mbivert

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by mbivert 3mo ago
I've read that too. Yet, I've also read stuff like [0]. The truth is probably somewhere it between [0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01902-0
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by mbivert 4mo ago
There's most likely multiple aspects at play: high-chroma pigments were historically limited and/or expensive; varnish yellowed over time; pigments faded. The digitization process probably wasn't perfect as well (I'd exp
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by mbivert 5mo ago
> The discovery of older humans does not respond to the point you’re arguing against — in evolutionary time scales, humans are recent. I meant, evolutionary time scales themselves are subjected to accuracy issues. The measurements techni
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by mbivert 5mo ago
Happened to me in the 90s (France). Seems to still be practiced regularly [0]. A 2022 article [1] quotes an ENT advocating it for kids with frequent (3 to 4) bacterial throat infections in winter. It's often difficult for new ideas to
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by mbivert 5mo ago
> human body [...] has only been around for a vanishingly short period of time in evolutionary terms. "as far as we know." Every few years, I see in the headlines stuff like "oldest 'human' ever found in X."
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by mbivert 5mo ago
Some data points: I bought a Decathlon folding bike (Fold 500; new, ~450€) a few months ago. Using it many times a week (probably more than it's intended). No issues so far. Internet reviews ( https://www.decathlon.fr/r&
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by mbivert 5mo ago
> f. Nipples are useless in human males (cf. Ch. 5). When I was a kid, I got my tonsils removed "because they were useless and a source of illness". I've recently heard that tonsil removal is now more disputed: it may coll
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by mbivert 8mo ago
For those looking − as the GP said, it's not fantastically organized − pigments information is available here: https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/waterfs.html . Top links yield access to pigments, organized by &
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by mbivert 8mo ago
Rudeness, plays against yourself. I directly know people who lived in China, have been jailed and beaten there, and have literal scars to prove it. Hard to brush this away easily from my mind. Not all people who express negative views on Ch
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by mbivert 8mo ago
> The only difference between a cult and a religion is popular acceptance. That's typically caricature. I encourage you to study things more thoroughly before allowing yourself to form an opinion. One simply can't know a subjec
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by mbivert 8mo ago
> You analysis is valid, but inconclusive. Yup, it's a bit quick, I'll give you that. The numbers in 2025 were higher than in 2024, and in 2023, which could indicate that "it's not very effective" in actually red
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by mbivert 8mo ago
> Less corruption there's been, in 2025, 983 000 people receiving disciplinary sanctions[0]. then: 1. either there's no corruption, and people are getting sanctioned for no reason 2. there's corruption > Less incompeten
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by mbivert 8mo ago
depends where; in France you can get unlimited SMS/MMS/calls, plus 350Go of data, for 20€/month [0]. it's surprising the market hasn't developed likewise in other (European) countries; I (genuinely) wonder why − per
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by mbivert 8mo ago
> It subtly hints at the limitations of language in capturing true understanding and that's still one interpretation ^_^ > Almost every other ancient text starts of being full of certainty I can't say for sure about ancient
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by mbivert 8mo ago
> but the opening bit has always seemed straightforward to me the a/symmetry of the opening bits in Chinese, visually echoes a taiji: > 道可道， > 非恆道； > 名可名， > 非恆名。 given the diversity of translations available for those bi
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by mbivert 8mo ago
They are indeed. Have a look here [0] for ≤18 works [0]: https://www.artrenewal.org/14thARCSalon/Category/DaVinciInit...
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by mbivert 8mo ago
Agreeing with the main point; on a tangential note: > At eleven years old: https://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/work-3939.php This one is a copy (Bargue plate − a famous set of plates designed to train students efficiently
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by mbivert 9mo ago
> I decided to use the slowest language on the planet, Python (thanks to the visionary genius of Ross van der Gussom). given the article, it's fair to assume the author was joking around that being said, the way the language is used
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by mbivert 10mo ago
A few years ago, a journalist went to Duralex, after they restructured (to be own by the employees), and show off the glasses's solidity, live. Every single one of them broke: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x957
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by mbivert 10mo ago
In addition to people believing weird things, such views are often highly tied to an environment. Levitation is pure non-sense for people "in-doctrinated" (literally: ~ to have a doctrine within) by the contemporary, science-orien
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by mbivert 10mo ago
haven't bothered reading it all, but it's just plain awful… such coldness is highly disturbing
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by mbivert 11mo ago
"It's complicated" I guess. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde_diplomatique offers a few first insights. Note how the page quickly emphasizes the redaction's independence. Yet, it might be reaso
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by mbivert 2y ago
I think I must agree: while I went through [0] to build a λ-calculus interpreter, I already had a fair amount of practice with Church encoding (list, bool, int) using an arbitrary functional language, which retrospectively must have helped
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by mbivert 2y ago
In case the other answers aren't sufficient, the first step is to understand the λ-calculus[0]. Then, De Bruijn indices[1]. Now, observe that the language we have only has (you need familiarity with the λ-calculus to understand those t
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by mbivert 2y ago
Enjoyable news format; the drawings are a bit crude, not that much considering we're talking about Picasso, but it's more pleasant to read, on a screen, than pure text.
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by mbivert 2y ago
I think the gist of it is humility: as a newcomer, you don't really know what's out there and why, and there are often good reasons for things to be how they are. Not always, but often enough for avoiding being too original to be
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by mbivert 2y ago
Stumbled upon this yesterday or so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZlbQqXBsn0 « I think one of the troubles of the world has been the habit of dogmatically believing something or other and I think all these matters are fu
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by mbivert 2y ago
Let's look in practice[0]: there's 720 seats in total for 2024. France has 81, spread on its local political spectrum [1]; biggest group has 18 seats. So while there's some democratic oversight, the public perception remain
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by mbivert 2y ago
Strictly speaking, you're correct, but practically speaking, I believe not so much. For example, France lost a key advantage ("competition rules") with nuclear energy essentially because it was considered unfair to other coun
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by mbivert 2y ago
Let me repeat myself a third and last time: I don't have enough data points to conclude; acquisition of enough data points to reach a honest opinion is to daunting of a task. It's not because I don't share your viewpoint that

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