I was trying to think of an ergonomic justification, but probably they want to sell x amount of deodorant paste at $y price and to fill the thing and still charge that much would make the stick more expensive than they wanted.
Stop comparing it by screen size. Bezels are waaay smaller now than they used to be.
I see a lot of people saying “small?! How could this be small, the screen is X inches! My phone from 2014 was only Y inches!” while completely ignoring that slim bezels mean the phone is about the same size.
Comparing the S24 to the S5 from a decade ago, the S24 has a frontal area of 10,437mm², and the S5 is 10,366mm². The newer one is marginally smaller.
You wouldn’t think that comparing screen sizes, though. You’d look at the screen size and say “Omg it’s over an inch larger, this phone must be MASSIVE!”
Granted, if you go back to like the iPhone 4 era and earlier, phones genuinely were smaller. But phone sizes haven’t really changed much at all in the past decade, yet people act like they get larger every generation.
from a formal perspective, division is an “”abbreviation”” for multiplying by a reciprocal. for example, you first define what 1/3 is, and then 2/3 is shorthand for 2 * (1/3). so in this sense, multiplication and division are extremely similar.
same thing goes for subtraction, but now the analogy is even stronger since you can subtract any two numbers (whereas you “can’t” divide by 0). so x - y is shorthand for x + (-y). and -y is defined “to be the number such that y + (-y) = 0”.
spoilerAfter 17 years underground, billions of periodical cicadas known as Brood X are set to emerge, and we hope you’ve brought your appetite. See, a swarm of cicadas may sound scary, but they’re quite harmless and, in actuality, can be a new food to introduce into your diet. Calling all adventurous eaters! Assistant Professor of Anthropology Cortni Borgerson, whose research focuses on natural resource use, sustainability and food security, says that the fact that they make a tasty snack is just one of the wonders of cicadas. “Brood X cicadas are one of the world’s most incredible animal phenomena,” says Borgerson. “In a year where few of us may be traveling to see natural wonders like Africa’s great migration, or the elephant gathering of Sri Lanka, we are incredibly privileged to have this rare spectacle occurring in our very own backyards. Brood X provides an infusion of nutrients into the ecosystem, and humans have been enjoying this event for its sights, sounds and taste for millenia.” Eating cicadas (and other bugs) is sustainable and nutritious Many may associate the idea of eating bugs with survival reality shows, but consider this: Not only can insects actually make for a great and tasty bite when thoughtfully prepared (see recipes below), they’re also a nutritious meat alternative high in protein and minerals, and are a sustainable food source. Indeed, they may be small, but bugs can have a mighty big impact on humans. “Insects are an important source of food for more than two billion people on Earth, including many food cultures within the United States,” says Borgerson. “These little meats are not only a mainstream food source, they’re also a more sustainable choice than other species of livestock, which can require a lot of land, water and feed. Embracing food diversity and incorporating insects and other traditional foods into our diets isn’t only a great way to connect with our cultures and our natural environments, it’s also a key step toward living sustainably.” Where to find cicadas to harvest Annual cicadas can be found toward the end of the summer, emerging mostly in parks, forests, other wooded areas and even in your backyard. These are safe places to collect them once they’ve shed; basically anywhere you’d feel safe keeping a garden is a good bet. Avoid collecting and eating cicadas from places with a history of industrial use. As for Brood X, you’ll need a map to find these periodical cicadas – and your best bet is to look for where they most commonly popped up last time around. