yetAnotherUser

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Notice how the developer argues he forbids packages and how the AIR is in violation of this? But an AUR PKGBUILD is not a package - it’s build instructions. It doesn’t distribute or package anything, you can check it yourself. It’s not called “PKG” for a reason. He misunderstands his own license and believes the allegedly broken PKGBUILD violates it.

  He may be right about some users annoying him with bug reports though I’d be surprised if it was that common. It seems like he got a couple of reports, noticed the “forbidden” PKGBUILD and then reacted like this. Just like when changing the license from GPL to CC-BY-NC-ND in order to combat… GPL violations and trademark infringements?

  Frankly, the project has not had parricularly stable leadership in a while. Though a bit unfair of a comparison, compare it to Dolphin and you can see a night and day difference in project management.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ze princess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Zelda

  Equine

  Link

  Daddy

  Asshole

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨chained⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I am not just going to tap at those footpaws >:3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Goddammit you are an hour quicker and have found a more readable source for the same comment I wanted to write.

  Anyway, this right is granted in paragraph 36 of Directive 2014/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on the comparability of fees related to payment accounts, payment account switching and access to payment accounts with basic features Text with EEA relevance:

  Consumers who are legally resident in the Union and who do not hold a payment account in a certain Member State should be in a position to open and use a payment account with basic features in that Member State. The concept of ‘legally resident in the Union’ should cover both Union citizens and third country nationals who already benefit from rights conferred upon them by Union acts such as Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 ( 1), Council Directive 2003/109/EC ( 2 ), Council Regulation (EC) No 859/2003 ( 3) and Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 4 ). It should also include people seeking asylum under the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 Relating to the Status of Refugees, the Protocol thereto of 31 January 1967 and other relevant international treaties. Furthermore, Member States should be able to extend the concept of ‘legally resident in the Union’ to other third country nationals that are present on their territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Location sharing doesn’t prevent any of that though?

  Like, no criminal who would want to rape/murder/abduct you knows whether you are sharing your location with anyone. They would do so regardless before anyone can arrive to help you.

  Also, no kidnapper on this planet is stupid enough to take your phone with them. You have a slightly higher chance for authorities to be alerted sooner but that’s about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My first colonoscopy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Three mini figures, 139 pieces AND two prints (computer screen and sign on the right)??

  Damn, that’s AT LEAST a 30€ set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cookie combs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No they don’t (necessarily))??

  Notice how they didn’t spread the cookies evenly on the tray? If they had, it would’ve resulted in squares - not hexagons. On the left, some cookies look more like squares already.

  Hexagons are just one possible way to tile the plane without gaps. The only reason bees use hexagons is because tiling a plane with hexagons results in the lowest possible total perimeter for equally sized shapes. And bees build the edges of their comb shapes using wax, which is expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mass and energy are basically the same thing though. Since E = mc² you can substitute mass in any equation with E / c².

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UwU brat mathematician behavior⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just think of the definition of a derivative.

  d is just an infinitesimally small delta. So dy/dx is literally just lim (∆ -> 0) ∆y/∆x. which is the same as lim (x_1 -> x_0) [f(x_0) - f(x_1)] / [x_0 - x_1].

  Note: ∆ -> 0 isn’t standard notation. But writing ∆x -> 0 requires another step of thinking: y = f(x) therefore ∆y = ∆f(x) = f(x + ∆x) - f(x) so you only need ∆x approaching zero. But I prefer thinking d = lim (∆ -> 0) ∆.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily, many small animals have an utterly insane metabolism making them eat their entire body mass in a couple of days. For example, hummingbirds eat the human equivalent of 150,000 calories per day.

  Larger animals typically cannot afford to spend so much energy - there is just no large food source that has sufficient calory density.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus even if they were to implement those features, the challenges would still get increasingly harder the more bot-like a scraper behaves.

  You can’t prevent scraping entirely but you can certainly prevent scraping that behaves like a DOS attack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GET BRUSHIED IDIOT⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t mean it’s nice to have gum infections though. I can also imagine they are more of a threat to baby crocodiles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Germany.

  8 patients per room is really the upper legal limit (as anything more is considered intolerable) and exceedingly rare but having at least one other patient in the same room is the default. Even if single rooms are available, hospitals prefer to put you into rooms with other people as they offer single patient rooms for ~120€/day and dual patient rooms for ~70€/day.

  When I was in the hospital for a pretty severe gastrointestinal infection as a child, I had one bed neighbor with a severe cough which I obviously caught after the stay. It wasn’t as severe but pretty annoying nonetheless.

  TVs generally exist for free but usually only one per room so you’ll have to negotiate with your roommates. WiFi, if existant, definitely costs money and will have early 2000’s speed.

  In general, hospital stays have roughly the same standard as in the 70’s or 80’s as there hasn’t been noteworthy investment ever since. Anything considered a luxury and unnecessary for treatment will likely not be provided for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Solitude? Damn, are your hospitals made out of gold as well?

  If you’re unlucky over here you get up to 7 other patiens in the same, unventilated room. Including patients who have air-transmittable infections because why not?

  Air conditioning doesn’t exist in hospitals either by the way. That’s a luxury hospitals aren’t obligated to (and as such never) provide. Enjoy dehydrating in 30°C+ rooms.

  I’d much rather just stay in solitude in my home for a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨413524 Gang, rise up!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about 31415?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Over here in Germany encryption is most definitely illegal. This includes encoded messages only the intended recipient could decode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No rational person would do this...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try to find it - you won’t succeed.

