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    "What is a woman?"

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  • Asking this is like when people debate what is and isn't a sandwich. Everyone knows that a sub and a club are sandwiches right? Bread and filling, straightforward. But it's a big world with many foods. Is a hot dog a sandwich? A pizza? What about a taco? A falafel wrap? It's not exactly clear.

    People spend tons of effort trying to come up with simple definitions that conclusively define sandwiches. But these inevitably lead to consequences that just intuitively don't make sense to people. Now a deep dish pizza is a quiche, pop tart is a toast, a burrito is a calzone until you take a bite at which point it becomes a quiche. Your simple definition is just not useful in the real messy world of bready foods.

    At the end of the day, you have to accept that sandwich is a loose, vague term that cannot accurately categorize all food ever, and mostly it's whatever people say it is.

    The point is, gender and sex are like sandwiches.

  • Nearly 90% Of Developers Surveyed Say Premium Games Don't Need Microtransactions

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  • It gave your horse extra health actually, so not purely cosmetic. But I think in a single player game that also has extremely good modding tools, it doesn't really matter. If you want to pay to win your single player game, you do you.

    Horse armour was mostly a landmark for showing companies that consumers were willing to pay for micro stuff like that. The potential return vs effort invested was crazy. Todd himself said that they try doing nice DLC that gives you good value for your money, but it's hard to justify business-wise when the horse armour is so cheap to make and sells so well.

  • The line war has begun

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  • We have geodesics for that.

  • Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?

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  • But on a fundamental level, in the least instance admins have to be able to know who votes for our version of the system to even work compared to the competition.

    Could you elaborate on this claim? Because I don't really see why that would be true.

  • "High Occupancy?" (by Mike Peters)

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  • It's a highway lane that you're only allowed to drive on if you have multiple people driving in the car. So you could avoid traffic, for example. It's supposed to reduce the number of cars on the road.

    There is one in Norway it seems, in Trondheim.

  • Why does my calculator need a privacy policy? It's a calculator!

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  • In this case, it redirects to Google's general privacy policy that covers all their services. Anyway Google's calculator stores a history of all the calculations you did in your account somewhere. So I guess it needs to have a policy stating what they do with that data.

  • JK Rowling falls silent as she could be prosecuted in Imane Khelif lawsuit

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  • The bigotry is on the same level, but I think JK Rowling is actively militant on a far different level compared to Orson Scott Card. Just looking at their twitter for example, OSC tweets maybe once a month and 9/10 times it's about a book signing or other such promotion. JK Rowling's feed is a constant flow of hatred on trans people. She tries very hard to make sure you are reminded of her bigotry every single time you hear anything about her.

    The reach is different too. OSC has some 16k followers. Rowling has 15 million. It's natural for her to attract a much higher degree of disdain.

  • JUST EJECT FASTER

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  • If you eject downward you may hit the ground before your chute has opened. Helicopters tend to stay pretty low.

  • Can't beat the classics

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  • At the time, it held the record of most cars destroyed for a film. That has since been eclipsed various times, mainly by films from the fast and furious franchise. But the current record holder is one of the transformers films.

  • Solar Photovoltaics with Battery Storage Cheaper than Conventional Power Plants

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  • There was this guy that made a pumped hydro water tank on his roof and by his calculations a cubic meter of water was equivalent to a AA battery.

    That sounds crazy. Let's do some math. From what I can find, a double A battery contains about 10-14 kilojoules of energy. Let's use 14 to be charitable.

    A cubic meter of water weighs about 1000kg. We know the formula for potential gravitational energy U = mgh. So if we used all the energy from the battery, we could lift the water:

     
            14000 = 1000 * 9.81 * h
    h = 14000 / (1000 * 9.81) ≈ 1.43 meters (4 feet 8 inches)

    That assumes 100% efficiency of course. Still, lifting a ton of water even two feet ain't nothing to sneeze at. Batteries have a lot of energy.

  • Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line

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  • The Chromecast is a small $35 dongle that goes behind your TV. This new thing is a whole $99 set-top box with an AI integration. They're not really the same product.

  • Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again

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  • Kinda but Thunderbird is community driven, and spun out into an independent subsidiary.

  • Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again

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  • Laura Chambers, who stepped into an interim CEO role at Mozilla in February, says the company is reinvesting in Firefox after letting it languish in recent years,

    It's sort of amusing to me that Mozilla would let the Firefox browser languish. Is that not the raison d'etre of your entire organization? What are you doing with your time and effort if you are allowing your core product to languish? What would people say if Microsoft said "yeah, we've allowed windows to languish in recent years." What an insane notion.

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    USA Moment Rule

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  • These are much older, but may still be worth reading:

    • William Powell's "The Anarchists Cookbook"
    • The CIA's "Simple Sabotage Field Manual"

    Ultimately, reading material is useful but does not by itself lead to action. Some organisation is required for that, and I don't have a practical direction to point you in for that. Though you could always strike out on your own, of course.

    If you do decide to organise for the purpose of sabotage action, I'd caution against doing so online. One never knows who might be listening

  • Samsung’s 20-year-life EV battery runs 600 miles on 9-minute charge

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  • These are gonna be hella expensive for a while. If space is not a concern there's much cheaper batteries out there. You don't really need fast charging capabilities either.

  • average day in NPM land

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  • is-number is a project by John Schlinkert. John has a background in sales and marketing before he became an open source programmer and started creating these types of single function packages. So far he has about 1400 projects. Not all of them are this small, though many are.

    He builds a lot of very basic functionality packages. Get the first n values from an array. Sort an array. Set a non-enumerable property on an object. Split a string. Get the length of the longest item in an array. Check if a path ends with some string. It goes on and on.

    If you browse through it's not uncommon to find packages that do nothing but call another package of his. For example, is-valid-path provides a function to check if a windows path contains any invalid characters. The only thing it does is import and call another package, is-invalid-path, and inverses its output.

    He has a package called alphabet that only exports an array with all the letters of the alphabet. There's a package that provides a list of phrases that could mean "yes." He has a package (ansi-wrap) to wrap text in ANSI color escape codes, then he has separate packages to wrap text in every color name (ansi-red, ansi-cyan, etc).

    To me, 1400 projects is just an insane number, and it's only possible because they are all so trivial. To me, it very much looks like the work of someone who cares a lot about pumping up his numbers and looking impressive. However the JavaScript world also extolled the virtues of these types of micro packages at some point so what do I know.

  • $200 rule

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  • Nobody plays by the official rules, because the intention of the game is to bankrupt other players, knocking them out of the game. Not being allowed to play anymore is not fun. So, people tend to change the rules up to make it harder to get knocked out, which in turn leads to games becoming extremely long.

    Basically, the game is crap.

  • McDonald's to 'rethink' prices after first sales fall since 2020

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  • Your individual tastes are subjective. I was arguing that the quality difference of a mcdonalds burger and a restaurant burger is not as big a chasm as OP made out.

    I agree that they are basically the same meat from the same cows, but in my opinion there is still a big quality difference due mainly to preparation. A McDonald's beef patty is too thin, too homogeneous, and overcooked. The lack of flavour is the result of optimizing for cooking speed.

    If you are willing to wait 5-15 minutes for your burger to be cooked you can achieve dramatically better results from the same cow.

  • Rule

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  • People are replying to you like this is a pie in the sky fantasy, but actually this is an accurate description of Tokyo.