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barsoap ,

Different kinds of sugar are all sugar when they get to your gut.

Nope fruits are high in fructose while sucrose, aka table sugar, is 50:50 glucose and fructose. Fruit has the same or even worse makeup sugar-wise as HFCS, glucose can be used pretty much directly by the body while fructose needs to be processed by the liver, into fat. Evolutionary speaking that makes a lot of sense as when there's a lot of fruit around it's summer and you need to fatten up.

Real fruit vs. juice is a matter of fibre and satisfaction from chewing, it's way easier to overdrink than to overeat fruit.

barsoap , (edited )

We get it you're vegan.

Also most people are actually lactose-intolerant, the capability to retain production of lactase into adulthood is a mutation won through a lot of hardship and diarrhoea.

Side note Italy being blue explains why they have strange rules such as "no cappuccino after noon", it's not that it's bad or anything it's that many Italians can only stomach one, maybe two a day.

barsoap ,

That paper is yet to be peer reviewed or released.

Never doing either (release as in submit to journal) isn't uncommon in maths, physics, and CS. Not to say that it won't be released but it's not a proper standard to measure papers by.

I think you are jumping into conclusion with that statement. How much can you dilute the data until it breaks again?

Quoth:

If each linear model is instead fit to the generate targets of all the preceding linear models i.e. data
accumulate, then the test squared error has a finite upper bound, independent of the number
of iterations. This suggests that data accumulation might be a robust solution for mitigating
model collapse.

Emphasis on "finite upper bound, independent of the number of iterations" by doing nothing more than keeping the non-synthetic data around each time you ingest new synthetic data. This is an empirical study so of course it's not proof you'll have to wait for theorists to have their turn for that one, but it's darn convincing and should henceforth be the null hypothesis.

Btw did you know that noone ever proved (or at least hadn't last I checked) that reversing, determinising, reversing, and determinising again a DFA minimises it? Not proven yet widely accepted as true, crazy, isn't it? But, wait, no, people actually proved it on a napkin. It's not interesting enough to do a paper about.

barsoap ,

It was someone different who said that. There's a chance the authors might've gotten some claim wrong because their maths and/or methodology is shoddy but it's a large and diverse set of authors so that's unlikely. Fraud in CS empirics is generally unheard of, I mean what are you going to do when challenged, claim that the dog ate the program you ran to generate the data? There's shenanigans about the equivalent of p-hacking especially from papers from commercial actors trying to sell stuff but that's not the case here, either.

CS academics generally submit papers to journals more because of publish or perish than the additional value formal peer review offers. It's on the internet, after all. By all means, if you spot something in the paper that's wrong then be right on the internet.

barsoap ,

While xmms is dead there's qmmp. Supports xmms and winamp 2 skins.

barsoap ,

http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/

barsoap ,

small module nuclear reactors.

Hmm let's see what changed since I last looked. This study seems recent, just looking at the publicly available sections:

SMRs do not represent dramatic improvements in economics compared to large reactors.

Translation: They're way more expensive than renewables. SMRs have some advantage which are mentioned (less land usage, non-intermittency), then we have

The advanced SMRs are compared to conventional large reactors and natural gas plants,

...but not renewables+storage, which would be a good comparison point. If it looked any good they definitely would've included it.

Now that doesn't mean that these things don't make sense for Microsoft. It might e.g. simplify power distribution within datacentres to a degree that other sources just can't, also reduce or eliminate the need for backup power, etc. But generally speaking I'm still smelling techbro BS.

barsoap ,

That’s pretty much the definition of the job of parent. To control everything around the child and how they interact with things.

The fuck. You'll breed a country of people with zero social skills, zero independence, and a lot of ressentiment for their parents for boxing them in and helicoptering leading to an authority neurosis.

In short, you'll have American conditions.

It takes a village and all that.

For one thing, don’t give kids a smartphone until they’re at least 13, they have no need for one before then.

No, give them 30 pence so they can find a telephone booth and call you if something is up. Make sure to isolate them from their peers because they can't use the same chat app as everyone else. The more isolation the more you control them which will make nurturing that neurosis even easier.

After 13 or there abouts, they are given more freedom and more responsibility to go along with it, and hopefully have been raised well enough to respect that.

