From a pure practical standpoint, it doesn’t make sense to eat carnivores. Terrible feed conversion. We don’t want to raise meat to feed it to meat. Traditionally, ruminants were a way of converting inedible grass into nutritious meat and dairy.
Also, carnivores are a lot harder to handle… They bite! Cats jump and dogs dig. I farm. The livestock stay inside the fence, cats and dogs go where they please.
The animals in your first list are carnivores (cats are an obligate carnivore) while the second list are herbivores or omnivores that do well on a vegetarian diet. That’s why we eat the second list and not the first.
Also humans like dogs, they’re a lot like us despite being a smelly 4-legged bitey critter. It’s quite odd, really. We’ve evolved together for millennia at this point. More so than any other species on earth, dogs have a place in our society alongside humans, with their own jobs and skill sets.
Other way around. 10 point cards favor the player. From Wikipedia:
They increase the player’s probability of hitting a Blackjack, which often pays out at 3 to 2 odds (although some Casinos pay at 6 to 5).
Doubling down increases expected value. The elevated ratio of tens and aces improves the probability that doubling down will succeed. The most common hand values that the player doubles down on are 11, 10, and 9; and drawing a high card to these will make a strong hand.[1]
They provide additional splitting opportunities for the player.
They can make the insurance bet profitable by increasing the probability of dealer blackjack.
They also increase the probability the dealer will bust, in the event that the dealer shows a low up-card (i.e. 2-6). This also increases the odds of the player busting, but the player can choose to stand on lower totals based on the count.
You can just keep a tally in your head adding or subtracting a number when certain cards are played. Doesn’t require that much skill. The skill is in pretending everything is normal that and half of the people who just joined the table just met you for the first time.
Okay late diagnosed & older autists. What do we do when we retire? I’m reasonably social, in a purpose driven way if that makes sense. My “special interests” have usually revolved around my current stage &/or work - parenting, studies, teaching etc. Retirement as a special interest? @actuallyautistic
I miss choral singing, too. I did a lot of it as a wee treble. Then my voice broke, and I left it alone for forty-odd years, convinced I'd never sing again. Then I joined a community choir, where I sang second bass for a few years, and was just starting to gain some competence. Then Covid happened, and indoor, unmasked group singing is one of the most dangerous activities I can think of. So my brief adult singing career seems to be over. 😞
Ok, I’ll use the “usually” wildcard to absorb this one.
Odds are that ChatGPT can help you better with C# than the documentation. It’s also easier to navigate because you only need to know the answer before being able to make a good question, while merely knowing the answer and having a search engine won’t help you find the right Microsoft doc.
Former Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty Tuesday in the Georgia election subversion case and will cooperate with Fulton County prosecutors – the third guilty plea in the past week....
I’d say the one thing they’ve been decent at is input devices, oddly enough. I was pretty happy with my SideWinder 3D Pro joystick and my Intellimouse Explorer back in the day. I also still (very occasionally) use an Xbox 360 controller attached to my Linux PC.
No credit for Xboxes themselves, let alone other hardware like Zunes and Windows Phones and shit, of course.
I’m using Windows and only asking here because Google says it’s a Linux thing, but my question is what is a Bluez and why was it trying to connect to my computer at 5AM this morning?
I definitely have some bt devices around the house, but I’m pretty sure they’re accounted for in the list of previous connected devices and if it wasn’t something I have connected before it seems odd it would be trying to connect out of the blue, and my fiance was sleeping so I know no one in the house was using anything like that. There are some sketchy business on the other side of our back fence, but it’s probably JUST close enough for a Bluetooth device to connect to my PC and when I went outside the front shortly after there was no one around (again, 5AM so most people are sleeping). The whole thing was just weird because I haven’t had something like this happen in the years of having my PC constantly on in this house and every time I clicked deny access it popped back up, possibly because it was just sending a connect signal and not listening for a denial, but that’s merely guessing because I don’t have much knowledge on this.
It’s basically an equation to calculate the “sweet spot” of how much you should spend in gambling in order to get the best returns. If you gamble too much, you lose too much when you fail. If you gamble too little, you earn too little to make enough back. I don’t know how this applies to investing but it’s well known in gambling, which is why casinos always have the odds against you so that you’re still more likely to lose or have a minimum bet that’s way higher than the optimal bet.
Because if you gamble in small increments the odds are in your favor. If you gamble your entire wealth then you’ll likely lose.
Lets say you’re gambling in $5 increments. The odds are 50/50, if you lose then you’ll have $2.5, and if you win you’ll have $9. That’s a 50% chance to lose $2.5 and a 50% chance to gain $4, the actual risk is if you lose too many times in a row that you don’t have enough money to gamble with. Otherwise, you’ll slowly gain money.
