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BEIJING — Economic cooperation between China and Central Asia has reached unprecedented levels, with trade volumes expanding consistently over the past twelve years, according to Sunday's customs data.
I’ve always tried to be diplomatic with family and friends on FB, but this No Kings garbage deserves to be called out for the moronical thing that it is.
Caitlin Johnstone- The challenge isn’t KEEPING the US out of Israel’s wars, it’s GETTING the US out of Israel’s wars. THAT is where the push should be.
I was just walking around shinjuku and the density of super cute women is insane. I walked by a meet n greet for some boy band called "dragon" something and literally every woman was young and beautiful.
@sun Haven't had the rural japan experience yet. Major cities skewing things makes sense but it was still surprising compared to visiting a major city around here.
I'm also glad I was able to make a spring trip. Streets full of attractive women in kimonos around the cherry blossoms. There's probably photos of me out there where I'm just looking 😳
for those who are reading the western media and have become convinced iran is the one getting hit harder, take note of israeli leaders all of a sudden singing a very different tune. #iran #israel #iranisraelwar
Indigenous scholar Tyson Yunkaporta on gut knowing and brain knowing: "The gut governs terrestrial relations and is in constant communication with land and all our human and nonhuman kin. The head follows slower signals and cannot pivot in ways that are informed by complexity, so the mind can manifest as a top-down governance relation when it is not used in concert with the gut. When a person’s head is in the clouds, carrying or longing for unearned power and privilege, their gut is out of right relation, which may result in a series of cascading failures that affect all the systems and beings around them. Executive function should always be signed off by the gut before any action is taken, if these consequences are to be avoided. Your gut might pick up the subtle informatics of a car salesman weirdly staring at your kids while you’re distracted and checking under the hood—so your head may be telling you it’s a good deal, but your gut is telling you not to trust this creep." - emergencemagazine.org/essay/fi…
I was just talking with @saltphoenix about how much I value the Hawaiian concept na'au, which refers to gut knowing.
I like to think that my gut knowing game is pretty strong, and when working correctly, it leads me in the right direction.
I also like what Dr. Yunkaporta has to say about gut knowing governing everything to do with the land. The longer I live with the land, the more in tune I feel with it, and the better my intuition gets (specifically intuition for land stuff, not in general).
He's right that it operates faster than brain thinking and that it's able to work on incomplete data (the dynamics of the land and ocean and sky are so complicated that you're basically always working with incomplete data when making decisions about how to relate to the land).
Anyway, the article is written in quite fancy language, but the ideas are solid.
Probing the way we overthink and underfeel our existence, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta urges us to attend to a vital intelligence beyond the cerebral: the fire in our gut.
They did DNA studies to try to find the location of ancient Ashkenaz homeland of the Adhkenazi Jews in an article I read and they came up with a location in Turkey that they said was where Ashkenaz was
The Soviet Union ancestry might contribute some Mongoloid ancestry mixed with Caucasian ancestry
If I had to guess the primary ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews on average is from Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union where most of them primarily came from
In much smaller amounts than the Syrian Palestinians they might have some ancestry from the middle East near Israel including ancestry from the countries that were enemies of ancient Israel
If you take a weighted average of the locations of their ancestors you might end up with Ashkenaz in Turkey not in Israel
I'm in need of a CAD program with an easy aproach for someone with zero experience on this type of software.
3D printing is not a concern
I intend to draw the blueprints for my house. The building is old, no blueprints exist for it, and I intend to make renovations to it, so having blueprints to work on to plan the renovations will be a huge help.
Onshape has a free tier, though all the cad files you make in it are publically available. That being said, it's easy to use and, since it's browser based, completely comparable with linux
FreeCAD is the most common solid FOSS modeler. I do not think any solid modeling system is that simple. They tend to need training and continuous use. That was my experience with SolidWorks and NX anyway.
FreeCAD is pretty capable but it's openly 3D focused and doesn't make for a great 2D only solution. However, for some simple work with remodeling, it might be fine.