If, at the age of 13/14 thereabouts they haven't learned to evaluate things for themselves, have had the opportunity to make wrong choices that they then learned from, they'll be rolled over by puberty hormones driving their frontal cortex to mindless exploration. You cannot substitute your own judgement for theirs, your judgement isn't stopping them, their capacity and ability to say "wait a minute I should think before I act" is the only thing that can.

From there, limitations and guide rails will remain in place, be it a traditional curfew in the evening, or a limitation of “screen time”, and if course of what the children interact with online.

At the age of 16 they should be mature enough to live on their own, with parental backup being present, but not imposing on them. They'll call you when they need help because they came to value your guidance. Not control. One of the two begets rebellion, the other doesn't.

Eventually you have to let go, let them be adults and make their own decisions,

I'm sure you'll be able to after helicoptering them for 18 fucking years and them going zero contact for their own sanity.

but all you can do as a parent is try to prepare them

Then fucking do that!

barsoap ,

Timely? Hardly.

Depends on whether you count from the time facebook etc. became a problem and was recognised or such, or the passing of the Digital Services Act. The commission can't just impose fines randomly they have to have a legislative basis to do it.

EU fines are generally not a thing you can just blink at they're measured in percent of world-wide turnover. Historically they don't really dissuade companies from trying shit but they definitely are sufficient to make them stop shit. Also actually way more importantly they probably have tiktok in the pipeline but the paperwork still needs the one or other t crossed.

barsoap ,

If they're found to be tanking a continuous fine of 5% revenue because they're too darn profitable it won't take long for the parliament to change the regulation. With sufficient harm to the consumers it's also possible to simply shut down facebook, or at least their ability to do business in the EU which would make the market completely unprofitable as they're relying on EU advertisers. They definitely can unplug each and every server facebook has in the EU. The EP is way less captured by lobby interest than the US legislature is, doubly so by an uppity US company trying to skirt EU law.

What's more likely to happen though is the shareholders firing management because picking a fight with a bully the size of the EU isn't exactly good for the share price.

barsoap ,

Meh. Today is September 11216, 1993. It's been a while since the internet last went uphill.

barsoap , (edited )

GNU tar, at least a modern one, that is the one that happens to come with my system, won't try to read from /dev but stdin and then complain that it's a terminal and refuse.

Quoth POSIX on the f flag:

Use the first file operand [...] as the name of the archive instead of the system-dependent default.

That is GNU is compliant, here, the default is system-dependent. f - is required to be stdin, though, so you can bunzip2 foo.tar.bz2 | tar xf - or such in a portable manner, don't have to rely on tar having a z option (which is nonstandard) or it auto-detecting compression (even more nonstandard). What is not standard either is tar -x: Tar doesn't take leading hyphens. Tar is one of those programs so old its command line syntax got standardised before command line syntax standards were established. OTOH it's not nearly as bad as dd, you can interpret how tar does things in the same way as git pull: It's a subcommand, not a flag.

barsoap ,

POSIX. POSIX didn't get designed but documented behaviour that was portable between different UNIX flavours and was then declared a standard.

If you're annoyed by it just consider the xvf in tar xvf to be a subcommand as pull is in git pull. Tar simply has a fancy subcommand syntax. At least it's not dd.

barsoap ,

You know what? They're technically correct. There's historically plenty of computer systems which came in multiple different cases, sometimes that's still the case but the most obvious examples are historical, where you would get something like the CPU (yes) in one case and then a huge-ass card reader in another case and drum memory in yet another. Those drums were used as RAM. Each case was standing on the floor, at least chest-high.

Simply integrating various peripherals into the CPU doesn't make the CPU any less of the CPU. Even ignoring the case thing and just looking at the CPU package (or even die): Modern CPUs contain a lot of things that would've been external to it, or even in a different case, in the past. You'll hear the term "SoC", system on a chip, thrown around but that's misleading most CPUs nowadays are SoCs: You have your CPU cores, yes, but you also have a memory controller, you have storage interfaces and general IO (PCIe is a storage interface), as well as a GPU. It's been a long time since mainboards came with northbridges. Newer CPUs may have enough memory on package to reasonably run without external memory (and not just "use the cache as ram during early boot" kind of stuff).

barsoap ,

The only way my box is blinged up is with tastefully beige-brown fans. I actually felt slightly betrayed by Noctua when they started making black fans.

barsoap ,

Information theory aside: In practice all because you can't write bit-by-bit and if you leave full bytes untouched there still might be enough information for an attacker to get information, especially if it's of the "did this computer once store this file" kind of information, not the actual file contents.

