I'm more worried about getting chickenella from salmon.
Numbers are all made up stuff, and they're all the same. Here, lemme prove it; let a=b, and...
a² = ab // multiplying both sides by "a"
2a² = a²+ab // adding a² to both sides
2a²-2ab = a²-ab // subtracting 2ab from both sides
2(a²-ab) = 1(a²-ab) // isolating (a²-ab)
2 = 1 // dividing both sides by (a²-ab)
From there you can prove any number is any number. 36=36 or 36=8 or 36=π.
the trick
If a=b, you can't divide both sides by (a²-ab), because it's a division by zero.
There is software/a technology company/a game named after MANY of the elements in the periodic table
Guys, please don't call anything after Zirconium or Niobium. We need the names for the future Russian hacker groups Snugly Bear and Hugging Bear.
On a more serious note, someone is developing an operating system codenamed Boron.
At those times you see how the obnoxious, harmful, idiotic, dumb, disgusting culture of "ackshyually" in Reddit comes from the top.
Don't get me wrong. The law is bad; it's dressed as "think on the children!!!", but it boils down to
- control. Silencing a cohort that doesn't vote while creating a chilling effect on the others.
- traditional media platforms (like TV) trying to secure their turf against the "threat" of the internet. You see the same shit here in Brazil, by the way fuck Globo and ANCINE, I hope the former gets bankrupt and the later gets dissolved.
However Reddit's core argument is not "the law is bad"; it's "ackshyually Lebbit is not social media lol". Implied, "we deserve a free pass".
[Reddit is] a forum primarily for adults
And yet the same Reddit is challenging the restrictions the social media ban imposes to teenagers’ implied right of freedom of political communication. Cut off the crap, stop lying you don't want that target audience dammit.
"this is also not an effort to retain young users for business reasons"
Babbling about your intentions is used toilet paper.
we don't have the traditional social media features the government has taken issue with
Such as being a vehicle for online bullying, an amplifier of anxiety, a conduit of peer pressure and a tool for potential predators... or addictive design. Right? Let's see what the former moderator of r/jailbait, Steve "Greedy Pigboy" Huffman, Reddit CEO, has to say about this.
[inb4: yes, he was likely added as a mod there against his consent. But it shows they know Reddit is grounds for child predators.]
Fuck this shite. Fuck the Australian law, it'll screw with kids and adults there. Fuck Reddit. Fuck everything and a bit more. /rant
Now I regret following it with only two points, instead of three. LLMs love listing threes.
I typically used the em dash only when writing professionally, but because of this AI thing I'm doing it in general, just to see how it turns out. (So far it's a good way to sniff out assumers.)
I typically fold a single tortilla into half and put the filling in. Taco style, but with flour tortillas.
They're typically homemade, and I'm not skilled enough to make them thin enough to wrap.
Donkey Kong Country (1994). I still play it all the time.
That's basically the premise of Shinju no Nectar.
a ‘product of its time’.
Something like this, indeed. Or more like a product of the situation, plus a few laws - like network effect (the value a user derives from the OS depends on the number of users using it).
Note that not even the devs are to blame for this; it makes sense someone releasing commercial software would focus on the 70% (Windows), sometimes on the 15% (Mac OS), but almost never on the 4% (Linux).
It does, but this is a vicious cycle: small market share → devs don't release Linux versions for their software → the software ecosystem is fragile → users who'd rather use Linux still need to use Windows → small market share. Anything countering any of those "links" weakens the vicious cycle, including Microsoft pissing off some Windows users; that's why the penguin gets smug, because they know "Winrows is now an Agenric OS lol lmao" means slightly higher Linux market share.
It's like one of my cats. When she's doing something silly, and I grab the phone to take her pic, all I get is a picture of her butt. Because to observe something you need to interact with it, and when I interact with her she collapses into the "I wants buttslaps!" state.
And before I watch it, she's in a superposition of states. Much like Schrödinger's cat. However her states aren't dead vs. alive; they're "sleeping", "licking her own buttocks", and "ruining my Christmas decoration".
I regret not posting it before Canvas 2025, but hopefully it'll be useful for people playing it in 2026. All letters are 5 pixels tall, and most 3 pixels wide (some 4, a few 5). I've also included a few Cyrillic letters and the digits.
I tried to make it even smaller, but it gets really funky.
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Linguistic evidence suggests that the Xiōng-Nú and the Huns spoke the same Paleo-Siberian language
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
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The "mythical beast" is likely a tiger. Compare it with those:
They're part of a set of four or five mythological animals, associated with directions: Black Tortoise of the North, White Tiger of the West, Azure Dragon of the East, Vermillion Bird of the South. The fifth animal, when included, is a Yellow Qilin (or dragon) of the Centre.