Counterpoint: I’m a twisty mofo and my adhd friend would often enough times respond to something he thought I was going to say instead of the thing I actually said (since I’m a twisty mofo) because he would be concentrating on not interrupting rather than listening.
I’m not placing blame, that’s adhd, just thought it was funny (except those times when it was just frustrating).
Mary Anning, la cacciatrice di fossili giurassici Questa cacciatrice di fossili non ottenne mai il riconoscimento che le spettava.
Giochi secolari, le celebrazioni del secolo a Roma Ogni secolo a Roma si celebrava una grande festa per avere il favore degli dei.
Il libro dei morti, un manuale egizio dell'oltretomba Gli Egizi credevano che, al momento della morte, i defunti dovessero affrontare un cammino pericoloso, costellato di prove e culminante nel giudizio divino, prima di poter raggiungere la vita eterna. Per avere successo in questo viaggio, si affidavano alle Formule per far uscire l’anima alla luce del giorno, una raccolta di testi più nota come Libro dei Morti: un vero e proprio manuale che conteneva i sortilegi da recitare durante il viaggio nell’aldilà.
Emporion, la Grecia in Iberia All’inizio del VI secolo a.C., coloni greci fondarono nel golfo di Roses la prima colonia greca della penisola iberica. Per secoli Emporion fu un fiorente centro commerciale, cresciuto intorno a un porto che l’archeologia ci consente oggi di conoscere con sempre maggior precisione.
Pompeo Magno, il generale dimenticato Le sue vittoriose campagne in tutto il Mediterraneo – inclusa quella che pose fine alla minaccia dei pirati cilici – resero Pompeo il grande eroe di Roma, ma l’ascesa di Giulio Cesare ne segnò il declino.
Kublai Khan, l’imperatore mongolo della Cina Mezzo secolo dopo la morte di Gengis Khan, suo nipote Kublai completò la conquista della Cina e fondò una nuova dinastia, caratterizzata dalla fusione delle culture cinese e mongola.
Il cammino verso Santiago: pellegrini del Medioevo Sebbene i pellegrini medievali diretti a Santiago non seguissero un itinerario rigidamente definito, esistevano grandi percorsi che corrispondono a quelli oggi ufficialmente riconosciuti.
La caccia alle streghe in Europa, un'ossessione collecttiva Tra il XVI e il XVII secolo si tennero grandi processi contro presunti stregoni e streghe, accusati di aver stretto patti con il demonio. Molti di questi processi si conclusero con l’esecuzione di decine di persone, per lo più donne.
Il tesoro di Varna Le tombe di una necropoli in Bulgaria, contenevano migliaia di oggetti d’oro. 114 STORIA VISUALE Vietnam, una guerra senza fine Per vent’anni, gli Stati Uniti furono impegnati in un conflitto di larga scala in Asia.
Il primo caso d'inflazione della Storia avvenne in Mesopotamia attorno al 2200 a.C. Il grande impero degli Accadi era in declino, invaso da genti bellicose. Sotto forma di maledizione, un testo in lingua sumerica annunciò: "Il tuo oro sia venduto come argento, il tuo argento come metallo più vile, il tuo rame come piombo". All'origine della crisi fu la carestia. Come ha scritto l'archeologo Sabatino Moscati: «bastavano pochi raccolti andati male perché la parte povera della popolazione fosse costretta a forme pesanti d'indebitamento compresa la vendita dei familiari come schiavi, o in casi estremi a fenomeni di cannibalismo»
L'inflazione (da inflate, "gonfiare") esisteva già col baratto, prima che venisse inventato il denaro. In origine riguardava le merci, oggi le materie prime.
Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial
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Hold onto your butts, because one day you might be breathing through them.
Scientists have tested out enteral ventilation—a possible method of administering oxygen with a liquid delivered through the rectum that is then absorbed into the intestines—in humans for the first time. The trial demonstrated that this method of ventilation is safe and “paves the way for future studies to see if this technique can help patients with respiratory failure,” according to a study published on Monday in the journal Med.
“Enteral ventilation is not meant to replace mechanical ventilators or ECMO, but rather to serve as a complementary oxygenation route,” said Takanori Takebe, an expert in organoid medicine with appointments at both Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Osaka, in an email to 404 Media. The technique proves a backdoor “to provide partial oxygen support while allowing the lungs to rest,” he added.
