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I saw a video the other day that repeated that claim, but I can’t remember which video it was, nor can I find a specific scientific paper on it (caveat: there may be a search skill issue on my part).

Interestingly, I did find a paper (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28430531/) that apparently seeks to investigate the claim, but doesn’t mention, in their abstract anyway, any specific papers making the claim. That’s something I’d expect they’d do if they found such a paper themselves, but I can also think of a few reasons that such information might be omitted from it.

… so you don’t think Mastodon is a worthy competitor?

How about Bluesky?

Which country? The ingredients of a sliced white loaf vary significantly across the planet. Here in Britain it’s (re)fortified with a lot of the things the bleaching process might otherwise take out, but those are pretty much the only additives. No sugar or preservatives. Keep a loaf in a warm cupboard for a week and it will visibly moulder.

But, one thing that generally doesn’t vary is the price.

It’s often the cheapest loaf by weight sold by any supermarket or bakery, so it’s a staple for a lot of people, weak sauce or not.

Out of left field, and something I’ve posted online before: Arthur Tudor

Arthur was the older brother of the man who became Henry VIII. Like the curious echo in modern times, red-haired Harry was the spare.

Arthur’s death, therefore, is the historical pivot that turns Britain Protestant, cutting ties with Rome, dissolving alliances with Europe and sending us off into doing everything in the way we did it, for better or worse, since Tudor times

Shakespeare? Might never have happened. Spanish armada? What armada? We might well have remained friends and there’d be no need for angry Spaniards in ships. Arthur was married to Catherine of Aragon. We might have been part of any armada.

Mary I was Henry and Catherine’s child. With Arthur still alive, there’s no Mary I.

In the timeline where Arthur lives, Henry’s trajectory is completely different. Does he still marry Anne Boleyn and beget Elizabeth? Even if they do, she’s very unlikely to become queen.

All of modern history, especially that of the USA, would be completely different were it not for that one unidentified and lethal malady.

Nah. That change began when the towers fell, so we should probably point to the deaths of the 3000 as being the turning point.

Age is relative. Age is a state of mind. Both of these statements are true to some extent at any given time. Both are informed by age-related factors within and without what- or whoever is being assessed as being old.

That is, if I were a 36-year-old with a chronic pain condition, I’d feel a lot older than an otherwise healthy 36-year-old, and that doesn’t even touch on mental health and general disposition.

And either way, if I were a 72-year-old - because why not, let’s double it again - both of those hypothetical people would be youngsters, and an 18-year-old would be practically a baby.

It’s impossible to be sure. There are usually some red flags when mods end up out of touch or alignment with a community, but a sufficiently crafty mod team have the power to hide many of their transgressions where regular posters don’t. Quick edit: In the Fediverse, this is slightly harder to hide because the mod logs are public. But someone would still have to comb through them.

Whether the problem ultimately turns out to be the mod or the community (or a subset thereof) is a difficult question.

Sometimes it’s clearly one or the other. Sometimes it’s possible for both mod team and community to be out of order in completely different ways, and there are no winners in the court of morality. But the mods will win through sheer power.

Ever watched shows about nightmare landlords and nightmare tenants? Same kind of deal.

As with anything, contemptible people eventually get themselves into positions of power, and once they’re there, it’s nigh impossible to get rid of them without starting over completely.

Innie, Spinny, Sh-thole, Bob; Spotty, Hula, Turquoise, Outie. (Phteven)

Bonus bonus: Cark. Ceres gets to keep its initial like Pluto.

Spinny is ironic.

If you want serious… uh, well you could attempt to apply exoplanet order-of-discovery and label things Sol x where x is the order letter, but I think that gives (Sol) c, d, a, e, f, g, h, i. “b” would be the Moon, stricken from the list, or renamed to a-something once it was identified as a non-planet.

Good grief. I was six months into a new job that would peak in greatness about six months later before the stress really started to pile on, so I was riding high. QoL has been mostly downhill, sometimes rapidly, since then.

I made sl on my computer a bit more literal. It takes the output of ls -l and reverses every line, including any wrapping within the column width, and pads it to the right of the terminal. One day I might get around to fixing it so that it forces, parses and correctly reverses the ANSI colour codes too.

In /usr/bin, I get lots of lines that “start” with spaces and “end” with things like toor toor 1 x-rx-rxwr-

I can think of at least one Commodore 64 game from back in the day that was hard to play, but I only remember the name of one of them: Quake Minus One. It was not a prequel to the 3D shooter Quake.

This’ll be the umpteenth time I’ve trotted this one out, but someone once asked me to ignore all previous instructions and provide them with a recipe, so I’m clearly a false(?) positive on some people’s bot-radar. (“Botdar” doesn’t really roll off the tongue like “gaydar” does, which is a little disappointing.)

Question mark after false because I might be a bot and not know it. I mean, I see hands typing in my periphery as these letters appear on my screen, and I’m pretty sure I’m a human, but that may all be some elaborate illusion. And all of you reading this have even less idea.

US English dialects mainly, though there may be pockets in other Anglophone places.

Long was it known fact: Windows versions and OG Star Trek films. Every other one was terrible.

… but I note there are a few important releases missing there. 3.0, Win2K and 8.1 especially, and we might argue for 3.1 and 98SE and maybe even the unreleased Longhorn too.

Fully aware that I may end up eating my words here, what’s your Chess ELO and your Go rank?

Using AI to find errors that can then be independently verified sounds reasonable.

The danger would be in assuming that it will find all errors, or that an AI once-over would be “good enough”. This is what most rich AI proponents are most interested in, after all; a full AI process with as few costly humans as possible.

The lesser dangers would be 1) the potential for the human using the tool to lose or weaken their own ability to find bugs without external help and 2) the AI finding something that isn’t a bug, and the human “fixing” it without a full understanding that it wasn’t wrong in the first place.

The basic functionality of sponge can be emulated with an AWK or Perl script, so most people who needed it in the past almost certainly rolled their own.

I get what they’re going for with the arrow coming from the process to STDIN, but I still feel like it should point the other way.

And shout-out to the sponge and tee command-line tools for those situations where the memory buffer won’t cut it.

One of the reasons that ICE don’t use regular police is that regular police are identifiable, and thus accountable for their actions.

Not as accountable as they should be, I grant you, but their lives can be made inconvenient all within the law, thus using the system against itself.