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Do conservative in other countries also push for school uniforms ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Dunno in Brazil as a whole but at least in my city, school uniforms are default. They're simply taken for granted, not a "conservative vs. liberal" matter. Each school picks its own, but it usually boils down to a shirt, baggy pants, and a jacket (most schools cut you some slack on really cold days to swap it with a warmer one).

What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Glacial = anhydrous. People call it this way because pure acetic acid has a rather high freezing point (16°C), and it looks a lot like plain ice when frozen. (It still stinks vinegar once you open the bottle though.) But once you add even a bit of water, the freezing point drops considerably, so acetic acid solutions don't show the same "ice".

So in colder days, you need to rewarm it back into a liquid. Then people get really sloppy (I know it not just from that professor's anecdote, but from watching it). They say "I'm just rewarming it, and it's just acetic acid, what could go wrong?". Well, it's still a big flask of a corrosive, volatile, and flammable substance.

In the meantime, the same people doing dangerous reactions like nitration (it literally explodes if you let it get too hot - spreading nitric acid, sulphuric acid, and some carcinogenic solvent) "miraculously" pay full attention, obsessively taking care of the temperature of the ice bath.

Part of the advice that I mentioned in that comment chain is that - smaller dangers are still dangers, do not underestimate them.

Should we move this community to ani.social? in c/anime@lemmy.ml
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

I think that this community should migrate, but for a different reason: topic.

The topic of lemmy.ml is privacy and free-as-freedom software. Most other content here is off-topic, including anime. It was fine when it was just lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, as you'd have no other place to discuss anime in Lemmy, but now the situation is different.

And ideally, communities should be managed/moderated/administered by people who know well the topic of the community.

What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Long story short: someone else's advice ITT reminded me a uni professor talking about a student hurting themself with glacial acetic acid. That reminded me how often I'm using alcohol vinegar for cleaning (alcohol vinegar is basically one part of glacial acetic acid for 24 parts of water), but I don't see people doing it often - instead they often buy expensive cleaning agents that they use everywhere as "magical" solutions.

What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Most "rules of thumb" become awful advice when used indiscriminately.

People assign slightly different meanings to the same words. You need to acknowledge this to understand what they say.

Words also change meaning depending on the context.

When you still don't get what someone else said, it's often more useful to think that you're lacking a key piece of info than to assume that the other person does.

Hell is paved with good intentions. This piece of advice is popular, but still not heard enough.

Related to the above: if someone in your life is consistently rushing towards conclusions, based on little to no information, minimise the impact of that person in your life.

Have at least one recipe using leftovers of other recipes. It'll reduce waste.

Alcohol vinegar is bland, boring, and awful for cooking. But it's a great cleaning agent.

Identify what you need to keep vs. throw away. Don't "default" this indiscriminately, analyse it on a per case basis.

The world does not revolve around your belly button and nature won't "magically" change because of your feelings.

You can cultivate herbs in a backyard. No backyard? Flower pots. No flower pots? Old margarine pot. (Check which herbs grow well where you live.)

What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It’s Latin and it says we must all die

There's no "must": it states for a fact that you're to die, not that you should/need/must.

A rough translation would be "remember that you'll die", or "remember that you are to die" (keeping the infinitive). Or even "remember death", it's close enough in spirit.

fons: egomet, latine loquor.

What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I usually twist this into "memento mori, quoque uiuere" (remember [that you'll] die, also [that you'll] live).

Like, not trying to become worm food full of regrets is nice and dandy, but remember that you'll suffer the consequences of a few of your actions while you're still alive.

What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago

Another from chemistry: "small dangers are still dangers, don't underestimate them".

This was in my first uni. The person saying that mentioned how he never saw students harming themselves with cyanide, nitration solutions (sulphuric+nitric - highly corrosive and explosive) or the likes. No, it was always with dumb shit like glacial acetic acid skin burns, or a solvent catching fire.

What is your least favourite acronym? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Not common in general usage nowadays. Perhaps it avoided the shift?