If I'm not completely mistaken overwriting the file once will be enough to prevent recovering with logical means, that is, reading the bits the way the manufacturer intended you to, physical forensics can go further by being able to discern "this bit, before it got overwritten, was a 1 or 0" by looking very closely at the physical medium, details on how much flipping you need to defeat that will depend on the physical details.

And I wouldn't be too terribly sure about that electro magnet you built into your case to erase your HDD with a panic button: It's in a fixed place, will have a fixed magnetic field, it's going to scramble everything sure but the way it scrambles is highly uniform so the bits can probably be recovered. If you want to be really sure buy a crucible and melt the thing.

Also, may I interest you in this stylish tin-foil hat, special offer.

barsoap ,

and the next time something writes to that area the data that was there before is disregarded.

A single overwrite might not be enough to defeat physical forensics because shadows of the old data persist in how the new data is stored. Also when it comes to SSDs you might be waiting a long time for the data to get overwritten as the drive will wear-level its erm sectors (what are those things called with SSDs?).

barsoap OP ,

HDDs won't go away any time soon and that's also exactly what he says but the industry is nowhere close to moving as much product as it did in the past, and the number of companies has been reduced to pretty much three. Technology also isn't going to improve drastically any more while NAND storage only needs that much of a price reduction to match HDDs, currently about 15 vs. 50 Euro/TB. Not spitting distance but it's getting darn close.

It says, after all, "boom and bust" not "rise and fall".

Also, no, tapes are more cost-effective. An LTO-8 tape is about 80 Euros, that's less than seven Euros per TB (uncompressed).

barsoap OP ,

Great, congratulations. Now figure out how to use the tech without increasing per TB costs and find financing for that with large enough ROI so that the capital that be cares. Seagate already ships 24G HDDs at 20 Euro/TB, whether you want to call a step up to 30 "drastic" I'll leave up to you.

Meanwhile, current NAND chips aren't using EUV. The industry can piggyback off the investment and experience of logic chip manufacturers, HDD manufacturers can't. Synergy and all that.

barsoap ,

Propaganda isn’t always fake news, it can also be true stuff presented in a biased way.

It can also be true stuff presented in an unbiased way. There's a disconnect here between the proper definition of the word, which is perfectly neutral, and its connotations because the what secretary for tsunami safety doesn't call their stuff "propaganda" but "public service announcement". Still the same thing, though, the tsunami safety secretary is trying to persuade the audience to not be stupid and get to high ground as soon as the sea recedes. Very much pushing an agenda, they *gasp* want people to survive and *gasp* use communication to achieve it.

barsoap , (edited )

What about things like this?

Which btw yes certainly has editorialising going on. The answer to "Useless projects are funded with EU money" starts with "National and regional authorities in the EU countries select projects which they think meet their needs best in line with the strategies and priorities agreed with the Commission." Which isn't saying that EU money doesn't found useless projects, but implicitly blames regional authorities for it. I don't even think they want to mislead, here, they simply want to stay diplomatic.

(This video about the canopy walk is brilliant. (enable subtitles)).

barsoap , (edited )

Corruption, that's why. Similar to how the Italian mafia would half-build highway bridges with taxpayer money and then mysteriously have some shell company go bankrupt. OLAF is on it because of course they are when stuff makes the press. If they have a case EPPO will take over at which point that Hungarian mayor will have the questionable honour of being up against the gal who cleaned up Romania... before Hungarian courts. If those turn out to be corrupt then that's going to buy the mayor time but ultimately the ECJ would overrule them. Still no mechanism to actually set boots on member state grounds but Hungary is already on thin ice when it comes to getting suspended from the EU for various reasons, they're going to tread lightly.

See if you want to be corrupt in the EU you have to do it like the big boys: Implement some policy, then get a cushy job at a company. Or receive tons of money for boring private speeches. Something like that, directly grabbing into state coffers is so uncivilised.

