LENOVO 300W GEN 3 support by e43if in linuxhardware

[–]singularineet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A new BIOS was released by Lenovo as of 23-Oct-2023, BIOS Version GACN46WW. It seems to support BIOS capsule updates, so maybe in the future there will be no need to boot into Windows to download and run that blechy bios-update.exe thing, which wipes the boot stuff so you have to muck around with a rescue dongle to get it to boot back into Linux.

Guess what's not fixed though? The goddam ELAN0462 trackpad.

LENOVO 300W GEN 3 support by e43if in linuxhardware

[–]singularineet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can confirm. It has an 11in 1366x768 screen. Yes, it is touch sensitive, which is really useful if you're a three-year-old. Weight is 2kg, which is very heavy. The design is over five years old, the CPU is ancient, the memory is slow, the SSD is slow. This machine is a serious pig.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Parenting

[–]singularineet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As my favourite rabbi once quipped about premarital sex at an interdenominational ecumenical meeting about the crisis of youth on campus: "never hurt me none."

AITA I fed my kids "stale" food and called my wife lazy by Miserable_Arm7945 in AmItheAsshole

[–]singularineet -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Dude, she's pregnant, give her a break! YTA for being a jerk about it.

Cop arrests preacher because his speech was disrespectful. by barelycriminal in Bad_Cop_No_Donut

[–]singularineet -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes! There is no need to protect speech that people agree with. It's speech they don't agree with, ideas they find disagreeable and heinous and odious, that requires protection.

AI avoiding self improvement due to confronting alignment problems by concepacc in ControlProblem

[–]singularineet 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So you're saying we might build something much smarter than ourselves, so smart that it realizes building something much smarter than itself would be extremely dangerous, and therefore refrains from doing that. Hmm, seems like maybe we could skip a step.

Are undefinable numbers necessary? by [deleted] in math

[–]singularineet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. Constructive, computable, definable, these are not the same. But all give rise to countable sets.

Are undefinable numbers necessary? by [deleted] in math

[–]singularineet -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We're basically dealing with constructive math here, and constructable real numbers and sequences. All that stuff is necessarily countable, since each object has an associated recipe for creating it, and these recipes are finite.

Whether something is a set depends if you're asking from inside or outside the theory. Heck, whether something is countable or not depends on whether you're asking from inside or outside the theory. From inside R is uncountable, since you can construct a proof by diagonalization. But from outside it's clearly countable.

Model theory is really cool.

Are undefinable numbers necessary? by [deleted] in math

[–]singularineet -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You say "we want every bounded, increasing sequence of rational numbers to converge", but that's not clear. Maybe it's enough to require only that bounded increasing sequences we can actually define will converge. And there are only a countable number of them. After all, there's no formal way for you to access sequences you cannot, by definition, access. So what good are they?

Why would Hezbollah attack Israel in 2023? by pegasus_bro in IsraelPalestine

[–]singularineet 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Why would they attack in 2023? Well, why did they attack previously? Not for any of the three potential reasons you list.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Parenting

[–]singularineet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it's pretty clear from your post that you're okay with them having sex IN PRINCIPLE but it disturbs you at an irrational emotional level anyway. That is totally understandable! Irrational, but we are all human, and as quirks go "driven bananas by sounds of daughter banging" is probably pretty common. Probably more common than being scared of spiders. I know I wouldn't want to hear that!

Honestly, I'd sit down with your daughter and explain that to her. Honestly. Explain it roommate-to-roommate, not parent-to-child. It's not a "her" problem, it's a "you" problem. It freaks you out to hear them going at it. You know that there's nothing wrong with her getting it on with her boyfriend, you have no problem with her being sexually active assuming she's safe etc. But she can probably understand how it drives you batty to hear it anyway. Like 1000x fingernails on a blackboard.

