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Why do different ethnicities/races look different?
  • Elephants. African elephants have large ears to assist in maintaining their body temperature. Asian elephants that migrated farther north (India and S-E-Asia) evolved smaller ears because the evolutionary pressure wasn't as significant.

    For comparison: African, Asian

  • Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct
  • > be me
    > androgynous looking twink
    > trying to be nice to everyone
    > bigass rightwing chud bullies me for it
    > decide to transition
    > threemonthslater.mp4
    > finally feeling confident for the first time in my life
    > confront bigass chud
    > it angers him so much that he has a heart attack and fucking dies
    > happy.png
    > get laid the next day
    

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  • Who are the good guys in the Israel/Palestine conflict?
  • The Middle East has been cooking for so long, it's impossible to point at a faction that is the "Good Guys". But right now, one faction is hell-bent on exterminating another nation's people, both military and civilian, so it should be pretty fucking obvious who the worst "Bad Guys" are. There are no good guys, only victims.

    You should read Ramzi Yousef's statement at his 1998 trial. Terrorist factions like Hezbollah and Hamas exist only because Israel is consistently refusing to make peace through diplomacy.

  • Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home
  • It's called the Milwaukee protocol, and it's considered to be a failure.

    The patient is put in a medically induced coma and treated with strong antiviral medication until the natural immune system can produce antibodies, but even a successful treatment doesn't guarantee survival. Also, the debilitating neural damage. Honestly, I might still prefer a morphine overdose.

  • Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home
  • There were cases where symptomatic patients survived, but the number is in the lower single digits and they all suffered debilitating neural damage. I wouldn't call it recovery, no.

    The immunoglobulin treatment aims to eliminate the pathogen before it can infect the nervous system. Once that happens, once the headaches start, it's game over.

  • Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home
  • These keyboard warriors don't understand how fucked up rabies can get. Near 100% fatal once the infected becomes symptomatic, and it's probably one of the worst disease-related deaths I can imagine. I'd rather take a cyanide pill.

    I live near a forest where the fox population had to be culled because of the potential contact between humans or their pets and infected animals. There were billboards and television announcements that warned against approaching a wild animal that is acting friendly because it's an indicator of infection.

  • 32GB Ram and Linux
  • It was also supposed to be an all-in-one recording/streaming computer for university events, and they had to use the budget for something. It ended up being used as a proxmox host for a while, then it was handed off to me. Now the most resource-intensive thing it runs is a Windows 11 VM that I torture mercilessly use for experiments. It rarely gets to 10% memory utilization.

  • 32GB Ram and Linux
  • Try realizing ten thousand mesh instances in Blender and watch that sucker eat the rest of your RAM like it's got a pebble in its shoe.

    I did that on my work PC with 128 GB memory (originally built for esports shit) and it still wasn't enough.

  • Do you screw in both bolts on VGA cables, just the top one or ignore them altogether?
  • It depends.

    For my work computer, I screw them in tight, both on the monitor and the DP/VGA adapter.

    For stationary devices (like overhead projectors) and extension cords, I screw them in, but not very tight.

    For classroom computers, I only screw them in on the monitor and leave them unscrewed on the computer. Students can't keep their legs calm and often snag the cables. I prefer to let the connectors harmlessly disconnect instead of damaging the graphics card or motherboard.

  • Confused about logical operators (i.e. "comparison operators", or "boolean operators") in Python
  • It's a convention set by early programming languages.

    In most C-like languages, if (a = b)... is also a valid comparison. The = (assignment) operation returns the assigned value as a result, which is then converted to a boolean value by the if expression. Consider this Javascript code:

    let a = b = 1
    
    1. It first declares the b variable and assigns it the value of the expression 1, which is one.
    2. It returns the result of the expression b = 1, which is the assigned value, which is 1.
    3. It declares the a variable and assigns the previously returned value, which is 1.

    Another example:

    let a = 1
    let b = 2
    let c = 3
    console.log(a == b) // prints "false" because the comparison is false
    console.log(a = b) // prints 2 because the expression returns the value of the assignment, which is 'b', which is 2
    
    // Using this in an 'if' statement:
    if (b = c) { // the result of the assignment is 3, which is converted to a boolean true
        console.log("what")
    }
    

    You can't do the same in Python (it will fail with a syntax error), but it's better to adhere to convention because it doesn't hurt anyone, but going against it might confuse programmers who have greater experience with another language. Like I was when I switched from Pascal (which uses = for comparison and := for assignment) to C.

  • Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux
  • Ah yes, "the devs". What percentage of the profit do you think goes to the gameplay developers, the backend developers, the designers, the character artists, the environment artists, the QA team, the writers, the voice talent, the localization teams, and the other roles too numerous to list but too important to ignore, that actually create the game? In contrast, how much do the executives, managers, and parasites shareholders pocket?