EDIT: Oh, Hungary didn't join EPPO, figures. They can still freeze assets, though. Also if I understand things correctly our mayor would turn into a fugitive in the rest of the EU.

barsoap ,

It's also lazy and they're used to not getting investigated or even called out. But even if prosecution is high and you're not lazy you get corrupt politicians doing blatantly obvious stuff like the mask scandal in Germany, making a fortune of selling FFP2 masks at ludicrous markups to the state: Their behaviour was not technically illegal (laws got adjusted since then), the only one who got prosecuted got prosecuted for tax evasion, not corruption.

barsoap ,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7meZZeYllo

barsoap ,

There's the blacks of the UK, the rest of us likes em well enough.

barsoap ,

Hmm. Why am I mildly surprised that I can't find anything non-regular about the syntax. There's nested comments but that's part of MIME quoting, not the actual address format, so it's reasonable to not accept those in an HTML entry field because HTML is many things, but not MIME.

barsoap ,

I don’t know why single character email addresses would fail that test, though.

Could be that they get a huge amounts of bounces from those kinds of addresses. I'm sure at least half of Germany is using a@bc.de as the go-to "I don't wanna give out my email" address.

barsoap ,

Yes but do you condemn Hamas.

barsoap ,

Women are told to shut their mouth and keep their opinions to themselves all the fucking time.

I think right about now would be a good time to check your privilege. People overall are told that all the time, yet somehow women still by and large have shoulders to cry on, places to complain where they're heard. Wait, no, crying on shoulders, complaining, again, that would be pathetic for men never mind.

barsoap ,

You’re forgetting the “male” part of oligarchs.

Is it forgetting or, looking at the percentages, considering it irrelevant to the overall problems the system has?

How large a percentage of men are oligarchs, and how large a percentage of oligarchs are women? Which one is, in <randomliberalcounttry>, the larger number? Would oligarchy be any better if all oligarchs were women? Now as an anarchist I might be biassed here but given that oligarchy is a system of rule I'd say it's the actual problem, not the gender distribution that's a mere nuance. I don't care whether we're all ruled by left-handed people, or ones with heterochromatic eyes, their geno- or phenotype doesn't matter what matters is that they are in power. For more education, consult your friendly neighbourhood anarcho-feminist.

barsoap , (edited )

I mean yes I could have used the term "toxic masculinity" but men not steeped deeply in feminist theory tend to react badly to it, and self-identified feminists (usually also not quite firm in theory) getting called out for engaging in it tend to react even worse. And I already used quite a lot of budget on the privilege check, so, yeah, better avoid that one.

Oh your edit.

Have you ever asked yourself why people only bring up male victims when we are talking about female victims?

Because the overall narrative is women are weak and in need of protection while men are not, and if they are, it's because they are a) toxic male view losers b) toxic female view in some way inherently broken because how can you fail as a man in a world made for men.

Looking at the difference between the toxic perspectives: At least the male one doesn't lend itself to denying the very existence of men with issues. On the toxic female side you get things like radfems shutting down domestic violence centres for men as it clashes with their idea that men are inherently never victims. Reality, it seems, has a compassionate bias so it has to be denied.

barsoap ,

(btw did you see my edit to your edit)

Advocating for women generally is advocacy for men as well.

In theory, yes. In practice you get self-avowed feminists reinforcing the patriarchy, hence why I did the privilege checking.

barsoap ,

I now could start a big list starting with men being four times more likely to commit suicide than women. But I won't, because I assume you're aware of all those gendered inequalities affecting men just as I was aware of every single one of the bullet points you mentioned.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

  • Hillary Clinton, 1998
barsoap ,

Oh not just "at this point" I've been busy figuring out what sticks with people vs. what doesn't for at least two decades now. Points that, when prodded, don't cause resistance, where some leverage can be applied that then may or may not avalanche into reevaluation of other topics which would be foolhardy to address directly. Dancing around the neuroses of the collective to enact my grand political vision of *checks notes* universal psychological health.

That all said yes of course we also have issues with gender roles. It's just that in terms of who sits at the big power levers that's not terribly relevant any more, it's not 1850 any more the dam has long since been breached and as women can inherit fortunes nowadays the gender distribution of oligarchs is bound to level out soon enough.

barsoap ,

I'm perfectly consistent in my position, I simply chose to not engage where people's underwear is twisted because a shouting match has never changed anyone's mind.

barsoap ,

I replied to that purported bogeyman directly. Called out what you correctly identified as toxic masculinity.

barsoap ,

Rotten fruit smells of vinegar and they're attracted to that that's why. If you want to get rid of fruit flies (It happens, no need to be ashamed) the usual trick is a glass of diluted vinegar with some soap added to lower the surface tension so the flies can't Jesus all over it.