Similar fond memories of growing up straddling English and American traditions on the wet Westcoast with English and Swedish grandparents.
My grandfather always had coffee brewing on the wood cookstove in his cabin. It was a metal 2 piece drip system. Always adding more hot water to the top as the day progressed. Like your example the first cups are the strongest. They had those white rogers sugar cubes and canned condensed milk from Pacific as creamer. Us grandkids would be bouncing off the walls from the caffeine and massive amounts of sugar most of the day.
Then at night with dinner it was Orange Pekoe tea with milk to finish the day. I’m surprised we got any sleep to be honest looking back on it.
Now living close to the US border I sometimes forget when I’m south tea is not such a normal thing in a restaurant and I get odd looks from those when ordering it. Usually they are the kind of place that serves Coke with breakfast though so I’m already in the wrong place for tea as it is.
For me Tea is the only thing I get from Tim’s too in the way of a London Fog. When it comes to Coffee Canadian McDonalds is my way to go. US McDonald’s coffee is something else terribly not enjoyable.
To be fair, the number of incidents was much higher in the 60s and 70s. Usually in the high 60s low 70s oddly enough, per year. Not really relevant nowadays, but an interesting fact.
Metalenses are a relatively fringe optical technology — at least, they were. Until now, it has been largely pursued by startups and scientists but that is changing as Canon has jumped into the fray and not only makes them but also produces the equipment necessary to manufacture them.
“Oddly, Canon declined to provide PetaPixel with detailed information about its metalens technology and also chose not to provide any photos of its tech” Oddly a megatech corporation elected to keep a tight grip on its early IP? 🤔
Its odd that Voyager had a better chance at a film. DS9 had better ratings when they were both on and received more critical acclaim. Yet somehow Voyager has remained more in the popular consciousness and had more enduring popularity. I think a lot of it had to do with Berman favoring Voyager. Its reruns also saw a lot more syndication. I was a teenager in the 2000’s so I only ever saw reruns of 90’s trek growing up and it was usually Voyager and rarely TNG. I never saw any DS9 until it became available on streaming.
Sarah Katz, 21, had a heart condition and was not aware of the drink’s caffeine content, which exceeded that of cans of Red Bull and Monster energy drinks combined, according to a legal filing
The complete quotes in the marketing (the article made the odd decision to quote PART OF the caffeine description out-of-context) are:
“Plant-based, clean caffeine powered by guarana & green coffee extract”.
and
“Plant-based and Clean with as much caffeine as our Dark Roast coffee”
I would call that marketing accurate and correct. Except one thing… It’s a fact that one ounce of their lemonade has significantly less caffeine (about 2/3) than one ounce of their dark roast coffee, and dramatically less than their light roast coffee. Could you have guessed that from the quotes? Because my first point of note is that they’re incorrect about it having “as much caffeine as our Dark Roast”.
the large Charged Lemonade has more caffeine than any size of Panera’s dark roast coffee
This is also both misleading and carefully worded. It’s comparing a 16oz cup to a 30oz cup, both sold with unlimited refills, and leaving out that the Charged Lemonade is not even the highest-caffeine item on the menu.
I would say the article is factually wrong and misleading. The problem is, we don’t know the full details of the complaint, which might actually be valid. The article, however, is not doing it justice.
Most of the world’s biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk’s X, exclusive new data shows::Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino have recently stated that most of the company’s top-spending advertisers from last year have returned.
I live in Ireland so there was always limited advertising on Twitter. There might be the odd campaign but it was blessedly free of ads in general. Then one day I logged in and it was a tidal wave of hot garbage - ads in Turkish, trade fairs in Chinese provinces, African NGOs etc. Just absolutely irrelevant bottom of the barrel dreck every 2 or 3 tweets in the feed. No matter how much I blocked there was more just like it.
I don’t know if this was an aberration, a bug or a cynical attempt to screw over advertisers by draining their wallets. I just uninstalled Twitter and used the web version with an ad blocker. I don’t even see this shit any more. I wonder if the advertisers are still getting charged though. I hope they are though since paying $$$ for minimal engagement might convince them how worthless the platform is.
Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations....
Sorry but by that logic there is no point in any investment mechanism. Historically GIC rates have been the oposite of what you claim www.ratehub.ca/blog/the-history-of-gic-rates/ <a href=""></a>. For example in 1995 GICs paid 7.1% vs the inflation rate of 1.7%.
I think the odd position that it is “mathematically” impossible to have any expectation of return is indicative of our messed up system.
