What we expect from candidates:

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• Easily breaks software, deliberately or by accident

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I mean, bees do like to dance.

But the comic also refers to a clearly female bee as “Jim”, so I don’t think this is scientifically accurate at all.

Yeah, this should be equivalent to interpolation search, which has an average performance of O(log(log(n))).

It helps that the months are separately indexed, so instead of a search on 365 input elements, you can do two searches with much lower input size, i.e. 12 and 31.

But yeah, you’re still in the larger O(log(log(n))) category with that.

I’d also argue that it isn’t really about the daughters for some of these men. They rather fantasize about being in a situation where it is socially acceptable to use violence, because they want to use violence. They want to be the hero, which requires a crisis.

They might still not be in favor of pedophiles running around freely, all things considered, but they’re certainly not going to be as strongly opposed to it as their violent fantasies might make you believe.

Yeah, I always found it really valuable to know a person on the other side. Obviously, they’re not immune to propaganda either, but even just seeing the differences in propaganda can teach you a lot, both about which parts may be untrue, but also how propaganda works.

For example, I once saw a guy on Mastodon, who posted a populist Indian news article and expressed his agreement. The article was about some policy the EU was discussing, following Putins attack on the Ukraine, which would’ve affected India.
That policy was controversial here in the EU. I don’t remember what policy it was, but I didn’t feel good about it, my country (Germany) didn’t support it, but the EU as a whole did agree to it.

Meanwhile, that article framed it as “Europe is doing a bad thing” and “the West is blah”.
Like, man, I doubt, I would agree with my neighbor about this policy, but somehow I’m being generalized into an amorphous blob, the size of half the fucking planet.
It dehumanizes. It makes it seem like we’re not open for discussion, despite us internally leading extremely heated discussions.

But of course, we do the exact fucking same. We talk about India collectively all the time, even though it is much larger than the EU, with 1.4 billion different opinions. You don’t hear “the East” as often these days, but you do hear “Asia”, which is effectively just as meaningless of a word.

And yeah, just seeing the inverse happen to me, made it instantly clear why this is shit, which I would not have even thought about, if I only ever read our news outlets.

Apparently, there’s the Rwenzori mountains with glaciers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwenzori_Mountains

This map suggests that Mount Elgon in the east is also rather cold:

But from what I can tell superficially, it doesn’t have glaciers…

Reminds me of the glacier mice that got posted here a few weeks ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice

I don’t know why I should respond to that. You list a bunch of things I did not say and ignore that the main point of my comment was that there’s a difference between individuals and a celebration/commemoration. Feel free to disagree, but please don’t put words in my mouth to argue against.

Well, how crappy it is, is quite essential here. 😅

A non-crappy game, which is significantly more fun with friends, is what I would simply refer to as a “multiplayer game”.
Particularly simple games might also be deemed good “party games” (because you can simply chuck someone a controller and they can participate). But Overcooked also has a campaign mode, so I’d say it’s somewhere in between.

Well, and it doesn’t use stock textures/models, it doesn’t have funky/funny physics bugs etc., so I wouldn’t say Overcooked is crappy, which is why I personally would not deem it “friendslop” at all…

I do not think, it makes a difference who made the decision. PR is about how it looks to the outside.

If you wanted to play it anyways, then your messaging should include something which can be as simple as:

We gave women a choice and they want to play Overcooked, so that’s what we’re doing.

The thing is, anything you play on that occasion is going to be political, because they could be playing games for fun at any other point in time.

Perhaps taken to the extreme, I would argue that even if all living women came together and decided that it’s fun and they want to play Overcooked or similar, they would still want to be conscious of their messaging.

Partially, because non-women will be the recipient of that messaging. Partially, because women’s rights have a history that you want to commemorate on that day as well. Would the feminists of the past be happy with that choice, too? Would their sons and grandsons be, that are alive today?

But well, also just because it really isn’t hard to do better here. Especially when women were involved in that decision, they would more likely be aware of the struggle and able to steer clear of dumb messaging quite easily.

Well, there’s still a huge difference between individual women deciding they want to play a cooking game (or even want to conform to a traditional role model) vs. a celebration on the day associated with the fight for women’s rights framing women in a setting where they traditionally did not have rights.

I mean, I do assume this isn’t the only game and it isn’t as bad as this singular social post looks, but they could’ve easily steered clear of that whole problem entirely by picking virtually any other video game.

Yeah, my understanding of “friendslop” is that it’s a crappily-made game, which becomes fun with friends. I would not count Overcooked into that…

Oh man, seeing folks suggest it as a Discord alternative always had me uninterested, because I don’t even use Discord and it just seemed like yet-another-standard.
Now I’m reading this really technical title for a talk which mentions XMPP and I’m instantly sold.

Well, to be honest, “Movim” also sounded like a VC-funded startup. Looks like it’s a bus-factor-of-1 open-source project instead, which I have significantly more trust in.

^This comment is talking about the deluge of log messages you may or may not see (depending on the distro) while booting the system.

Just thought I’d add that, since the meme doesn’t actually mention booting. Not sure, where you got that from. 😅

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It tickles me that, because I was expecting a different word, I read this as “mini-mum”. 🙃

Yeah, but he has stated that he really doesn’t have an opinion. He just happened to install Fedora on the family PC a long time ago and now he neither wants to deal with two separate distros, nor switch the whole household over.

I was gonna object that it’s a vegan diet, because they’re presumably not gonna do eggs or milk, but apparently not strictly vegetarian either:

Mountain gorillas spend about a quarter of their day eating, mainly plants. Around 85% of their diet is made up of leaves, shoots and stems, but gorillas can also eat larvae, snails, ants, and even roots, barks and rotting wood (a good source of sodium/salt).

https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/fascinating-facts/gorillas

I also really hate that since AI slop has turned search engines useless, you virtually cannot find anything, even if you remember the exact words of the title.

Yeah, extremely cheesy way of putting it: The best work position is the next one.

I.e. don’t stay in one position for a long time, but rather switch it up regularly.

Oh man, this is one of the songs that lots of amateur bands have in their repertoire now, because of the clown association, even though it’s actually quite a difficult piece.
So, I thought, maybe a recording on YouTube with *checks notes* 18 million views would be better. And let’s just say this: Hahaha no.

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