I’m glad to see GoboLinux resurrected. I didn’t use it much, but I really like to see distros doing different stuff, like questioning even the need for the standard file hierarchy.

Dá uma olhada neste link. A maior parte dos torrents populares de ROMs é composta de coleções. Daí caso venha emulador junto basta ignorar e usar o que você quer.

Perhaps you’ve read a burst of artistic freedom, a practical guide to Latin profanity, a meta-literary discourse on the contrast between poet and work… it’s one of those poems where each person read something different.

For me, at least, when I read that poem, I read something that makes my inner 11yo laugh non-stop.

Conlang, right?

It’s completely fine to do some ad hoc IPA extensions when describing your conlang, just make sure to clarify them in the conlang files - both for others and for your future self. Or even ditch IPA and use a different notation system, made at home - specially when your conspeakers don’t have the same phonatory organs as humans would.

Kinda - it was about people being unable to do maths if they rely too much on calculators. And it’s actually a valid argument, if you care about mental maths*.

There are two differences here, though:

1. Calculators are rather good at simple calculations. Large language models suck at outputting anything resembling critical thinking. They’re always bullshitting, and unless you have good critical thinking you’ll swallow bullshit after bullshit, because your tool requires a skill that you don’t have due to your unrestricted usage of that tool.
2. Critical thinking is a considerably bigger deal than being able to do simple maths by head or by hand.

*you should - it’s often faster and less laborious to do coarse maths by head than by calculator, and it allows you to spot errors you wouldn’t otherwise. Same deal with any other tool, tools are great but you should be able to do the basics without them too.

Dunno if it’s by design, “bug turned into feature”, or simply neglect. In any case, the result is the same, though - masses that are easy to manipulate, composed of dysfunctional individuals.

The lack of critical thinking is why the far right has room to breathe

100% this. People often say “you’re not immune to propaganda”, and that’s true - complete immunity is impossible. However, critical thinking does raise your resistance, as it makes you less eager to swallow bullshit.

Bingo. It’s simply fun, you know?

I still remember rather well my imaginary friend. Or more like an imaginary pet - a tarunhe [tä.'ɾu:.ɲe]. The tarunhe didn’t speak, but it was gentle and friendly and it would follow me around the house, like a normal pet would, except it was an imaginary half-turtle, half-elephant chimera, the size of a medium dog.

Then as I got my first cat, the tarunhe slowly faded away.

The root of the problem is way, way older than AI. It’s a mix of

• humans being naturally lazy, typically not developing skills or knowledge unless we’re clearly getting something out of it
• we have a thoooousand tools enabling us to do stuff without skill/knowledge
• our education systems do not value self-improvement enough to promote the development of those skills and knowledge

So it’s a lot like you not remembering phone numbers by heart because you can check them in your contact list, you know?

And, yes, text generators do play a role on that. But when it comes to critical thinking, it’s a death of a thousand cuts.

Okay, that was smart.

No because IPA only has symbols for segments and articulations that are attested in at least one language, and odds are that no language out there uses tongue rolled consonants:

• a lot of people can’t articulate it, so the articulation is rather unstable if you think about the linguistic community as a whole
• it takes considerable articulatory effort, and as you said it sounds a lot like other easier-to-pronounce sounds

For symbols for “odd” articulations like this you have a better chance checking extIPA (extended IPA). Originally it was intended for disordered speech, but often you see the symbols leaking even for descriptions of ordered speech. I couldn’t find one for tongue rolling though.

Sibilants are louder, specially in higher frequencies, because the obstruction of the airflow creates considerably more turbulence than for other fricatives. This is rather visible in spectrograms, like this:

See those dark (loud) bands at the top (higher pitch) for /s ʃ z ʒ/? It’s the turbulence.

As I mentioned in another post, about the same topic, he’s tying a sinking ship to another. So both can sink together.

Musk said the combined company will “build a platform that doesn’t just reflect the world but actively accelerates human progress.”