But while this method is safe for humans, it hasn’t been experimentally shown to work on patients experiencing respiratory distress yet. If future trials show that enteral ventilation is also effective, it could potentially help newborns and premature infants who are struggling to establish lung function after birth, aid patients with severe respiratory failure or Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), or be applied in other situations in which temporary oxygen supplementation is needed.
“In such cases, intestinal oxygen delivery could serve as a ‘bridge’ therapy until normal respiration or full ventilatory support can be established,” Takebe said. A figure outlining the first enteral ventilation trial in humans. Image: Fujii, Tasuku et al. The team previously published a study in 2021 that showed enteral ventilation was effective in ameliorating respiratory failure in rats, mice, and pigs. This initial trial in humans involved 27 healthy male volunteers, who received a liquid called perfluorodecalin through their rectums in an enema-like process.
Since the trial was only intended to determine the safety of the procedure, rather than probe its efficacy in humans, the perfluorodecalin was not oxygenated and none of the volunteers were experiencing any respiratory distress during the course of the study.
“The results aligned closely with what we had anticipated from our preclinical data,” Takebe said. “We found that intrarectal administration of perfluorodecalin up to 1,000 mL was safe and well tolerated, with only mild and transient gastrointestinal symptoms such as bloating.”
“The next phase will involve testing ‘oxygenated’ perfluorodecalin (O₂-PFD) in patients with hypoxemia to evaluate actual oxygen transfer efficacy,” he added. “We are currently planning a Phase II trial in collaboration with clinical partners in Japan and the U.S.”
Takebe and his colleagues were inspired to develop this roundabout route by aquatic species, such as loaches, which absorb oxygen through their intestines to survive in low-oxygen environments. While the idea of rectally administering perfluorodecalin is relatively new, the use of oxygenated liquid for ventilation dates back decades. It even shows up in James Cameron’s 1989 thriller The Abyss, which includes a real scene of a rat breathing in a tank of liquid perfluorocarbon.
The technique may prove to be an effective means to alleviate respiratory distress in humans, but it’s also inspired its fair share of jokes because, well, it is about butt breath, after all.
“Receiving the Ig Nobel Prize was both humorous and humbling,” Takebe said. “It was a reminder that truly unconventional ideas often begin at the boundary between curiosity and skepticism.”
“While the prize is lighthearted in tone, I do believe it serves a serious purpose, encouraging the public to stay curious and to appreciate how even seemingly odd scientific questions can lead to meaningful innovations,” he concluded. “What began as a playful concept is now moving closer to a viable medical technology.”
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also I just realized that Brazil did NOT make a programming language entirely in Spanish and call it "Si" and that my professor was making a joke about C... god damn it
this post is probably too nieche but I feel like Lemmy is nerdy enough that enough people will get it lol
I'll be honest, I think modern python is cool. You just need to accept that it has some limitations by design, but they mostly makes sense for its purpose.
It's true that the type system is optional, but it gets more and more expressive with every version, it's honestly quite cool. I wish Pylance were a bit smarter though, it sometimes fails to infer sum types in if-else statements.
After a couple large-ish personal projects I have concluded that the problem of python isn't the language, but the users.
On the other hand, C's design is barren. Sure, it works, it does the thing, it gives you very low level control. But there is nothing of note in the design, if not some quirks of the specifications. Being devoid of innovation is its strength and weakness.
C does one thing really well and that's everything fast with complete control. Python is cool for people just trying to bang out some scripts or learning to program but interpreted languages have no place in mainstream software. Devices are starting to become slower than computers 30 years ago because there is so much garbage being included in apps written in interpreted java and Python and other nonsense. It's not just bad for the user but it's bad for the planet. It shouldn't take a million times the energy to run a simple program because someone doesn't know how to write in a proper language. Python is okay for some things. The world has become too reliant on it though. Also just for purely selfish reasons if you are the type. Interpreted languages kill your battery life and ram and stuff. Modern android phones besides all their problems with Google ruining them like Microsoft are also just becoming incredibly slow and stupid. You can barely even open two apps without most android phones panicking and closing apps to save memory. A calculator app is 100 MBs now. The phone feels like it's going to catch on fire when you open a notepad.
I like many of your points, but your comment is facetious.
You said it yourself, "it's good for someone trying to bang out scripts"... and that's it, that's the main point, that's the purpose of python. I will argue over my dead body that python is a trillion times better than sh/bash/zsh/fish/bat/powershell/whatever for writing scripts in all aspects except availability and if that's a concern, the only options are the old Unix shell and bat (even with powershell you never know if you are stuck ps 5 or can use ps 7).
