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  • Smug Viruses

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  • Of course it adjusts to its environment -- it even uses it to replicate. Viruses are that branch of the genome which is being minimalist about its seed pods, other branches need all kinds of superfluous stuff like eyes and limbs and brains and whatnot. Complete waste of resources, having pods which can maintain independent homeostasis, what good does that for the homeostasis of the genome? Eh?

  • NZXT responds to damning Gamers Nexus video accusing it of running a "predatory, evil" rental scam

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  • Literally the etymology though. 'scape instead of escape is the original "mispronunciation" otherwise it's just a straight-forward translation of Azazel, the goat which escaped in Levictus 16.

  • Why I regret using 23andMe: I gave up my DNA just to find out I’m British | Technology | The Guardian

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  • If you want to fix institutional racism in the US you need to fix social mobility because that's the primary mechanism by which it gets perpetuated. For that you need educational status of the parents and their tax declarations, not skin colour. You need to stop financing schools from local taxes so primary and secondary education is as good or better in poorer areas instead of having quotas lowering standards for people who got a worse education because they live in the wrong neighbourhood. You need free tertiary education.

    Focussing on race is a convenient way to ignore actually addressing the issue and instead continue to deepen societal rifts and to breed resentment among non-racialised disenfranchised people.

  • Can I see all the communities I'm banned from on Lemmy somewhere?

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  • How can you actually think at all, and arrive at such a conclusion?

    Bold claim, asserting that whoever downvoted you thought before doing it. Humans short-circuit all the time, nothing you can do about that, and getting bitter or exasperated won't help, either. Deal with it. If you want you can start your comments with something universally agreeable, that always helps, and only then get into details. "Universally agreeable" as in "agreeable to both truth and all false notions anyone on earth has at the moment". If you want to get idiots to listen you have to start out on a common ground that they share.

    More specifically, in this case, you could've started your comment with a short rant about the state of availability of ADHD medication.

  • Ex-Google CEO warns that 'perfect' AI girlfriends could spell trouble for young men

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  • But you don’t want a painting of a friend instead of a friend.

    Want, no, but it can fool some subsystems. Not all though so it'll start to feel empty and then you either move on to touch grass or become neurotic.

  • Ex-Google CEO warns that 'perfect' AI girlfriends could spell trouble for young men

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  • Like what Tao Te Ching says. Humans shouldn’t have too much of what they desire.

    Actually, quite the opposite: Empty spirit, full stomachs, weak will, strong bones. Will as in "determination, aspiration, ambition", not as in the opposite of demure. Same difference as pride vs. dignity. The idea is to fulfil all base desires and devalue the fickle and temporary to nip strive and competition in the bud. The answer to "People are spending money they don't have on things they don't need to impress people they don't like" isn't to preach asceticism, isn't to leave desires unfulfilled, it's teaching that that's not a desire it's a neurosis: Humans should have all they desire, problem is many don't know what that is because they've been conditioned to consider contentedness shameful, instead of a base desire. What you actually want is food, shelter, health, family and friends, peace, song and exercise, being there for others as they're there for you.

  • Onyx Solar launches walkable PV tiles

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  • When placed above

    Yeah but now you don't have a terrace you have something that's in permanent shade. Long story short: People still want to be able to see the sky. You can, in principle, plaster a whole city with solar pavers, you can't cover it all in solar roofs.

    Things like solar roadways don't make sense because a) cars much less trucks are way more destructive and b) you don't really need to see the sky when driving. But a terrace? If there's any place for ground solar, then there. The question isn't whether it's a good solar installation, the question is whether it's a good terrace paving and if the extra costs are made up for by electricity production then sure, why not.

  • Why TED talks suck now

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  • There are legitimately valuable talks, like this one. As a format it's very good to deliver specialised knowledge in a concise, impactful way thing is you need to pay attention that people actually have something to say -- and that there's a good reason to put it in a concise format for a general audience. That's rarer than you think, thus you get tons of slop and platitudes. And TBH the only reason I know that talk exists is because SPJ is giving it, I was already over TED talks in general at that point.

