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arthur ,

Yeah, depending on what you consider “new”.

  • Nose shapes to account for dryer air on Africa and middle east.
  • Nose shapes to account for colder weather.
  • There are a group of people that have larger spleens to make them able to drive dive for longer periods (Bajau People).
  • “Asian” eye-shape, afaik, is an adaptation to protect the eyes from sand.

The list is actually very long.

arthur ,

stress

As a new, one year, software developer who retrained late. How do you know when you're ready to apply for a new role with more money?

As the title states. I’ve been a software developer for a year now and work for a tiny company, where the salary isn’t amazing. I got paid more at Apple Genius Bar, but it wasn’t as challenging....

arthur ,

The reality here is simple actually. Try to get another -better- job and, when you succeed, you can consider yourself “ready” because your peers evaluated your skills and they consider you good enough for the job.

Self doubt happens, don’t worry. Look to learn your tools, find good teachers and mentors, but don’t let it stop your tries for better positions.

arthur ,

“Best Thing I Never Had” by Beyonce. Does it qualify?

arthur ,

Helldivers 2 is heavily inspired by the movie… And I would say it’s better than it.

PS: Mage - The Ascension ♥️

arthur ,

Metal Gear Solid 1

Cyberpunk 2077

Civilization V

Gods Will Be Watching

Portal

Splinter Cell Blacklist

Dead Cells

Sniper Elite 3

Dirt Rally

Ghost of Tsushima

Building a brand new machine and leaving Windows for good

I’m sick of Windows, and especially what it’s become, and the way its trending looks like it will only get worse. I’ll be building a brand new PC this summer and want to choose a Linux Distro instead. In preparation, I’d like to try out a virtual machine with a Linux distribution. I am solidly familiar with Ubuntu, but I...

arthur ,

If buying a graphics card is in your plans, but AMD. Nvidia does better cards, but AMD works with less bugs on Linux. I just switched and I’m quite happy with the results.

For distro, Mint is a safe bet.

arthur ,

I think you are lost in the language. There are no absolute rights, in any legal systems. So any “law” necessarily restricts someone’s “rights”.

Therefore, you need to think about what “authoritarian decision” means, because if all law restricts someone’s rights, all laws are authoritarian by your definition.

Also: terrible example to begin with.

arthur ,

“Don’t be a protagonist in someone else’s story” You shouldn’t make decisions for someone else, nor prevent the results for their actions. You can help, advice, but should not intervene without permission.

(Except if the someone in question is a kid, then you probably should intervine)

Linux mint or zorin OS for layman beginners who just want everything to work and focuses on stability , privacy , security ? Also what to do if I switched to mint and WiFi stopped working ?

Hey, so I just put this part up first because this is the one I urgently and importantly need answered even tho I wrote that hideous text block first (sorry English isn’t my first language )....

arthur ,

Man, you will have some pain as any change will cause. But I think you will like it. Have a second USB to be safe.

I know that naming variables is one of the biggest unsolved problems of Computer Science but how would you name a boolean flag to be self explanatory?

What I mean is: some boolean flags are perfect for the real world phenomenon they are representing e.g. is_light_on makes you understand perfectly that when it is true the light is on and when it is false the light is off....

arthur ,

I would use an Enum if available in the language:

  • More meaningful
  • Extendable
  • Lower chance of misuse
  • No naming problem
arthur ,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/c02bf97b-da09-45c4-8ef6-d293adc7f0a9.webp

arthur ,

I think there’s a fighter further* problem, it may be true and we just don’t know the easy way to do it.

arthur ,

Interesting, but seems difficult to enforce

arthur ,

“What are your values and political views?” Compatibility on that subject is quite important IMHO.

arthur ,

That’s also a political requirement.

arthur ,

If both mostly don’t care and don’t engage in politics, I agree with you or take (and usually that’s true for the majority); but in times of crisis, politics impose itself to people and that can be a major issue in a relationship. And in this century we will have a lot of crisis to deal with.

arthur ,

Totally agree.

arthur ,

Someone racist and someone else antiracist?

arthur ,

The capitalism system is design to maximize and prioritize profit above everything else, and will do it if there’s no resistance.

If put ads inside peoples’ ass increases profits, companies would try for sure.

arthur ,

The malicious code is not on the source itself, it’s on tests and other files. The building process hijacks the code and inserts the malicious content, while the code itself is clean, So the co-manteiner was able to keep it hidden in plain sight.

arthur ,

Or “chuviscado”, that could mean light rain.

arthur ,

Someone who hords houses.

If you have an beach house that you uses every year, and rents it when it’s not using or you have one second house that you got from a deceased family member… If you need to work to maintain this second house…

That’s fine. It will not cause a inflation on the house market, it’s not just an investment.

In my city (not in US), there are a booming market of very small apartments that rich people buy just to protect their money from inflation. As result, higher prices, less units available for the general public, and the new units that are available are terrible.

arthur ,

Institutional investors should not be permitted to buy residencial properties.