The funniest part is that this might not be a lie - I wouldn’t be surprised if Musk genuinely believed that.

…let’s get real. xAI’s main product is Grok, a text and image generator. Twitter is basically a blog platform for the sort of people who whine “WAAAH! TL;DR!”. Merge both and you’ll get what? Automated shitposting!

The fun part is why: the flower mimics a female bee of a certain species in both looks and scent, so male bees “copulate” with it. The horny bee won’t get any child from that, but the orchid does because that pollinates the flower.

Most species in that genus are like this, the main difference being which insect species they fool.

Just for clarification, because of the title, they’re talking about the upper basin of the Paraguay river:

As the map shows, and the article mentions later on, that basin is controlled by three governments (the republic of Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil).

That said: global warming-wise the situation here in South America is noticeably bad - summers are getting noticeably harsher and there’s something weird going on with the winds, as if they lost power. It reached a point that it affects humans, so of course it’ll affect amphibians, that are far more environment-sensitive.

Deforestation of that basin is also a big concern. It’s happening in territory controlled by each of the three governments - Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil. It’s mostly about cattle - either grazing lands or soya to feed the cattle. And perhaps not surprisingly not to attend the internal markets, but to export it to lands controlled by governments that won’t need to deal with the environmental impact.

Yes, it is. And more importantly, it’s a collective problem: user A (like that one) wants a technical explanation, you give it, then user B complains that it’s too technical or too verbose or “ackshyually this is inaccurate”.

I feel like the best approach might be a mix. Basically, what people have been already doing to advertise Lemmy there.

Fuck the rules. Buongiorno, capra!
/me does visible gesture in violation of The Law

The problem is that those redditors are basically whining and demanding the impossible - an explanation that is, at the same time: comprehensive, newbie-friendly, accurate, and succinct.

(Note that I’m not even talking about 100WattWalrus individually, but the redditors as a collective thing.)

Here’s how I’d answer it: “No. And do not contact me further.”

Odds are that they will insist. If they do, the answer is longer:

"You seem to have a really hard time understanding simple words, such as «no». So let me rephrase what I said, in a way that hopefully even you will understand:

I DO NOT WANT TO TOUCH YOUR BLOODY COMPANY, LED BY A LITERAL NAZI, WITH A THREE METERS POLE. NO MEANS NO. SOD OFF YOU BLOODY MUPPET, THIS IS NOT UP TO DEBATE, STOP BUGGING ME WITH THIS SHITE."

then block it.

The findings raise important questions about how this knowledge is learned, maintained and transmitted across generations, for example, by young chimpanzees observing and using their mothers’ tools, and whether similar mechanical principles determine chimpanzees’ selection of materials for making other foraging tools, such as those used for eating ants or harvesting honey.

Here’s a video showing the process. I’m totally sharing it as informative content, not because it’s cute. (Okay, it’s both.) Check around 1:50 - child is trying to fish termites with a leaf, mum gently picks the leaf from the child’s hand, drops it, and indicates a more appropriate tool.

I think that what’s happening there is:

At the start, a chimp who never fished termites tries random stuff: large leaves, flexible sticks, rigid sticks etc. Some attempts will suck, some will be meh, some good. Based on success cases, the chimp generalises what a good termite fisher should be: long, thin, flexible. Next time they’re going to fish termites, they’ll prefer tools with those attributes, refining further their mental model.

This process is trial and error, so it takes a while. And the time spent is kind of a big deal for a growing child who needs protein. So the mum (or the parents? dunno if male chimps do this) shows good tools, either by example or by direct interference (as in the video).

So it isn’t like the mum is teaching the child the “best” tool; that’s part of the mental model, internalised by the chimp. Instead the mum is guiding the child to develop experiences that they can use to form that mental model.

This has huge implications for human kids. Granted, we have a better communication system than chimps do, but children aren’t exactly experts in that system, so a lot of their learning should resemble how chimps do it. And more than that - perhaps we learn language itself in a similar fashion?