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Yeah, so this study basically tells us nothing but can be used for propagandistic purposes. If I were a journal editor I would not publish a study that tells us nothing while being ripe for political and ideological use. It is unethical to act as if this is a purely scientific study when it obviously is not, and the editors of the journal are supposed to be experts in the field, they should be very aware of this issue and be taking appropriate steps.

Yeah, here is the link to the original study BTW

https://ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(25)00328-4/fulltext

Results

1. Yes, data was derived from food frequency questionnaires, a known bad method for understanding real consumption.
2. Definitely not controlling for health focus of participants
3. Yep, only diagnosed cases were listed, so not checking everyone to see if they had cancer. This leaves room for someone to not have had it checked and it will simply not show up
4. In this case they made several groups based on how much meat, but the vegetation was all grouped together.

This was also a religiously motivated study. The cohort was recruited from Seventh Day Adventists and that church has been involved in pushing unscientific propaganda about vegetarianism for decades. The influence goes much further, given that the bulk of the authors work for the Loma Linda University Medical Centre, a Seventh Day Adventist institution.

This is not a scientific study, this is religious lropaaganda.

About to go read the study, but my guesses are;

1. Probably using a food diary or similar recall based method to figure out food frequency
2. Likely not controlling for whether people are health focussed or not
3. The cancer link will be measured by risk of death by cancer, obfuscating whether the individual seeks treatment
4. The plant heavy nature will be vague, grouping all plants together rather than any specificity, eg sugar beets and kale both count the same

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Start with the bottom, count how many are visible on the lowest layer. This gives you half the circumference of the lower end.

Repeat for the highest part of the cup that is still cup, not above the line.

Multiply each of these by 2 and you have the circumferences of each end of the cut cone.

Rearrange the circle area formula to get the radius from circumference and you have the radius of each end of the cone.

Now use the cut cone formula to calculate the volume in terms of hazelnuts.

Next, take the radius of the top circle and estimate how far above that the highest nut is. Use whatever formula seems more appropriate, in this case maybe just a right angle triangle formula with a full rotation, to estimate the volume of the top.

Sum that together with the conic volume and you have a good estimate.

My estimate, at least 3 hazelnuts.

Good luck

It doesn't match the 3 above because the 3 above is also missing some dots. There is a stripe right down the printing that impacts the unknown number and a 7 on the left and the 3 on the right. It cuts the left most curve of the upper 3 off while also cutting the 7.

Usually a single ' means inches, a double means feet, from my experience. That said, monitors are usually referenced in inches in the USA but also in inches alongside cm in Australia.

Yeah, I've had bad random things happen with tech, only with systems that are closed though. When they are more open you can get logs, see what is happening, and eventually modify things until they work again. I had a phone that just wouldn't stay online for more than 5 minutes if the screen turned off. Screen on, internet working just fine. Screen off for 4 minutes, perfectly happy most of the time. Then suddenly around 5 minutes it would just die. It was running Android so I could see some stuff but I simply couldn't get the information I needed to figure it out. Linux is much more forgiving with logs and such giving actual error messages which with a simple copy paste can get you to a reasonable next step.

I would ask how many times you have bricked your Windows machines in the past? That said, if you did stop it from booting it would be the same as it not booting a native Linux install.

That said, I would recommend installing first on the older machine. New life for that machine will feel good and it is very low risk. Once you have done a few installs and not botched anything too badly you could give it a go on your new machine. I find the performance boost from using Linux over Window is enough to out weight significant hardware differences most of the time.

Spangle banging

First and foremost, you don't have to stay on the distro you start with. You can try a few, spend a week running it, and then reinstall with something else. Distro hopping is the process if changing distro frequently and is in my opinion a very useful start for learning Linux.

Second, Ubuntu is a perfectly fine distro. I don't like or use it, but I also don't really like chocolate but love licorice, it really is a matter of preference. If you never try it you will never know if it is good for you.

I think the best path would be to either use virtual machines on your main system or try a few distros out on your Windows 8 machine. I would recommend trying a few of the most popular distros including Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, EndeavourOS, elementary, and maybe Pop!OS. That should cover most of the different desktop environments, packaging systems, and overall design methodologies and give you a really rounded sense of what is out there. It should also give you opportunities to have things break a little and for you to try to solve those problems. I find that different distros present failures a little differently and their solutions also work differently, so finding one that works well for you is key.

I personally ended up switching from a vanilla Arch install to EndeavourOS a year or two ago because it had great sane defaults, good packaging, and fantastic performance. The clarity of the logs was better in my mind than what was available in Ubuntu based distros and while I love Arch it was a bit too demanding of my time to figure out each and every choice of package. EndeavourOS gave me good solid defaults and reduced my work load.

Just remember, your choice of distro is like your choice of underwear. You have to wear it, make it comfortable for you and your junk, not for someone else's.

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Beef brisket.

Slow cooker, 1-2kg brisket, 125ml water, 7-8 hours, low heat.

Once cooked put on roasting tray and cover with sauce (3 parts tomato sauce, 3 parts BBQ sauce, 1 part mustard). Oven at 220°C for 20 minutes.

All up about 10 minutes of work, just waiting.

Alternatively eggs. Cook 3-6 eggs to a hard boil, so about 5 mins boiling I guess, then peel and put into a big mug with some butter. Mash the eggs and butter together. Salt and pepper to taste.

All evidence points to a regime change (in the physics sense, not the political) being the necessary condition for things to go from our current state to something new.

We currently have people paying poorer people a very small amount of their own net worth to protect the wealthy person's status and position. This is similar to how kings and queens paid the army and policing forces to control the peasants.

