Well shit, maybe I need to play the rest of Witcher 3… I stopped because it felt like I missed a whole lot from before (and also because it’s hard to devote time to gaming while raising a toddler and working)
They’re more than 100% efficient (they move more watts of heat than they produce), but they’re less than ∞% efficient (they use Watts of energy still, so they still produce Watts of heat)
A Louisiana man has been sentenced to decades in prison and physical castration after pleading guilty to raping a teenager, according to a news release from the region’s district attorney....
Honestly, the worst part isn’t that its penis is so gigantic, it’s that the labels are nonsense. An image like that is already not perfectly to scale out anything, so something being exaggerated can be weird but isn’t necessarily a deal breaker (albeit that one is pretty darn weird)
The women who came forward against Harvey Weinstein reacted with fury after the disgraced media mogul’s rape and sexual assault convictions were overturned by a New York appeals court on Thursday....
We have no idea if there have never been two people with the same fingerprints. It’s never been tested and there’s no way to test it since the majority of people who have existed are now dead.
This is true. Similarly, we haven’t tested and have no means to test if two well-shuffled decks have ever matched. But we do understand the mechanisms that underlie these phenomena, and (specific or ballpark) likelihood of an exact match occurring, and from those odds can make a reasonable assertion that a match has (in all likelihood) never occurred.
That being said, the approximate impossibility of an exact match does not make up for the other issues of fingerprinting as you quoted. The chances of finding someone’s fingerprint whole and readable to compare to a control may be far more likely than two distinct people matching exactly, but far more often the prints being used are nowhere near “whole and readable”
So some random person made a calculation according to another random person on fucking Quora and you think those are actual odds?
Another two second Google search, it was Francis Galton who calculated those odds.
That means at least 2 people have the same fingerprints based on the odds you have given me without checking their accuracy.
I don’t think 1 or 2 pairs of people having had fingerprints that matched from the dawn of humanity to today is sufficient to say it’s a myth that “no two people have the same fingerprint”. The likelihood that two living people, or even two people who lived at the same time ever, shared fingerprints, is still effectively 0. I’m not trying to say fingerprints are magic, just that they are relatively unique. That’s not a myth.
It’s clear you have strong feelings on this, and I really don’t, so I don’t expect I’ll be engaging further. I’m sorry for any distress.
Fun fact, “show whatever has the most votes” and “show whatever was published most recently” and even “show something completely at random” are all also algorithms.
Biggest reason? Dressing this fancy is expensive. Prohibitively, in many cases, at least as an every day thing. I like to dress up from time to time, but I would need a lot more fancy clothes in order to dress up to that degree every day.
Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....
Are they sponsored? I was under the impression they were usually just Microsoft advertising their own shitty stuff? Ads, sure. But for it to be sponsored, someone else has to pay for them
The Federal Trade Commission narrowly voted Tuesday to ban nearly all noncompetes, employment agreements that typically prevent workers from joining competing businesses or launching ones of their own.
What are some mainstream game series where you really do need to start from the first game?
Some games have decent recaps or disconnected stories which mean you can start from the latest release and still have the full experience....
The more air conditioners in an area the hotter becomes around it. In turn increasing the demand for AC. Infinite money glitch.
Louisiana man sentenced to 50 years in prison, physical castration for raping teen (www.cbsnews.com)
A Louisiana man has been sentenced to decades in prison and physical castration after pleading guilty to raping a teenager, according to a news release from the region’s district attorney....
Mushrule (beehaw.org)
Transphobes are doxxing Stardew Valley fans after they asked the game developer for pronouns
thepinknews.com/…/stardew-valley-transphobes-doxx…
Is anyone reading the new Ultimate Spiderman (2024)? Peter is older and have kids, the story seems cool and interesting (files.catbox.moe)
manstruleation (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Excessive use of words like ‘commendable’ and ‘meticulous’ suggests ChatGPT has been used in thousands of scientific studies (english.elpais.com)
A London librarian has analyzed millions of articles in search of uncommon terms abused by artificial intelligence programs...
Rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Weinstein victims’ fury as rape conviction overturned as Bragg commits to retry case (www.independent.co.uk)
The women who came forward against Harvey Weinstein reacted with fury after the disgraced media mogul’s rape and sexual assault convictions were overturned by a New York appeals court on Thursday....
Palworld, As Told By Steam Reviews (kotaku.com)
Censorship is censorship (lemmy.ca)
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World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers (www.theguardian.com)
Brazil, Germany, Spain and South Africa sign motion for fairer tax system to deliver £250bn a year extra to fight poverty and climate crisis...
Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man (lemmy.world)
Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....
U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs (www.npr.org)
The Federal Trade Commission narrowly voted Tuesday to ban nearly all noncompetes, employment agreements that typically prevent workers from joining competing businesses or launching ones of their own.
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)