    Even if you assume a fair division between all people, just look at how long the credits list is. The average developer employee won't go hungry because a couple hundred players stop buying gamble coins.

  • Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon".

    Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Name

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    Youtube's web UX team is a joke.
    • see cool video on front page
    • click
    • "Haha, fuck you, you've just clicked on the invisible button that takes up half the thumbnail like a fucking moron!"
    • redirected to the sponsorship info page
    • go back
    • video gone

    why are you completely incapable of making a functional website you wet dildo

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    Not all construction jobs are equally engaging.

    For example, drilling or enlarging a hole can be boring, but fixing two pieces of metal together is often riveting.

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    I tried sudo for Windows and was left thoroughly blue-balled.

    It's a poor imitation. A mockery of the name. A GUI addict's idea of a CLI tool.

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    How do you manage your headphone cables?

    I recently switched from wireless to wired headphones (Samson SR-850, probably the best for the very reasonable price) and my chair's wheels instantly started eating its cable. Right now I'm using a small plastic hook that came with a face mask to keep it off the floor, but I'd like to hear other solutions.

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    Important addition

    Some things are just universally true.

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    Small audio output switcher script
    pastebin.com select_audio_sink.py - Pastebin.com

    Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

    I use this in Hyprland to quickly switch between the headphone jack and a USB wireless dongle. Executing the script will show a dialog that lists all available audio sinks, with the active sink selected. It requires pulseaudio or pipewire-pulse for the pactl program, and kdialog for the dialog.

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    Unixporn @lemmy.ml rtxn @lemmy.world
    [eww] The physiognomy of window managers.

    I think Starfield's main menu is neat. So I made it into a desktop widget. Files (including the stylized logo) here, wallpaper here.

    I used the Chakra Petch font (AUR: ttf-chakra-petch) for the menu buttons, and Liberation Sans (with some editing in Inkscape) for the logo.

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    "Shame on you!" - DT, 2023

    I'm not trying to attack him, but this is pretty funny.

    Context: 11 days ago DT released a video where he called out the people who refer to Linux distributions as "Linux" as opposed to "GNU/Linux". Today he released a video where he did exactly that.

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    We don't talk about #3671.

    Only the OGs will remember when Steam would sometimes rm -rf /* your system. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

    Template without text: https://img.ifunny.co/images/e31929a1a7bafa7e351e7b7cfaec531d12295fb3643ad444d75f2e979ccd657f_1.jpg

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    What happens to images that are uploaded, but never used?

    I recently discovered that you can paste image data from your clipboard to a post or comment field, and it will upload the data and generate an embed link. I assume, since the clipboard is ephemeral, that the data is uploaded and stored on the server immediately.

    What happens then if the embed link is removed and never used, but the file isn't deleted by the user? Does it just sit around in storage, collecting dust and taking up space, or is there some sort of garbage collection that detects unused files? What happens to embedded files if the post/comment where it is embedded gets deleted?

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    Unixporn @lemmy.ml rtxn @lemmy.world
    [Qtile] I spent way too much time on this.

    !

    It might not look like anything special, but I spent an embarrassing number of hours on this rice, mostly on the non-graphical user interactions. The layout is a custom master-stack implementation, the groupbox widget is an almost complete reimplementation to support a more flexible styling on multihead systems, the Nvidia GPU monitor widget is completely my own, there are popups and context menus out the ass, and there is a persistence module that saves dynamic data (like layouts and group names) between sessions.

    Tomorrow I'm moving to Wayland and I might not have the patience to get Qtile running again.

    edit: Wallpaper sauce https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/89596288

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    Advice needed for partitioning a desktop PC

    I originally meant to ask if having /home on a different partition or separate physical device was still warranted, but my ignorance in this matter slowly became apparent.

    This is my current setup:

    • sda is a 240G SATA SSD that only contains the ESP and the root partition.
    • sdb is a 1T SATA SSD entirely dedicated to games and virtual machines.
    • sdc is a 3T SATA spinning rust disk mounted on /home, with a 0.5T partition for Timeshift backups.

    I recently bought a 2T M.2 NVMe SSD. I'd like to retire sda and sdc (i.e. put them in my junk NAS/backup server), and then reinstall the OS on the new NVMe. My ideas for the new setup:

    • I use the entire NVMe drive for ESP and root, no separate /home partition, and mount the 1T SSD as before.
    • I use the entire NVMe for ESP and root, move the games and VMs to the root, and use the 1T SSD as the /home partition.
    • ESP, ~100-200G root partition, and separate /home partition on the NVMe; games stay on the separate SSD.

    The advantages of having /home on a separate device are not lost on me. My question is whether the added complexity is still worth it. I would also like to use LUKS encryption, which I understand to be partition-wide - in which case I'd like to know if there is any significant overhead if I encrypt the root partition. I'm also not opposed to using LVM, but that seems like a little too much for a desktop PC.

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