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jsomae

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polite leftists make more leftists

☞ 🇨🇦 (it's a bit of a fixer-upper eh) ☜

more leftists make revolution

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  • The OP does not claim that all barycenters are outside of the sun. OP correctly claims that Jupiter & Sun orbit a certain point, and that point is known as the "barycenter," and that point is outside the sun. I'll admit they could have gone further to convey the additional curiosity that for other planets the sun-planet barycenter is within the sun, but then it might not be facebook-tier anymore.

    I literally do not understand why you think I'm being pedantic here. The OP text is short and contains no obvious errors that I can see. Perhaps to someone who has made a mistake and doesn't want to admit it, attempts by others to point out this mistake must resemble pedanticism.

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  • I can't reasonably glean that, because the OP clearly says this:

    It is so massive that both Jupiter & Sun orbit around a common point that lies outside the Sun known as the "barycenter".

    I agree that OP is facebook-tier but your reply is reddit-tier :P

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  • No, it is not true in general that the barycenter lies outside both objects.

  • The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning

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  • I know, I know. I appreciate your response. But it's just an anecdote, not really a broad answer IMO.

  • The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning

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  • It doesn't surprise me that someone (a) on lemmy and (b) in the Linux community would respond with this comment though. But the number of people on lemmy is only a few digits.

    It does matter -- when I think "Desktop Market Share," I'm already excluding the type of windows devices you just mentioned.

  • The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning

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  • Who is using Linux, though? Like, 6% (or 11.3% as others have pointed out) means tens or hundreds of millions of people. But where are they?

    How do we know these numbers indicate real people?

  • 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law

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  • they drove emulator developer Near/Byuu to suicide. That's someone who created BSNES / Higan (the first fully-accurate snes emulator), and helped with the fan translations for many games including mother 3.

  • 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law

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  • If the world goes to shit but Kiwi Farms is destroyed, I will have a moticum of warmth in my blood.

  • What a life

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  • TOTP ≠ MFA.

    The purpose of TOTP is to use 1-time codes instead of (or in addition to) passwords, and doesn't require multiple devices.

    The purpose of MFA is to ensure the user uses multiple devices to log in. In practice, MFA isn't usually implemented correctly, as it only requires a phone and no other device to log in, so it's not true MFA. MFA is sometimes implemented with RFC 6238 (TOTP), but for example getting a text message or email with a log-in code is not that.

    Your password manager should use a secure password so that attackers can't get into it. It's more secure than a phone, which often use few-digit passwords or, god forbid, fingerprints or face scans to unlock.

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  • FYI everyone, you can install an authenticator app (like KeePassXC) on your laptop, so you don't need to use your phone.

  • Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'

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  • The user content on fandom is generally pretty good, at least for the wikis I frequent. It's everything else about the site which is awful -- the pop-ups, the completely irrelevant auto-playing videos, how it's constantly trying to shove other fandom wikis into your attention.

    I'm sure the site is improved with userscripts and such, and I am already using adblock, but it's pretty unforgivable IMO.

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  • Important context: he’s not suggesting AIs writing content for Wikipedia. He’s suggesting using AI to provide feedback for new editors. Take that how you will.

    (From another discussion on this.)

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  • Granted, it's not proof, but I find it very hard to believe that all cases of identical twins with apparently differing gender identities is explained by one of the twins simply electing not to transition while the other does. This is particularly hard to believe given that the twins grow up in similar environments, so if one is in a transition-hostile environment the other likely is as well. I think we should believe people when they insist they are not transgender, especially if they are part of a study where their identical twin is comfortable being open about it. If this were a rare occurrence, I would be more inclined to agree with you, but it is not rare at all.

    "transgender"

    One instance where I have seen "transgender" used this way is from the same article where I learned about the link between transgender, skin elasticity, and hyperflexibility:

    it’s at least possible that EDS and transgender are linked

    It's no typo; other articles by this same author use the same grammar. I have also for sure seen this used on other sites, including by trans authors, but in 5 minutes of searching I can't find those instances. "Being transgender" does seem grammatically fitting to me, but it doesn't always make sense to use "being transgender" as a substitute for "transgenderism"*/"transgender." Anyway we more or less agree here and I have little interest in semantics.

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  • gender dysphoria is not what I'm talking about, since not all transgender people have dysphoria.

    To be clear -- "transgender" the noun is not referring to a person ("that person is a transgender"* -- proscribed) but rather as a substitute for "transgenderism"* (proscribed). Personally, using "transgender" seems linguistically strange to me and it just reminds me of Trump saying "transgender for everybody" but if it's what people prefer then who am I to judge.

    Anyway -- yes, I agree that it seems very probable that there are strong genetic components to transgender, but it's also clearly not purely genetic, given there are identical twins where one is cis and the other not.

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  • Funny.

    If we assume that the distribution is measuring some trait (e.g. "testosterone content," "femininity," measured however you will), and it's bimodal (distribution is dominated by two binary sexes), then there will be people on either side of both peaks.

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  • my bad, updated to "transgender," I read online that's the preferred noun form (though it looks more adjectival to me)

    gender identity is clearly not primarily genetic, as twin studies suggest otherwise.

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  • I don't entirely agree, because gender identity is known to be at least partially biological, e.g. there are correlations between transgender, skin elasticity, and hyper-flexibility.

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  • it's a normalized distribution. The y-axis is unitless.

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  • yes.