Wong Jia Hau
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@BobtheBobarras @zackdfilms1 Genitally challenged*
Let's try not to use the c-word again today, okay?
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@contentmachinee Well the Pure Land of the Medicine Buddha is already all male
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@AbakpaJob Well, would you serve human meat to a cannibalistic tribe who came to visit you?
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@DivinelyDesined @CarlWhi99454847 Not an atheist, but as a programmer I think it is possible to have it simplified further, it's just that we haven't discovered how yet, but anyway, I don't think conflating the argument of whether bacteria flagellum can be simplified further or not with theology is productive.
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@CarlWhi99454847 It's been demonstrated irreducibly complex over and over again in the lab. This isn't debatable.
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Scientists are baffled by this.
The Bacterial Flagellum is composed of 20-30 unique parts.
Combined, they total over 30,000 parts that make this little motor run.
It can hit rotation speeds of up to 100,000 RPM, then stop & reverse direction in a quarter of a turn.
It can propel a bacteria up to 20 lengths per second, which when scaled up is about equal to 225mph in a car.
But this motor only works when all those parts are perfectly engineered and working together.
Take away just one of those 30 pieces, and it stops functioning.
That means it can't evolve gradually.
None of the pieces do anything outside the system, and the system only works with all the pieces.
Bacteria require this motor to move - without it, they would quickly die.
How can anyone see something like and still deny that Life is Divinely Designed?
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@child_doc555 I think it's a universal condition of female vs male
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あまりに正直な感想を言うと、専業主婦である妻と、自分の差はどんどん開くばかりで、段々会話が難しくなってきたように感じる。
IQが違うと会話にならないと言うが、IQはそんなに変わらなくても、会話が難しい。
積み重ねてきたものに差があり過ぎて、共通言語がなく、背景知識がなく、語彙力も厳しい。前提を共有できないので、スムーズな会話が困難。
妻が細かい(ワイからすると)どうでもいいことをやたら気にするのは、元々の性格もあるだろうが、人生における責任範囲が狭過ぎるが故に、どうでもいいところを掘り下げるしかないのかな?と感じる。
そのどうでもいい非合理的なこだわりを押し付けることで、自らの存在感と権利と存在価値を必死でアピールしているように見えてしまう。
ワイが歪みすぎ?どうしたら解決しますか??
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@DAKKADAKKA1 But to be fair, if the realism guy won, he go viral on Twitter won’t
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@thecurioustales What do you mean by red? Is there anything actually red if we zoom in enough?
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Anna's Hummingbirds have been fooling humans for centuries with red throats.
Those blazing crimson feathers that catch sunlight and seem to glow from within contain zero red pigment. The bird's gorget is built from microscopic transparent platelets stacked like glass slides, each one precisely 400 nanometers thick.
When white light hits this biological interference filter, most wavelengths cancel each other out through destructive interference. Only red light at 630 nanometers survives the gauntlet and bounces back to your eye.
The bird is essentially wearing a living hologram.
Move your head three degrees to the left and the red vanishes completely. The angle change shifts which wavelength survives the interference pattern. The throat flickers between crimson, orange, deep purple, and invisible black as the bird moves through space.
Every hummingbird species fine tuned their microscopic architecture to reflect different wavelength combinations. Anna's chose red. Allen's chose orange. Broad-tailed chose magenta. Each species evolved their own optical signature by growing feather structures at slightly different nanoscale dimensions.
The precision required borders on impossible. These birds grow biological optical computers on their bodies. Each platelet must be manufactured to within a few nanometers of the target thickness or the color shifts completely. Human engineers struggle to build interference filters this precise in clean rooms with million dollar equipment.
A hummingbird grows them while hanging upside down drinking sugar water.
The evolutionary implications are staggering. Female hummingbirds are literally selecting mates based on their ability to grow functional nanophotonic devices. Males with better optical engineering get to reproduce. Sexual selection drove these birds to become living examples of advanced materials science.
Your eye processes the reflected light as "red" but the bird's throat contains nothing red at all. The color exists purely in the interference between transparent surfaces and incoming photons.
The hummingbird bent light itself into love.
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@corleoneYC I think Plato was referring to his teacher, Socrates
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@BurnedO96761182 @avgdvl @nattyover "I understand it, so it must have been God."
Those that don't understand don't see
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@avgdvl @nattyover "I don't understand it, so it must have been God." Talk about mockery.
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@RealPostFolder The unexamined life is not worth living, domesticated or not
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>Be me
>I do not care what you do with my body after I die
>You can use it for organs and ballistics testing or dissection training
>Likely I will die in my 70s if im lucky with the amount of stress human society curates
>If there are no other secret monkey paw stipulations, all you've done is rename a paradise to a farm
>I can do whatever I want for 3x my life span
>This is litterally a both sides benefit situation
>I will live a happier longer life and the aliens get a cool dinner party

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Singapore is the first and only Asian country so far to publicly refuse negotiating passage with Iran.
