[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah. What's their game here, basically? They're hella brutal in most (all?) other ways.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The specific model is rechargeable, unless I'm misunderstanding you.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Has he actually given up on the Metaverse thing at this point?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh, the second paragraph of my comment, not the article. Kyiv Independent is questionable as a source, basically.

Sorry for calling you a bot.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Clearly, you can speak English quite well, just not understand it.

I actually can respond to this, for the real people reading. KMT isn't pro-China, just more confrontation averse with them. These are the guys that fought Mao, right? And, they lost the last election handily to the radical anti-Chinese candidate. Not sure WTF is up with the claim about the president.

But, we were never talking about Taiwan, and definitely not about the Uighur genocide.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For Lemmings from other areas, it doesn't read like a warning, exactly, but in the context of what ~~the Alberta government~~ literally this minster has been doing it kind of is.

Edit: Didn't notice this is signed Devin Dreeshen.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This government has blown up one Calgary transport plan already (they're literally building two halves that don't enter downtown at all now), so that may or may not be wise. Cities don't really have constitutional protections in Canada or Alberta.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Without checking the context, Iran and their proxies got hit a bunch and turned the other cheek, so in the game theoretic sense, yes, none of their threats will be credible now.

The conventional smart move would have been to start gradually blowing Isreali and American stuff up the moment Hazbollah was attacked. It sounds they might actually have some kind of twisted, theocratic idealism that got in the way of that.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty sure the trend didn't come from nowhere, although like every other fashion most adherents wouldn't have necessarily chosen it in a vacuum.

Whether that makes the preference less valid is an interesting question of it's own.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Maybe.

To be clear this is an outlet for pro-Ukrainian propaganda with stories that have quite often never been verified or repeated. I get it, they're fighting a war for survival, but I still will take it with a grain of salt especially when it sounds unlikely.

[-] [email protected] 74 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If this is true, the EU better be figuring out how to change that price calculus for them.

Which makes me doubt an open admission actually did happen, since China would understand the possibility for blowback.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37414239

I've read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70's, and I roundly can't make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don't own.

Ideally, what I'm hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time.

It's of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it's highly unintuitive that you provably can't sometimes in complexity theory.

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I've read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70's, and I roundly can't make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don't own.

Ideally, what I'm hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time.

It's of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it's highly unintuitive that you provably can't sometimes in complexity theory.

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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Bluesky, which uses it, has been opened to federation now, and the standard basically just looks better than ActivityPub. Has anyone heard about a project to make a Lemmy-style "link aggregator" service on it?

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It's a few months old, but in light of recent events I think it still checks out. Make sure to watch the walkaround!

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So, this ate up a full day. Thought someone else might think it was neat. The rules were I allowed myself to look up dates, but not whole new figures I wasn't familiar with, and the goal was to go as far back as possible:

Greta Thunberg 2003-
Emannuel Macron 1977-
Roger Penrose 1931-
Elizabeth II 1926-2022
Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Franz-Joseph I 1830-1916
Victoria I 1819-1901
Nepoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
Isaac Newton 1642-1727
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
William Shakespeare 1564-1616
Elizabeth I 1533-1603
Henry VIII 1491-1547
Christopher Colombus 1451-1506
Mehmed the Conquerer 1432-1481
Zheng He 1371-1433
Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400
Wat Tyler 1341-1381
Ibn Buttata 1304-1368
Marco Polo 1254-1324
Kublai Khan 1215-1294
Fibbonacci 1170-1245
Ghengis Khan 1162-1227
Saladin 1138-1193
Averroes 1126-1198
Ismail Al-Jazari 1136–1206
Muhammad al-Idrisi 1100-1165
Al-Ghazali 1058-1111
Alexios I Komnenos 1057-1118
Pope Urban II 1035-1099
Willie the Bastard 1028-1087
Avicenna 980-1037
Leif Erikson 975-1020
Erik the Red 950-1003
Herald Fairhair 850-932
Ingolfr Arnarson 849-910
Al-Khwarizmi 780-850
Charlemagne 748-814
Pope Gregory III Unk.-741
An Lushan 703-757
Charles Martel 688-741
Bede 673-735
Empress Wu Zetian 624-705
Aisha bint Abi-Bakr 614-678
Emporer Taizhong 598-649
Prophet Muhammad 570-632
Maurice I 582-602
Gregory of Tours 538-594
Brendan the Navigator 484-577
Justinian I 482-565
Clovis I 466-511
Aleric II 460-507
Theodoric the Great 454-526
Odoacer 433-493
Attila the Hun 406-453
Aleric I 370-411
Theodosius the Great 347-395
Valentinian the Great 321-375
Constantine the Great 272-337
Diocletian 242-311
Valarian 199-264
Ardashir I 180-242
Philip the Arab 204-249
Commodus 161-192
Septimus Severus 145-211
Antoninus 86-161
Hadrian 76-138
Pliny the Younger 61-113
Trajan 53-117
Pliny the Elder 23-79
Josephus 37-100
Nero 37-68
Caligula 12-41
Wang Mang 46-23 BC
Augustus 63-14 BC
Virgil 70-19 BC
Herod the Great 72-4 BC
Julius Caesar 100-44 BC
Pompey 106-48 BC
Cicero 106-43 BC
Cato the Younger 95-46 BC
Gaius Marius 157-86 BC
Gaius Graccus 154-121 BC
Tiberius Graccus 163-133 BC
Hipparchus 190-120 BC
Cato the Elder 234-149 BC
Hannibal 247-183 BC
Archimedes 287-212 BC
Pyrrus 319-272 BC
Epicurus 341-270 BC
Alexander the Great 353-323 BC
Aristotle 384-322 BC
Plato 427-348 BC
Socrates 470-399 BC
Euripedes 480-406 BC
Xerxes I 518-465 BC
Darius the Great 550-486 BC
Croesus 585-546 BC
Cyrus the Great 600-530 BC
Nebuchadnezzar II the Great 605-562 BC
Sappho 630-570 BC

At this point I crapped out, because I hadn't read about Ashurbanipal yet. If I had, I could have gone a few further:

Ashurbanipal 685-631 BC
Taharqa Ukn.-664 BC
Sennacherib 705-681 BC
Sargon II 770-705 BC

Unfortunately my East Asian history is ass, and I'm still not sure about the deeds of You of Zhou, so it ends there. The early 1100's were also weirdly hard, although I'm not sure why - thank god for al-Idrisi's map.

A few things that surprised me: Fibbonacci could have met Ghengis Khan, Benjamin Franklin could have talked to Isaac Newton, and Galileo was literally the same age as Shakespeare.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Last trip to the grocery store I couldn't find any non-US salad kits, and Silk NextMilk is made down there now, because I guess our plants were the listeria ones. Chip dip was surprisingly hard to find too, although I did it.

I'm very pleased with how many vegetables actually come from Mexico (definitely via the US though), and there's even a few things you can get from greenhouses, so that situation is less dire than I'd expected.

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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25237011

About Carcinisation

About Speculative Evolution

Just imagine... Crablike humans, crablike dogs, crablike birds!

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I just found out DivestOS is dead and could use it.

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Refactoring gets really bad reviews, but from where I'm sitting as a hobby programmer in relative ignorance it seems like it should be easier, because you could potentially reuse a lot of code. Can someone break it down for me?

I'm thinking of a situation where the code is ugly but still legible here. I completely understand that actual reverse engineering is harder than coding on a blank slate.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This is one of those takes that's so controversial I'm afraid to post it, which is exactly why I have to.

I neither endorse nor disavow this, and no, I'm not in the picture.

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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33597552

Summary from the 404 media newsletter

Heart cockles, a group of marine molluscs, contain little communities of algae in their shells as part of a symbiotic relationship; the algae get shelter and protection, and the cockles get algae-processed nutrients.

Now, scientists have discovered that cockle shells have a host of mind-boggling adaptations to keep these algae happy, including windows that offer “the first example of fiber optic cable bundles in a living creature.”

“We show that the fibrous prismatic crystals act like parallel bundles of fiber optic cables in the shell windows, not just transmitting light but projecting high-resolution images through the window,” that have “a resolution of >100 lines/mm,” said researchers led by Dakota McCoy of the University of Chicago.

From the article in the link above:

Fig. 1: Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa and Corculum spp.) are asymmetrical, photosymbiotic bivalves.

Fig. 2: Transparent windows allow heart cockle shells to transmit 11–62% of photosynthetically active radiation (mean = 31%) and significantly screen out UV radiation (mean = 14%, range = 5–28%).

New plant evolution possibility just dropped?

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I considered posting this elsewhere, but only Canadians are really going to get why it's funny. Regina being totally self aware about it's (lack of) reputation made it for me.

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