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offers a map of where the Brood X cicadas are expected to emerge, by county. For a breakdown by towns in New Jersey, check out this comprehensive list from NJ.com. “You’ll be able to hear when you’re close,” says Borgerson. “These cicadas live as nymphs underground for 17 years, and then tunnel up through the ground to the surface where they shed into their winged adult phase, living only 4-6 weeks. Cicada are tastiest in their teneral stage, which is right after they’ve shed into their adult forms, but are still pale white before their exoskeletons have hardened. “So at dusk, look for those wingless nymphs and enjoy the incredible show as they shed and transform and slowly inflate their new wings. Then pop a few into a bag and take them home to freeze for about 30 minutes before you prepare them.” Cicadas, a gateway bug to entomophagy If you’re curious about entomophagy (the practice of eating insects, especially by humans), cicadas are a great place to start. Unlike other bugs that can have “crunchy exoskeletons and wings,” teneral cicadas have a nutty, green, almost peeled shrimp-y look, taste and texture similar to the crustaceans. “You can add them to any of your favorite dishes,” says Borgerson. “They don’t need peeling or extensive prepping, just pan fry them or parboil and toast them in the oven, and then use them like you would any of their crustacean relatives. Personally, I love them by themselves on toothpicks as an appetizer or in tacos, where you can use the toppings to bring out a lot of their green spring flavors.” Before you know it, you may enjoy eating cicadas so much that you’ll move on to toasted cricket snacks, green ant gin, grasshoppers in chapulines tacos and more. Don’t eat cicadas if you’re allergic to shellfish Cicadas have a similar chitinous exterior as shellfish, so while there’s no overwhelming evidence that those with allergies have had reactions after eating cicadas, there’s not much research in its favor, either. “A shellfish allergy increases the likelihood that you will be allergic to cicada, so it’s better to be safe than sorry and abstain from land arthropods if you can’t eat their sea swimming cousins.” Can animals safely eat cicadas? OK, so what happens if you’re so busy munching on your new favorite snack that you don’t realize your beloved pet just ate a cicada or two (or more)? “Many mammals and birds are about to feast on the periodic cicadas, so don’t be surprised if your pet cat, dog, or backyard fowl indulge a little as well,” says Borgerson. “There’s nothing to be worried about — cicadas are high in protein and their chitin is great for gut health.”
If you’re curious about entomophagy (the practice of eating insects, especially by humans), cicadas are a great place to start. Unlike other bugs that can have “crunchy exoskeletons and wings,” teneral cicadas have a nutty, green, almost peeled shrimp-y look, taste and texture similar to the crustaceans.
“You can add them to any of your favorite dishes,” says Borgerson. “They don’t need peeling or extensive prepping, just pan fry them or parboil and toast them in the oven, and then use them like you would any of their crustacean relatives. Personally, I love them by themselves on toothpicks as an appetizer or in tacos, where you can use the toppings to bring out a lot of their green spring flavors.”
Cicadas have a similar chitinous exterior as shellfish, so while there’s no overwhelming evidence that those with allergies have had reactions after eating cicadas, there’s not much research in its favor, either. “A shellfish allergy increases the likelihood that you will be allergic to cicada, so it’s better to be safe than sorry and abstain from land arthropods if you can’t eat their sea swimming cousins.” Can animals safely eat cicadas?
Why does it feel that Linux infighting is the main reason why it never takes off? It’s always “distro X sucks”, “installing from Y is stupid”, “any system running Z should burn”
Adding copyright to your posts is cringe and ultimately doesn’t do anything more than the facebook message chains saying “I don’t consent to X Y and Z”
For most consumers it doesn’t matter. What will is “Why does program X run so slow when program Y is fast?”. That can be solved with marketing, like calling the ARM version of Windows “Windows M 11” or something like that. Programs optimized for “Windows 11 M” will run faster and older windows 11 programs will run, but slower. Explaining that will be key to whether Arm windows will succeed.
Most users though use a small subset of programs. Like web browser, email, light office and some media consumption. Should work well enough for them.
First off, 9gag? Really? Are we getting that desperate?
Secondly, what kind of wonky-ass way is that to define a circle? “since you can’t do $sqrt{-1}$ we’ll just let that limit the graphing, so let’s just do that fucking twice to make a circle”
What happened to the easy to read oneliner $r^2 = (x−a)^2 + (y−b)^2$?
TIL: markdown supports embedded latex math, but my client (boost for android) doesn’t. Does your instances/clients show the formulas?
