More than enough to falsify the hypothesis that those differences in behaviour are innate, and sex-based; otherwise they’d be more consistent across ethnic and racial groups.

It also shows that what’s expected from gender roles varies wildly. This is kind of common sense, but it’s good to have studies showing it.

Cool! Does it have AI? Also I want it to connect to a phone app, do not bring me an actual program, or a website (I don’t understand what’s a “browser”, is it Google?), bring me an app! I’m fine with a subscription model, or if the cube starts leaking ooze onto the counter without it. It’s also fine if the cube is expected to leak ooze two years from now, because some server thingamajig is gone.

/s obviously.

The article used the word “Microslop” thirteen times. I guess the author really wants search engines and bots to associate “Microslop” with “Microsoft”. Apparently Microslop is a term for Microsoft products, or perhaps even Microslop is an intrinsic property of Microsoft.

…'kay, I’ll stop it now.

It’s rather curious how MS babbles so much about “AI”, but its Discord server uses such a simple filter that can be evaded by 0N3 0F 7H3 0LD357 700L5 0F 7H3 1N73RN37 5H17P0573R one of the oldest tools of the internet shitposter: leetspeak. It’s almost like it knows it’s selling a dud.

Also, I guess this thing run so far they don’t even care about the Streisand effect any more.

Ditto. Most of my GPUs were nVidia, except the last one, an AMD. But I’m fully aware @inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world is right; and also that the only reason they aren’t shitting now on desktop customers is because they can’t.

Plus the political landscape reached a point that, when reasonable to do so, I’m flat out refusing products from USA. Enough of this United-Statian mafia shit. If mainland China manufactures get something of comparable quality into the market I’ll give it priority over AMD/nVidia/Intel. That’s a matter for 10y from now, though.

Three weeks ago I threw some guess on which characters would become marriage candidates. Well, the guess was spot on.

…although to be fair there wasn’t a lot of room to be anyone else. And damn, I wish he added new characters.

What worries me isn’t why: “we got to sell to big datacentres, fuck desktop customers”.

Or the AI bubble bursting: even if generative models find some use cases, they won’t justify the investment, so nVidia’s “shovel seller in a gold rush” situation will end.

Or what nVidia will do afterwards: “fuck, we need desktop customers to buy our things as they did.”

What worries me is that, once nVidia goes through all silly dance, suckers will still go back to buying nVidia, tails waggling, almost as if saying “call me a good boi”.

This is puzzling me:

• Why were victims gathered from multiple settlements?
• Why is there such a sex disparity; or, what happened to the men?
• Why were they buried with food and belongings, if the deaths were all violent and some victims show signs of trying to run away or fight back?

I couldn’t find a single good explanation for all three things. Specially the last one, it seems contradictory.

Fun to see this while messing with subtitle translation!

I picked the three seasons of Nights with a Cat to watch. Thought “my mum would love this”, so I’m translating subtitles into Portuguese. (She loved the first two seasons, by the way.) And wow, it made me see the effort the group (pspspsps) poured into it — replicating the cat and Moon logo, animating everything, a thousand gradients, so goes on. I had to sacrifice a wee bit of the aesthetics (not much though) for the sake of making the translation viable, plus because I was merging the files, but it was clear the group did that as a work of love, I’ve seen plenty professional translators (incl. myself) doing a sloppier job.

The coin evidence dates the sanctuary to between about 80 and 171 AD, during the period of the Roman cohort fort in Kumpfmühl and the associated Danube settlement, before the establishment of the legionary camp at Regensburg.

This is interesting because it shows how widespread the “mystery cults” (like Mithraism) were back then.

Originally the Romans built a small fort in the place, near the Celtic settlement of Radasbona. But then by 171 Marcus Aurelius had it rebuilt to host the Italic Third Legion. And given legions back then had 5200 soldiers, this means the fort was considerably smaller than the necessary to hold 5k people; if it was just a bit smaller, they’d extend, not rebuild it.

For reference: in the 1st century it’s believed the city of Rome had ~1M inhabitants, and Alexandria had ~500k. The empire as a whole had, like, 60M? 75M? inhabitants. So even for the standards of back then, this sanctuary was found in the middle of nowhere, and yet there was social pressure to build a shrine for Mithras there.

the sanctuary provides valuable new evidence for the rituals and material culture of the enigmatic Mithras cult across the Roman world.

That’s important because we know practically nothing about the cult. The initiates swore an oath of secrecy, so written info from those times is rather scarce.

Who knows? Definitively worth trying! (…I’m not trying it.)

I’ve seen people preparing sweet cakes with Parmesan cheese. I’ve eaten it. It’s actually really tasty, so… I hope the person who took this pic tasted their tea/chocolate/whatever before throwing it away.

Relevant to note I don’t speak Nahuatl. I parsed this info from Wiktionary + Wikipedia, it’s surprisingly easy to follow.

(For the non-possessed form, as in “a penis is an organ”, use “tepolli” instead. Wiktionary also mentions “tototl” bird being used with that meaning, kind of like English “cock”.)

Araucaria araucana Monkey puzzle tree nuts

There’s also Araucaria angustifolia (aka Paraná pine). Dunno if it counts as either a separated entry or same entry as the A. araucana, both are phylogenetically close to hybridise, and the genus as a whole is what’s dino food.

Some pics:

(Yup, it’s my cover picture. See the big tree?)

(Open and closed pines, full of edible nuts.)

(Pine kernels with and without the shell.)