In unsurprising news, Reddit prepares IPO in c/snoocalypse@lemmy.ml
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But there is definitely room for a subscription that either boosts user engagement (not sure how that would work)

Swap "subscription" for "multiple small transactions" and you have the new gold system. So Reddit is already doing what you (and me, and everyone else) was predicting them to, we just didn't know "how".

It'll likely fail hard though, at least in the long run. For similar reasons as Digg failed.

“It’s not that hard” in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

That other poster is likely trying to deliver a point, that Musk probably never read a book, by clipping the sentence of the other poster.

“It’s not that hard” in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Websearch "transhumanism silicon valley", and it starts making sense: Musk has faith that artificial general intelligence is coming, Soon®, and that it'll replace grunt labour like programming.

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Comparison of fake and real news based on morphological analysis (www.sciencedirect.com)
 

This paper describes an IMO rather interesting approach towards fake news, through their morphological content: the words from each piece of news (real and fake) were grouped into categories, then the researchers made a statistical analysis of the usage of those categories in real and fake news. And they found out that:

  • fake news tend to use more foreign words, adjectives and nouns
  • real news tend to use more W-words (who, what), determiners, prepositions and verbs

I think that their findings are damn useful. Perhaps not to detect fake news, but to understand how they work on a discursive level. For example, the usage of foreign words in fake news caught my attention - perhaps they're used to mask the underlying meaning of the utterance? While real news are focused on describing events, and thus rely more on verb usage?

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[Discussion] Mushoku Tensei II Ep. 0 (Shugo Jutsushi Fitz) (lemmy.ml)
 

Please hide WN/LN/manga spoilers.

MAL entry, Anilist. The zeroth episode is a spin-off-ish, focusing on Sylphy after the Calamity meeting with Ariel, becoming "silent Fitz", and struggling with her new situation; as well as the power struggles between Ariel and her brother I-always-forget-his-name for the Asuran throne.

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[Rec] Glossika Phonics - a YT channel that shows detailed sound production (www.youtube.com)
 

This will probably interest people who are just tipping their toes into Phonetics, as well as language leaners.

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r/IAmA disengaging (archive.fo)
 

Excerpt from the text:

However, effective immediately, we plan to discontinue the following activities that we performed, as volunteer moderators, that took up a huge amount of our time and effort, both from a communication and coordination standpoint and from an IT/secure operations standpoint:

  1. Active solicitation of celebrities or high profile figures to do AMAs.
  2. Email and modmail coordination with celebrities and high profile figures and their PR teams to facilitate, educate, and operate AMAs. (We will still be available to answer questions about posting, though response time may vary).
  3. Running and maintaining a website for scheduling of AMAs with pre-verification and proof, as well as social media promotion.
  4. Maintaining a current up-to-date sidebar calendar of scheduled AMAs, with schedule reminders for users.
  5. Sister subreddits with categorized cross-posts for easy following.
  6. Moderator confidential verification for AMAs.
  7. Running various bots, including automatic flairing of live posts
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Detect duplicated posts/comments (lemmy.ml)
 

Sometimes users submit some content (post or comment), and due to a bug or performance issue the content doesn't appear, even if the instance already saved it. So the user resubmits it over and over... like this:

(This is not my own comment, but I had this issue already.)

While this isn't usually done for the sake of spam, it's still a source of noise for the community, and annoying for the user oneself.

So my suggestion is that, when a user tries to submit a piece of content to Lemmy, Lemmy should compare it with the last piece of content already submitted. And if they're identical, prevent it with some error "warning: duplicate" or similar.

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[Paper] Universal linguistic hierarchies are not innately wired. Evidence from multiple adjectives (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
 

There's a general tendency across languages to order the adjectives connected to the same noun the same way; for example, usually adjectives referring to colour or other innate attributes are closer to the noun than the ones dealing with subjective attributes. This tendency is so strong that made some linguists (and psychologists) believe that this order might be actually innate.