  Therefore it doesn’t exist.

  ◻

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the atom names are literally just German. Except sunstuff, that’s Helium in German too. Not too difficult to parse imo but I may be biased.

  But it’s not like I want all French influence be gone. Rather, for common things it feels… artificial(?) to use some fancy Latin word when it just refers to something so basic it shouldn’t have a Latin word outside of scientific contexts to begin with.

  It’s like a science fiction novel where the author insists on naming the Earth Terra, the Moon Luna and the Sun Sol. It feels needlessly artificial and somewhat clinical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Math⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that James Grime from Numberphile?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t English’s French influence mostly over by this point? The Norman conquest added a bunch of French vocabulary but by the 1700’s, England was a stable colonial power.

  And for very frequently used terms - like anatomical terms - the English root remained mostly intact and loanwords weren’t used. Arm, nose, shoulder, knee, elbow etc. are not French in origin.

  I suspect it could be remnant of nobility separating itself from the common people. By only ever referring to anything with its Latin term, you can distinguish the wealthy, highly-educated from the poorer, lesser-educated people. After all, if you spoke Latin and/or Greek those terms make a lot of intuitive sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t apply to most other fields though.

  In physics, only the abbreviations are (mostly) the same internationally. But the full terms are always translated into languages, despite being equally as technical.

  In math, no terms are international - only the specification of formulas is standardized.

  Music is the exception but their field belonged to elitist pricks for most of history tbf.

  Art (painting) uses translated terms everywhere from what I can tell. There are no translated terms for paints, canvas type, style, periods etc.

  History certainly doesn’t use international terms either. Medieval, stone age, bronze age, modern age etc. are all translated into each language.

  Amd frankly, I don’t see why anatomy has to use international terms whatsoever while other fields can use translated terms without any issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Partially. In German, the term eye doctor has first been recorded in 1401 (ougenarzt) (according to Wikipedia).

  The 1700’s made enormous medical progress - but it’s not like people prior to that had no need for specialized doctors. For example, according to etymonline the term “dentist” was first used in 1759. You can’t tell me dentists didn’t exist for many centuries prior to that and didn’t have an “English-derived”, self-explanatory term. I mean, I never knew “dent” was Latin for tooth until reading the etymology just now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Optometrists/opticians aren’t doctors over here though. They belong to the trades. This field doesn’t exist in Germany the same way it does in the US/Britain:

  Optometric tasks are performed by ophthalmologists and professionally trained and certified opticians.

  Wikipedia

  Eye doctors does actually refer to ophthalmologist though, I picked the “wrong” translation which ignores the differing legal frameworks. Looking back, I certainly went to the full blown ophthalmologist just for optometric purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have an issue with using scientific names in scientific contexts if you intend to publish something international researchers should be able to parse. But just like maths, there is no problem in just… translating names? Imagine if you had to phrase sentences like: “The numerus realis make up a copia infinita.” You’d have to translate Latin every time new studens would be taught because most mathematical terms convey a decent amount of information.

  What I do have an issue with is using these terms anywhere outside of international contexts.

  A doctor should not tell their patient they have a “humerus” fracture. In German they would take about the upper arm bone.

  Or imagine if a doctor told you there is an infection in your digitus pedis. Fortunately English didn’t replace the term “toes” with its scientific one… YET.

  Hell, I could even apply this to doctor names in English which require a dictionary for anyone trying to parse them. I had to look up half of them by the way.

  Children’s Doctor <> Pediatrician

  Women’s Doctor <> Gynecologist

  Tooth Doctor <> Dentist (the least bad in my opinion - at least it’s short)

  Eye Doctor <> Optometrist

  Neck-Nose-Ear Doctor <> Otorhinolaryngologist (wtf???)

  Skin Doctor <> Dermatologist

  Like, surely there must have been (native) English terms for those doctors in the past. It’s not like the medical field popped into existence in the 1700’s. You can’t tell me a 15th century English peasent used Latin/Greek derived names for common specialized doctors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You got it, buddy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it would be easier if English had kept the English terms for anatomy.

  But for some reason everyone decided to only use Latin and Greek derived words.

  Like seriously. Nearly every time I look at Wikipedia for anything, English articles only ever use scientific terms hardly anyone one will find useful.

  Example:

  Wolf’s entire biological taxonomical tree from species to order. Both the translated German Wikipedia title and the English one:

  Species: Wolf <> Wolf

  Genus: Wolf- and Jackal-like <> Canis

  Tribe: True Dogs <> Canini

  Family: Dogs <> Canidae

  Suborder: Doglike <> Caniformia

  Order: Predatory animal <> Carnivora

  Ask someone what “Caniformia” is and most would probably think you’re talking about some region on the US West Coast. Ask someone what “Doglike” refers to and most would probably guess reasonably correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No rational person would do this...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pi doesn’t contain a 10^9999999999^ long string of (uninterrupted) 1s.

  You can verify it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  USB-C requires a lot of space for charging, data transfer etc.

  Let’s remove it too and make phones rely on wireless charging instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was all a lie, wasn't it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not in wildfires though which you have a shitton as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh to go back...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, any realistic hacking scene would be extremely boring to watch.

  It would be like watching someone solve a jigsaw puzzle. Except there is no light so you just hear them click a piece in place occasionally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AI literally produces better answers than 99% of ad supported, SEOptimized websites.

  That’s saying not a lot about AI though. It tells you how utterly awful searching the web is thanks to those sites.