liwott 6 months ago • 100%
There are the town of Lecce and a few beaches that are worth discovering.
In the summer there will definitely be things to do for a week, as there are many local festivals where one can enjoy local food (many festivals (sagre) are centered around a specific kind of food, like one for octopus, one for horse meat, ...) and listen and dance to traditional music (pizzica)
liwott 7 months ago • 100%
Periodically go from Belgium to Salento (Italy) to visit family.
Sun, wind and sea (lu sule, lu mare, lu ientu) look and feel so good in the summer.
The food even more.
liwott 7 months ago • 100%
The one example I was commenting about is the tyre example. They sold more tyres to women after dropping the sexy girl on the ad. How much of a stretch is it to assume that these women were not the sexy ad's target audience because women used to be less (socially allowed to get) interested in cars?
liwott 7 months ago • 100%
Ok I realise that I did not put the previous comment in the friendliest form, sorry about that !
Your point is that the marketing choice of using beautiful women is dictated by the sellers' preferences rather that the buyers' one. In the apparent absence of evidence to support either hypothesis, you are willing to favor the former one.
What I haven't said explicitly yet is that there is one argument that makes me find the latter one more likely in the absence of further evidence : the businesses that make their marketing choices based on customers' preferences will tend to survive more. kn our capitalist society, it makes sense to me.
You gave one counter-example that is not strong enough to change my opinion as it can also be explained with the firm having poorly evaluated what their target audience was. They do say in the article that more women started buying tyres after the marketing change, which is indeed not the audience targeted with the sexy-girl ad.
It does however a good job at disproving the affirmation "because everyone regardless of gender and age are biologically conditioned to look at them." to which you were originally replying, and I disagree with that affirmation as well. I just think your conclusion goes too far i the other direction, in the absence of further evidence.
liwott 7 months ago • 100%
It's the salesmen who want the stall staffed with models, not the customers.
Could you link the evidence-base of this though?
liwott 7 months ago • 100%
Do they? The linked blog's biography is written with masculine pronouns.
liwott 7 months ago • 100%
What marketing departments dominated by men think works is not the same thing as what actually works
In this case, isn't it because the market evolved faster than they could keep up with? Probably there was a time where most of their customers were "macho men", so these adds would work in marketing.
liwott 7 months ago • 80%
the comment that ‘upset’ me in the context you are asking is the one where the guy calls me butthurt for disagreeing with his opinion
This is not in the context they were asking though, this happened as a response to your rant.
What some of us would want to have is documented examples of what caused you to write this post.
In a comment you complained about nobody having "shared their experience in a meaningful way", but you haven't shared anything concrete either.
In the post you said:
I remember we could still have discussions about controversial topics without things getting ugly
Yet to me things do not seem to have gotten ugly when you expressed a very controversial opinion in the "taliban" post. This is were concrete examples would help understanding your point.
Some users did disrepect you about this issue in this post, and I definitely do not support that ! In the end, you are a teen getting bullied (probably by adults) for having an opinion, and this is wrong no matter how bad the opinion is.
liwott 7 months ago • 50%
there isn't really much else you can do
One could also do nothing. What are the insults supposed to achieve?
some people kinda deserve to be called names.
Are you arguing in favor of retributive "justice"? Isn't it exactly OP's shitty opinion that they get bullied for?
liwott 7 months ago • 100%
what each post produced was really high quality
I've only been participating in discussions on Lemmy groups for 3ish years, but I'm quite sure that never happened. There have always been good and bad posts, good and bad comments, civil and less civil users.
liwott 7 months ago • 100%
Strong interaction is really designed as a baryonic thing, leptons have no color charge (which is another way to say that they transform as SU(3) singlets). Leptons do not interact with gluons.
Not at tree-level anyway. See for example this list of vertices.
At loop levels, it's possible to imagine an electron decaying into neutrino+W, then W into two quarks who can then interact with gluons, but as it's down a couple of orders in perturbation theory so probably much too weak to hold a nucleus together. Not an expert in particle physics so I do not know with certainty whether a couple-of-loops interaction can have a measurable effect.
liwott 7 months ago • 100%
Electrons are not subject to the strong nuclear force that glues the protons neutrons together. This means that no attractive force would prevent electric repulsion to scatter a "electron nucleus".
From a field theory perspective, the strong nuclear force is a SU(3) gauge interaction and the electron field transforms as a singlet under that SU(3)
liwott 7 months ago • 100%
Following the title, I forgot the little ones, so in total we have
- 3 to 4 years of maternal school (2,5 - 6 years old). Traditionnally only the last one was mandatory but this is currently changing so I don't know whether or not the whole of it is already mandatory for everyone
- 6 years of primary school (6-12 years old)
- 6 years of secondary school (12-18 years old)
liwott 7 months ago • 100%
From (the French-speaking part of) Belgium, 6 years of primary and 6 years of secondary. Nothing inbetween as that's already 12 years. Secondary usually happens within the same school although there are two divisions within it:
- programs are designed for three cycles ("degrés") of two years (D1, D2, D3)
- teacher's diploma follow a division in two "degrés" of three years : teachers for the inferior one (DI) have a bachelor and teachers for the superior one have a master. In the near future the diploma's will change but the distiction is mostly going to stay
In this latter sense, "inferior secondary" would be the equivalent to middle school and "superior secondary" the one for high school, although as I have explained it is not as separated as in the US, Italy, France or others. As someone who teach in the superior secondary "degré", I do usually introduce myself as a high-school teacher when talking to people from other countries.
