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Eheran , to science_memes in imnotok.jpg

So what is the point?

psmgx ,

Publish or perish

Eheran ,

Why July? What is special about it?

Tar_alcaran ,

It’s (near) the end of the academic year. The start of next academic year is when you get judged by the people who decide if you’ll have a job

Eheran ,

Ah, thanks.

sugar_in_your_tea , to selfhosted in Why do so many people use NGINX?

There’s a lot of good resources for Nginx, it’s fast (faster than Caddy), and has a ton of features, so you can use it for pretty much anything HAProxy, Apache, or Caddy can do, and not sacrifice much in performance.

That said, I mostly use HAProxy and Caddy. Here’s my basic setup:

  1. HAProxy at the edge VPS - routes requests to machines based on SNI
  2. WireGuard VPN - connects my internal devices to my VPS
  3. Caddy in Docker - runs on internal network on my NAS/homelab - manages LetsEncrypt renewals and reverse proxies to internal Docker network
  4. Nginx in Docker - FE for NextCloud; this simplifies things so all my TLS is handled in one place, and Caddy doesn’t need to touch files

I use a local DNS server on my router so my domains can route directly to Caddy instead of going over the internet when on my network, otherwise I may just have HAProxy handle LetsEncrypt certificates.

From what I can tell, Nginx is a little more efficient than Caddy, but Caddy is plenty fast for my needs. I’m considering switching from NextCloud to the new ownCloud Infinite Scale, and if I do, I’d ditch nginx completely.

Crozekiel , to linux in I finally deleted windows on every computer I own

Welcome! I made the switch a little over a year ago and have been loving it. Honestly, it is such a breath of fresh air. I do hate my job more every day now though, since I am stuck on Windows there… lol

HurlingDurling , to asklemmy in Men in their 40s, what’s one piece of advice for men in their 20s?
@HurlingDurling@lemmy.world avatar

Meet with a trusted financial advisor and plan your retirement ASAP

Banichan , to science_memes in Inhale, exhale. Just got ozone in the mail.
@Banichan@dormi.zone avatar

I’m so confused. Why is it necessary to inhale through a nostril? 😂

fossilesque OP ,
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

Drinking snake oil is too easy.

ChadCMulligan ,

It’s just that much closer to the Woo-Hoakes lobe of the brain, which is responsible for controlling the placebo effect in most mammals

Banichan ,
@Banichan@dormi.zone avatar

I wasn’t expecting an intelligent answer that made sense, but there it is

Dasus ,
@Dasus@lemmy.world avatar

Probably for the ozone to affect a stuffy nose (from the clear side)?

ClassifiedPancake , to asklemmy in The specific thing you spend the most time doing instead of the actual job you're being paid to do is your new profession. What's your new job title?

Professional Factory Idle eSports

Tar_alcaran , to science_memes in Deep Seamails

I need to know where this is, because I need to throw money at the people who made this.

DrBob ,
Tar_alcaran ,

Oh, that’s actually somewhere I go semi-regulary (Prague, that is, not really the museum). Guess it’s on my next schedule!

solsangraal , to science_memes in imnotok.jpg

if you’re at a big 4 year U, just wait till november…

MudMan , to science_memes in Geohydtotypography

Hold on, over how many lines? How was this estimate made? I demand to know what latitude gets the first line change for a given text. Also how much text you'd need and whether we have a single source that would fit.

fossilesque OP ,
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

Depends on the projection.

Tar_alcaran , (edited )

We can work this out in reverse.

The Atlantic widens about 1cm per year. Words contain about 6 characters on average. At 12 points, or 4mm tall, that comes to about 2x6=12mm for an average word, make it 15mm for ease and spaces,

If the ocean gains 15x100=1500mm (150cm) of word-width per second, thats 150x60x60x24x365 ~ 4.7 billion centimeters of word-space per year.

Given that it only moves about 1cm, that’s a quick and dirty 4.7 billion lines of text.

At 5mm tall (4mm of text, 1mm whitespace between lines), that comes to 23 million meters. Since the earth is about 40.000km or 40 million meters in circumference, and adding in rounding numbers and suffering tectonic drift numbers, 4.7 billion lines seems about the right order of magnitude.

Edit: nope, it works out!