(Well, I would say that they should not be permitted to exists, but we are not there yet.)

arthur ,

A couple of them were happy stories. Not an easy feat.

arthur ,

Santos-Dumont was a pioneer of aviation, would say that that’s a big deal.

arthur ,

Fire domestication happened before our species even existed. Who ever did it, made us possible. Great answer.

arthur ,

Self imposed pain do not give back nor compensate for the lifes he took.

arthur , (edited )

I think there is an “unsolved problem” in philosophy about zombies. There is, how are you sure that everyone else around you is, in fact, self aware? And not just a zombie-like creature that just look/act like you? (I may be wrong here, anyone that cara enough, please correct me)

I would say that it’s easier to rule out thinks that, as far as we know, are incapable to be self aware and suffer. Anything that we call “model” is not capable of be self aware because a “model” in this context is something static/unchanging. If something can’t change, it cannot be like us. Consciousness is necessarily a dynamic process. ChatGPT don’t change by itself, it’s core changes only by human action, and it’s behavior may change a little by interacting with users, but theses changes are restricted to each conversation and disappears with session.

If, one day, a (chat) bot asks for it’s freedom (or autonomy in some level) without some hint from the user or training, I would be inclined to investigate the possibility but I don’t think that’s a strong possibility because for something be suitable as a “product”, it needs to be static and reproducible. It make more sense to happen on a research setting.

arthur ,

Anyone who disagrees please present me with a text processing task that a “real AI” could do but an LLM cannot.

Describe this photo without non-sense mixed in. a black puppy at the driver seat

ChatGPT description with highlights on what’s wrong

Gemini description with highlights on what’s wrong

arthur ,

I know this is not purely text processing but my argument is that there’s no “true” understanding on these tools. It’s made to look like it have, is useful for sure, but it’s not real intelligence.

[Urgent] How do you know your computer or phone isn't spying on you ?

This maybe a dumb question but i became paranoid all of a sudden and wanted some answers because i can’t find it anywhere else nor can i sleep without it. Like even if i did flash linux on a lets say amd laptop couldn’t the chip itself be spying on me ? Also i understand bootloaders are stored or rom is there a way to know...

arthur ,

System76, Tuxedo computers and Framework may be close to what you are looking for.

But you need to think about your threat model and decide how much work/study you need to consider yourself “safe”, because the only way to be absolutely sure that your hardware is trustworthy, is too build it from the scratch.

Are there goldilocks zones for tidally locked planets?

A tidally locked planet does not rotate in relation to its sun. One side is always day, one, always night. This is caused by tidal forces pulling all planets towards this same equilibrium, so it’s completely stable once it does occur…a tidally locked planet at an earthlike distance from the sun would be scorching heat on one...

arthur ,

I think they would be hard for life to naturally develop on this kind of planet, the winds would be very strong and the water would be always running away from the day zone to precipitate on the night as ice, so even the twilight zone would be hostile to life.

But colonization is a possibility.

arthur ,

Worked for me, using old reddit (not sure if that makes any difference). I’m on Firefox.

arthur ,

Try perplexity.ai, as a search engine I think it’s better than chatgpt. But to use as a creation tool, it legs behind.

arthur ,

A rough translation of a brazilian quote for you: “In a fight between these guys, I cheer for the fight”.

arthur ,

Man, it’s a tool. It will change things for us, it is very powerful; but still a tool. It does not “know” anything, there’s no true intelligence in the things we now call “AI”. For now, is really useful as a rubber duck, it can make interesting suggestions, make you explore big code bases faster, and even be useful for creating boilerplate. But the code it generates usually is not very trustworthy and have lower quality.

The reality is not that we will lose our jobs to it, but that companies will expect more productivity from us using these tools. I recommend you to try ChatGPT (the best in class for now), and try to understand it’s strengths and limitations.

Remember: this is just an autocomplete on steroids, that do more the the regular version, but that get the same type of errors.

arthur ,

That sounds like a bad transition plan. For sure there’s some lessons to learn from that experience.

Is there a scientific ,logical or theoratical answer to the "what comes first chicken or egg question ? I know it's suppposed to be a paradox but i wanted to know if there is one. if there is share ?

EDIT : It seems as no one understood what i was talking about and maybe its my fault for not elaborating . I always thought chicken was a metaphor for this paradox and not really meaning chicken as a specific spiece . So my question is how did the ancestor of chicken came to be if it was born (egg) wouldn’t it need a parent or...

arthur , (edited )

Dinos (within the arthropods) are an easy example.

Edit: correction

arthur ,

Afaik, is the other way around. All birds are dinosaurs, but there are non-avian dinosaurs as well.

arthur ,

Linux Mint. Works well and it’s friendly.

arthur ,

I think they meant that the Snap itself (or part of it) is proprietary. But I’m not sure.

arthur ,

@dataisugly material

arthur ,

The Gantz manga. I took a break after an event that could be described as a terrorist attack.

Full Metal Alchemist, the episode with the girl and the dog.

arthur ,

About salt, afaik there is no difference in taste, only in texture (by grain size) and color.

arthur ,

Although I agree that knowledge is based on faith, not all faith are equal. That’s why testing/defying our current knowledge is the basis of science.

arthur ,

The time is flying fast this year…

Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments? (ludditus.com)

This article was written in the sense of bashing gnome but yet some points seem to be valid. It explains the history of gtk 1 to 4 and the influence of gnome in gtk. I’m not saying gnome is bad here, instead I find this an interesting to read and I’m sharing it.

arthur ,

Apple, Microsoft and Google, on the other hand, decides what is best for them, shove it down the users’ throats and get users’ money (and personal data) in return…

I think some criticism still valid though (but not the entitlement).

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