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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Like, the periodic tables mapping isn’t arbitrary or alternate.

Neither the biology nor culinary mappings are arbitrary, they have their rhyme and reason. Also biology would be the alternate one? Because the culinary definitions were definitely first.

Did you know that there's quite extreme disagreements on what metals are? Chemists will tell you one thing and not be particularly unified in their response around the topic of semimetals, while astrophysicists have a very simple definition of metals: Anything that has more protons than helium.

Who is right? This has nothing to do with metaphysics (I've read a bit down the thread) as in "what is beyond physics, god, and stuff", but how we interpret our (scientific) observations. Neither definition of metals is more correct than the other, they're both maps drawn by scientists caring about vastly different things. Neither side says that the other is wrong -- they just don't care for it.

Back to the periodic table itself: Defining elements by protons has quite some predictive power but at the same time it's a vast oversimplification of what actually goes on, ask any quantum chemist. It is rooted in quite hard science, but that doesn't make it ground reality. Actual reality is something we can't observe because to observe anything we first have to project it into our minds. All perception is modelling: Ask any neuroscientist. Or, for that matter, Plato.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Isn’t the rejection of post-modernism like a very Jordan-Peterson–like thing to do?

Peterson is kinda the embodiment of post-modernism, that is, he does all his ideology building by questioning everything else into oblivion.

Of course, not knowing what he's talking about is also something very Jordan-Peterson-like so that all tracks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I haven't but that sounds like a pie not a cake. A meal, not a dessert.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (25 children)

Like at the end of the day it’s just humans developing a system to make sense of nature

The core of the matter is that we have multiple, mutually incompatible schemes sharing in part the same terminology. Biology is not cooking, both fields care about vastly different things thus the categorisation scheme is different, that's the end of it. Culinarily, tomatoes have too much umami to be fruit. Botanically peppermint is an aromatic, I recommend you not put any into your soffritto.


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Tomato is also dominated by oxalic acid, not malic, citric, (typical fruit acids) or acetic (fermented/overripe). Oxalic acid is in parsley, chives, spinach, beans, lettuce, that kind of stuff. "It's sour" isn't sufficient to describe a taste profile, our tongues may not tell them apart but our noses definitely do.

I think it should be possible to break the culinary categorisation down to chemistry. That doesn't tell you anything about the "why" but it's definitely not random and definitely not all in our heads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I wouldn't count on the federation they've been doing nothing all these years. Schleswig-Holstein law has favoured FLOSS solutions since 2009 ("where technically possible and economical"), and bits and pieces were introduced as early as 2012. ZenDiS exists since 2022, opendesk is based on dPhoenixSuite, work done by Dataport precisely for Schleswig-Holstein, and they're still doing most of the development work. More importantly though I'm not seeing any political commitment on the federal level, the Bundeswehr switching over because they care about stuff doesn't mean that the, what, finance ministry cares. The BND probably also cares but tough luck getting them to confirm or deny anything.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

SteamOS is not a good desktop distribution, which isn't surprising as it's not supposed to be one. It's specialised for handhelds.

Go install Ubuntu or something, really anything, ideally don't have an Nvidia GPU, install steam, done. SteamOS has no special sauce regarding running games.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
Sandwich.hs:6:11: error: [GHC-83865]
    * Couldn't match type ‘Bread’ with ‘Cucumber’
        Expected: Bread
        Actual: Cucumber

This wouldn't have happened with Burritos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ne das passt 100% Faust auf's Auge. Mantasleep is ne US-Firma, bei denen wird ja inzwischen absolut nichts hergestellt, die sagen auch dass es in China hergestellt wird, die Chinesen verkaufen das Ding dann ohne Markenlogo selber, Produktionslinie steht ja schon. Um sowas zu verhindern müsste man selber herstellen, weltweit Gebrauchs/ Geschmacksmusterschutz beantragen, oder weitaus weniger gierig bei der eigenen Gewinnmarge sein.

Musterschutz müsstest du mal nachgucken kann ja einen Grund geben warum es das China-Modell nicht auf Amazon gibt, ansonsten fröhliches Dropshippen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bevor das was aus macht musste nackt und ohne Decke schlafen. Schwitzen tut man in der Gegend nicht wirklich.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You don't need nukes to make Russia think thrice, they can be easily hurt a lot in very conventional ways. What the nuklear deterrent is good for is them not defending themselves with nukes. Generally speaking the only thing nukes are good for is to stop others from using nukes.

Also do watch Yes, Minister, and Yes, Prime Minister. Best political TV show ever and not just because it's hilarious. Only show able to put Babylon 5 on second place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What if I told you that Germany is a federation. NRW would be the fifth largest US state, Bremen the third smallest (actually, almost identical population to DC), most of all the US has more states. They can do stuff in parallel that's no excuse to not have quick election results. And now don't come with "but there's so much space in between" you're not sending the results via horse buggy are you.

And, no, of course the federation doesn't legislate on state elections. It gets to say how federal (and EU) elections are run. State's rights my ass in Germany the federation has no tax office, it's all collected by the states, and their police can't put boots on the ground outside of international borders (incl. airports) and the train system (cf Amtrak cops). Certainly can't just decide to invade a city like is happening in LA. They also don't have anything like ICE, that's all state responsibility.

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Equality (ro-che.info)
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120 days – roughly four months: That’s how much time Maxim Timchenko reckons Ukraine has until cold weather sets in, raising the pressure on Ukraine’s crippled power infrastructure. Timchenko is CEO of the country’s largest private energy operator, DTEK, which has lost power plants in recent Russian attacks – part of a Russian offensive that has wiped out half of Ukraine’s power production. He tells Steven Beardsley how he’s now trying to scrape together every bit of generating capacity he can find, including from renewables.

 

Even more voter movement charts.

Bonus: "Do you think Germany's economic situation is good or bad?"

not even asking about personal economic conditions, just the overall state there's a massive fucking difference in perception.

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For all your boycotting needs. I'm sure there's some mods caught in lemmy.ml's top 10 that are perfectly upstanding and reasonable people, my condolences for the cross-fire.

  1. [email protected] and [email protected]. Or of course communities that rule.
  2. [email protected]
  3. [email protected]. Quite small, plenty of more specific ones available. Also linux is inescapable on lemmy anyway :)
  4. [email protected]
  5. [email protected]
  6. [email protected] and maybe [email protected], lemmy.one itself seems to be up in the air. [email protected] says [email protected]. They really seem to be hiding even from another, those tinfoil hats :)
  7. [email protected]
  8. Seems like [email protected] and [email protected], various smaller comic-specifc communities as well as [email protected]
  9. [email protected]
  10. [email protected]

(Out of the loop? Here's a thread on lemmy.ml mods and their questionable behaviour)

 

A new paper suggests diminishing returns from larger and larger generative AI models. Dr Mike Pound discusses.

The Paper (No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data): https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125

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