I looked through the plant butters listed on that website. Some of them are indeed made of coconut oil, but also blended in with some other vegetable oils. I guess the blend gives it a more butter-like flavour and texture.
There are also some that are made with unsaturated fats only. Those ones look questionable to me. But then again, I'm no chemist. Maybe the other non-fat ingredients are responsible for keeping it solid.
I prefer Arch Linux over the Golden Arches. It's much better for your health.
Those are both awful arguments. One is plain wrong. The other is a strawman.
Canines don't make you a carnivore. Tons of herbivores have canines. Example: hippos, camels, and gorillas. Plus, our canines are barely there at all.
The argument about being a carnivore/omnivore is about nutritional needs. Cooking your meat doesn't change its nutritional content (though it does make some nutrients more accessible to your digestive system), nor does eating with a fork and knife versus any other tools or no tools.
SCIENCE! So much science. If I have enough to go around, I'll pay others to do science with me.
So basically, no change from my current life, except I'd be less stressed about money, and therefore much more productive.
Denuvo works on a subscription basis. Sooner or later, they're going to decide it's not worth paying for anymore and the game will be available to pirate. Waiting a year is nothing.
I would argue that we still want them to know about pseudoscience, but also know enough about everything else to understand how the pseudoscience is wrong.
I'm honestly tempted to get back into the game just to figure out how to cheat now. All the added anti-cheat stuff makes it a much more interesting challenge, and I do have the right skillset to tackle this. It would tie in nicely with some of my research projects too.
Well, that explains the name "hamburger helper". I've been wondering what they had in common with hamburgers besides the ground beef.
I can confirm that this works. Outside temperatures are right around freezing right now. Indoors, we're still hovering at around 23C and we have yet to turn on any heating. I wouldn't call this unethical though. Homes are built this way by design so that you share the heating.
Don is special. Don't question it.
Depends on what you mean by "free speech". If you mean absolute free speech in the sense that all voices are present and heard, then no, because it blocks out the hateful voices. But you can't have that while allowing for hate speech either because hate speech silences the voices of its target. So no such thing can exist. If you want a platform with "free speech", you need to decide who gets the freedom and how much of it. There has to be a limit somewhere, whether it's explicitly set or not.
Last I heard, farmers make a ton of money on average. It's just tough work and your work/income is at the whims of the weather.
How can any of this actually be proven to be misinformation? We're here on our couches reading second/third/nth hand information. None of us were in the rooms where these decisions were made. None of us are on the front lines. The best we can do is make an educated guess on who is a credible source, and that's especially difficult when everyone involved has an interest in lying about the situation when things don't go their way.
This sounds like a good way to keep track of time.
You can remotely control vehicles from another planet. Get tanks set up with personal roboports and you can send them off to fight biters and repair your defenses.
In the context of OP's graph, the two terms are presumably interchangeable. Otherwise, stuffing would be left out of the vegetarian column like in the case of the turkey. And besides normally being cooked in a carcass, the actual contents of the stuffing/dressing I've had were always vegetarian. OP's graph lists two different values for environmental impact of vegetarian vs non-vegetarian stuffing/dressing, meaning that the contents of the stuffing/dressing are different. The impact of the turkey is already accounted for in the turkey row. That number doesn't change if you stuff a bunch of bread in its abdominal cavity.
It’s like if you were blind and everyone who could see told you that vision doesn’t mean anything.
It's more like if you were blind, tested your running speed, performed poorly, attribute all your problems to being a bad runner, then everyone tells you that running speed doesn’t mean anything.
I acknowledge that there's things that are more difficult for you and that negatively affects your quality of life, but it doesn't sound like those problems are the same ones that IQ tests are measuring. If you care to work on improving your situation, it's important to know what the actual problems are before you can even start trying to address them.
Smart light switch default behaviour
I'm looking to get some smart light switches/dimmers (zigbee or matter if that's relevant), and one of the requirements for me is that if the switches aren't connected to the network, they would behave like regular dumb switches/dimmers. No one ever advertises anything except the "ideal" behaviour when it's connected with a hub and their proprietary app and everything, so I haven't been able to find any information on this.
So my question: is this the default behaviour for most switches? Are there any that don't do this? What should I look out for given this requirement?
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Edit: Thanks for the responses. Considering that no one has experienced switches that didn't behave this way nor heard of any, I'm proceeding with the assumption that any switch should be fine. I got myself some TP Link Kasa KS220 dimmers and it works pretty well. Installation was tough due to its size. Took me about an hour of wrangling the wires so that it would fit in the box. Dimming also isn't as smooth as I'd like, but it works. I haven't had a chance to set it up with Home Assistant yet since the OS keeps breaking every time I run an update and I haven't had time to fix it after the last one. Hopefully it integrates smoothly when I do get to it.
There's no known upper limit on per-meal protein intake
This is a video about Jorn Trommelen's recent paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38118410/
The gist of it is that they compared 25g protein meals vs 100g protein meals, and while you do use less of it for muscle protein synthesis at that quantity, it's a very minor difference. So the old adage still holds: Protein quantity is much more important than timing.
While we're at it, I'd also like to share an older but very comprehensive overview of protein intake by the same author: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/athlete-protein-intake/
Keynotes from the 2024 Reinforcement Learning Conference
Recordings for the RLC keynote talks have been released.