Sketcher is used as the first step for an extrusion iirc but draft is what he wants. It is just more built for 3D models to be turned into drafts rather than making a draft from scratch.
I’m in need of a CAD program with an easy aproach for someone with zero experience on this type of software.
If you have zero experience with CAD, but some experience with programming languages or things like LaTeX, JSON, XML, HTML, etc., I'd suggest giving OpenSCAD a try. While it is definitely for more advanced users, it managed to instantly click with me, in contrast to FreeCAD and others I just couldn't get into (or rather back into, since my AutoCAD lessons back in school). That it allowed me to work work on CAD drawings in Emacs helped too...
I've been doing amazing stuff in FreeCAD. It has a lot of power that lets me do things I never thought I would be able to do. It's also riddled with bugs that will make you want to throw your computer out the window.
My success with FreeCAD comes from extremely strict version control and years of use. I've learned to live with a few specific bugs. For example, external geometry doesn't work and hasn't for 14 months. Don't believe the forum when they say it works. It does not. In any given sketch, you will be able to make is 0 or 1 external link work properly without breaking your drawing. If you have more than one external link, even if you aren't using any of them, it will give you a "wire not closed" error when trying to pad or pocket.
Oddly, the subshape binder works perfectly and it is the illegitimate brother of external links. It even uses the external link tool to define import links from the binder object. Using a master sketch and the subshape binder is absolutely brilliant and wildly productive.
It comes down to having several tools to do any given thing but only one or two may be working.
There is a decent architectural plug-in for FreeCAD. I think Yorik wrote it, some time ago, but it's brilliant. I've used it for doing exactly what you describe on several house projects and it's helped quite a bit with renovations.
SweetHome3d is also a decent app but extremely primative and it's not going to create professional looking blueprints for anyone. It's really just a toy but can be extremely useful for mocking up a design or room layout. I have used it for years with great benefit. It's simple, quite powerful, and a brilliant visualization tool.
Honestly, if you want to create real blueprints to give to a builder, you're going to need Windows or OSX and one of a handful of applications, preeminently AutoDesk REVIT. REVIT is probably over specified for your purpose but it's the adult table. At least know it's there if you find linux apps have too many shortcomings.
Look at QCad. They have a paid ($40), and a free version that is fully functional and open source. It's the most autocad-like app out there, so learning that has the advantage of learning the UI of autocad too.
LibreCad that others suggested was forked from Qcad about 15 years ago and hasn't moved much in terms of features. While QCad has. So in my opinion, it's the best solution.
Then there's Freecad, but that's more about 3D cad, and it's more complicated overall.
they've already crossed the line. the iranians will be smart enough to accept a deal to avoid u.s. getting directly, offensively involved. but if the threat of the u.s. isnt there, there is no reason for iran not to level the colony.
Trump has further clarified his deportation priorities.
"Okay ICE: Go for the big blue cities first. That way we delay going after agricultural workers for the time being, and we're more efficient. Do it NOW, ICE."
@benda Fakeout as in sirens and warning systems going off, then everyone hiding in bomb shelters for hours. I think one of the IDF guys called it a cyberattack.
Se ha producido un #apagón total en el centro de Israel. Las sirenas antiaéreas suenan en todo el país debido a la #nueva oleada de ataques con #misiles iraníes.
Se escucharon #numerosas explosiones en Tel Aviv; cohetes #impactaron en diferentes puntos de la ciudad. En #Haifa, una central eléctrica se incendió tras impactos de #misiles iraníes.
Полное отключение света произошло в центре Израиля. Из-за новой волны атаки иранских ракет по всей территории страны звучат сирены воздушной тревоги.
В Тель-Авиве было слышно много взрывов, снаряды попали в разные районы города.
A people whose entire existence depends solely on military might is destined to end up in the darkest corners of destruction, and ultimately, in defeat.
❝Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.❞
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition.
“Using LLMs makes you stupid” is such an emotionally appealing conclusion that I’m going to consciously work — this post is my public commitment! — not to read •too• much into this one study. As the OP says: small N, not peer reviewed, etc.