I have a python script running 24/7 on a raspberry that listens on some mqtt topics and reacts accordingly asynchronously. It uses like 15kiB (literally less than 4 pages) of ram mostly for the interpreter, and it's plenty responsive. It uses about two minutes of CPU time a day. I could have written it in rust or go, I know enough of both to do it, it would have been faster and more efficient, but it would have taken three times the time to write, and it would have been a bitch to modify, I could have done it in C and it would have been even worse. For that little extra efficiency it makes no sense.
You argue it has no place in mainstream software, but that's not really a matter of python, more a matter of bad software engineers. Ok, cool that you recognise the issue, but I'd rather you went after the million people shipping a full browser in every GUI application, than to the guys wasting 10 kiB of your ram to run python. And even in that case, it's not an issue of JavaScript, but an issue of bad practices.
P.S. "does one thing well" is a smokescreen to hide doing less stuff, you shouldn't base your whole design philosophy on a quote from the 70s. That is the kind of shit SystemD hater shout, while running a display server that also manages input, opengl, a widget toolkit, remote desktop, and the entire printer stack. The more a high profile tool does, the less your janky glue code scripts need to do.
The Third Mind con "Right Now!", sono al loro terzo album. Registrato dal vivo in quattro giorni nei Sound Recording Studio di Los Angeles. "Right Now!" è una combinazione di istinto e improvvisazione da parte di musicisti esperti che si incontrano in tempo reale per trovare le canzoni man mano che procedono... Continua a leggere...
Il secondo disco dell'uomo di Chicago, Ryley Walker, era uno dei lavori più attesi di questo 2015, dopo il suo bellissimo album d'esordio, "All kinds of you". Walker ha un passato, nemmeno troppo lontano, di chitarrista acustico, sulle tracce dei vari Fahey, Basho e di tutta la Takoma family... Leggi e ascolta...
Il secondo disco dell'uomo di Chicago, Ryley Walker, era uno dei lavori più attesi di questo 2015, dopo il suo bellissimo album d'esordio, “All kinds of you”. Walker ha un passato, nemmeno troppo lontano, di chitarrista acustico, sulle tracce dei vari Fahey, Basho e di tutta la Takoma family. Nel 2011 erano uscite, in copie limitatissime, 2 cassette, una delle quali in compagnia di Daniel Bachman, altro virtuoso della sei corde acustica. Il suo primo album raccontava di un musicista ancorato ad un suono prettamente acustico, debitore di un suono recuperato da un grande come Bert Jansch, sia strumentalmente che vocalmente. Per il nuovo disco, “Primrose green” il giovane chitarrista ha arricchito in diverse tracce l'impasto musicale, facendosi accompagnare da uno stuolo di strumentisti fra i migliori in circolazione... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/04…
Nell'ottimo podcast di Simone Pieranni possiamo ascoltare un discorso che parte "alla lontana" ma arriva a farci capire chi è uno dei principali finanziatori di Facebook agli inizi.
Dal mio punto di vista, una ragione molto forte per non fidarci dei social network tradizionali, non tanto "per cosa sono diventati", ma per cosa sono sempre stati, fin dall'inizio.
Factual reality. I recently installed w11 on a virtual machine (I was trying to write a cross-platform thing) and to create a local account I literally had to open a terminal during the first boot process, type a couple commands quickly (yes, timing is apparently important), unplug the (virtual) ethernet cable, and reboot.
And people still have the gall to tell me windows is easy.
Cosa spinge una persona a voler lasciare la propria famiglia, i propri amici, il posto fisso e la propria casa di proprietà per cercane una altrove, a più di 50 anni?
Ognuno potrebbe avere una risposta diversa. In questa puntata io ti dico la mia.
È stata una decisione sofferta ma anche spontanea. Oggi ne posso parlare avendo le idee chiare, ma non è maturata in un solo giorno: ci sono voluti anni.
Le patologie di cui soffro hanno dato la spinta più importante, ma non è stata l'unica componente.
In questo primo episodio di questo diario di viaggio inizio a cercare la mia meta finale, dove vivere un giorno.
Il viaggio ha inizio!In questo primo episodio di Verso Casa, racconto il momento in cui il modo in cui pensavo al viaggio si è trasformato.Non più soltanto relax, fotografia o esplorazione: ma necessità.