Rhaedas ,

Companion trivia: Can the whole of text of the internet cover the entire Atlantic in 12 point type, and if not yet, when based on how fast it grows?

Secondary question: What font would be best, besides Papyrus?

Dasus ,
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OurToothbrush , to memes in I hope this clears things up

“Science describes some material reality” “science describes some reality”

You put dialectical materialism in the latter category?

Also scientific testing+Marxism and bullshit idealist debates are not in any way similar in methodology

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Both Marxism and Community Activism would be some form of Sociology, no? Plus activism is a movement to install some idea, while the idea would be the result of the science.

Unless the chart is saying that being more effective at activism is a science?

OurToothbrush ,

No, that is specifically idealist activism, not materialist activism. Also sociology is a science that follows similar methodology as “hard” sciences

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

But sociology describes ideas, not material properties, thus would fit in the middle column.

Anyway, my point was that neither a system of government/economy nor pushing ideas are ways of describing the world. It’s the description aspect that defines the chart here, so I don’t think actions fit.

OurToothbrush ,

But sociology describes ideas, not material properties

This is a fundamentally idealist way of viewing sociology, although most sociology you’re exposed to is idealist in nature.

Anyway, my point was that neither a system of government/economy nor pushing ideas are ways of describing the world.

??? What does that have to do with Marxism? I think the disconnect here is that you do not understand what Marxism is, you have only had second and third hand exposure to it.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Perhaps I don’t know what Markism is. Is it a school of thought, or a subcategory of sociology? An Ought or an Is?

OurToothbrush ,

Marxism and MLism as an ideology is fundamentally about studying the relationships between things through: looking at past history and current conditions, hypothesizing, and testing that hypothesis.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Interesting. It seems like Marxism isn’t a science so much as a philosophy about sciences. You’re correct that it extends far fuether than I had assumed.

I do maintain that the chart is using incorrect language in describing it’s categories though. Many of them are describing something that could be part of study or the result of study, but not a science themselves. Toy destruction isn’t a science, but the destruction of toys could be part of one.

OurToothbrush ,

It seems like Marxism isn’t a science so much as a philosophy about sciences.

Conversely Marxism applied to politics is an attempt to apply that model as rigorously as possible given the constraints the people doing the method are under.

whydudothatdrcrane OP ,

Excuse me, are you whining about Marxism not making the first square together with physics? That would be a rather peculiar statement, but you present it as if it were self evident. Just in case you are shallowly serious I may respond that physics does not acknowledge social reality and admittedly it can hardly account for organic life. Marxism, in the common understanding is a scientific theory of social reality. The fact that it is an economic reductionist theory of social reality does not mean it is physics.

OurToothbrush , (edited )

Marxism, in the common understanding is a scientific theory of social reality

You’re talking about “the common understanding” which is ironic in the context of this discussion.

The fact that it is an economic reductionist theory of social reality does not mean it is physics.

I would agree with you if I shared your shallow understanding of the subject. Have you read anything rigorous about dialectic materialism or historical materialism?

Also do you think social reality isn’t a material reality? That is a rather odd position to have?

whydudothatdrcrane OP ,

Material in the sense of the basic physical quantities like length and charge? No. You need to add a splash of ethnography in your materialism.

OurToothbrush , (edited )

basic physical quantities like length and charge

You know that those are also social abstractions of complicated phenomenon too right? Or did you not read about what a social construct was because sociology is a soft science for girls? /s

Also have you ever opened up Capital or Imperialism and looked at how many basic quantities they use when constructing their analysis?

Procapra ,
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Happy cake day comrade!

VinesNFluff , to asklemmy in What is the Orb?
@VinesNFluff@pawb.social avatar

THE ORB CLEANSES YOUR SIN

DOUSE THE OPPONENT’S PYRE BY LEAPING UNTO IT WITH THE ORB

yesman , to science_memes in Interspecies linguistics

Only humans have language. Inter-species communication is nothing special. Rattlesnakes are named for their ability to communicate cross species.

blackluster117 ,
@blackluster117@possumpat.io avatar

“Either back it up or get fucked up.”

TSG_Asmodeus ,
@TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world avatar

Only humans have language.

Animal language.

Swedneck ,
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

curious how it’s always humans saying that they’re the only ones who have language…

Droechai ,

it’s only humans capable of the sub communication protocol called English that says that

Passerby6497 ,

No other languages have evolved to say that.

