It’s so sad such illiteracy means people like you associate the dash with AI

You can repeat “no harm done” at the end of every comment, and it wouldn’t change any of the data we have proving it does, in fact, a lot of harm

“if education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the opressor”

It’s amusing that even when spewing nazi bullshit the AI is still incapable of writing without the half assed witty BuzzFeed blog post tone.

That’s a fantastic question… which is exactly what I’m pursuing in my master’s degree right now :). The goal will be to have a full metabolic map showing all the involved genes and how they interact, when they’re triggered (and by which signaling pathways) and how it all comes together for placental development.

Basically, yes. Viruses came up with the syncitins to fuse with host cells, then when they infected us and integrated their genome we had the code for making these proteins… and turns out “invading tissue” was a really useful tool for the embryo.

Happily! Basically, the true placenta we mammals (Eutheria) have is what allows such a long gestation period. Unlike our closely related marsupials, that quickly deplete their resources and must give birth, our placenta allows for a continuous exchange of nutrients. This involves a quite complicated process of embryonic tissue invading the uterine wall, so you can imagine the kind of immunological regulation that must be taking place for that to work.

So you’d assume we have several genes highly specific to our placenta that appear when we Eutherians first appeared… right? No! Turns out the vast majority already existed in jawed vertebrates (our common ancestor with sharks), then quite a lot show up in bony fish (our common ancestor with most things you call fish), and just one shows up in Tetrapoda (our common ancestor with amphibians).

So most of the framework for developing an organ such as the placenta already existed for millions of years, so what exactly was missing before it could finally show up in evolutionary history? The two genes that are absolutely required for this whole crazy “let’s invade the mother’s uterine wall tissue but NOT trigger her immune system” part: CSF2 and a group of closely related genes called syncitins.

Syncitins are the star here, because they’re actually a gene that came from ancient retroviruses. In the virus, they were expressed in the envelope and controlled the fusion between the viral particle and the host cell. These viruses got integrated into our genome, and this “fusion with the host cell” mechanism became extremely useful and crucial for the placenta, basically allowing it to exist.

Works fine on Proton, it even creates the mod folder in the correct place

I use Arch with KDE Plasma and it looks like a clean version of the traditional desktop you’d expect on Windows, with a bottom taskbar, start menu, etc. But with a really clean theme and tailored to my needs.

My wife is also using Arch with the exact same KDE Plasma version… But hers looks exactly like a Mac, with a rounded translucent dock, a menu bar at the top, widgets, animated wallpapers and so on.

So yeah KDE Plasma is amazing, it will adapt to your exact preferences and not get in the way.

What I don’t understand about Windows 11 is why they can’t seem to fix the weird delay that now exists across the entire UI.

Right click, weird delay, menu shows up.

Press the Start button, weird delay, menu shows up.

Open Explorer, weird delay, program shows up.

Enter text in the search field, weird delay, results show up.

Windows 10 didn’t have that delay.

Mammals wouldn’t have a chorioallantoic placenta at all if not for a virus integrated into our genome. Mapping when in evolution the genes responsible for placental development first appeared was my first participation in scientific research, so I love this topic.

I don’t conform to societal norms.

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I can’t really stand behind and defend boycotting every defense tech investor.

I can. Easily.

And don’t let their Like buttons and cookies exist in other websites too

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That entire paragraph is much better at supporting the precise opposite argument. Computers can beat Kasparov at chess, but they’re clearly not thinking when making a move - even if we use the most open biological definitions for thinking.

Apple is significantly behind and arrived late to the whole AI hype, so of course it’s in their absolute best interest to keep showing how LLMs aren’t special or amazingly revolutionary.

They’re not wrong, but the motivation is also pretty clear.

Certainly depends on where you live.

Unlocking a Samsung phone is trivial here.