At my last job my direct manager had to explain to upper management multiple times that X role and Y role could not be combined because it would require someone to physically be in multiple places simultaneously. I think about that a lot when I hear about these corporate plans to automate the workforce.
Pollsters do ask “if the election was held today, between X and Y, who would you vote for”, for multiple combinations of candidates, so you can infer some of those opinions. I don’t think they explicitly ask people to rank their choices, or at least I haven’t seen those polls.
@HeyLaiverd@boeken Dit zou een genre op YouTube moeten zijn, in plaats van die suffe reactievideo's met mensen die X, Y of Z "voor het eerst horen/zien/meemaken" 😆
<p>In a groundbreaking research effort, scientists across the globe have unveiled findings that connect the dots between brain energy metabolism dysfunctions and a spectrum of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders including intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depressive disorders, and Alzheimer’s disease.</p>
<p>This massive collaborative effort, involving 131 scientists from 105 laboratories across seven countries, has pinpointed alterations in brain pH and lactate levels as key indicators of this metabolic dysfunction. Published in the journal <em><a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.89376.2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eLife</a></em>, the findings challenge long-standing theories and offer new avenues for diagnosing and treating these complex disorders.</p>
<p>Mental health disorders affect over a third of the population worldwide at some point in their lives, presenting a significant public health challenge. Despite their varied symptoms and diagnoses, these conditions often share common biological markers, including genetic mutations, molecular changes, and brain activity alterations. This similarity suggests a potential common biological underpinning.</p>
<p>Previous research has pointed to metabolic changes in the brain, such as elevated lactate levels, as a common thread in these disorders. Building on this premise, the international team of researchers sought to better understand the metabolic dysfunctions in the brain.</p>
<p>The researchers analyzed a vast array of animal models, encompassing mice, rats, and chicks, which collectively represented a spectrum of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. They discovered that shifts in brain pH and lactate levels were indeed prevalent across these models.</p>
<p>Approximately 30% of the animal models investigated—spanning a total of 109 types—showed significant alterations in brain pH and lactate levels. This finding underscores a common pathological thread across a multitude of neuropsychiatric conditions, suggesting that disruptions in brain energy metabolism are a widespread phenomenon.</p>
<p>Such metabolic changes, involving deviations in the normal levels of lactate (a key metabolic product) and pH (indicative of acidity), point towards a shared biological basis among these disorders, despite their clinical diversity.</p>
<p>Animal models designed to simulate depression through exposure to psychological stress, as well as models induced to develop diabetes or colitis (conditions known to have a high comorbidity with depression), demonstrated a consistent pattern of decreased brain pH and increased lactate levels. This suggests that not just genetic or inherent factors, but also acquired environmental conditions, can significantly impact brain metabolism, contributing to the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric conditions.</p>
<p>By integrating data from behavioral tests, the researchers found a predominant correlation between elevated lactate levels in the brain and deficits in working memory performance. This connection illuminates how metabolic dysfunctions can directly affect cognitive processes, potentially leading to the cognitive impairments observed in various neuropsychiatric disorders.</p>
<p>Finally, the study highlights the metabolic complexity inherent within the autism spectrum. The variable responses observed in autism models—some showing an increase in pH and a decrease in lactate levels—suggest the presence of diverse subpopulations within the spectrum. This variability points to the metabolic heterogeneity among individuals with autism spectrum disorders, indicating that different subgroups may have distinct metabolic dysfunctions.</p>