This study contradicts that. Excerpt from the conclusion:

Taking these findings together, we have argued that there is no universal hierarchy for adjective ordering imposing a hard constraint which then translates into one rigid, unmarked order.

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CNBC - Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts (www.cnbc.com)
 

Plenty Google Search users were appending "site:reddit.com" to their searches to avoid SEO and get actual human answers. This became less useful with the blackouts, and Google is actually addressing it - through a new feature called "Perspectives". Allegedly the feature highlights forums and videos from social media (TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Quora).

This means that those search users won't beeline towards Reddit anymore. Instead there's a reasonable chance that they end in Reddit's competitors, including Youtube (owned by Alphabet, the same parent company as Google Search).

Given that 47% of the traffic of Reddit comes from organic search, this is going to hurt. A lot.

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[Paper] To *b or not to *b: Proto-Indo-European *b in a phylogenetic perspective (static-curis.ku.dk)
 

Fun scientific paper talking about the odd rarity of *b in the current Proto-Indo-European reconstructions. It doesn't propose why this happens, but it claims that most PIE instances of *b might be actually from a later stage of the language, that the author calls "Indo-Celtic" (the common ancestor of all IE languages minus Anatolian and Tocharian; also known in the literature as "core PIE").

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Multireddits would work better in Lemmy than in Reddit. (lemmy.ml)
 

In Reddit, users can create lists of subs, called "multireddits". And you can browse the content of all those subs in a multireddit as if it was a single community. You can also share your multireddits with other people.

Reddit itself implemented the idea and never touched it again, but it be amazing in the federation. For example, someone who's interested in cooking could create the following ~~multireddit~~ multicomm:

That increases discoverability of the communities across the Lemmyverse (as people share their multicomms), and also makes it easier to handle redundant communities across instances. Because of that, I feel like the concept would be right at home in Lemmy.

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Homemade Berlin balls aka pączki aka sonhos (lemmy.ml)
 

I just deep-fried and filled a batch of the thing above. They turned out delicious, so I'm sharing here.

Here's a link for the recipe for the dough; I followed it closely, the only thing was that I subbed the butter with veg oil. The recipe yielded ~20 of them, but this depends a lot on the size that you cut them.

Recipe for the custard filling:

  • 300g sweetened condensed milk
  • 300g 20% fat milk cream
  • 300g whole milk
  • 2 eggs
  • vanilla essence
  • [optional] 1/2 tsp cornstarch

Just mix everything together until homogeneous, then heat it on low fire, while stirring constantly, until it thickens. I didn't use the cornstarch because I wanted it slightly runnier, but do add it if you like a thicker custard.

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For fun: 2022 International Linguistics Olympiad (ioling.org)
 

Those puzzles are fun to solve, so why not give them a try? Feel free to use this post to share hints or the solution as you've found it, but please use spoilers to do so.

The first three puzzles boil down to "retro-engineering" tidbits of the the grammar of three languages (Ubyx, Alabama, N|uuki). The fourth one is to deduce the words for familiar relationship used in Arabana. The fifth one is historical linguistics, deducing the sound changes from Proto-Chamic to Phan Rang Cham and Tsat.

Check this link for the puzzles of previous years, solutions, as well as versions in other metalanguages (in case you feel more comfortable solving them in another language than English).

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Admins switching subs back from NSFW to SFW (archive.fo)
 

Original link.

Apparently the admins aren't too happy with the new form of protest that Reddit moderators found, since NSFW subs don't run ads. Brought to Reddit users by the zombie admin account u/ModCodeOfConduct!

The admins also removed the entire mod team of r/MildlyInteresting (original link) and replaced it with either employees or sycophants, while giving all mods a 7d suspension ban.

Reddit: "subs belong to the community!"

Also Reddit: "screw the community, this is MY PRECIOUS!"

I'm willing to bet that r/ModCoord will be eventually banned. And the ban message will say something cryptic, vague, and meaningless.

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