But I •will• immediately heed the authors’ “concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance.” However the research shakes out, it seems like good practice to double down on helping students keep their own brains awake and active regardless of the technology available to them.
The forum’s business program includes a plenary session involving EAEU heads of state and over 30 thematic events: plenary sessions, round tables, and business dialogues.
Probably everyone that is interested in the Linux desktop has heard about Wayland. It's the next big thing, the replacement for X.org, a solution to a lot of woes in terms of performance and graphics on Linux. And still, it has failed to materialize, over and over, and is still not the default on many big distributions, like Ubuntu, or Linux Mint. Let's see what Wayland is, and how ready it is, right after this!
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Wayland is, in itself, just a protocol. It's not a program, or a replacement for the old X.org display server. This protocol has to be implemented by a compositor, which will display the application's content on the user's screen.
Currently, a lot of distributions use X.org, the very old display server that has served us pretty well for ages. The goal of wayland is to put this old beast to pasture, but for what benefits ?
First, let's take a look at how X.org works. This old thing, dating back to 1987, the blessed year of my birth, by the way, is a multi-layered process: First, you have your display server, or the X server. It's the central platform to communicate with the clients, like the applications you're using, and the compositor, which displays the windows for these apps themselves. This server is interacting with clients, which are basically your applications, but also with a compositor, which is your window manager, like Kwin on KDE, or Mutter on GNOME.
It's a sturdy process, but it introduces a lot of delay, with some back and forth betwen the server, the compositor, and the application itself.
Wayland has a simpler model, because in Wayland, the compositor IS the server as well. This means that, in our example, the application opens, tells the compositor that it wants a window, and the compositor gets all the details from the app in one go, decides what to do with the window, and tells the app to draw itself. Yep, on Wayland, the applications also have to do their own rendering on the screen: they manage their own titlebars, their own drop shadows, everything.
This is why you can't just switch GNOME or KDE from X.org to Wayland: the pieces that compose the desktop environment don't play the exact same role on both solutions. On Wayland, the compositor doesn't draw the windows, the app themselves do, so you have to update the window managers to become compositors that don't do any drawing, and you have to update the toolkits, GTK and Qt, to let them draw stuff themselves.
Then there's the issue of the graphics drivers: the Nvidia drivers, the open source AMD or Intel drivers, these were written to send information back and forth with X.org, not with a wayland compositor.
So they also have to be updated to work with that new model. This is already the case, as the open source Mesa drivers, which cover AMD and Intel, already support wayland using a solution called GBM. Nvidia, on the other hand, decided that they had a more efficient solution called EGL, which has to be supported separately by the wayland compositors.
Since Nvidia doesn't seem to be willing to update their driver to use GBM, for nvidia drivers to work with wayland, desktop environments have to also support EGL, which is an extra burden, and also explains why Nvidia drivers are hit or miss when using Wayland.
So, where is Wayland? Well, it's already very well supported: - GNOME supports Wayland, with Mutter, its window manager and compositor - KDE supports Wayland as well, with Kwin - Both GTK 3.20 and QT 5 support wayland out of the box
In terms of distros, Fedora already uses Wayland as the default, if the drivers permit it, and has been since 2016. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 also uses Wayland as the default, and Debian does so as well, for their GNOME sessions. Manjaro also defaults to wayland for the GNOME sessions, if the drivers allow it.
Some programs that were made specifically to work with X.org don't work on wayland-based systems, especially games.
For that use case, Wayland developers have a solution: as wine or proton expects to run in an X Server, Wayland provides the ability to run such a server inside of Wayland, as a client, this is called Xwayland.
The performance of Xwayland, however, seems on par with just running a game on X.org, as demonstrated by Phoronix early this year:
@The Linux Experiment Networking does not work in Wayland, and there is a kernel mode X-server but not a kernel mode Wayland server, two reasons I don't use it.
Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least eleven starving Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces while waiting for food aid across the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning, amid a weeks-long Israeli blockade tha
Israel is completing its genocide. Keir Starmer says the aid blockade is 'intolerable'. And yet day after day he tolerates Israel’s bombs, gunfire and mass starvation campaign
Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri and commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami have been martyred in 'Israeli' aggression that also targeted scientists and civilians.
This is a #FediHire post, but it's not about technology, so I don't know how helpful the fediverse will be.
I have a PHD in math and nine years of experience teaching university students. I want to leave higher education and become a high school math teacher, but I am not certified.
I'm in the U.S. and have no easy way to leave. I also can't go four years without an income or health insurance.
What states would be the easiest for me to get at least provisionally certified to teach in?
Also keep in mind that I'm trans, so I am only willing to move to a state where it's legal for me to interact with teenagers and get health care.
This is a 1500 kg meteorite fallen in Campo del Cielo, Chaco, Argentina. It is about 4.5 billion years old (yes, about as old as our planet). It is the oldest thing I have ever seen and touched in my life. It is the only thing from space that I have ever touched. It is metallic: iron and nickel. It is impressive.
Noticed the fabulous LEGO store Brick By Brick carries zero new Harry Potter sets. I asked the person behind the desk about it and she said, “oh, we’re never going to give any money to that franchise.” “Thank you.” “Happy Pride.” ✨💙✨
A couple of things about these claims circulating that the 2024 election was "rigged":
1. The supposed "proof" is essentially the same nonsensical statistical gobbledygook that the MAGA people were claiming about 2020, with the parties reversed.
2. There is no legal mechanism to "recount" an election after the results are certified. None. The ship has sailed.
3. SHOCKINGLY, they need funds to continue their "work"
4. Nope, not linking to it. Not giving them oxygen.
An important difference between this and the 2020 fraud claims is that here, you don't see the supposedly "defrauded" candidate amplifying the BS. Harris wants no part of this.
Also, you don't get a discount on an overpriced pillow for donating.
what do you think about the post facto research on the Florida recount in the 2000 election? Some work by the New Yorker, for instance, suggests that if the recount had continued, Gore would have had more votes.
right. So, your concern is less about digging up the details of the 2024 election, and more about using whatever is uncovered (which is pretty patchy and unconvincing) to try to change the current government.
@evan Also, they’re ripping people off based on a false hope and evidently meritless claims, promising a remedy that isn't possible. But other than that…
Sort of like, it's fine to seek the truth, but the truth now isn't going to deliver the promise being made when asking you to donate money to assist in uncovering the truth.
I understand that finding the truth now won't overturn the certified election. But, *IF* there did end up being proof of actual vote manipulation, the individuals that did so could still be held accountable at least right?
@finner @evan Go for it. But understand a few things:
- the supposed "smoking guns" indicating fraud in 2024, like those put forward in 2020, aren't really anything.
- elections are ultimately human endeavors, run by fallible people, and small but inconsequential "irregularities" are normal and expected. But it's often very easy to make them seem much more sinister and significant than they are.
- versions of almost everything claimed about 2024 were claimed by the MAGA people in 2020.
It's part of President Trump's crackdown on foreign nationals from countries that fail to meet "established benchmarks and requirements" for remaining in the US.
@DrChris ⚔️ Especially you don't get to choose when you are the aggressor. Personally I am tired of Israels arrogance, they've stolen territory from every neighboring country, they've committed genocide against the Palestinians. They hardly deserve protection, they are evil incarnate.
@DrChris ⚔️ No I am a realist. Let's say for example, the US does decide to aid Israel, and then Russia decides to aid Iran, and then we get into a kinetic war with Russia, then what if it goes nuclear? If it does the war will be over in an hour and so will humanity. Your decision not to be involved won't prevent your corpse from glowing in the dark.
Your examples is the very reason we shouldn't be involved - to no escalate.
Is Iran the reason people can't afford houses in America? The reason fentanyl is everywhere? The reason people go bankrupt from a car accident requiring hospitalization?