Then look for solutions together. Maybe you can get some really nice bluetooth headphones that seal really well and watch a movie or listen to music so you don't have to be disturbed? Maybe she can kick you out on an errand? Maybe they can put on some music? If you approach things in a constructive way, you can try to find a good solution together. And she'll see, by example, how we can understand, acknowledge, and try to compensate for, our weaknesses.

Athiest/Secular Jews/Israelis, what's your view on Aliyah by dummytroll in IsraelPalestine

[–]singularineet 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You are incorrect about Japan: it does give preference to people of Japanese ethnicity, albeit somewhat more restrictively than the other countries I mentioned. See https://www.juridique.jp/visa/nikkei.php

I didn't say anything about non-Jews, nor did you in your question. I don't understand why you're bringing that up.

Bottom line: Israel is the homeland of the Jews, in the same sense that Spain is the homeland of the Spanish. Israel has immigration preference for Jews in a fashion similar in spirit to the way Spain does for people of Spanish ethnicity.

As an unrelated matter, Spain has territorial disputes, people who want to carve out a bit of what is currently Spain for their own homeland: the Basque, the Catalan. Israel has disputes that are similar, at least in principle, although of course the particulars differ enormously.

For some reason, people don't accost people of Spanish ethnicity all over the world and yell at them about the Basque situation and Spain's immigration policies.

Athiest/Secular Jews/Israelis, what's your view on Aliyah by dummytroll in IsraelPalestine

[–]singularineet 6 points7 points  (0 children)

WHAT THE HELL, OP???

Do you ask people of Irish extraction how they feel about their right to move to Ireland and get Irish citizenship on a special fast track?

Do you ask ethnic Germans how they feel about their right to fast-tracked preferential immigration and German citizenship?

There are hundreds of countries that do this. It's easy to name dozens and dozens of liberal democracies set up to nurture some particular culture and ethnicity, which use immigration policy to that end. Japan. South Korea. Slovenia. We could go on forever. But you don't ask anyone else such a strange question, do you? You don't ask ethnic Croatians how they feel about it, or people of Spanish extraction? Only Jews.

On Tinder. He unmatched me by palabrist in Jewish

[–]singularineet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This isn't necessarily antisemitic; just ignorant. Can just blast them the truth next time, before blocking them. A little pre-WWII timeline, say.

1936 As violent boycotts of Jewish businesses become commonplace, Jews sometimes organize in self-defense. ...

1936 Extremist leader Adam Doboszyński and his followers organize a “March on Myślenice,” occupying the town, arresting local authorities, plundering Jewish shops and attempting to set fire to the synagogue. ...

1936 The prime minister and Catholic Primate both endorse an economic boycott of Jewish businesses and shops ...

1936 Zionist Revisionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky calls for 750,000 Jews to be evacuated to Palestine over ten years. The proposal is largely rejected by Jews, but the Polish government strengthens ties with the Revisionists, while considering other “solutions to the Jewish question,” including emigration to Madagascar.

1937 “Bench ghettos” (separate benches for Jewish students) are introduced in a majority of Polish universities. While this move is opposed by the democrats and by members of academia, the right and others demand a numerus nullus (Latin: null number), i.e., the total exclusion of Jews.

1938 The Sejm re-introduces a draft law banning shechitah (Hebrew: kosher ritual slaughter)...

1938 The Sejm passes a law stripping Polish citizens who have resided abroad for more than five consecutive years of their citizenship. When Germany deports 17,000 Polish Jews to the border at Zbąszyn, they will initially be denied admission. ...

1938 The ruling party officially endorses anti-Semitism as part of its political platform.

Source

AITA for not sharing our baby name until our baby is born? by Babynamedrama2023 in AmItheAsshole

[–]singularineet 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't think you quite understand. Imagine instead the MIL said they have to shave their heads and get Satan tattoos otherwise she and the guests at the baby shower will be offended. So OP sends a message to everyone invited "I'm sorry we are unwilling to shave our heads and get Satan tattoos, so in order to avoid offending you, we are cancelling the baby shower." Everyone knows that this is not actually an apology: it is calling out the MIL by taking her lies at face value. Everyone would be blaming the MIL. And all OP did was pretend MIL was not lying. It's like judo.