Keynote speakers:
- David Silver
- Doina Precup (Not recorded)
- Peter Stone
- Finale Doshi-Velez
- Sergey Levine
- Emma Brunskill
- Andrew Barto
OpenAI: Learning to Reason with LLMs
OpenAI just put out a blog post about a new model trained via RL (I'm assuming this isn't the usual RLHF) to perform chain of thought reasoning before giving the user its answer. As usual, there's very little detail about how this is accomplished so it's hard for me to get excited about it, but the rest of you might find this interesting.
How are funds allocated in OSS projects?
Following up on another question about open source funding, how does it usually work when there is funding to pay for the dev's work, then someone new joins in and makes significant contributions? Does the original dev still keep everything? Do you split the funds between the devs? If so, how do you decide how much each person gets? Are there examples of projects where something like this has happened?
(OTHER) How are we doing?
This community has been around for a few months now. How do we feel about it? Are things working out? Any plans for further growing the community?
This is one of the topics I’ve been thinking a lot about quite a bit for the past few years (i.e. how to set up a community that values discussions with diverse viewpoints), so I thought I’d share some of my thoughts in relation to what I’m seeing here.
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I think such a community necessarily needs to be a full self-contained instance, or else you’ll get very little activity. Think about how these discussions usually start. Someone posts an article/meme/question/etc, a few people show up and comment with similar thoughts about it worded in slightly different ways, then another shows up and goes against the grain, everyone dogpiles on them, and that’s when the real discussion starts. Very rarely do people go out of their way to ask “what do you think of X controversial topic?” And even if you do, that only leads to a very high level discussion that very quickly gets stale. If you get discussion in the context of specific events, then these discussions can be grounded in reality and lead to more unique context-dependent takes each time it comes up.
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Regarding upvotes/downvotes: as stated in the rules, they should be used to measure whether a post/comment is a positive contribution to the discussion rather than the number of people who agree with your viewpoint. I don’t believe there’s a way to actually enforce this with the voting system we currently have, but I also think a relatively simple change can fix it. It will require a bit of coding.
My proposal is a voting system with two votes: one to say that you agree/disagree, and another to say good/bad contribution. With this system, you can easily see if someone only thinks posts they agree with are good contributions, and you can use that information to calculate a total score that weighs their votes accordingly. It’s also small enough of a change that I think most people won’t have a problem figuring it out.
Thoughts?
Also, thank you Ace for taking the initiative in creating this place. It makes me happy to see that others want to see this change too.
How can we start making a change?
There's many posts here with the purpose of convincing people to support electoral reform. Not so much that's actually actionable. What do we do if we want to change things? For a start, does anyone have information on who's responsible for the election system at each level of government in each of the major cities?
How do you feel about storing binary files with Git?
I think it's generally agreed upon that large files that change often do not belong while small files that never change are fine. But there's still a lot of middle ground where the answer is not so clear to me.
So what's your stance on this? Where do you draw the line?
Bug: Scroll position jumping around
This list is a little old, so some of the links may not work anymore, but overall it’s still a pretty solid compendium for any budget concious Linux (or Windows) gamer! -------- Know of a game that should be added to the list? Leave a comment below! ^_^ Also check out: * The LibreGameWiki [https://l...
I suspect this is a problem with posts that have extremely long bodies like this one: https://slrpnk.net/comment/8035803
I'm trying to scroll down to the top first comment and inevitably overshoot. When I i try to scroll back up, it suddenly jumps back to the middle of the OP's body.
When can babies start eating bread? I don't know, but you can buy it for $37.39!
I was looking up when babies can safely start eating untoasted bread and one of the images led me to this website that sells... stuff? Are they selling me the question? Who knows.
Then if you scroll down to the related products, you can buy a basketball club for $30, down from $15!
I'm guessing this is some phishing website looking to steal credit cards. I also still haven't found an answer to my original question.
Introducing SIMA, a Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent
Introducing SIMA, a Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent
Show link domains without opening it
Is it possible for posts to show the domain (TLD and SLD) of link posts?
Use case: I don't want to watch videos so I want to avoid clicking YouTube links. I would like to know that they are YouTube videos without having my phone spend the next minute trying to open YouTube.
Sleepiness
I want to get an idea of how people generally feel over the course of the day. Feel free to submit multiple answers at different times.
How do you store your metadata?
By metadata, I'm talking about things like text descriptions of a photo/video and where they come from, or an explanation of what a certain binary blob contains, its format, how to use it, etc.
The best solution I have right now is xattrs, but those are dependent on the file system, and there's no guarantee that they will stay when the files get moved, especially if the person moving them is unaware of its existence. The alternative is to keep a plaintext file with this metadata alongside every photo/video/binary/etc, but that would be a huge pain to keep in sync since both files have to be moved together.
So my question to you: do you keep this kind of metadata? If so, how do you manage them?
How can we deal with misinformation?
With the rapid advances we're currently seeing in generative AI, we're also seeing a lot of concern for large scale misinformation. Any individual with sufficient technical knowledge can now spam a forum with lots of organic looking voices and generate photos to back them up. Has anyone given some thought on how we can combat this? If so, how do you think the solution should/could look? How do you personally decide whether you're looking at a trustworthy source of information? Do you think your approach works, or are there still problems with it?
General Purpose / Random stuff
Is there a community meant for anything that doesn't currently fit into the existing communities?