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New comment by poulpy123 in "Nowhere is safe"

poulpy123 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:51:29 +0000

> I've never understood the post-WWII goal of permanent peace. Its a great vision to have, but unless its completely infeasible.

You have to be an American sheltered from any war on your soil for 150 years to not understand the goal of permanent peace.

New comment by poulpy123 in "Nowhere is safe"

poulpy123 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:49:05 +0000

Not even a mention about the victims of US imperialism

New comment by poulpy123 in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

poulpy123 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:15:34 +0000

Nope it all started with LUCA

New comment by poulpy123 in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

poulpy123 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:10:02 +0000

Not only strong factors but some of the main human relational dynamics. Of the three only ethnicity goes a bit being pure relational

New comment by poulpy123 in "Generative art over the years"

poulpy123 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:53:31 +0000

Early work for the author not for phyllotaxis spirals

New comment by poulpy123 in "Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate"

poulpy123 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:32:29 +0000

I'm not really convinced that having a few more libraries in the standard library or decentralizing the library repository is going to change much the risks

New comment by poulpy123 in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

poulpy123 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:09:29 +0000

Afaik most UI are build with C/C++

New comment by poulpy123 in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

poulpy123 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:32:36 +0000

They are not the same species than rats and mice longers

New comment by poulpy123 in "Native Americans had dice 12k years ago"

poulpy123 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:24:14 +0000

What the article call dices are flat rocks with marking, the indus valley dice are identical to the one we use now, including the numbering from one to six. If flat rocks with marking are considered dice so the first dice are 3.3 millions years as well as the first contemplation of "concepts like the law of large numbers, a mathematics concept that describes how a random sample will trend toward an equal distribution over time" to quote the NBC article

New comment by poulpy123 in "Native Americans had dice 12k years ago"

poulpy123 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:00:15 +0000

Man I found the article and it's hilarious bad science.

My favorite parts are the long passage about the native American owned casinos, the constant reference to randomness or and probability without providing any data on the actual randomness and probability of the artefacts and the cherry on the cake: the fact he pretends that flat rocks with markings are comparable to the six faced dice with numbering of the indus valley civilisation (that he carefully avoid to show or describes). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/a...

New comment by poulpy123 in "Native Americans had dice 12k years ago"

poulpy123 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:42:08 +0000

That's pseudo science if the author doesn't tell the statistics rules of the dice, and for what I saw the author doesn't tell

New comment by poulpy123 in "Native Americans had dice 12k years ago"

poulpy123 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:15:34 +0000

The guy who got the Nobel for the discovery of HIV was a supporter of the theories of water memory theory and DNA teleportation and also that you can heal from aids with good food or from parkinson with fermented papaya.

New comment by poulpy123 in "Native Americans had dice 12k years ago"

poulpy123 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:52:57 +0000

He found some rocks with marks and not only they are dice, invented 6000 years before anywhere else in the world, but also evidence that native Americans had mathematical concepts not invented before the Renaissance.

New comment by poulpy123 in "Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?"

poulpy123 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:37:36 +0000

"Why isn't everyone as obsessed as me about my hobbies?"

Well maybe because the context here is not great and we don't have much time and energy to focus on these useless endeavors

New comment by poulpy123 in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

poulpy123 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:25:13 +0000

SteamOS is just steam big picture mode by default on an arch linux. You can switch to a regular KDE in one click

New comment by poulpy123 in "Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)"

poulpy123 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:11:59 +0000

You may try onshape that is supposed to have a better accessibility than fusion 360, but unfortunately it doesn't seem that a CAD software with a complexity intermediate between tinkerCAD and FreeCAD an dthe pro CAD software exists

New comment by poulpy123 in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

poulpy123 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:08:44 +0000

Sorry for your father but nothing in the article makes sense

New comment by poulpy123 in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

poulpy123 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:02:17 +0000

> they communicated only through hand gestures and had to go to sleep early because they couldn’t see those gestures at night, lol.

LMAO did he never saw a dog or a cat in is live ? They don't speak but can still use sounds to communicate

New comment by poulpy123 in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

poulpy123 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:07:55 +0000

Still disappointed that nobody made doom run on it

New comment by poulpy123 in "Iran's Revolutionary Guards Declares War on Silicon Valley"

poulpy123 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:20:40 +0000

The butlerian jihad IRL