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  • Well yes that's another reason but trust me when I say that you're not the only European country with standards for milk and eggs. There's nothing to brag about. Also, do you even raw pork.

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  • You know that exact kind of thing is why you're known as arrogant swots all over Europe, don't you? Do you google whether Denmark has safe tap water before going on ølviking?

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  • UHT does, 140C for 2-5 seconds. Shelf-stable without refrigeration for up to nine months unless you open it.

    Frankly speaking the difference between milk from cows with good diet vs. from cows fed protein slop is greater than between the modes of processing.

    Still have PTSD from my mother feeding me raw milk -- unlike in the US it's legal here, also heavily regulated so it wasn't a health risk microbiology-wise but boy am I sensitive to even slight off-tastes in milk because yes you're going to interrupt the cooling chain and no that fridge doesn't have 8C. Unless you're a cheesemaker or such and it's necessary for the process, stay away from raw.

    And, no, it doesn't have health benefits. Maybe if your kid doesn't play outside in the mud and the milk is the only source of germs they're exposed to, then it may help them to not develop autoimmune disorders. Be sane, choose mud over milk.

  • Bluesky boom worries Chinese media

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  • Fun fact back in the days the same was said about Tetris (though tongue in cheek).

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  • Nono a buzz cut will generally produce loose biogenic material.

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    What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works?

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  • hexbear avoided defederation by having admins who are more reasonable than (a not small chunk of) its users, lemmygrad is generally keeping to itself. It's certainly not because Sunaurus, an Estonian, would have a soft spot for Russian imperialism. We're also federated with beehaw, btw, as in they're not blocking us.

    I don't know why we have so few communities, either. If we had more there very well might be more defederation drama going on because the more communities, the more chance for people to misbehave. movies is a quite harmless community in that regard, imagine !ukraine@sopuli.xyz while being federated with hexbear or lemmygrad.

    I think lemm.ee is just... generic? It's a place where you can have an account and see practically the whole fediverse, attracting a lot of people who just want to participate, not found communities. feddit.org has the whole German community plus the canonical Europe one, lemmy.ca is Canadian, programming.dev is very very techy, dbzero anarchist+pirate.

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    What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works?

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  • Starter packs are coming to Mastodon

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  • So... user-curated default subs. Probably less relevant on lemmy because communities aren't as fine-grained as following individual users but I don't think we even have instance-wide default subs, just the all feed.

    A "people who joined your communities also joined these communities" mechanic would also be a good idea I think. Run dimensionality reduction over the data once a fortnight and just give people the results, that is, tell them which bubble they're in.

  • BMW’s Figure 02 humanoid robot gets 400% faster in manufacturing tasks

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  • The main use of humanoid robots is to work in environments suitable for humans (think inspecting a dam or such, climbing ladders and everything), as well as flexibility, especially when it comes to low-frequency tasks. BMW makes a lot of different models with tons of different options, their production line isn't really a line it's a directed graph.

  • Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images

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  • Yeah, I think you’ve made a mistake in thinking that this is going to be usable as generative AI.

    Possibly not on its own but that's not really the issue: Once you have a classifier you can use its judgements to train a generator. PhotoDNA faces the same issue that's the reason why it's not available to the general public.

  • Next month is gonna be rough

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  • Yep the birth of Christ just coincidentally coincides with the end of Brumalia, which of course noone noticed when the emperor suddenly insisted everyone become Christian and had the bible written by committee. And it's of course a coincidence that that was (back in the day) exactly the winter solstice. And it's also just a coincidence that Jesus' life story has quite some parallels to that of earlier sun gods from the general area.

    Most current Christmas traditions are more Germanic in nature, though, e.g. the Christmas tree. While in the current form a quite recent invention, decorating the house with evergreen stuff was common through the ages -- branches, wreaths, not whole-ass trees. The needles btw are fine smudging material don't just sweep them away.