yetAnotherUser
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My previous/alt account is yetAnotherUser@feddit.de which will be abandoned soon.
- Comment on FearNoPeer open for signups for the next 1-5 days! 7 hours ago:
The UI is just the UNIT3D UI though. It’s fancy, but nothing special imo.
The site is decent though, very easy to build ratio. I often snatch my x265 releases from them with Radarr despite having Usenet and TL at a higher priority.
- Comment on tickling ur spidey senses 1 week ago:
And the bugs are always in the last lines of code you check. It’s so infuriating! Why can’t they be in the first?
- Comment on One more try maybe? 1 week ago:
Turret3857 is not in the sudoers file.
This incident will be reported.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
There is significant proof of benefits:
Positive outcomes were decreased suicidality in adulthood, improved affect and psychological functioning, and improved social life. Adverse factors associated with use were changes in body composition, slow growth, decreased height velocity, decreased bone turnover, cost of drugs, and lack of insurance coverage.
I can’t vouch for the quality of this literature review (because I don’t care about taking an hour or more to read a paper for a Lemmy comment), but usually literarture reviews show a fuller picture than individual studies.
Also, this sentence is in the conclusion:
Although large long-term studies with diverse and multicultural populations have not been done, the evidence to date supports the finding of few serious adverse outcomes and several potential positive outcomes.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
Vaccines can have devastating permanent side effects. Should parents no longer vaccinate their children?
The answer for both is:
Whichever option does less harm should be taken. A delayed puberty, despite potential long-term risks does less harm than a trans child going through the “wrong” puberty.
Besides, due to the start of puberty having a pretty large range there should in theory be little harm until the age of 14 or so. And at that age children are much more capable of deciding on medical treatments than as preteens.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 - Update 2.2 is live! 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t that be akin to adding new features? Adding support for previously unsupported (due to their lack of existance) hardware is a feature imo.
Besides, while a program may eventually be bug-free, no modern computer has flawless hardware so creating a large program without bugs will always remain a thought experiment.
The only possible reason to do it would be if an alien civilization were to demand producing such a program or else they’d destroy Earth (similar to Erdős’s thought experiment with finding Ramsey numbers). Perhaps with all of humanity’s resources and a few decades this could be done.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 - Update 2.2 is live! 1 week ago:
Absolutely, I was thinking more along the lines of focusing solely on bug-fixing.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 - Update 2.2 is live! 1 week ago:
Eventually: Yes.
There are a finite number of bugs (or bug types rather, you could have infinitely many bugs from the same few lines of code) and it will take finite time to fix them all. You cannot know when you have fixed all of them though. But some games have gone above and beyond with fixing bus, like Factorio where you will not encounter bugs without explicitly looking for them.
- Comment on Interesting. It's a constant reminder 1 week ago:
Assuming the bathroom is in a hallway, having the door open into the hallway would cause the flight path to be narrowed which would be against (some) fire code(s).
After all, significantly more people would want to flee through the hallway than out of a room adjacent to the hallway.
- Comment on Interesting. It's a constant reminder 1 week ago:
That might not be up to fire standards demanding doors in the hallway to be opened to the inside of the room.
- Comment on Log by bolb 1 week ago:
By the way, I believe the second string of question marks is meant to be a verb. Liberals are doing stuff with their gender that cannot even be put into words.
- Comment on Progress 3 weeks ago:
I don’t really like that statement.
It really reminds me of people saying “Humans evolved from apes”.
Like no we fucking didn’t??
We had a shared ancestor that to the best of our knowledge looks more like apes than humans but that doesn’t mean anything? Apes aren’t human’s shared ancestor. Humans aren’t ape’s shared ancestor. Our extinct shared ancestor was human’s and ape’s shared ancestor.
- Comment on Anon has an idea to get laid 3 weeks ago:
archive.is/RsyNC [unpaywalled Washington Post link]
Some reactions:
The text above reads: “Special Police Unit Wall and Color” Image
Later the police arrived:
But again:
And the cops came back:
But finally:
By the way, the case was finally dropped. Only because the outrage made them not pursue it though. Courts would have likely ruled this was an insult.
- Comment on Anon has an idea to get laid 3 weeks ago:
And anywhere outside the US, home searches are nearly always legal since they must be signed by a judge. And judges rarely rule against their own.
Over here in Germany, where the inviolability of the home is in the constitution, the suspicion of any crime suffices for getting your home searched. This includes filesharing, spraying graffiti or insulting someone on the internet by calling them a dick. Plus, any resulting damages are only paid if you are found not guilty.
- Comment on Lmao 4 weeks ago:
You’re such a failure. If you can’t even get depression within 17 hours, how do you ever expect to get anything done? There’s no hope left for you. Just give up.
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/s
- Comment on I want a name for this 4 weeks ago:
More like Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörung.
By the way, using the ‘ß’ as you did would force the preceding vowel to have a stretched pronunciation.
And I don’t know about you, but in my opinion defeeßit and deeßorder sounds awful.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 5 weeks ago:
I’ve found a proper approximation after some time and some searching.