Droechai ,

Exactly, other languages would use something like “Det är bara människan som utvecklat tal” or “Es ist nur der Mensch, der die Sprache entwickelt hat” depending on language

na_th_an ,

A rattlesnake can certainly communicate using sound, but is that language? Bright colors can communicate ideas of “do not eat this” across species as well, but they wouldn’t fit my mental model of a language.

shneancy ,

what is language than making sounds to convey meaning and then decoding said sounds to understand their meaning

human language is incredibly complex but a bee just buzzing a particular buzz that means “bear nearby” counts as a valid form of linguistic communication imo

pete_the_cat ,

Bees actually dance to communicate and it’s considered a language 😄

MindTraveller ,

Koko the gorilla would beg to differ

Droechai ,

Just gonna drop this, I haven’t done a deep dive in sources thoufh

youtu.be/e7wFotDKEF4?si=earmcx6FpV4PLDfN

MindTraveller ,

Don’t leave your SI lying around like that

Semjaza , (edited )

They identified nouns and adjectives in prairie dog communication, that also seems to vary with regional dialects. I’ll try to remember to dig up a source when I’m not out and about later.

Edit: here’s a not fully scientific link, but has names and links for people who want to go deeper in the science while being a decent lay person’s overview.

Yes, the blog name isn’t very scientific looking (I have not read anything else on it). thehumanevolutionblog.com/…/a-career-studying-the…

And here’s a peer reviewed study: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0003347205801174

SSJMarx ,

That’s cool as hell and animals definitely have all kinds of methods of communication that I’m sure we haven’t figured out yet - but it’s not language.

overcast5348 ,

Okay, I’ll bite.

Why isn’t it language? And how do you define that a method of communication qualifies to be called a language?

Also, what would you call a method of communication that lies somewhere in between “follow the pheromones” and “modern human comms”?

candybrie ,

What’s your definition of language?

Murdeth ,

I appreciate your disclaimers and context of your sources.

tamal3 ,

Weren’t science communicators talking about parts of speech in whale communication last year, too? They’re using AI to identify patterns and variations in speech.

Here’s a general (though older) overview of whale language: www.britannica.com/…/the-language-of-whales

Here’s a more recent article taking about using AI to identify patterns in speech: scitechdaily.com/ai-decodes-sperm-whale-language-…

oxideseven , (edited )

What is this strange group on Lemmy that is so anti animal intelligence?

Shawdow194 , to science_memes in Interspecies linguistics
@Shawdow194@kbin.run avatar

Well it makes sense

A slow tempo is... slow. A quick tempo is upbeat and attracts attention

cheesymoonshadow , to science_memes in Geohydtotypography
@cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world avatar

Is that why trans-Atlantic flights are so much more expensive these days?

fossilesque OP ,
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

The price of ink is through the roof.

PythagreousTitties ,

My wallet is not that deep!

odium ,

On the other hand, cis-Atlantic flights are cheaper than ever before.

Jolteon ,

I mean, wouldn’t those just be intra-continental flights?

areyouevenreal ,

You can change continent without crossing the Atlantic.

Semjaza ,

Flying New York to London via Russia-adjacent Artic?

Midnitte ,

Climate change is fucking a lot up.

Hotter air is less dense, requiring more lift generate from the engines.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

To be clear, 2°C is not going to significantly affect lift. Planes won’t to falling put of the sky on sunny days. Rather, airports and weight limits were designed around historic temperature maximums, and much higher maximum temperatures are showing up much more commonly. Adjusting these limits isn’t hard, but airlines are going to cry every step of the way and pass the cost ditectly to passengers.

Increased turbulence and higher winds are also a concern, increasing maintenance costs and travel times, as well as extreme weather shutting down airports more often.

Midnitte ,

pass the cost ditectly to passengers.

That’s the rub, no?

phoenixz ,

Nah, that’s just airliners abusing their monopolies to squees every last dime out of your pocket, the poor shareholders need to survive too, you know.

Its not just trans Atlantic either, it’s everywhere. I just booked Mexico Canada and I got the luxury premium of being allowed to take one free carry-on

8263ksbr , to linux in Gantt in linux

www.ganttproject.bizThis one is nice

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