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@wolftivy I have 3 brothers, same material conditions growing up, different outcomes. Environment does shape, but it's far from being the sole factor

I've been saying this. Human nature is not the reason communism fails. It's because it's against nature full stop! Material conditions determine human nature, and material conditions (the nature of reality) preclude communism.

@davepl1968 brute force (per pixel): if (x == cross.sx / 2 ^ y == cross.sy / 2) setpixel(x, y, white) faster: loop draw pixel in each direction (👆🏻👉🏻👇🏻👈🏻) in a radius and maybe 'optimal', memcpy for horizontal lines, horizontals still in loop

I'm going to give you a computer science problem, covered by a software patent (US 4,197,590). Let's see if it's "obvious" to experts in the field. You're on a monochrome display. You want to draw a PLUS sign cursor, like in a paint program, leaving the pixel in the middle unchanged. How do you draw the vertical and horizontal lines without stomping on the center pixel? Do you save the center and put it back later? Or what's your solution? No sprites, of course, all done via Get/SetPixel(x,y) only. Assume something like bool GetPixel(uint x, uint y); void SetPixel(uint x, uint y, bool b);

@PatrickHenry_II @davepl1968 @Kronykal Yes, today you don't have to smoke as much for the same result => better for lungs

@davepl1968 @Kronykal Today’s weed isn’t the same as yesterday’s. I think that’s much of the danger.

100%. Anyone under 25 shouldn’t touch it for the simple fact that if you become a habitual user you will stop progressing. In everything. No it’s not going to kill you. I know that. But it will sap your will to do anything to advance yourself as a person. The first 10 years after school are the most important in your career and you need to be motivated and busy if you want to be able to relax later on. Then you can smoke as much as you want.

@skdh @greg_ashman And machines didn't yet pass the Turing test en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_eff…

@greg_ashman the Turing test isn't about consciousness

The reaction to Dawkins deciding Claude is conscious is fascinating. It really is just the Strong AI position that Roger Penrose was criticising in the 1980s. If you think consciousness is just an emergent property of a sufficiently complex computer then of course AI is conscious. It passes the Turing test and that’s it. The really interesting part is why it is obvious to so many of us that AI is *not* conscious: obvious to the point we think Dawkins’ credulity is amusing. What are we basing that on? Are we deluded or is there something else to consciousness that we cannot articulate but that we clearly sense?

@InaOncrn16 @Igimsk @ZelenskyyUa @RobertFicoSVK bs.. Fico is and always was playing only Fico's game. He has no spine, he is not even a Putin-bot, he will change / shift depending on where the wind is blowing from

@Igimsk @ZelenskyyUa @RobertFicoSVK This! Fico is playing orban's game.

I have just spoken with Slovakia’s Prime Minister @RobertFicoSVK. We need strong relations between our countries, and both of us are interested in this. It was important to hear that Slovakia supports Ukraine’s membership in the European Union and is ready to share its experience of accession. I invited the Prime Minister to visit Kyiv and thanked him for his invitation to come to Bratislava. We also discussed the possibility of a personal meeting in the near future. Our teams will work on scheduling it.

@maxeddoubt @avidseries I bet you that if the same people grew up in Poland... they wouldn't be nearly as good, even with training. It's a combination (tall, lanky) & being used to lower oxygen levels (growing up in high altitude). Colombian & Slovenian cyclists, shaped by environment

@drotostot1 @avidseries But if a group live in an environment for long enough, localised natural selection leads to genetic divergence and selection for favourable traits. If the ones with the best stamina hunt best, and the ones who hunt best reproduce most, that trait grows in prominence.

49 of the fastest 50 marathoners of all time had East African ancestry. Yes, it is in the genes.

@Marek_Kollar Kult osobnosti(/í) takuto neinformaciu lahko prebije + "bolo to davno"

@DominikZelinsky @AntiHoaxer_Sk Inokedy prémiová žurnalistika s potešením rozkrýva prepojenia a históriu každej kauzy a teraz je ticho. Aj keď sa to udialo priamo u nich. Hanba. omediach.com/blog/30051-naj…?

Na kauze "Fórum" je okrem politického rozmeru, keď Smer používa inštitúcie na hľadanie špiny proti rodine opozičného lídra, fascinujúca tá katastrofálna komunikácia strany. Ešte to nedopadne dobre, ak sa náhodou ukáže, že opovoliči si musia zracionalizovať aj tento "ťah Pukovou".

@skdh Any central euro country has good bread. Not sure about further east (ukraine, belarus etc), but that sweetish cotton like thing they call bread is a westoid phenomenon. I spent some time in Sweden, it was impossible to get decent bread over there too

It's not that I am generally fond of German food but I yet have to find a country that does bread better than Germany.

