NeatNit

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NeatNit ,

Even the interactive ones?

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If Icarus won't come to the sun, the sun will come to Icarus.

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In case the reference is lost, there's a famous Muslim proverb: if the mountain won't come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain. A flipped version of this proverb has somehow also become commonly known, perhaps surpassing the correct version (in my culture at least): if Muhammad won't go to the mountain, then the mountain will come to Muhammad.

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They look like inverted colours or something. Is this how they actually look? It's magnificent!

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In case this is a real question: AFAIK* that is not possible for them to do. The project was open source and it accepted code contributions from everyone using a FOSS license. This means:

  1. Everyone who has seen the code explicitly has rights to redistribute it, and this right cannot be revoked
  2. The core team does not own the entirety of the code - to transfer ownership to Nintendo they would have to get approval from every single contributor that ever made a pull request that got merged. This is impractical to say the least

So no, there is no and there cannot be legal basis for Nintendo to claim copyright on Yuzu. They might have other claims, but I won't weigh in on how good they might be because I'm way out of my depth already.

  • I'm actually making a bunch of assumptions about Yuzu's licence and number of contributors that I haven't bothered to check, so take this with a grain of salt. I'm still pretty confident about point 1 though, I'd be really surprised if this was a wrong assumption, and it alone is enough.
NeatNit ,

Could have been just a hypothetical or rhetorical question from my POV

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I think people just experimented a lot. Try enough random things, you're bound to come across cool chemistry every once in a while. If they figured out how to make really hot fire, that opens the path to "let's try making various things really hot to see what happens".

Of course, I know basically nothing about [pre]history or human development so I could be way off

NeatNit ,

How sure are we that this isn't a late April Fools joke? :P

NeatNit ,

I want to apologize in advance for the aggressive tone in this comment. It's the only thing that comes out. I'm not angry at you, not at all - I'm angry at videogame publishers and at the current situation.

Has "vote with your wallet" ever worked? Literally ever? Maybe when the stars align. If the path to a better world requires everyone to be educated, and it's more convenient for the vast majority of everyone to just keep going with whatever shitty system is currently being used, then nothing will change.

You know what works? Government regulation. Remember the ozone layer? Have you noticed how it's not a problem anymore? That's not because everyone got together and agreed to "vote with their wallet" by never buying anything that depleted ozone, which requires a crazy amount of research with every purchase. No, it was solved by the government (or governments?) banning the sale of anything ozone-depleting and cracking down on it. That's what works.

Voting with your wallet is an illusion.

NeatNit ,

A lot of us didn't come from Europe. You think I can go to Syria or Iraq?

My parents were born in Israel but my grandparents came here from those countries. There is no reality where it's safe for me there.

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You can play the blame game all you want, but what's going to help anyone today? I am not personally responsible for what people did decades before I was born. I don't have anywhere else to go. Why -- and where -- should I evacuate?

The same applies to palestinians of course. Those of them who do not participate in terror attacks - which is most of them - are not personally responsible for antagonizing Israel. They shouldn't have to evacuate their own homes, or to live under a hostile (to them) rule. That's why the two state solution is the only good viable option.

Personally, as an atheist, I'd be perfectly happy with a single state that belongs to everyone, represents everyone, and treats everyone equally. But that's not an option (even if it was set up somehow it wouldn't last), and many people from both sides would vehemently object to this for plenty of good reasons. Two states living peacefully side by side is the only future that isn't a genocide.

I'm well aware that Israel is not even a little bit headed in that direction right now. :(

Edit: I'm checking out of this thread because too many replies ignore key parts of what I said, calling me names with no basis. Good for you I guess?

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Why do you think whoever gains power in the aftermath would be any better than that?

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I never said what Israel's doing is remotely okay

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Forget Israelis. Do you think any palestinian wants that?

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Okay, let me rephrase... Do you think most Palestinians want that? I think the number of people who want that, both Israeli and Palestinian, is negligible. And I count myself among them.

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As I said, I don't have a problem with it. I literally said that's what I'd be happy with. I just don't see it as realistic.

NeatNit ,

That's not what I asked. I asked if you think most Palestinians want to live in the same country under the same shared government as the Jewish population that lives here?

NeatNit ,

Are you joking?

Me:

I’d be perfectly happy with a single state that belongs to everyone [...] But that’s not an option

You:

But that’s not an option

Behold the brain damage of zionism, where only apartheid is possible.

What a barbaric and uncivilized philosophy.

Me:

Forget Israelis. Do you think any palestinian wants that?

Who's moving the goalposts? I think you're projecting.

NeatNit ,

Because of gestures at everything maybe?

I'd really fucking love to stop oil companies from polluting our planet and making climate change worse by the day, but it's not realistic to shut them down tomorrow. Do I need to explain why that's not realistic either?

NeatNit , (edited )

The mistrust between the Israeli population and the Palestinian population goes back decades. And here you come - an outsider, am I right? - to decide for us what the best solution is and to essentially "just get along". Do you have any idea what people in Palestine and Israel actually think, and actually feel? You're completely tone deaf. To decide as an outsider what we should be doing is rooted in exactly the same origins as colonialism - western powers think they can decide what the world should look like, and bend everyone to their will. Even if you think you're right, you're just tone deaf.

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obligatory: I don't know many people who work at the human factory

please downvote this comment, I hate it

NeatNit ,

in an annular eclipse you don't get the "someone broke the sky" thing. It basically means there's always bits of the sun sticking out from around the moon.

