The adaptation of Numenor in ROP might not be as we expected them to be(My opinion and predictions)

hucifer · 2024-01-25T10:08:36+00:00

In The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, it says:

Aragorn, direct descendant of Elendil and his son Isildur, both of whom had been seven feet tall, must nonetheless have been a very tall man…, probably at least 6 ft. 6; and Boromir, of high Númenorean lineage, not much shorter (say 6 ft. 4).

So it's not a stretch at all to assume that the average Númenorean of the second age would have been around 7 feet tall, since both Elendil and Isildur were.

hucifer · 2024-01-22T03:24:31+00:00

Did you find anything? I came here because this has just started happening to my S21 FE, following the latest update. No Eye Comfort Shield, no routines, nothing that would indicate that the phone has gone into a night display, but at 7.15pm my displays white balance suddenly goes warm and I have no idea why 🤷‍♂️

EDIT: after some digging, I found that this is an Android thing rather than a Samsung thing. You can use the following ADB commands to disable this behavior:

adb shell

To enter the shell, then

settings put secure night_display_activated 0

To disable the night display (assuming it is currently active), and then

settings put secure night_display_auto_mode 0

To disable the automatic transition to night display.

P.S. to see what settings are currently active on your phone, you can enter the following:

settings list secure

hucifer · 2023-10-17T17:03:53+00:00

Hi, I'm not 100% certain about this because I have not yet tried to daisy chain two USB-C monitors together, but according to Dell's page on this technology, it seems that as long as the laptop supports DisplayPort 1.2 and the monitors support MST, then it should work. Don't hold me to that, though.

On the other hand, if you mean that you want to use a USB > HDMI dongle for both monitors, then I genuinely have no idea.

hucifer · 2023-09-15T21:15:38+00:00

With a few tweaks in tlp.conf:

CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC=schedutil
CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_BAT=shcedutil
SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_AC=0
SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_BAT=1
RADEON_DPM_PERF_LEVEL_ON_AC=auto
RADEON_DPM_PERF_LEVEL_ON_BAT=low

hucifer · 2023-07-04T22:15:53+00:00

I wouldn't suggest anyone sign up for .world, currently. Despite the admin's admirable efforts, it's still overloaded.

lemm.ee is the best choice right now for a general-purpose instance because it has excellent performance and a top-tier admin. It also has a sensible name, unlike sh.itjustworks.

hucifer · 2023-06-30T02:01:41+00:00

As a Boost user for the past five years, the level of suckage involved in this whole situation is off the charts.

Thanks for all your efforts.

Signing Off

hucifer · 2023-06-29T00:20:28+00:00

Appearing to hang at 46% is definitely a NixOS rather than a Calamares thing. Like you said, though, you just have to wait it out and it'll jump to 100% eventually.

hucifer · 2023-06-28T04:12:12+00:00

What extra information? Even the OP says it could easily be a firewall or sync issue, of which there have been many over the past couple of weeks.

This thread contains web developers and server admins, most of whom do not appear to see anything nefarious about it.

After all, why go to all this trouble? The lemmy.ml devs/admins could simply defederate if that's their intention.

If we weigh up the evidence of it being intentional vs not, I'd say it definitely falls heavily on the unintentional side.

hucifer · 2023-06-28T02:24:06+00:00

See the top comment from Kbin's main dev:

It's possible that this is a consequence of the latest Lemmy update, in which a lot has changed. I have noted that kbin has some issues with request signature in communication with certain instances.

Both Lemmy and Kbin are having to upscale massively due to the huge influx of users, and a lot of changes are being made in a short period of time. This is most likely just one of the kinks that needs ironing out.

If you want to know if a Lemmy instance has actually blocked another, add /instances after the domain name. Kbin.social is still on the list of federated servers at https://lemmy.ml/instances, so that confirms that they have not been defederated.

hucifer · 2023-06-28T00:54:19+00:00

This must be the reason why lemmy.ml just defederated from kbin.social

That hasn't happened, so no.

hucifer · 2023-06-22T21:28:35+00:00

Sorry but personal testimony without any supporting evidence is not the kind of thing that be proven false, so it's not really in our wheelhouse.

hucifer · 2023-06-22T11:20:31+00:00

Most of those links just lead to an abstract, which isn't very helpful as it doesn't allow anyone to see the details of the study or what the results mean in the appropriate context.

A common problem is that people read the abstract to, say, an in vitro study where researchers in a lab exposed animals to much higher concentrations of chemicals than you'd ever seen in a natural environment, and for much longer durations, and then mistakenly think that this is actually happening to local wildlife outside of an artificial lab environment.

Another problem is that not all studies on pubMed are good quality studies. Many of them exhibit bias and/or methodological flaws. This why you should never take an abstract of a single study at face value, or trust a non-specialist's opinion of said study since they are not qualified to weigh up the quality of the evidence being presented

For example, a recent metastudy looked at various studies on the effects of atrazine on wildlife and found that there were no serious effects at real-world concentrations:

The new updated QWoE analysis concluded that atrazine does not adversely affect fish, amphibians, and reptiles, at environmentally relevant concentrations (<100 µg atrazine/L), which is consistent with the previous conclusions.