<p>“This is the first and largest systematic study evaluating brain pH and lactate levels across a range of animal models for neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Our findings may lay the groundwork for new approaches to develop the transdiagnostic characterization of different disorders involving cognitive impairment,” explained Hideo Hagihara of Fujita Health University, the study’s lead author.</p>
<p>Despite these significant insights, the study is not without its limitations. The broad scope of animal models and diseases covered means that the findings, while compelling, require further specification to understand the exact mechanisms at play in humans. Additionally, the reliance on animal models means that the direct applicability of the results to human conditions needs further validation.</p>
<p>Looking ahead, the researchers are keen on extending their findings to more nuanced studies that could dissect the regional and cellular specificity of the observed metabolic changes in the brain. Such detailed investigations could pave the way for targeted therapeutic strategies that address the metabolic underpinnings of these disorders.</p>
<p>“This research could be a stepping stone towards identifying shared therapeutic targets in various neuropsychiatric disorders,” said co-author Tsuyoshi Miyakawa. “Future studies will center on uncovering treatment strategies that are effective across diverse animal models with brain pH changes. This could significantly contribute to developing tailored treatments for patient subgroups characterized by specific alterations in brain energy metabolism.”</p>
<p>The study, “<a href="https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/89376v2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Large-scale animal model study uncovers altered brain pH and lactate levels as a transdiagnostic endophenotype of neuropsychiatric disorders involving cognitive impairment</a>,” was authored by Hideo Hagihara, Hirotaka Shoji, Satoko Hattori, Giovanni Sala, Yoshihiro Takamiya, Mika Tanaka, Masafumi Ihara, Mihiro Shibutani, Izuho Hatada, Kei Hori, Mikio Hoshino, Akito Nakao, Yasuo Mori, Shigeo Okabe, Masayuki Matsushita, Anja Urbach, Yuta Katayama, Akinobu Matsumoto, Keiichi I. Nakayama, Shota Katori, Takuya Sato, Takuji Iwasato, Haruko Nakamura, Yoshio Goshima, Matthieu Raveau, Tetsuya Tatsukawa, Kazuhiro Yamakawa, Noriko Takahashi, Haruo Kasai, Johji Inazawa, Ikuo Nobuhisa, Tetsushi Kagawa, Tetsuya Taga, Mohamed Darwish, Hirofumi Nishizono, Keizo Takao, Kiran Sapkota, Kazutoshi Nakazawa, Tsuyoshi Takagi, Haruki Fujisawa, Yoshihisa Sugimura, Kyosuke Yamanishi, Lakshmi Rajagopal, Nanette Deneen Hannah, Herbert Y. Meltzer, Tohru Yamamoto, Shuji Wakatsuki, Toshiyuki Araki, Katsuhiko Tabuchi, Tadahiro Numakawa, Hiroshi Kunugi, Freesia L. Huang, Atsuko Hayata-Takano, Hitoshi Hashimoto, Kota Tamada, Toru Takumi, Takaoki Kasahara, Tadafumi Kato, Isabella A. Graef, Gerald R. Crabtree, Nozomi Asaoka, Hikari Hatakama, Shuji Kaneko, Takao Kohno, Mitsuharu Hattori, Yoshio Hoshiba, Ryuhei Miyake, Kisho Obi-Nagata, Akiko Hayashi-Takagi, Léa J. Becker, Ipek Yalcin, Yoko Hagino, Hiroko Kotajima-Murakami, Yuki Moriya, Kazutaka Ikeda, Hyopil Kim, Bong-Kiun Kaang, Hikari Otabi, Yuta Yoshida, Atsushi Toyoda, Noboru H. Komiyama, Seth G. N. Grant, Michiru Ida-Eto, Masaaki Narita, Ken-ichi Matsumoto, Emiko Okuda-Ashitaka, Iori Ohmori, Tadayuki Shimada, Kanato Yamagata, Hiroshi Ageta, Kunihiro Tsuchida, Kaoru Inokuchi, Takayuki Sassa, Akio Kihara, Motoaki Fukasawa, Nobuteru Usuda, Tayo Katano, Teruyuki Tanaka, Yoshihiro Yoshihara, Michihiro Igarashi, Takashi Hayashi, Kaori Ishikawa, Satoshi Yamamoto, Naoya Nishimura, Kazuto Nakada, Shinji Hirotsune, Kiyoshi Egawa, Kazuma Higashisaka, Yasuo Tsutsumi, Shoko Nishihara, Noriyuki Sugo, Takeshi Yagi, Naoto Ueno, Tomomi Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Kubo, Rie Ohashi, Nobuyuki Shiina, Kimiko Shimizu, Sayaka Higo-Yamamoto, Katsutaka Oishi, Hisashi Mori, Tamio Furuse, Masaru Tamura, Hisashi Shirakawa, Daiki X. Sato, Yukiko U. Inoue, Takayoshi Inoue, Yuriko Komine, Tetsuo Yamamori, Kenji Sakimura, and Tsuyoshi Miyakawa.</p>
Agreed. The time wasted just marking down what you did and how long it took you is incredible. If I get too busy, I look like a fucking slacker because the first thing I just cannot do when I’m too busy is to mark down exactly how busy I am. It just doesn’t happen. I’m moving from one task to the next so fast that I barely have time to take a drink, nevermind write a short story about how I did a thing and figure out exactly when I started working on something.
