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cecilkorik

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  • Is Autism something old or has it been developed recently?

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  • Speaking as a left-handed person it absolutely is a struggle, and given that the majority of the world is right-handed, for practical purposes it actually does need to be a struggle, otherwise ALL non-ambidextrous things would be a struggle for right-handed people instead, and that would be an even stupider way to run the world (as funny as it would be to see everybody else suddenly struggle with the things we struggle with on a daily basis, that's not a fair or sensible way to expect any civilization to function)

    The things that left-handed people struggle with are due to subtle design issues caused by things that require asymmetric designs, you won't notice an obvious problem with the asymmetry as a right-handed person, but they're real struggles. Things like the shape being uncomfortable is only part of it, with scissors for example, the strength is coming from the wrong side, it won't cut properly, for things like writing, our hands smear the ink as we go or have to be held hovering above leading to strain and poor penmanship, spines and bindings immediately get in our way the moment we start trying to write, many things don't fit the way they're supposed to, don't have the correct angles when used in the left hand, or often they will block our vision or put our hand in a place that blocks our vision, whereas a right-handed person's hand does not block their vision using the same tool. The issues are complex and subtle, but they're significant, and they are not necessarily solved by simply making things symmetrical or reversing them. As much as lefties might enjoy a language that is written right-to-left, it's not a practical solution to the reality that we are a minority where things are designed for the majority.

    Ironically the languages that DO write right-to-left, actually did not do it for the benefit of left-handed people, but did it to benefit right handed people, when they're chiseling into stone tablets as the hammer (in their left hand) would block their view. So if you want to know how it feels to be left-handed, go chisel some essays on a stone tablet. It'll make me feel better.

  • Ford bemoans Chinese EV deal, says he still hasn't spoken to Carney

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  • They don't have time for that, all levels of government are still too busy trying to sabotage Edison Motors with regulatory roadblocks whenever possible. They don't have enough time to also sabotage NEW EV companies, they can only do so much at one time.

  • Rich people are a threat for democracy, Oxfam finds

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  • The stupidity is happening because it benefits rich people to fill the world with stupid people. Stupid, gullible people are the key to their endlessly growing profits and wealth extraction.

    We already know how to solve stupidity. We have always known it. Education has been one of the core pillars of human civilization since antiquity. It wasn't the first man to discover fire who changed everything, it was the person who discovered how to teach the next generation to control fire at least as well if not better than they originally did.

    Education has not failed us. Education has been sabotaged and dismantled. By rich and powerful people, for their own purposes.

    First we get rid of those rich and powerful people who have set themselves against us, then we rebuild everyone's education and if we're lucky, we might get to move on with our civilization eventually. Nobody promised it's going to be easy. But it is necessary, if we wish the human race to continue, and traditionally we've been pretty stubbornly invested in that.

  • I don't know if this qualifies. What is the real world equivalent to Vibranium or Admantium? Or have we come that far yet?

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  • Material science is an incredibly complicated field full of details and nuances, and fiction just catastrophically simplifies it to always "strongest" and "stronger than everything else", thus there is no real way to answer your question while maintaining that simplistic premise.

    Real world materials are inevitably strong in some ways and weak in others. There is no single measurement of strength and there is no single property that fictional materials like Vibranium or Adamantium have that directly translates to the way real materials work.

    We do have materials that are extremely hard like diamond, but they are typically also very brittle and diamonds are also surprisingly sensitive to temperature, despite their hardness, friction still makes heat, even on the microscopic scale, and heat makes them burn away, they're not an infinite drill bit and even with perfect cooling and lubrication, which is realistically impossible, the tips and sharp points will eventually become smooth as they wear down. We have materials like concrete that can survive extreme compression loads, and fail miserably under tension, or shear, and vice versa. We have materials that can survive extreme temperatures and extreme changes and extreme chemicals without significant damage, but then they'll go ahead and do something silly like degrade under exposure to oxygen in the atmosphere or wear down quickly under friction. We do have materials that can "heal" themselves when stressed or damaged, but maybe not fast enough to withstand the kind of loads and forces and conditions you need it to endure. Usually the materials you want to use for something are going to be constrained by weight, or size. Otherwise you could just use a 30 foot cube of solid lead for most purposes, weapon, armor, radiation shielding, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, structural support, paperweight, whatever you need really, it'd be very multipurpose, probably don't lick it though.

    We do have plenty of materials that strike a good balance of properties, but they are probably never going to be the absolute hardest or most resilient in any category, they're probably good for some particular purpose, and that's what we use them for, but they always come with trade-offs and sacrifices to the point that it's often hard to even agree on the "best, strongest" material for that particular purpose, nevermind a "best, strongest" material in general for any possible purpose. Reality is complicated and is full of complicated and dynamic challenges for materials to withstand. There's no one-size-fits-all "strongest" material, and from what we know of materials science it's not really clear there ever could be.

  • What are the limits to masked so called ICE agents? Are they just let off the hook and disobey laws while not identifying themselves? Why can't I be in the right by them stopping me first and shoot?

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  • Civil rights are far beyond the back-burner, they've already been left out to cool, then emptied into the garbage and now put in the dishwasher, where they're currently getting thoroughly rinsed clean.

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    Pirated Ableton on Linux (or BitWig?)

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  • If you need low latency audio (ie, live music) Windows programs have to do a lot of ugly tricks to do this efficiently on Windows, and it's different from the ugly tricks you have to do on Linux, and even if wine can attempt to translate the tricks from one to the other you may struggle trying to make this work well cross-platform to in Linux AFAIK.