Bees and wasps and stuff, though, you can catch a lot of those with honey.

barsoap ,

+55 -2

Hey! I am here to tell you don’t shut up. ❤️

Removed by mod

SMH

barsoap ,

I know, the only winning move is not to play. And the mods had limited options

barsoap ,

We weren't talking about workplace discrimination, either. Or car seats. Or medicine. Or work hours. Those are real issues brought up in addition which I readily acknowledged and made no attempt at dismissing, nor did I spent more breath on a single male issue than any single one of the female issues got.

We were talking about people's experiences and pain getting silenced, and how none of it should get ignored. I suggest making that "if" into a "when" and lead by example.

barsoap , (edited )

This entire post is a reaction to a post about how unsafe women feel.

This entire post is about nuance in discussing that reaction. I quote from OP's image:

The disenfranchisement and antagonization of young men leading to alt-right extremism is a real problem that can be addressed by being thoughtful of what methods of rhetoric are employed.

By your logic, I should say “stop talking about men committing suicide when trans people commit suicide at a higher rate.“ Does that seem right to you? I sure hope not.

First off, I never said that any of the issues should not be talked about, I said that none should get ignored.

Then, that's actually an interesting intersection. Do you happen to have any data on whether the same disparity is present or not in trans folks, ideally distinguishing between pre- and post-transition?

My off the cuff hypothesis would be low to no statistical significance pre-transition as transphobia and general psychological turmoil is an overwhelming factor, and a definitely significant but lower disparity post-transition on account of selection bias towards resiliency as well as good self-knowledge and self-actualisation being a protecting factor.

barsoap ,

Oh if you insist, after some consideration (imperfect as it may be), I think Depeche Mode is a good ending note.

barsoap ,

Singapore actually has housing pretty much nailed down. If Singapore had US-style housing policies 95% of Singaporeans would live in Malaysia and commute because only bank execs etc. could afford living in the city.

...also Singapore would have zero green space left. It'd all be single family homes interspersed by parking lots. You can't spit out a chewing gum over there without hitting a public park.

barsoap ,

Governments should simply regulate more so that people vacationing will go to hotels and houses will be available for residents

Berlin did exactly that: You can rent out your apartment for IIRC 30 days a year, or while you're also living there, if you want to rent out more you need a hotel license and tough luck getting one while there's a housing shortage, least of all for a flat in a residential area.

But OTOH that's all only taking the edge off there's been decades of under-investment in social housing in Germany overall, and the little social housing that got built got built via attaching conditions to building permits for private investors, those apartments lose their social housing status after 20 or such years.

And it's not like there aren't companies who want to build, and build plenty -- but they don't because they can't recoup costs, not in this market where every rich fuck who can afford rent already is living somewhere else: Building costs are too high. Some of that is building standards, permitting, etc, but the bulk of it is financing costs, that is, interest on loans for new construction is way too high. Getting at land is not always easy but there's plenty of mechanisms such as municipalities having right of first refusal for any land sale (if they want to, that's another topic). There's really only one way out of this and it's state coffers because the capital market certainly isn't going to get less greedy.

barsoap ,

The build more thing is in urban areas to accommodate urbanisation. Coming to think of it the 49 Euro ticket might actually reverse some of that because there's tons of smaller towns, sometimes villages, with proper train connection to the next large city. Low prices drive usage which prompts higher train frequencies which, infrastructure permitting, takes even more pressure off the metropolitan housing market.

That said urbanisation isn't in itself a bad thing -- it makes a lot of sense for a lot of reasons to not have a gazillion tiny villages, it'd just be another form of sprawl. Here in SH, if every train station we do have had a small urban core around it surrounded by village structures in cargo bike distance and then long stretches of fields and nothing, that'd actually be quite nice. The state was very good at doing that in the Hamburg metropolitan area, focussing development on a couple of axes radiating out from Hamburg but it should become more of a general pattern.

barsoap ,

There's exceptions for therapeutic uses (dental, nicotine gum) and you can also import small amounts for personal use. Chewing is perfectly legal, improper disposal isn't.

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