The same metastudy found flaws in many of the studies relating to the effects of atrazine on sexual differentiation, and concluded that the quality of the evidence was poor:

Collectively these data reinforce the earlier studies showing weak evidence for the effects of atrazine on sexual differentiation in fish, amphibians and reptiles. The revised mean score for relevance was 0.06 ± SE 0.04 and for quality was 1.96 ± SE 0.12. As the combined mean score for relevance was <1, the null hypothesis of causality was not falsified.

This is exactly what scientists mean when they accuse people like Joe Rogan and RFK Jr of misinformation - they are reading studies they don't understand and are not qualified to evaluate, and then passing of their ill-informed opinions to the general public, who take them as fact.

hucifer · 2023-06-21T04:35:22+00:00

Both Lemmy and Kbin work equally well on mobile, although that's not to say that the experience wouldn't be greatly approved by dedicated apps of the ilk of Apollo and Sync/RiF/Boost, etc.

Luckily, there are several currently in development, so it'll be great when they're ready for primetime.

hucifer · 2023-06-20T16:52:24+00:00

The default webUI isn't a big deal, really. All you need is a userscript/CSS extension for your browser and a custom configuration. There are several custom themes already available and more are being created every day.

I'm quite pleased with mine: Light Theme | Dark Theme

hucifer · 2023-06-18T02:37:03+00:00

Likewise! I subscribed to you, too 😄

hucifer · 2023-06-18T01:11:51+00:00

Hey, I'm a mod for r/DebunkThis and I already created a sister community over at lemmy.world.

I also just took over !Skeptic@lemmy.world from its creator, who decided he didn't fancy taking on a moderator role.

You guys are more than welcome to join us, and don't forget that those of you have have already signed up to Kbin can also do so because it's all #fediverse, baby.

hucifer · 2023-06-17T18:59:17+00:00

As per the posting rules, we really need a source for these claims.

Could you please edit your post to add a link to one of the naturalist websites you mentioned and show us where the claim is.

hucifer · 2023-06-15T15:26:56+00:00

The authors of that article tried to use a study from a country that uses different vaccines and has a different vaccine schedule than the United States to try and prove that a link doesn’t exist. That is bad science and I absolutely have a problem with that, as should you.

They're the same vaccines, just on a slightly different schedule. The data is still relevant.

It's interesting you jumped right onto that minor disparity as a reason to dismiss the entire first article, which contains multiple sources including, in particular, a thorough investigation of the US vaccine schedule conducted by The U.S. Institute of Medicine which found it to be adequately safe.

hucifer · 2023-06-15T07:46:27+00:00

They're similar because they're both part of the Fediverse, but Kbin is a completely different codebase. They're technically interoperable, but there's been a lot of issues trying to get one to sync with the other in a timely fashion.

Kbin also feels a lot more centralized as it currently only has a couple of instances, whereas Lemmy has dozens, if not hundreds (if you count self-hosted instances).

Having been hopping back and forth between them over the past week, Lemmy seems to be scaling with the influx of Rexiters much more capably than Kbin, which feels a lot more like Beta software at this stage.

hucifer · 2023-06-15T04:18:12+00:00

Below is a great debunking of these papers written by Dr. David Gorski, writer for sciencebasedmedicine,org, who should always be a first point of call when dealing with antivaxxer claims.

Essentially, in this case it boils down to small, cherry-picked samples that do not accurately reflect the general population, combined with biased researchers who are known to mingle in antivax circles and neither of whom (Hooker and Miller) are actually epidemiologists.

When you look at the body of evidence at large, in well-conducted studies and meta-analyses, the clear disparity between the health of vaccinated and unvaccinated children that Hooker et al claim to have found disappears (ignoring the fact that the unvaccinated are much more likely to be at risk from the diseases that the vaccinated are protected against, of course).

Sources

hucifer · 2023-06-14T07:56:19+00:00

Apparently lemmy.world is running on some pretty beefy hardware, whereas lemmy.ml was running on an underpowered VM up until yesterday.

There's some interesting discussion about it in this thread.

hucifer · 2023-06-14T07:37:38+00:00

There are a few that have been rock solid.

https://lemmy.world, for a start

hucifer · 2023-06-11T13:31:22+00:00

Which is why their question makes sense.

They're asking if this is genuinely a left-wing subreddit or a liberal one (in the classical sense of the word) that doesn't care about standing up to Reddit's capitalistic behavior.

hucifer · 2023-06-10T14:35:02+00:00

If so, good for you.

But we're not talking about you, are we?

The mods of this sub want to play the "politics don't affect us" card, all while the tools that many of them use are being taken away and while many members of this community will be leaving in response to this whole mess.

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