I go crazy for those once May* hits — they’re delicious even simply boiled, but they can be also prepared into dishes. (I even adapted Roman burgers to use those.)

*They actually start producing in April, but as there’s a non-zero chance the pine nuts from April are from felled trees, I avoid it. The species is critically endangered; eating some nuts is not a big deal, but falling the tree is.

That’s a language-dependent ambiguity; this sort of “noun¹ noun²” construction in English is actually rather vague, and it can be used multiple ways:

• material - e.g. fish fillet (the fillet is made of fish)
• purpose - e.g. fish knife (the knife is made to handle fish)
• destination - e.g. fish food (the food goes to the fish)
• inalienable possession - e.g. fish tail (the tail belongs to the fish, and removing it means removing part of the fish)
• alienable possession - e.g. fish bowl (the bowl “belongs” to the fish, but you could give it another bowl)
• etc.

As such I believe that in at least some languages it’s probably clear if you refer to chicken egg as “an egg coming from a chicken” or “an egg a chicken is born from”. Not that they’re going to use it with this expression though.

For reference. @cuerdo@lemmy.world used as an example “my penis”:

If I say “my penis”, it is likelier that I am talking about the one attached to me rather than the one I bought in the market.

In Nahuatl both would be distinguished: you’d call your genitals “notepollo” (inalienable possession), and the one you bought “notepol” (alienable possession). (Note: “no-” for the first person. For someone else’s dick use “mo-” when speaking with the person, i- when talking about them.)

Just language things, I guess.

If the parking was obstructing something else you can report it to enforcement for towing/ticketing or the owners of the lot.

Let’s say this was a public place. Now you need to go through all the bureaucracy to contact the relevant law enforcer. There’s a good chance they won’t fucking care, even if parking the car that way violates some law. Or alternatively there might be no law in place (even if there should be one), so there’s genuinely nothing you can do.

Now let’s say this was a privately owned place, like the parking lot of a supermarket. Do you genuinely think the owners care if their “esteemed customer” Karen’s car gets in the way of “some fucking cripples”? (Note: this sort of arsehole really, really likes to park their cars in spots for people with disabilities. Or often half of their car.)

In either case: congrats for wasting your time and solving jack shit!

And in both cases you’re relying on some higher up to do shit, when it’s actually more civil to tell the owner they’re doing shit wrong. As in, you know… leaving some message.

If it was not obstructing something else

i don’t reasonably expect someone to reach for pen and paper to leave a message in this case.

I read this reply as nothing but ego and lots of assumptions (shooting my brains out, wtf?)

If that’s the case you should at least try to develop basic reading comprehension.

I was clearly listing possible ways to handle this, and the possible outcomes. No, the odds the car owner is a violent piece of shit are not zero; waiting for them to say tête-à-tête “don’t do this, please” is not reasonable. And this is fucking obvious dammit.

I also genuinely think you don’t know what “ego” and “assumption” mean, otherwise you wouldn’t use either here. Just like you don’t know what “passive aggressivity” means.

Besides what Grumpy said (I agree with it): I think leaving a mildly rude written message was the best approach here, once you put yourself in the shoes of whoever wrote the message.

Odds are the car owner parked their car in a really obstructive way, making shit worse for everyone else. It got in your way, and it’ll most likely get in the way of other people too. So, what are you going to do?

• Nothing? You’re giving a free pass to some fucking Enzo/Valentina Karen, who’ll likely do this shit again, and again, and again, because they don’t fucking care about other people.
• Wait until the car owner arrives, and tell them something? You don’t know the owner. It’s possible they simply say “oh, I see, sorry!”, but the risk of actual violence is non-zero, they might pick up a gun and shoot your brains out.
• Leave a polite message, like “please don’t park your car this way, it inconveniences other people”? Remember, there’s a big chance the car owner is a Karen, they don’t give a fuck about other people.
• Leave a message telling them to off themselves? Now you’re going too far; not even a Karen deserves that.
• something else? Feel free to point it out.

So you leave a mocking message. That makes the person feel bad about themself, and highlight people dislike them because of their actions. That’s exactly what the person who wrote the message did.

No condom. I’d sub the “please don’t reproduce” with “I’m glad people like you don’t reproduce” or something like this. To add injury.

AFAIK all modpacks are made for specific versions of Minecraft, so the current modpacks are completely unaffected. And even for future modpacks, the modpack creator doesn’t need to care too much about this, since it’ll affect the mods directly. (A modpack is, like the name says, just a pack of mods stitched together and glued with some configs.)

Plus popular modpacks are often for extremely old MC versions; for example a lot of people still run modpacks made for 1.16.5 (4yo), 1.12.2 (8yo), or even 1.7.10 (12yo).

“Switching from OpenGL to Vulkan will have an impact on the mods that currently use OpenGL for rendering, and we anticipate that updating from OpenGL to Vulkan will take modders more effort than the updates you undertake for each of our releases,” explains Mojang. “To start with, we recommend our modding community look at moving away from OpenGL usage.”

Question: how much does your typical content mod decide what’s going to be rendered? Is this something typically handled by Fabric/Quilt/[Neo]Forge?

Because I can quite guess OptiFine and the likes will need a lot of elbow grease, but I’m not sure about the rest.

Sorry in advance for the political topic, but it’s directly related to the info in the OP.

Is the bar for causes of death roughly similar across social classes? As in: are rich/poor people more/less likely to die from certain causes than others? I’m asking because I’m wondering if news coverage isn’t a bit closer to “reasons why rich people die” than to “reasons why your typical person dies” there (in USA). Just a hypothesis, mind you.