Compounding this, when it’s that busy, I’m often flip flopping between tasks, while I wait for a program to install or a file to copy or something, I’m off trying to chip away at something else. When it’s slow, I can take a minute while thing copy/load/whatever, and update my notes. My tasks occur sequentially, so it’s easy to see, I started on this at 9:30 and working on this and only this until 10:45. Meanwhile when it’s busy, I did X from 9:30 to 9:48, then Y from 9:48 to 9:56, then X again from 9:56 to 10:10, then Y from 10:10 until 10:18, then I finish X from 10:10 to 10:45, and finished Y from 10:45 to 11:05… Yeah, I’m not entering all that time… At best I’m going to guess, at worst I’m just going to not enter anything. Closed/resolved. Worked for unknown time, text entry: “fixed problem” done.
The task of entering time takes more time to do. If I’m too busy trying to put out fires, I don’t care what the time sheet says, I care that the fires were put out as quickly as possible. So I look like I did nothing, but I damn near lost my mind trying to get it all done.
This was a major problem at my last job. Not only would I be so busy, jumping from one foot to the other trying to put it fires, but people would continually walk over to my desk and bug me about unrelated crap. 90% of the time they were managers or senior staff whom I couldn’t just ignore, or tell them to go away. So now I’m not putting out a fire instead I’m taking to Sally, who is the daughter of the owner, about her stupid Excel issue that she can, has, and could continue to work around, but she wants it to work in a different way that she never learned how to do from the cut rate community college during the business course she took.
I dunno Sally, why don’t you fucking Google it? I’m not your personal chat GPT of problem solving shit that’s not broken. I’m currently trying to solve a problem that affects hundreds of people, and this issue barely affects one. Can you go away and stop distracting me? But nooooo. If I tell Sally to go away, daddy bossman will hear about it and I’ll get pulled into yet another pointless meeting about my “attitude” towards staff, that will only put me further behind on fixing contoso corp’s file server, which is preventing them from doing millions of dollars in business today alone. Apparently Sally’s feelings are more important until contoso corp changes IT providers because we couldn’t meet our SLA with them, which will also be my fault because I’m lead technician on that account.
What you say is “easy” is great for a comment on Reddit or Lemmy but it doesn’t really provide anything to the actual problem.
The problem is that a company “just” doesn’t, why would they do this anyway? It would open their IP to be forked, modified and used for something else by someone else. That isn’t what they want you to do.
Since there is no incentive and no one is forcing them to do this they just keep doing whatever they want. It was mentioned in the video that there is absolutely no regulation or anything in that regard available ANYWHERE in the world, not even in the EU.
THIS is what the video and Ross Scott want to achieve, that there either will be regulations for it so that Game developers and Publishers can’t just create games with some mandatory server backend running that is shut down in a couple of years OR that there is at least some way of saying “well, we don’t care” so that the consumer can actually do anything about it on their own end.
So it is easy to say they “just” have to do X or Y but the past and the increasing games relying on things like this have shown that they won’t do anything about it because nothing is stopping them.
Not a programmer, but all this is is a representation of three columns of data in a table, plus a fourth for the label. Make a lookup table with 4 columns. Now make rows with the data in it, assigning the label for each.
