mindlesscrollyparrot

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[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The email says that you can do it. It doesn't say that you can do it without purchasing the upsell option.

The author mentions that some of the changes broke things, but it's a long way into the article before the word "test" appears. It's only point 6/7 of his recommendations.

Making changes with no test coverage is not refactoring. It's just rewriting. Start there.

The top of this comment thread is a person claiming that men do all the hunting in every primitive society, not just hunting based on long distance running.

You came into the thread to criticise a paper that showed that women hunt in 50 different societies around the world. Even your estimate of 50% is plenty enough examples to debunk the "all the hunting" claim.

Women are perfectly capable of drawing a bow that is suitable to hunt monkeys, rabbits, squirrels, small birds, etc. Accuracy is more important than power.

If your strategy for hunting mammoths involves your physical strength, you're gonna have a bad time.

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You would need to be in luck. Let's assume that they studied all 200 uncontacted tribes. To bring the overall rate to 50%, you would need 119 out of the 200 to be exclusively males hunting - 60% of those societies. The researchers studied 63 societies and found that 20% of them were exclusively males hunting.

But what's the point anyway? The hypothesis is that males evolved to be bigger for hunting, even 50% of societies where women hunt is enough to make it implausible. In those societies, women are hunting in spite of their apparent size disadvantage.

I think you should ask yourself whether size is actually important for hunting. We don't wrestle our prey. Size doesn't matter if you're bringing down monkeys from the trees with a bow and arrow, and size doesn't matter if you're trying to bring down a mammoth.

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I suspect not. To get to 50%, they would need to study an additional 37 societies, and every single one would have to have only males doing the hunting.

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

You explicitly mentioned the Sentinelese. Exactly how would you go about this infrequent contact and observation with them?

In any case, let's assume that hunting is exclusively performed by males in all of those peoples. How much would that change the statistic and the overall conclusion? 79% would be 72%

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 months ago (11 children)

You think they should have surveyed the uncontacted people?

Millions? 7 billion more like.

Yes, I know, but he said he has to have the Windows version.

AI developers: your copyrighted work is such a small contributor to the AI's output that copyright doesn't apply. Also AI developers: but our AI won't work without it.

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would say that the bbq is already on and the ceiling is going black, and then the alarm is installed.

[–] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OK, but is it really a requirement to improve on what you have? That said, I find the O365 versions better than the native Mac versions, and I would run O365 rather than bother with a VM (plus the Windows license for the VM might outweigh the savings you get from switching from Mac to Linux, unless your employer will pay for it).

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