Many others have made deals with Tehran to allow their shipments through. Some vessels are reportedly paying as much as $2m in fees to Iran to cross the waterway without coming under fire.
This speech which was given for a domestic audience in Singapore's parliament but somehow, it has ended up triggering a diplomatic incident with Malaysian politicians who are friendly and supportive of the Iranian regime.
Singapore refuses to accept the principle of turning transit through international straits as an extortion racket or a modern pirate toll booth. It’s a right under UNCLOS transit passage rules, the same rules that keep the global economy breathing.
Partly, this is due to self-interest as Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia lie at the crossroads of another chokepoint - the Malacca Strait. The narrowest point is the Phillips Channel in the Singapore Strait is barely 2 nautical miles wide, squeezed between Singapore’s islands and Indonesia’s Riau chain.
Compared to the Strait of Hormuz’s 21 nautical mile pinch point, Singapore’s narrowest stretch is ten times tighter. Every eastbound ship on the planet is funneled through its Traffic Separation Scheme. If anyone had a temptation to start charging “protection fees,” it would be Singapore.
Negotiating with Iran would shred the legal norm that protects every strait used for international navigation. Malaysia, Indonesia, or anyone else with "geographical privilege" and a grudge could do the same.
And before you say “but Israel and America violated international law so why can't Iran," let me just reiterate that two wrongs don’t license Iran to play 17th-century privateer with 21st-century oil tankers. Clearly the same people making this argument don't extend the accusations of flouting of international law to an Iranian regime that has cut the internet off for its people, murdered several tens of thousands, and has been found in breach of international nuclear safeguards and IAEA obligations due to undeclared nuclear materials and activities, particularly in violating the 2015 JCPOA deal by enriching uranium up to 60% and limiting inspector access.
Selective outrage is the refuge of people who only care about rules when they hurt their preferred side. Singapore has never played that game.
During the 1973 and 1979 oil crises, Singapore faced a severe shock and given that it was an oil refining hub, it could have nationalized foreign oil stocks and kept the lights on for two years. But Lee Kuan Yew didn't do that. Singapore honored contracts and kept the system running.
Part of its brand in a chaotic world is that of being a responsible actor. This decision prioritized long term global trust and reliability over short term national gain. It positioned Singapore as a dependable partner in the eyes of multinational oil companies and international business. As a result, it attracted even more investment, expanded its role as a major refining and trading hub, and strengthened its economy far beyond what hoarding the oil would have achieved. Building credibility pays dividends for decades.
Furthermore, every single dollar funneled to Iran’s “safe passage” scheme ends up subsidizing the very terror networks rebuilding Hezbollah and Hamas. Singapore knows it.
Eric 𝕏@WorldStrategist
Singapore’s Foreign Minister on why he cannot accept negotiating with Iran for safe passage of ships. Definitely worth listening to:
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@Melee1988 @Kaka10Torres9 @real_AlirezaZa @WorldStrategist The moment a man murdered another, he lost his God-granted rights, no?
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@Kaka10Torres9 @real_AlirezaZa @WorldStrategist That's their internal problem. Nothing to do with the rest of the world. Meanwhile them getting attacked by US and Israel is an international incident.
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@PatrickDehkordi @writeexpress @alvinfoo Sadly the philosopher king wouldn't come without grace from God
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@writeexpress @alvinfoo Have you read the Plato's "Republic" ?
His criticism applies to the US constitution.
He wants a philosopher King.
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I don't think the speed matters, vim motions or not. It's much more important that the editor feels nice and friendly. It mustn't irritate you, because then you'll have a bad time while working.
gingerBill@TheGingerBill
I honestly believe that Vim Motions don't actually make you faster at using a text editor, and a well implemented multiple-cursor system + typical modifier keys are actually much faster in practice. Evidence: watch me program on streams with Sublime Text and judge for yourself.
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@gyanantaran @fchollet Do you mean regarding the incapabilities of LLM?
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This is more evidence that current frontier models remain completely reliant on content-level memorization, as opposed to higher-level generalizable knowledge (such as metalearning knowledge, problem-solving strategies...)
Lossfunk@lossfunk
🚨 Shocking: Frontier LLMs score 85-95% on standard coding benchmarks. We gave them equivalent problems in languages they couldn't have memorized. They collapsed to 0-11%. Presenting EsoLang-Bench. Accepted to the Logical Reasoning and ICBINB workshops at ICLR 2026 🧵
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