
Comes with the wrist rests, too, they're not an extra addon with more cost, as best I can tell.
Also, is split.
So... you could more easily use it while say, reclining, or use it for better ergonomics in a sitting position, also each half has 4 adjustable little leg thingymabobs to further get an ergonomically optimal wrist angle.
OP, if you're looking for a larger one, RK does make larger, mechanical keyboards, but not any that have say, a full numpad that also split apart.
Also again, grain of salt with all of this, I've not actually ever owned or used this KB, I am just also in a 'looking for a Steam Deck / PC keyboard' phase, and so far this one seems the best to me, in a 'most bang for your buck without breaking the bank' kind of way.
Nope, we're all going to hell, on Earth.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=12Ch-NIYxvQ
Oops, turns out the SMOC, the Antarctic counterpart to the AMOC... yeah looks like it broke and flipped about a decade ago.
So, that means the global thermohaline circulation system is in fact currently collapsing, heat transfer flows in the worlds oceans are going to do increasingly unpredictable wild shit, which will cause increasingly unpredictable large scale weather patterns...
Oh! And because this fucks up the salinity and nutrient concentrations of uh, ocean water basically everywhere...
I guess the Dolphins will soon be boarding their ships along to 'So long and thanks for all the fish!'.