Many autistic people struggle with “multiple choice” and “select the right answer” exam questions. A key reason for this is that the options available can feel - to our brains - like such vague simplifications or awkwardly worded answers that they all feel somewhat incorrect. 1/2
Yup. The movie basically set the tone that the galaxy was ruled by decadents that were kind of unaware and feckless when it came to novel challenges.
On top of that, SGC figured out that sending scouting parties of 3-4 people was insanely effective at shifting the balance of power across the whole flippin’ galaxy. And that was just with conventional ballistic weapons. It makes complete sense to arm counter-insurgents with what was already working, on a much bigger scale. It gives Earth and your exploratory efforts a lot of breathing room on the cheap.
The show extrapolates from there, but does the odd thing of having to make the Goa’uld super effective at interstellar warfare, to explain the conflict with the Asgard. But by that point, the SGC has looted enough tech to build a single ship, along with a huge chunk of Robotech’s storyline, to save everybody.
Easily my favorite episode. The visual and written humor lays out both how insane the Borg challenge is while simultaneously illustrating Boimler’s Kirk-level talent for defeating impossible odds. Scoring 100% seems to require no less than:
Transport onto a Borg cube armed with nothing but a phaser
Teach the Borg queen empathy
Defeat the Borg queen at chess
Capture five Borg prisoners
Rescue ten Borg babies
Set the cube for self destruct
Establish subspace comms to schedule rendezvous with Starfleet
I… wow. I’ve installed versions of Arch on at least 8 different computers, two of which are being used in other states by my geriatric, technology-ignorant parents. I’ve only had my own PCs break, through my own messing with them (converting root FS from ext4 to btrfs, or replacing systemd with dinit, for example). The ones my parents are running have not had any problems.
In fact, I replaced the default Debian-based distro on my MIL’s computer (an ODroid I set up for her for browsing) with Arch because one of the Debian upgrades broke the soundcard to the point that I couldn’t get it running again. Arch, boom, everything worked again. I log in remotely every week or so and do an upgrade; I was thinking, in fact, of setting up an (very discouraged) -Syu --noconfirm because, in almost a year, I’ve never had an upgrade cause problems. Her’s is an edge case; she logs into a full screen Firefox with no window manager (that she can see), because that’s the only thing she does on the computer: browse, watch web videos, listen to web stream music.
A better case is probably my VMs; they’re actually running services used by several family members: email, photoprism, mealie, gotosocial, etc. I do tend to choose Go-based services, and that probably contributes to the general reliability. Still, I’ve only had one issue where one server was mysteriously rebooting at odd times, and I simply could not get enough forenic evidence to track down the cause. I replaced it in a new install in a different geography and migrated the services there, and the problems stopped. I think the underlying server host was twitchy, TBH, but it’s possible that the original could have been hacked.
Heck, I just recently swapped the root nvme and home ssd out of a Ryzen 5 machine into a newer Ryzen 7, and it booted straight into the login no problem. My current uptime is 26 days - which reminds me, I should probably do a reboot to pick up the 6.5.8 kernel.
Anyway, having gone through the journey of personally running and administering Redhat, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and Arch on dozens of machines over the past 20 years, Arch has been the singlemost stable and reliable distro (across upgrades) that I’ve used. It honestly surprises me when I hear other people who’ve had the opposite experience.
Police in China rescue over 1,000 cats from being slaughtered and sold as mutton, pork (www.straitstimes.com)
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Florida man allegedly threatened to shoot someone at CVS unless given 'all bottles' of Viagra (www.nbcnews.com)
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Former Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis pleads guilty in Georgia case (www.cnn.com)
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Bluez trying to connect to my PC?
I’m using Windows and only asking here because Google says it’s a Linux thing, but my question is what is a Bluez and why was it trying to connect to my computer at 5AM this morning?
Can someone please explain how to apply this first and an ELI5 second? (www.youtube.com)
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Correct me if I got anything wrong, TA!
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Star Trek: DS9 Was "Never Going To Go Into A Movie" Says Kira Actor (screenrant.com)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ended in 1999 after 7 seasons but didn’t jump into feature films like The Next Generation. Here’s why.
Family files lawsuit against Panera Bread after college student who drank ‘charged lemonade’ dies (www.nbcnews.com)
Sarah Katz, 21, had a heart condition and was not aware of the drink’s caffeine content, which exceeded that of cans of Red Bull and Monster energy drinks combined, according to a legal filing
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Most of the world’s biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk’s X, exclusive new data shows::Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino have recently stated that most of the company’s top-spending advertisers from last year have returned.
What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working. (www.cnbc.com)
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