I think because it's got a black background in the UI and it makes people feel like hackers. OpenMediaVault's choice of white and light blue is way less 1337.
Violent crimes committed by foreigners are covered in the media far more frequently than is justified by their share in police crime statistics, a new study has found.
Buongiorno a tutti, Ho installato GIMP 3.0.6 su Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS. Il programma funziona perfettamente. Ho scaricato il file gmic_3.6.3_gimp3.0_ubuntu25-04_plucky_amd64.zip dal sito G'MIC - GREYC's Magic for Image Computing: A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing - Download . Ho estratto il file zip e copiato la cartella “gmic_gimp_qt” nella directory: /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins. La cartela gmic_gimp_qt contiene due file: gmic_gimp_qt (eseguibile) e README.txt.
Quando avvio GIMP non vedo i filtri GMIC
Aggiornamento 001: Avviano gimp da riga di comando ricevo questi messaggio di errore:
user@lubuntu:~$ gimp set device ‘bcm5974’ to mode: disabled set device ‘Virtual core XTEST pointer’ to mode: disabled /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.32' not found (required by /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt) /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version CXXABI_1.3.15’ not found (required by /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt) /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38’ not found (required by /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt) gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): unexpected EOF
Da quello che ho capito vengono richieste delle librerie che sono presenti solamente su ubuntu.25, che sono le seguenti:
Buongiorno a tutti, Ho installato GIMP 3.0.6 su Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS. Il programma funziona perfettamente. Ho scaricato il file gmic_3.6.3_gimp3.0_ubuntu25-04_plucky_amd64.zip dal sito G'MIC - GREYC's Magic for Image Computing: A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing - Download . Ho estratto il file zip e copiato la cartella “gmic_gimp_qt” nella directory: /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins. La cartela gmic_gimp_qt contiene due file: gmic_gimp_qt (eseguibile) e README.txt.
Quando avvio GIMP non vedo i filtri GMIC
Aggiornamento 001: Avviano gimp da riga di comando ricevo questi messaggio di errore:
user@lubuntu:~$ gimp set device ‘bcm5974’ to mode: disabled set device ‘Virtual core XTEST pointer’ to mode: disabled /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version GLIBCXX_3.4.32' not found (required by /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt) /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version CXXABI_1.3.15’ not found (required by /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt) /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38’ not found (required by /home/paolo/.config/GIMP/3.0/plug-ins/gmic_gimp_qt/gmic_gimp_qt) gimp: LibGimpBase-WARNING: gimp: gimp_wire_read(): unexpected EOF
Da quello che ho capito vengono richieste delle librerie che sono presenti solamente su ubuntu.25, che sono le seguenti:
Dopo "Five Dice, All Threes", album viscerale e coinvolgente del 2024, questo EP si presenta sia come complice di quell'album sia come mondo autonomo a sé stante. Sebbene molte di queste nuove canzoni siano emerse dalle stesse sessioni di registrazione, non tutte si adattavano perfettamente alla coesione concisa di quell'album... Continua a leggere...
Southeastern, uscito nel 2013, mi era piaciuto così tanto da diventare non solo una sorta di mantra giornaliero che usciva dalle casse dello stereo, ma era stato in grado di asfaltare ogni concorrente e fregiarsi della palma del miglior disco del 2013... Leggi e ascolta...
Southeastern, uscito nel 2013, mi era piaciuto così tanto da diventare non solo una sorta di mantra giornaliero che usciva dalle casse dello stereo, ma era stato in grado di asfaltare ogni concorrente e fregiarsi della palma del miglior disco del 2013. Un'opinione condivisa non solo da parte della critica italiana, soprattutto quella che guarda alla musica proveniente dagli States, ma anche dal pubblico americano, che premiò quell'album spingendolo alla posizione numero 23 della top 200 di Billboard. Southeastern ha rappresentato la rinascita artistica di un musicista che, dopo la militanza nei Drive- By Truckers, aveva smarrito la rotta, affogando il proprio tormento interiore in fiumi d'alcool e nebbie oppiacee... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/09…
mgba. Make a pull request, the owner rather than merging it closes the pr, saying you were unrespectul and that your code sucks. Owner proceeds to implement the changes manually instead of crediting you
Top White House officials told a reporter, “Your mom,” when asked who picked the location for Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin.
Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press reports.