Before the French Revolution I am sure it seemed impossible that the peasants would revolt, but the years leading up to the revolution things were getting worse and worse for the average peasant. There is a tipping point where the average person does not think the current system is delivering on the promise that of you do what you are told you can have a good life. I think we are approaching that point now.

If the rich try to hire someone and underpay them for security, stiff contractors for services, flaunt laws and generally behave obnoxiously at some point people will have had enough. Whether that ends with guillotine action or people just divesting from those systems depends on how much freedom people think they have.

If people thought they could go and homestead, live off the land, and get by without the massive companies these billionaires own then they would have that outlet and choose that peaceful option. The fact that we have taxation creates a pressure to pay in currency which demands earning in that currency. Same with paying rent, you have to earn money simply to live. No amount of growing all of your food gets rid of your financial obligations, so there is no out from the system. If that system is unreasonable it begins to feel less like participation and more like coercive control. Wage slavery is not the same as slavery, but both involve coercion and require the legal system to support them. Both lead to revolutions. Both lead to violence.

I guess the billionaires have to decide if they really want to paint that big a target on their backs by flaunting their wealth. At this point I think they feel untouchable.

Absolute proof of the horseshoe model, I am at ±10, I both love and hate technology with avid passion.

So through lines 2-5 you are making the line the correct size to fit the characters of the name. Instead of directly printing this save the full line into the variable by appending the final + sign. Then in the later part of the program you can print line, print pipe name pipe, then print name again.

line = "+" for _ in name ... line += "+"

print(line) print("|"+name+"|") print(line)

Does that make sense?

Depending on your exact location it will vary a lot and depending on your experience level and stage of your career it will change too.

That said, if I were speaking with a young person just entering the workforce there are a few good options. They depend on what you are interested in, happy to do, and how much money you feel is able to drive you to do stuff you don't like.

First off, some things are flaky. Being in tech right now is risky because all of the tech bros are trying to automate jobs. Even before the current AI trend firing whole teams was a common practice for financial reasons and made the industry unattractive.

Other things are rock solid. We have been using indoor plumbing for centuries, an alternative seems unlikely, so chances are plumbing will remain a reasonable job for a full lifetime. The same goes for electricians, some forms of construction, and so on. Trades is what we call them in Australia and they are as close to guaranteed as anything. They also pay well here and lead to owning your own business, managing your own clients, and making good long term decisions to build your own wealth.

The next set of needs are to do with demographs. Right now in the western world there is a population of people reaching the age where they need care. That means support workers, nursing, aged care, physiotherapy, and other allied health services. These are growth industries and will be so for the next 15 years or so. This is a good time to get in as the people in power are impacted by or soon to be impacted by the quality of those services, so funding is not as hard to get approved.

After that, different countries have really different needs. In Australia we have a big problem with truck drivers right now. Lots of truck drivers quit or died during the pandemic and very few young people have taken on that role because of all of the hype around self driving cars. That technology is a fairly long way off and honestly I don't see it happening in the next 10 years to any significant degree. 10 years of good pay would make studying something else much easier and so it may be a good option for a period of time.

If you have a look at immigration rules for your country you will probably find that certain professions are given priority. Those are in demand roles with not enough workers, so you may have a good opportunity there depending on the case.

Other than all of that, don't do a job you can't morally stand to do. Don't do a job you already hate. Don't stay at a job because it seems safer or easier. Be willing to move to another job within 2 years. Longer than 2 years and you are probably missing out on income growth.

Just to clarify, it would be wise to avoid a lot of the language around scores and so on. Many of the mass shooters over the last few years have been related to the Terrorgram group, a bunch of idiots who glorify violence in the language of video games. They include the Christchurch shooter who live streamed his attack on a mosque in New Zealand. If you want to use the phrasing around a high score it would be a good idea to be very clear about what you mean as those idiots have a tendency to see anything that is not outright against them as probably in favour. If you are interested a podcast called Weird Little Guys is great for learning more about far right weirdos.

As with all other scientific things someone knows more than me, but I will give my opinion.

The last step is the greatest weakness. The result has to somehow be sent to the website and verified. If you have physical access to the device doing the verification then it will eventually be spoofed. A man in the middle attack would be easy enough given that the device absolutely has to go via a network the user controls.

Beyond the transmission issues, biologically there are not any markers that are a clear and simple age measure. Most biomarkers are more of a range with ages that correlate to some degree. You could say for example testosterone, but that goes up through puberty from a baseline in kids to an adult level, but the adult levels are really varied. Some people are higher than others and some XX people have higher testosterone levels than some XY people, and visa versa for oestrogen. So with the sex hormones out, you would want something that accumulates over time. Unfortunately that is going to vary by where a person lives and what they are exposed to. Honestly it is not at all workable.

That said, a simple solution which would make much more sense than any of this crap is to just have something on the internet account end. If the ISP can offer a check box for "Block adult sites and services" and people can opt in to that then kids will only get access to the full internet when their parents allow it or they are old enough to have their own device on their own internet plan.

If the government want to make a system to protect kids from adult stuff on the internet that is great. If they make it opt in that is all fine with me. But if they make it something you have to verify your age for, using things like state issued ID or facial inspection by an algorithm, then I think it is disastrous. It will be circumvented rapidly by people who are old enough to verify but simply do not want to. That technique will be shared with kids. Kids will be able to bypass it. This nanny state approach is not actually about protecting kids in my opinion. I think the companies involved will use the data, the face images for during verification, as training data for AI models, use the licence data for various profit driven business activities, and in the process make us all less secure. They will eventually have a leak or hack that exposes your data including what site you were on and your licence. The only question is when.

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Found it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGUeDr5TeIw