Since the binomial distribution has a very large n, we can use the central limit theorem and treat it as a normal distribution. The mean would be obviously 500 billion, the standard deviation is √(n * p * (1-p)) which results in 500,000.
You still cannot plug that into WA unfortunately so we have to use a workaround.
Since WA would calculate it through:
Φ(b) - Φ(a), with b = (510 billion - mean) / (standard deviation) = 20,000 and a = (490 billion - mean) / (standard deviation) = -20,000 and Φ(x) = 0.5 * (1 + erf(x/√2))
erf(x) is the error function which has one good property: erf(-x) = -erf(x)
Therefore:
Φ(20,000) - Φ(-20,000) = 0.5 * [ erf(20,000/√2) - erf(-20,000/√2) ] = erf(20,000/√2) ≈ erf(14,142)
WolframAlpha will unfortunately not calculate this either.
However, according to Wikipedia an approximation exists which shows that:
1 - erf(x) = [(1 - e^(-Ax))e^(-x²)] / (Bx√π)And apparently A = 1.98 and B = 1.135 give good approximations for all x≥0.
After failing to get a proper approximation from WA again and having to calculate every part by itself, the result is very roughly around 1 - 10^(-86,857,234).
So it is very safe to assume you will lose between 49% and 51% of your gut bacteria. For a more realistic 10 trillion you should replace a and b above with around ±63,200 but I don’t want to bother calculating the rest and having WolframAlpha tell me my intermediary steps are equal to zero.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 5 weeks ago:
To expand a little:
For a much smaller sample size of just 1 million, the probability to lose just 1% is basically zero.
WolframAlpha doesn’t even bother to calculate the exact result and just rounds it:
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 month ago:
There’s no problem with piracy if you never ever ever intend to subscribe to a streaming service though. Give me the option to pay for DRM-free .mkv files with differing qualities and bit rates and I’d consider not pirating, provided the prices are reasonable.
- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 1 month ago:
And an archive would be doing exactly that: Distributing copyrighted materials.
Moving to Europe is not necessarily a great idea depending on the country they choose. US copyright law is comparatively lenient to some European countries.
- Comment on what should one archive in a fascist regime? 1 month ago:
Depebding on the country, Europe has significantly worse copyright law than the US, to the extent that archiving a web page is illegal.
Fun fact:
In Germany you have to pay a special tax for anything that could be used to violate copyright. It ranges from 0.10€ for USB sticks to 90€ for faster printers to 14,000,000€ for opening up a public library all going to a bunch of publisher organizations.
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 1 month ago:
You’re right in some regard though I still believe taking note of trends is important, don’t you? If most pre-record civilizations we find have behaved and lived in a certain way it could tell us something notable about our past.
- Comment on Anon thinks it's too late 1 month ago:
I don’t know, I feel like anon’s advice is misguided at the very least.
It assumes that OOP is more or less choosing to be this way, instead of struggling with issues outside their control, be it self-image issues, anxiety, depression, money or a myriad of other things. Depending on the particukar combination and severity, anon’s situation may not change for a very long time, including forever.
I believe proper advice would focus on making them accept their situation. It’s OK to have no friends or partner(s). They are not a necessity in order to live a meaningful life. Perhaps it won’t be the most meaningful life possible but it is certainly possible to find meaning while feeling lonely. Though finding a job is somewhat important, especially if they live in countries without social welfare, they should focus on that for a bit.
I don’t have any positive stories to share on how I overcame the issues anon is facing - considering I’m in my early 20s and have nearly all the same one’s. But acceptance has helped me cope with my situation in a not unhealthy way and reduced some of the pain of loneliness and self-doubt.
- Comment on sometimes it's just easier 1 month ago:
DONT SAY THAT WORD IN MY CHRISTIAN HYPERCAPITALIST LEMMY
- Comment on Drink it, I dare ya 1 month ago:
But wait, from further down:
It is stable enough to observe reactions with NO and NO2
We now have a lower and upper bound for its reactivity at least:
able to observe reactions with NO and NO2 ≤ Reactivity < encountered in everyday life
- Comment on Equinunerous Sets 2 months ago:
Easy. If and only if the integer sequence A053169 contains itself.
- Comment on Anon plays shirts vs skins 2 months ago:
How did I even miss you saying
it wasn’t something we did in PE
in your original comment
- Comment on Anon plays shirts vs skins 2 months ago:
It’s more visible, sure, but there’s nothing easier to put on than a band:
And you had actual games? For mandatory PE at school?
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 2 months ago:
It’s pretty much locked in once you hit your teens. You can nudge it a little, you can change how you present yourself but your personality is what you are. And you cannot change that significantly. Just try changing your core values, your ethics. Can you start believing and feeling like murder and rape is ethical?
I’m not sure how accurate this is but I’ve read it in a scientific article some time ago. In particular, it highlighted the connection to how likely people are to commit crimes based on personality and brain structure alone and whether you can actually be held responsible for crimes since there is at least some determinism.
- Comment on Bandai Namco reportedly tries to bore staff into quitting, skirting Japan’s labor laws 2 months ago:
Yes. And because you are technically at fault, there will be no compensation.