When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also followed up with, “Your mom,” the outlet reports.
Karoline Leavitt says ‘Your mom’ when asked who picked Hungary for Putin-Trump talks
Top White House officials told a reporter, “Your mom,” when asked who picked the location for Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin.
Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press reports.
When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also followed up with, “Your mom,” the outlet reports.
In just over a week, nearly 42 million people in the U.S. who get federal food assistance are in danger of seeing their benefits disappear because of the ongoing federal shutdown.
About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. One of those people is Shari Jablonowski. The 66-year-old widow, who lives outside Pittsburgh, is bracing to lose the $291 in food aid her disabled nephew gets each month. She raised her now-adult nephew and two nieces as her own, and even without this looming crisis, her budget is a tightrope.
"This month, I could not afford to pay … anything, gas or electric," she says. Instead she paid her monthly car payment, since she needs to drive to doctors' appointments, visit her mother, and one niece uses the car to get to work.
What? Corporate entities whose sole reason for existence is the exploitation of the natural world for profit lied through their teeth about how they are gonna stop exploiting the natural world for profit?
More than a month later, the local congressional office in Tucson is shuttered and the phones ring unanswered. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear in Grijalva, a Democrat, while the government is shut down, leaving the residents of her sprawling southern Arizona district without a vote in Congress — or help back home.
“Here I am paying taxes to the federal government,” Wilson said from her Tucson office this week, “and not only is it closed but I don’t have a representative either.”
Grijalva spent much of the week in Washington unable to access government email and federal systems. While most congressional offices are buzzing with activity, her suite on the Hill remains mostly quiet and many desks sit empty. She doesn’t have the resources or authority, she said, to staff a district office or assist constituents who try to contact her. Without security privileges, she’s barred from bringing so much as a hammer into the Capitol for hanging pictures. It would be considered a weapon, she said.
Rust implementation of DeepSeek-OCR with OpenAI-compatible server. & CLI No Python environment needed - just download and run. - TimmyOVO/deepseek-ocr.rs
I came across this article in another Lemmy community that dislikes AI. I'm reposting instead of cross posting so that we could have a conversation about how "work" might be changing with advancements in technology.
The headline is clickbaity because Altman was referring to how farmers who lived decades ago might perceive that the work "you and I do today" (including Altman himself), doesn't look like work.
The fact is that most of us work far abstracted from human survival by many levels. Very few of us are farming, building shelters, protecting our families from wildlife, or doing the back breaking labor jobs that humans were forced to do generations ago.
In my first job, which was IT support, the concept was not lost on me that all day long I pushed buttons to make computers beep in more friendly ways. There was no physical result to see, no produce to harvest, no pile of wood being transitioned from a natural to a chopped state, nothing tangible to step back and enjoy at the end of the day.
Bankers, fashion designers, artists, video game testers, software developers and countless other professions experience something quite similar. Yet, all of these jobs do in some way add value to the human experience.
As humanity's core needs have been met with technology requiring fewer human inputs, our focus has been able to shift to creating value in less tangible, but perhaps not less meaningful ways. This has created a more dynamic and rich life experience than any of those previous farming generations could have imagined. So while it doesn't seem like the work those farmers were accustomed to, humanity has been able to shift its attention to other types of work for the benefit of many.
I postulate that AI - as we know it now - is merely another technological tool that will allow new layers of abstraction. At one time bookkeepers had to write in books, now software automatically encodes accounting transactions as they're made. At one time software developers might spend days setting up the framework of a new project, and now an LLM can do the bulk of the work in minutes.
These days we have fewer bookkeepers - most companies don't need armies of clerks anymore. But now we have more data analysts who need to understand the information. In the future we may need fewer software coders, and in turn, they will likely be many more software projects, heck there will likely be a lot more software that's all seek to solve new problems in new ways.
How do I know this? I think history shows us that innovations in technology always bring new problems to be solved. There is an endless reservoir of challenges to be worked on that previous generations didn't have time to think about. We are going to free minds from tasks that can be automated, and many of those minds will move on to the next level of abstraction.
At the end of the day, I suspect we humans are biologically wired with a deep desire to output rewarding and meaningful work, and much of the results of our abstracted work is hard to see and touch. Perhaps this is why I enjoy mowing my lawn so much, no matter how advanced robotic lawn mowing machines become.
A figure outlining the first enteral ventilation trial in humans. Image: Fujii, Tasuku et al.
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