@DrChris ⚔️ It is not unrelated, China retaliates against tariffs placed on it in part because of fentynal manufacturer and importation into the US, by buying oil from Iran and so there is a financial interest to cut-off that source. The trade imbalance certainly impacts our financial well being and hence the affordability of housing and everything else. So yes there is a relationship there. The truth of the matter EVERYTHING and EVERYONE are inter-related to some degree.
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition.
@Synclair I'm more curious about the bright red shot on the planet, since this is IR it means it's a hot region. What can make a small hot region on a gas giant? And then why are the rings so bright in the IR?
@Synclair I'm wondering if it isn't a storm like Jupiter's great red spot but on a smaller scale, but bringing heat up from lower in the atmosphere just as hurricanes on Earth do.
@DrFell (Disgruntled Citizen)✅️ @Synclair On my monitor it is not a true red but it is certainly more towards the reddish end of the spectrum than the yellow appearing rings.
Tulsi Gabbard’s new video about the horrors of nuclear war is, indeed, scary — just probably not in the way she intended, says Bloomberg Opinion columnist Marc Champion. (Source: Bloomberg)
it is supposed to help with sleep. If you can reduce or eliminate artificial light sources it is good for keeping your circadian rhythm in line. If you need to have light on, red has the least effect.
Also, on the other side, you are supposed to get natural sunlight as close as you can to when you wake up.
@DrFell this isn't that kind of red light, but I know what you are talking about. This is just regular red light bulbs to stimulate your eyes less at night.
I can recommend the breathwork stuff. Just doing 4:4:4:4 'box breathing' usually puts me to the edge of sleep at night.
@Richard On a side note, while not a big fan of this blue light / red light stuff, I don't use nightshade on my monitor because I'd rather have good color rendition. That said why do LED bulbs produce no red? Deep red phosphors are expensive, but direct RED LEDs are not, so why don't they just include some native red leds in the bulb to provide a more balanced color rendition?
@DrFell she's out worshiping the sun every morning at daybreak. I keep asking her to yell "AVE SOL INVICTUS" while raising both arms, but she won't do it. 😕
The guy who drew the GFL1 loading screen comics is having a spergout on people archiving their work, thereby proving the need for people to archive their work x.com/crazycken/status/1934379…
Pars Today - Following the attack by the Zionist regime on Iran, an image widely circulated on social media showing a part of a girl’s hair visible under t...
Six months after a wildfire devastated the Pacific Palisades, the final evacuation orders have been fully lifted, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The live-action adaptation of 'How to Train Your Dragon' opens with a staggering $197.8 million worldwide, highlighting the franchise's enduring appeal. Meanwhile, 'Materialists' makes a modest entry with $12 million.
So I got struck by lightning a long time ago and the most important thing I took away from that is just how simply quickly the human brain can comprehend what is happening
You see a bolt of lightning strike a tree and it happens within 1 millionth of a second. When you get struck, that lasts for several minutes. Immediately your brain tells you to just drop to the floor. You can’t. You don’t even have the time to turn your body off and hit the ground. Time doesn’t exist anymore.
But what your mind does, is revolve through every single scenario in one billionth of a second. It’s fascinating how fast it calculates when it needs to.
Eventually, it ends up with, “well I guess this is how I die now” Not fun.
I mean I didn’t die (clearly) but I certainly didn’t dodge a bullet there
So hear is something that often goes round and round in my head. Why or what is being waited for to expose to all the mess that the vaccine caused and may still be causing?? If there is a ‘cure’ why haven’t we been told??? (I know ‘we’ are more informed than others) why are they still on the market? I know we have free will but the programming is still strong. No matter how you spin it it just doesn’t make sense that no attention has been brought and nothing is being done. 1/2
2/ Does Trump know? RFK does to an extent. The vax is being put in our food without our concern and often without marking such foods. How does Gates get stuff passed through the system? (Payoff). Just too many questions and no answers and a glaring void. It’s very troubling that such a life threatening problem is ignored.
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