liwott 7 months ago • 100%
why would that be a plus?
liwott 7 months ago • 66%
True, but we are still excluding some people when we use it. By always writing in English one always excludes the same ones.
liwott 7 months ago • 100%
si l'UE décide un jour de parler une seule langue je suis d'accord avec tous les langues européenes sauf l'anglais.
Si l'UE devait décider d'une seule langue, je pense que ça ne devrait pas être la langue nationale d'un état membre. Une langue construite comme l'Esperanto serait plus appropriée à mon avis, et aurait en tout cas plus de chance d'être acceptée par les différents états/peuples.
liwott 7 months ago • 85%
I usually don't skip intros
liwott 8 months ago • 50%
All it lacks is an API that allows it to send commands. This is not a limitation of its intelligence, if it "knows" when to put text in a bash codebox, it will know when to send an API call.
Ask your brain to click a button, it cannot either, all it does is sending and receiving electric signals. Fortunately, it is surrounded by a body that reacts to these signals.
liwott 8 months ago • 100%
Not a huge ESC fan usually, but I did love the 2021 edition for the proprtion of native language songs, both in total and among the top spots
liwott 8 months ago • 100%
some of the ones that spontaneously come to my mind are:
- 99 luftballons
- Ievan polkka
- Cannabis
- Naruto's second opening
liwott 8 months ago • 60%
send an email
chatGPT can explain me what to do in cli to send an e-mail. Give it access to a cli and an internet connection and it will be able to do it itself
liwott 1 year ago • 100%
Makes me wonder just how many are active users
MAU means "monthly active users". As you can see, the ratio MAU/users is not higher for Mastodon than it is for Lemmy.
liwott 1 year ago • 100%
The scifi "dimension" is as meaningless as "plane of existence"
Does not sound too meaningless to me, but I'm used to calling that a universe 😁
think about the sentence "the universe is a part of our dimension"
I'm trying ahah. But if you call the universe a dimension, which subpart of it do you call a universe? The observable universe maybe? I mean it makes sense to say that the observable universe is part of our universe. Still sounds strange the way it is presented by OP.
liwott 1 year ago • 100%
universe is a part of our dimension
Not familiar with this concept of dimension tbh. I think that when one talks about something bigger than the Universe, they have a specific theory in mind, with its specific definition of what the universe is. Which theory do you take this notion of dimension from?
liwott 1 year ago • 100%
@SuperSpecialNickname
You cannot log in to beehaw.org with you lemmy.ml account, but you can react to beehaw's content form lemmy.ml.
Just paste the url of the beehaw post or comment that you want to interact with (vote, comment) in lemmy.ml's search bar.
So, to summarize:
- you browse beeehaw while being offline
- you copy the url of the post or comment you want to interact with (under the colored fediverse icon)
- you paste it in lemmy.ml's search and normally you will find it
Let's see if the link situation has changed since [last time](https://lemmy.ml/post/222932)
liwott 1 year ago • 100%
@pimeys
You cannot follow Lemmy users, only communities. AFAIU, Lemmy just does not do anything with that request.
To share my experience : my Friendica account is set up to automatically boost anything @Liwott produces, and it does so as soon as this instance is aware of the Lemmy posting, but that does not always happen automatically. Sometimes I have to search my Lemmy post on Friendica, and only then it is boosted. Note that I do follow my Lemmy account from here
liwott 1 year ago • 100%
Call them whatever you want, but please not <something>verse. They do not form a separate universe, they talk as much with the rest of the fediverse as with each other
liwott 1 year ago • 100%
It is published in jump+ though, so it is not ment to become jump's next big hit
liwott 1 year ago • 100%
A bit disappointed by the reveals here. Like the D's are the ennemies of the government, no joke? What was Cobra trying to do here? He came without telling anyone about the "D" thing, as if it was not even a possibility that the government would kill him for it? Imu's and the Gorosei's powers' half discovery was nice though.
I loved the last part with Wapol ! "They're eloping !" I hope we get the continuation of that next week. I wonder whether Wapol's wife will play a role in the story.
liwott 1 year ago • 100%
I definitely am ! Last one (organised by @NormieGirl ) was fun !
liwott 2 years ago • 100%
Can see how this gives a proof of the root formula that is less cryptic for students.
Now I was wondering naively whether this trick could be used to quickly find one root of higher degrees polynomials.
Like x3 +b x2 + c x +d, where the sum of the roots is -b and their product is -d.
So I write x1 = -b/3 + u1, x2 = -b/3 + u2, x3 = -b/3 - u1 -u2.
But solving for u2(u1) starting for the product is quite barbaric.
Maybe there's a better organisation of the u variables?