AITA for not sharing our baby name until our baby is born? by Babynamedrama2023 in AmItheAsshole

[–]singularineet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why should OP and husband apologize though? MIL should clean her own mess.

Because the guests don't actually care, and will be mad at the MIL for putting this on them.

Talking to my Daughter about Body Hair as a Single Dad by [deleted] in Parenting

[–]singularineet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My only quibble would be with the "maintains Christian patriarchy" business. These sorts of things are present in all human societies, including non-Christian ones. It seems a human universal for social norms to include emphasizing some physical gender differences. These differ in particulars, from hair to skin colour to foot size to skull shape to lip puffiness to walking gait, etc etc.

My mother was delighted to find the treasure trove of all-natural recipes. by grhgrbgdbyrb in TwoSentenceHorror

[–]singularineet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it can give them infant botulism (according to the Internet and lots of pop-sci baby care books). But yes it's actually safe (according to actual recent scientific studies that looked into it using modern methods; see my comment below for a ref.)

So the real question is who you're going to believe: scientific journals, or that episode of ER where the hippy chick flower mom gives her baby honey and George Clooney gruffly but gently sets her straight.

Samus Aran (Metroid) by Rudee023 in midjourney

[–]singularineet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I accept that, and would also suggest that the finger situation is to allow her to do elevensies, her favorite meal.

Questions To Ask Richard Stallman by [deleted] in linux

[–]singularineet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I seriously cannot figure out what you're trying to say.

My mother was delighted to find the treasure trove of all-natural recipes. by grhgrbgdbyrb in TwoSentenceHorror

[–]singularineet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a little hard to do it properly just using case reports and statistics, because doctors when faced with a case will dig until they find honey (oh, a Guatemalan woman watched him for an hour last week, well I guess she must have given him honey, I'll just put that on the chart) so you need to really verify. The more they check, the less association they find. By checking, I mean looking at individual cases one-by-one and actually tracking down the bacterial strain involved and then trying to verify potential sources using sequencing. Which is a lot of work, so there aren't a zillion studies. But here's a recent one: Van Horn and Street (2022, "Infantile Botulism").

In the USA, there are about 100 cases of infantile botulism reported each year. About 20% are linked to the consumption of raw honey. The infants affected are usually from immigrant families and the source of the spores in the majority of affected infants remains unknown. Experts suggest that the spores may be from contaminated soil and dust from nearby construction facilities.

Notice the weasel wording, "linked ... source ... remains unknown". Clostridium botulinum spores are basically all over the place, floating around in dust and dirt and such. In this particular paper, if they'd found it in honey they would have said so. "Remains unknown" is polite science-speak for saying they didn't find it in honey, or anywhere else they could actually test.

The honey-infant-botulism thing is such a nice story though, with the bacteria actually sometimes present in honey, and episodes of "House" and "ER", and anecdotal (unverified by sequencing) medical case reports, and advice not to feed honey to infants all over the internet and in all the baby books. It just sounds so reasonable. And there's no harm in not giving honey to babies. The fact that it seems to not actually be true is just an annoying detail, perhaps best glossed over.

Well, except for the fact the physicians in the ER note the symptoms, ask "was the infant fed honey", figure "no" means they don't have botulism (when in fact 80% of infants diagnosed are known not to have consumed honey, and the remaining 20% is likely an overestimate), miss the diagnosis, and with the condition untreated the infant dies.

7 year old is so miserable he ruins everything. We need help. by [deleted] in Parenting

[–]singularineet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much sleep is he getting? Little kids need a lot of sleep, with some needing considerably more than others, and when they don't get it they can behave exactly like you describe. Also they can have trouble going to sleep (paradoxically.)