As a German who has spent several years in the USA, I can tell you that none of the stuff you guys call "bread" over there is remotely comparable to what you get in any average bakery over here. x.com/AndToddsaid/st…

@jdthewlis @lauriewired

@lauriewired Looks like a minimalist version of Krtek the Czech mole

made a new friend from sun microsystems pretty sure he’s older than me lol

@maiaonacross @DreitTheDragon yeah and the proper name for the plant in slovak is Rajčiak jedlý

@drotostot1 @DreitTheDragon OOOOHHHH that makes sm sense, and i guess that would make them semantically equivalent but from different etymological origins

Czechs and Slovaks speak in each of their languages consistently with each other. It is normal to work bilingually Now, as a foreigner learning Czech, spoken Slovak is Chinese to me

@maiaonacross @DreitTheDragon paradajky from german Paradiesapfel = rajské jablká

@DreitTheDragon I loved in Brno for 3 years, so i was around a lot of slovaks, and words like this or like paradajky were always the weirdest cause they were just different and not just a sound change

@MichalWIvan @DominikZelinsky smutný to príbeh

@drotostot1 @DominikZelinsky Vraví tam aj, že Slováci sú na 95% Maďari, takže celý tento vývoj sám urobil v priebehu rozhovoru a posunul sa od Sapir-Whorfa ďalej. Maďari nie sú ako kmeň Hopi s vlastným svetom, len budú mať asi metafory naklonené k tomu královstvu.

Maďarské voľby priniesli o.i. revival konceptu "tajomného Maďarska", ktoré nemožno pochopiť bez priamej skúsenosti, ktorého jazyk je príliš "iný" a tak je tajomné aj jeho myslenie. Klasický exotizujúci rámec - o Fínsku, Estónsku či Dánsku v týchto intenciách nehovoríme.

@DominikZelinsky @MichalWIvan tak v jeho pripade ide pri drvivej vacsine prejavov o putanie pozornosti, ked uz sme mentalne v 19. storoci, tak ktovie co by na to psychosexualna teoria

@drotostot1 @MichalWIvan Nebudeme sa tváriť, že toto je v tomto prípade akože reálne relevantná klasická diskusia z lingivstiky a nie ďalší pokus pritiahnuť pozornosť exotizáciou (+ podlizovaním sa publiku), všakže.

@MichalWIvan @DominikZelinsky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguisti… klasicka debata z kognitivnej lingvistiky, "silna" verzia momentalne viac-menej "vyvratena", jazyk max tak prifarbuje, ale nedeterminuje

@DominikZelinsky Ale našťastie tu máme niekoho dvojjazyčného, kto nám to objasní. Len neviem, či keď hovorí slovensky, rozumie tomu druhému v ňom, ktorý hovorí maďarsky.

@SandyofCthulhu youtube.com/shorts/NZFjXfq…

@drotostot1 Bobr?

I really like Poland. Everything about it is cool except (sorry guys) your flag is kind of weak-sauce. Yeah I know it's too late to change it. (No Ukraine's isn't any better.) I went to Poland 8 years ago and it was terrific, because all the anti-American welts and passive aggressions I'd accumulated from the other parts of Europe got massaged out of me by the love the Poles showed Americans. Tired of the western Europe "sneer" when they learn you're from America? Try Poland. I did meet one Pole who didn't like my religion, and told me he knew more about it than I did. However I managed to convince him he was wrong, which is a feat impossible in any other country (including mine). 1/2

@pcgamer he says "officers and maybe one admiral" and you write "we owe it to an admiral 🫡"

We owe Fallout to an admiral and his officers teaching its designer to play D&D in 1979 pcgamer.com/games/fallout/…

@lauriewired @Gyeff01 "does this program ever end, y?"

@Gyeff01 you get redshifted + bandwidth divided by the time dilation factor aka for problems that approach an infinite amount of time, you’d want a yes/no 1-bit answer

Time Dilation kind of makes the whole “datacenters in space” idea more fun. Technically…something like a GPS Block III CPU runs an extra ~7,000 clock cycles per day compared to the same machine on earth. Extend this to the extreme, and you get the whole subfield of CS+physics called relativistic hypercompuation. There’s some (fun?) papers that allow you to solve the halting problem by placing yourself dangerously close to a black hole…while your computer safely computes for ~infinite-ish amounts of time. One of the better papers on this field appears to be: "Relativistic computers and the Turing barrier" (Németi & Dávid 2006) (sadly, the maximum speedup just escaping earths gravity well is something like 1 x 10 ^ (-10), so yeah the blackhole thing is kinda necessary)