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New comment by milesrout in "Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans"

milesrout — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 01:21:20 +0000

It is also the consensus position for a lot of bad reasons though.

There is an assumption that belief in, or even reasonable agnosticism towards, any other theory can only be motivated by racism.

There are many people that believe OOA because they want to believe it, because they want to believe we are all more similar than we are different, etc.

Multiregional hypotheses are perfectly plausible. We have very limited information one way or another. Out of Africa may be more likely but it is far from certain.

New comment by milesrout in "BYD builds fastest car"

milesrout — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 03:33:57 +0000

In what sense are domestic car manufacturers "important"? They're inefficient if they're being outcompeted by China.

New comment by milesrout in "The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh"

milesrout — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:27:37 +0000

Yes it says this in the article.

New comment by milesrout in "LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords"

milesrout — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 01:28:45 +0000

Landlords are an excellent thing, as anyone that cannot afford, or does not want, to simply buy a house could tell you.

Set up is a phrasal verb and omitting the space is incorrect, yes, but only an annoying pedant would point it out.

It recommends Debian and says:

>I make my guides on this site for Debian 11. If you use another OS, just know that your [mileage] may vary in terms of you might need to change some instructions here minorly.

If you were going to complain about bad grammar, that sentence is a much better target, and yet it is still quite easily understandable.

New comment by milesrout in "Treasury Announces Federal Govt Will Phase Out Paper Checks on September 30th"

milesrout — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 02:09:28 +0000

Don't be ridiculous. You don't need to be computer savvy to use electronic banking. Cheques haven't been used in most countries for over a decade and the only actual difference is that you get transferred the money immediately instead of banking a cheque.

New comment by milesrout in "It is worth it to buy the fast CPU"

milesrout — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:15:46 +0000

Great, now every operation has 300ms of latency. Kill me

New comment by milesrout in "Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day"

milesrout — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:51:44 +0000

School shootings are extremely rare. If you want to protect kids you will be much more effective if you work on pedestrian safety, or anything related to driving at all really.

New comment by milesrout in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

milesrout — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 03:24:57 +0000

None of what you said is true. The Judicial Committee of the House of Lords was renamed the Supreme Court and moved to a different building (but otherwise essentially unchanged) in 2005 under Tony Blair's Labour government.

New comment by milesrout in "Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?"

milesrout — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:03:04 +0000

There is a huge difference in the quality of workers in fast food. Some people are slow. They are inefficient. They let things burn, they count change slowly, they are clumsy. They can't multi-task.

It is cognitively simple for you, because you aren't thick. But for people of well-below average intelligence, flipping burgers and doing something else at the time is just not possible.

New comment by milesrout in "2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals"

milesrout — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 19:23:37 +0000

This is incredibly ignorant. The Church didn't kill anyone for being good at art, and in fact did more for the development of fine art than any other institution in human history.

New comment by milesrout in ".gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean"

milesrout — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:44:49 +0000

No. IDE-specific ignore lists should go in $CONFIG/git or .git/info/exclude (or whatever the path is).

(git config --global core.excludesfile "$CONFIG/git/ignore")

.gitignore is committed to the repository and should be for files created by the repository that shouldn't appear in 'git status' like build/, etc.

New comment by milesrout in "Cars Are Caught in an Endless Cycle of Bigger Screens Nobody Likes"

milesrout — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 01:40:19 +0000

They are safer, more fuel-efficient, less polluting and quieter.

New comment by milesrout in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

milesrout — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:41:49 +0000

Nobody said it isn't debt. The difference is that it is debt that makes sense: you can't realistically buy land without it, and houses tend to appreciate so the interest costs are less of a problem - they just represent the time value of money.

Most other debts people incur personally are to buy things they could save for, which go down in value. Like cars.

New comment by milesrout in "What does the end of mathematics look like?"

milesrout — Mon, 19 May 2025 09:39:20 +0000

Writing like a wanker isn't funny.

New comment by milesrout in "I just want to code (2023)"

milesrout — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:24:34 +0000

I'm not sure that is actually true about tailors. My understanding is that most clothing was homemade. I assume people didnt generally make their own shoes but they made their own textiles and basic garments and most people didnt have many garments.

Maybe there is a specific time period you are referring to where this was common but as I understand it, pre-industrially there were very few artisans selling products for money. Clothes were made largely by women and girls for their families.

New comment by milesrout in "CSS Zen Garden"

milesrout — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:43:02 +0000

The structure of the markup is dependent on the semantic structure of the content that is marked up. The CSS is styling that structure.

The markup shouldn't need to change over time in a way that makes the CSS layouts not work because it just reflects the semantic structure of the document, which shouldn't really need to change. If it does you have quite a different document and so of course it will need CSS changes too.

I was always much more afraid of touching ad-hoc CSS that was written alongside HTML, because it ends up having all these classes and elements that have no semantics and it becomes very unclear what anything actually means. The very worst is the "tailwind" styling where classes etc mean nothing, just styling.

New comment by milesrout in "Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing"

milesrout — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 02:05:37 +0000

Do you have any evidence?

New comment by milesrout in "Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-hearing impaired"

milesrout — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:45:45 +0000

I think they mix movies differently than they used to, maybe because people all seem to have soundbars today?

New comment by milesrout in "Mistaking Mary Magdalene"

milesrout — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:59:29 +0000

Also it makes no sense to say there is no evidence of them existing, given that we are discussing precisely that: evidence of them existing.

Why would the sources that were put together to form the Bible be discounted when the whole point of putting it together was to collect the best evidence into one source?

New comment by milesrout in "Mistaking Mary Magdalene"

milesrout — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:57:27 +0000

How is it misogynistic for more than one woman to have the same name? They aren't made up characters that people decided to all call Mary in some fit of misogyny.