This chart is just a nice way of representing 3 variables in 2D form. It’s just an XYZ graph in 2D. With the constraint that X+Y+Z <= 100. You could even assign functions for those different labels.
Though, me not being very good at maths, I’d have no idea how to write a function to cover those areas.
Probably easier just having a lookup table.
As an example, though, a line going from the top of the triangle to the bottom, in the middle would be:
Clay(silt,sand) = 100 - Silt - Sand, where sand=silt Thus, Clay = 100 - Silt, where Clay+silt+sand<=100 would be a vertical line on the chart.
I think. I’m just having fun trying to work this out, without looking it up now.
Dude. Ive seen it? Like with my eyes while my roommate was browsing his feed? And he’s not even a super geopolitics kinda guy.
Ive read their official shit. How many sources from their own government, official spokespeople, generals, and cabinet level staff, saying ‘we are doing a genocide, our strategy is warcrimes x y and z’ would it take to convince you? Give me a number, and I’ll provide links.
An actual answer would be- “My guess is that the is W% chance there is a God, X% chance of pure evolution, Y% chance of simulation theory and Z% chance of this other one or something else”.
When you do the thing where you write 20 paragraphs about simple concepts and pretend its deep, its just eyerolling.
And on what basis am I evaluating those possibilities? You suggested probability, mathematically, and yet you recognized that mathematically, W, X, Y, and Z are all zero.
You are standing at a welding table, with tool clamping your part to the bench, and you’re asking me to tighten it up for you. I keep telling you that the tool you’re using is a micrometer, not a C-clamp, and you keep calling me an idiot for not knowing how a clamp works.
I patiently explain that even if we ignore the idiocy of using an expensive, precision instrument for work holding, a micrometer is physically incapable of being tightened enough to secure your workpiece properly. And you tell me to shut up and crank it down.
I can think of three possible routes past this impasse. To stay with probability, we can find some way of limiting the infinite possibilities to a finite, (albeit unknown) number of possibilities, so that our probabilities are no longer 1/♾️, or “zero”. Or, we can abandon probability and delve into a field of mathematics that can accept infinities. Or, we can leave mathematics behind, and move to philosophy.
1/3 full brand new deodorant (lemmy.world)
Best Mini Phones in 2024 | Top 12 Small-ish Mobiles Reviewed! - list in post (www.youtube.com)
0:00 - Rambly bit...
[Solved] Trouble setting systemd timer
I’m trying to move away from cron jobs, not that they don’t work, but I want to get on with the times and also learn some things....
wat (mander.xyz)
The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change (www.theguardian.com)
land shrimp (mander.xyz)
Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!
I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!...
Women-only social media app Giggle for Girls taken to court by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle after her account was restricted (www.abc.net.au)
In short: Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle is suing social media platform Giggle for Girls after she was excluded from the women-only app....
Copyright statement on posts?
Is there any interest in this idea?...
Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple (www.theverge.com)
Study: Social media don't displace in-person hangouts for teens (reason.com)
The numbers dont lie... and they spell disaster for you (lemmy.world)
It seems to me that people can more easily imagine an apocalypse compared to imagining a world without capitalism....
AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey (www.theregister.com)
RFK Jr. can't win. But he and Cornel West could put Trump back in the White House. (www.usatoday.com)
Hate it when that happens (sh.itjust.works)
Millennials are exhausted by working more for less. (www.theguardian.com)
(water is wet and fire is hot).
Finally, a push to end the practice of killing games when a dev decides they don't wanna support them (youtu.be)
To those with 2+ monitors on your machine: What's your use case, and how much does it actually boost your productivity? (lemmy.world)
I’m mainly curious about software developers here, or anyone else whose computer is somewhat central to their life, be it professional or hobbyist....
My moon is in Silty Loam but my Sun sign is Clay. (lemmy.world)
Israel’s Brutality Is Increasing—and So Is Its Denialism (www.thenation.com)
A human rights monitor documented the sniping of at least 13 children in and around Shifa Hospital, all between the ages of 4 and 16.
"Cancel Culture" (lemmy.ml)