    However if you're just doing all-digital production I don't see why wine wouldn't work. Other people seem to have had success minus the latency issue I mentioned. And most of that was years ago, it mentions people are working on improving it, and honestly, Wine has come a really long way in the last 2 years. I'd recommend giving it a shot and see how it goes.

  • Canadians Cash In While America Burns – The Rover

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  • Nobody has to say it. I believe some people may think that way. I'm speaking to those people who might think that, you don't need to assume it's directed at you if it doesn't apply to you. I agree nobody needs to get defensive, and that applies to you too. Except billionaires, they should definitely be on the defensive. I'm gonna eat them, sooner or later.

  • Canadians Cash In While America Burns – The Rover

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  • Considered pillars of the business community and lauded by all the mainstream media and government officials they own, sure.

    Don't pretend this is the opinion of the average Canadian. Rest assured we hate Canadian billionaires at least as much as we hate American billionaires. I don't think anyone is pretending that Canadian billionaires are less evil or more morally acceptable than billionaires anywhere else. But we don't have that many, and most of them are not hyper, hyper-rich and well connected the way some of the most influential techbros are, so ours, while still deeply reprehensible people, represent just a few small drops in the ocean of wealth inequality, and it's not really worth focusing on them. That doesn't mean they're acceptable, it just means they're not the priority. We've got way bigger and more nefarious fish to fry.

    Eat the rich. No exceptions. It is very, very easy to become not rich, with the stroke of a pen, and I recommend that any rich folks consider that if you don't want to get eaten. Share the wealth, motherfuckers.

  • Fed Agent Permanently Blinds, Fractures Skull of Anti-ICE Protester

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  • Lack of resistance looks much worse, it just takes a little longer.

  • EU chief diplomat Kallas: World’s woes mean it’s time to start drinking

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  • It is reassuring to hear that someone in some position of power has at least some grasp on reality.

    Anyone who thinks now is a good time to start drinking clearly has a solid grasp of the situation.

  • 'No such thing as a better colonizer': Inuit emphatically reject U.S. takeover of Greenland

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  • Oh there may not be better ones, but there are definitely worse ones, and the USA qualifies. Ask an American Indian -- if you can still find one.

  • Hosting multiple services with one IP address.

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  • FWIW I don't find Apache dated at all. It's mature software, yes, but it's also incredibly powerful and flexible, and regularly updated and improved. It's probably not the fastest by any benchmark, but it was never intended to be (and for self-hosting, it doesn't need to be). It's an "everything and the kitchen sink" web server, and I don't think that's always the wrong choice. Personally, I find Apache's litlte-known and perhaps misleadingly named Managed Domains (mod_md/MDomain) by far the easiest and clearest way to automatically manage and maintain SSL certificates, it's really nice and worth looking into if you use Apache and are using any other solution for certificate renewal.

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • All this bullshit about phones with folding screens nowadays when what I really want is a phone with a folding mechanical 104-key :P

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    WTF is this icon?

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  • Early-model Cylon.

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  • It can't be, I haven't paid for WinRar yet.

  • On familiarity

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  • an AI can create concept art for a writer to better visualise their world to generate ideas in a pinch, but it shouldn’t ever be what you use to show anyone else: you still need real concept art

    so... if it's only for creating visuals for yourself and not for showing anyone else... I already have a perfectly fine imagination that I've been using for that purpose for as long as I can remember. Maybe it's useful for these people who I've been told have no imagination, but to me, it seems awfully redundant.

  • Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why

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  • I moved one old laptop to Linux over about a year ago, and committed to an effort to actually make it do the things I wanted to do, like play games, and run Windows-only tools or find viable replacements. To say it went well is an understatement. Within a few months I had switched every computer I owned, and I'm never looking back again.

    Granted, I was already quite familiar with Linux on the server side. This was not my first attempt to use Linux on the desktop, either. But it was my last, because I'm never going back to Windows ever again now.

  • Trump seeks $100bn for Venezuela oil, but Exxon boss says country 'uninvestable'

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  • It's true that the infrastructure is already in place but it is important to understand that it is not simple infrastructure, and with a few exceptions, it is already pretty much fully utilized by Canadian and Mexican heavy crude/bitumen so it's not like they can just double their capacity and start processing Venezuela too. You're right about giving an opening to pressure Canada/Mexico though.

    But it's questionable if there's really much upside for the US on the financial side. The opportunity to pressure is definitely there, but more pressure isn't going to get blood out of a stone. Venezuelan oil will still have costs associated with it, and Canadian and Mexican oil is already really cheap.

    The oil itself may be essentially free the way they're stealing it with military force, but It's not going to be cheap to build up Venezuela's production infrastructure and it's not going to be cheap to transport the oil stateside, and both Mexico and Canada already have all that infrastructure in place too, and already give a huge discount to the US since they have nowhere else to affordably sell or refine their oil as they have effectively no indigenous refining capacity for heavy crude and few other export options. During a few of the oil price plummets around Covid, Canadian oil (Western Canadian Select) was actually selling for negative prices, Canada was paying the US to take it off their hands and refine it for them. With global oil prices already trending relatively low, it's going to be hard for oil from Venezuela to realistically compete with situations like that.

    The most believable explanation that I've heard is that this is not really about directly stealing Venezuela's oil reserves as much as it is about denying it to Russia and China, and maybe securing them in case of some future conflict. And that, I think, makes an awful lot of sense geopolitically as distasteful as I personally find the whole affair.

  • Looking for small foam adhesive disks, single-sided (pictures included)

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