From the UI that pretty much copies Reddit's in the regard, it would seem that yes. However, the votes are actually not secret. Maybe they were when they were local, but now they are transmitted to the federated instances. From other platforms, like Friendica, one can actually see the votes as (dis)likes. I can see your votes. Because of Lemmy's UI, it is very easy to believe that the votes are secret, and many users probably assume they are. For example, I am quite sure the ones who use an alt from another instance to double-downvote do make that assumption. I think this fact should be disclosed in a clear way, at least in the instances' sidebar, if not in a banner. From there on, I see two possibilities: * embrace that the votes are not secret, and allow Lemmy user to optionally see them * make the votes actually secret As a Friendica user, who is used to like as a public appreciation mark, I am naturally in favor of the first option, but that is only my personal preference. If the second one is preferred, it means that the other admins should never receive the voters' identities. One should not trust the other admins to just not display them. In fact, I think "never trust the remote admin" should be an important rule in the fediverse, an instance should generally protect its own users rather than expecting others to do it in its stead. In that case, I think it would be appropriate that "Vote" should be an disctinct activity from "Like", and in particular one that cannot be federated with the authors name. Maybe it could be a private thing sent to the Group, who in turn sends a IsVoted activity? This is pure fantasy, I am not qualified to suggest an actual implementation, I just think it should be distinguished from other platforms' public likes.
Do you know good Peertube channels that focus on manga/anime? Don't hesitate to propose ones in any language ! I would be interested in ones in English, French or Italian, but that's only me 😀
Hello , I noticed that both Friendica and Lemmy allow to tag spoilers, but neither is able to understand each other's spoilers. It would be nice to make those compatible.
[@feditolemmy](https://lemmy.ml/c/feditolemmy) [@test](https://feddit.it/c/test) Trying to post to two communities at the same time from Friendica.
[@feditolemmy](https://lemmy.ml/c/feditolemmy)
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Does it still happen with Friendica 2022.06?
[@helpers](https://forum.friendi.ca/profile/helpers) [@nerdicasupport](https://nerdica.net/profile/nerdicasupport) Hello, I repost this here as it may also be something on this side. As I said there, thanks in avance for any help ! [♲](https://lemmy.ml/post/284257) @[Liwott@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/Liwott): > > > ### Trouble posting and commenting from Friendica ### > > > Hello, > > Over the last one or two weeks, I have had difficulties with commenting from nerdica.net to lemmy.ml (I checked that `nerdica.net` appears in the [federated instance list](https://lemmy.ml/instances)). > > More precisely, my posts and comments don't appear spontaneously, but only appear when I search them by hand in the Lemmy searchbar. In case it helps locating the problem, it appear that these manually fetched post don't have the automatic selflike. > > See for example [this test post](https://nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-1262-8d59-5dbd-da2717970656) > > Thanks in avance for any help 😀
cf [this recent problem with comments](https://nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-6462-8bce-46d9-0e8008737833)
[!lemmy\_support](https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support) I've been playing with quote-sharing and it seems that * it works in comments (cf [1](https://lemmy.ml/post/241819/comment/166815) [2](https://lemmy.ml/post/241819/comment/166808) [3](https://lemmy.ml/post/241819/comment/166803) [4](https://lemmy.ml/post/241819/comment/166800) * it does not work in posts (cf [1](https://nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-1162-63c9-7e6f-59a705817916) [2](https://nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-1862-644b-451f-a59046334474) that do not appear on Lemmy) It can come in handy to cite a post or comment when participating in a discussion, so it would be nice if this all works eventually, although I understand that you probably have lots of more urgent things to do !
Would be nice to understand if it's possible to attach a url to post. I tried as an attachment in my first [post to Lemmy from Friendica](https://nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-1162-5082-b221-7d7671174230) and simply by having a link in the text [last time](https://nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-2162-619e-3da3-75b608501423). Let me try with a hyperlink in the title this time. [!feditolemmy](https://lemmy.ml/c/feditolemmy)
So here is the community that I talked about in [that other post](https://nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-9262-6029-68aa-550236192028) [!feditolemmy](https://lemmy.ml/c/feditolemmy)
[!fediverse](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) Would you find it useful to have a community dedicated to trying out things from other fedi platforms? Like various formatting, attachments, quotes to posts (and comments). And where people would comment about how it comes through in their own timelines.
[!helpers](https://forum.friendi.ca/profile/helpers) Maybe it makes sense to reshare this here? (in relation to the questions in the comments) [♲](https://nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-1162-5082-b221-7d7671174230) @[liwott@nerdica.net](https://nerdica.net/profile/liwott): > > > ### Post from Friendica ### > > > [!fediverse](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) > > If I understand correctly, the new release allows me to publish this? [lemmy release v0.16.3 - federation bug fixes - lemmy](https://lemmy.ml/post/222735)
[!fediverse](https://lemmy.ml/c/fediverse) If I understand correctly, the new release allows me to publish this? [Lemmy Release v0.16.3 - Federation Bug Fixes - Lemmy](https://lemmy.ml/post/222735)