Edit: so bascially the whole spike in the middle of the graph is gone

NeatNit ,

they meant voice chat, audio

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Yup, I realized that :) I do believe discord has just about all the features IRC can offer. And then some, of course. But that isn't saying much, considering IRC is one of the earliest uses of the internet.

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As much as I hate WhatsApp - and I really, vehemently do - I'm pretty sure it is E2EE. Facebook/Meta doesn't directly have access to the contents of your messages or shared media. If you have any evidence to suggest otherwise I'd love to see it.

Problem is, I don't know if it's still set up like this but it used to be that received photos were saved to your device gallery, and perhaps even backed up to the cloud with your camera photos, depending on your setup and device. So the photos might leak through there, but they don't leak through Meta.

NeatNit ,

I'm not following this story..

a friend sent me MRI brain scan results and I put it through Claude

...

I annoyed the radiologists until they re-checked.

How was he in a position to annoy his friend's radiologists?

NeatNit ,

There is philosophy in everything. Any time you lick anything, you lick philosophy. Even if you lick nothing, you lick philosophy.

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very sensitive chemoreceptors

laughs in canine

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I'm not from the field but I think anything done to a patient, effective or not, is technically a treatment. From everyday life: you can give someone the silent treatment, or treat them like a baby, or what have you. Anything that isn't the default thing you'd do anyway is a treatment. So in medicine I could believe that anything at all that a doctor tells you to do, or does to you, is treatment.

And it would make sense in a controlled trial that "the treatment" would refer to the treatment being tested. It's a treatment for sure, we just want to find out if it does anything useful!

NeatNit ,

Here, have a 20-minute video about brown.

NeatNit ,

Can you give any source for this? The text includes 2 key links and the screenshot obviously misses out on them

If Faces Appear Distorted, You Could Have This Condition: Research presents a unique case of a patient with prosopometamorphopsia ( home.dartmouth.edu )

Imagine if every time you saw a face, it appeared distorted. For those who have a very rare condition known as prosopometamorphopsia, which causes facial features to appear distorted, that is reality....

NeatNit ,

The cynic in me is thinking, what are the chances that this patient is faking it? Seems odd that just for this one person the effect wouldn't happen on screens, while it does for everyone else with this condition.

But I can push this thought aside. This is interesting, and I've never heard of this condition before.

NeatNit ,

I can think up a few plausible explanation. The easiest of which for me is that with a static picture of a face - especially if it's not Actual Size™ - your brain might be aware that it's not an actual face. Or more accurately, the visual system is not convinced that it's a real face.

At the end of the day though, I'm no brain scientist and I've got layman's knowledge about the subject at best, so I'm happy to leave it to the professionals and trust that the scientists verified it in one way or another.

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I've just finished reading the article, it does not say this. It says Intel also has a DMP but that only Apple's version has the vulnerability.

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I want to say "passkeys" but if I'm honest, that too is susceptible to this attack.

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obligatory: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/citations-needed

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/7c02b65b-d207-4658-97db-5310d2687eb3.png

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I know this is true by most definitions but to me it never felt true. Insects are distinct from animals in my head.

NeatNit ,

what’s your favourite species of rodent?

Jerry. Easy.

NeatNit ,

While I completely agree and was about to comment the same, I will switch sides and say that a snake's length is variable (as is a person's height) and probably has a variance greater than 1.6mm for a baseline of 3m. So a snake π metres long would be indistinguishable from a snake 3.14 metres long.

I'd still drop the "exactly" though.

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It's electrical engineering if anything

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Site, but that's like saying "writing is an application of language". The profession of writing is immensely different from the profession of inventing or studying a language. And the profession of electrical engineering is substantially different from the profession of studying electrical phenomena. There's certainly overlap but it's different fields.

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Wondering if you say this in order to protect others from the pain/horror of learning it, or to protect some deep conspiratory secret. Maybe I'll just open a textbook and find out...

Worrying – Breast Cancer Rates Are Increasing Among Younger Women ( scitechdaily.com )

Breast cancer diagnoses in women under 50 have increased significantly in the past two decades, primarily driven by estrogen-receptor positive tumors. This research highlights the importance of early detection and the need for prevention strategies. Prevention efforts in young women need to adopt a targeted approach to address...

NeatNit ,

Can this be explained by screening? i.e. they actively screen for breast cancer so they're going to find it even in cases where it wouldn't have ever affected the patient.

I haven't read the link (not in the mood to parse it) but that's my gut reaction to the title. I highly recommend this video by Medlife Crisis https://youtube.com/watch?v=yNzQ_sLGIuA (also on Nebula) that explains the flaws of screening, it's approachable and it's a fun watch if you're into YouTube edutainment stuff.

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I don't know the answer and I'm not taking a side, but considering how Reddit has never been profitable, I don't understand how it even still exists. Where does the money come from to keep it running? This question applies to all non-profitable platforms. We know that the executives surely get their inflated paychecks, as do the employees, and the servers keep running (often better than sustainable alternatives), yet the company never makes a profit... How does that work?

Given that it's obviously not sustainable, I can understand why "just be happy with that they've created" isn't an option, but that's the only thing I understand... Everything else is a complete mystery to me.

I use Discord a lot and I think about this often.

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The number one thing I don't understand is, where does the money come from?

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But, correct me if I'm wrong, the whole thing is operating at a loss. It's spending more money than it receives, including advertising and all. That doesn't add up.

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You're seriously avoiding the question.

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