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[–] ytg@feddit.ch 1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Does anyone know how the amount of information is actually derived? The article just says “researchers calculated”

[–] ytg@feddit.ch 12 points 8 months ago

Every once in a while, you can refresh your memory by reading the man page.

Or if, like me, you use Emacs, Magit exposes everything quite clearly.

[–] ytg@feddit.ch 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'd argue that if they put up a Palestinian flag, it's clear that Palestine is being referred to.

In principle, though, I agree with your first point

[–] ytg@feddit.ch 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

That’s an invalid (strikethrough: dictionary) etymology argument, and you know it. To clarify, when I said “antisemitism” I meant “a discriminatory attitude towards Jews” or something along those lines.

Edit: this is an etymology argument, not a dictionary one; most dictionaries probably agree with me. I don't know how or why the word antisemitism came to be used to refer to Jews specifically, but surely it's been this way for most of its history.
Either way, the most authoritative meaning of a word is that which was intended by the one who uttered it.

[–] ytg@feddit.ch 98 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Antisemitism to Palestinian support is like misandry to feminism. Yeah, some people might be guilty of it (and those who are, misunderstand the latter ideologies), but it's way overrepresented in opposing media, who is often guilty of such issues itself.

[–] ytg@feddit.ch 2 points 8 months ago

emacs

On my own system, but usually for remote work I use Vim as it’s easier to make usable

[–] ytg@feddit.ch 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Perhaps you can encode them as computation (i.e. a function of arbitrary precision)

[–] ytg@feddit.ch 4 points 8 months ago

And “get”!

[–] ytg@feddit.ch 72 points 8 months ago (23 children)

We need laws mandating respect of robots.txt. This is what happens when you don’t codify stuff

[–] ytg@feddit.ch 31 points 8 months ago

Everything is reverse-engineered, and different people work on different stuff. It’s not like the resources devoted to OpenGL could be diverted to microphone support, that’s a completely different skill set.

[–] ytg@feddit.ch 2 points 8 months ago

You need to find an image to install, but I think there shouldn’t be any technical issues beyond that

[–] ytg@feddit.ch 18 points 9 months ago

Slowly?

(Don’t forget Israel!)

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ytg@feddit.ch to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
 

Many Lemmy instances have "feddit" in their name. Is that just "federated reddit" or am I missing something?

 

I wanted to ask everything in one post instead of multiple, so I divide this one.

Shards and Vessels

It's known that a Shard's Intent eventually overpowers the agency of the vessel. It's mentioned in the Stormlight epigraphs that Ati, the vessel of Ruin, was once a kind man.

I've been wondering about this process. Does the amount of time it takes for the vessel to lose agency depend on the shard and the vessel? For example:

  • If the new vessel is already a sliver of the same shard, will they lose agency faster?
  • If the new vessel is already a sliver of a shard with opposing intent, will they lose agency slower?
  • If a vessel (as in the case of Sazed) holds two shards with opposing intents, are they able to maintain their personality forever, the different intents "cancelling out"?
  • Do shards that seek change (Ruin, Endowment, Cultivation) in the most general way influence their vessel faster than the more passive intents (Preservation, Honor) who want to maintain?

Do the 16 shards divide neatly into eight pairs of opposing shards? I think we've only seen Ruin and Preservation as complete opposites, though it could be argued that Devotion/Dominion also works.

If a person held all the shards (assuming the Splintered ones are somehow fixed, and that no one managed to stop them in the process), what would happen? How about holding all the dawnshards as well? Would any mortal being be able to handle such a great amount of investiture?

What level of control, if any, does a shard have over their associated magic system? Could Sazed decide to "turn off" allomancy for the day?

Related somewhat, what shards is surgebinding associated with? It looks like it can be performed with any one of Stormlight, Voidlight and Lifelight. Does surgebinding with one of these constitute a separate magic system? If so, what actually are the Surges? If not, what's common to Honor, Cultivation, and Odium?

The Metallic Arts

In Allomancy, the metal that is burned is not the actual source of the power (investiture), but rather a key which determines which kind of investiture is drawn from Preservation.

The Lost MetalWe've seen in era 2 that Allomancers can also draw upon alternative sources of investiture, such as the Dor and whatever Autonomy's portal is made out of.

This is all fine for Mistings, but how can Mistborn (or Hemalurgists) decide which ability they want, if they have no metals?

In Allomancy, even non-Allomancers can burn the God Metals, whereas in Feruchemy, unkeyed nicrosil seems to be the only kind of metalmind that non-Feruchemists can access. Why is this?

And, when saying that anyone can burn God Metals, what does "anyone" mean? Is it any living creature who can digest them? Or do they have to be Scadrians, having some of Preservation's own investiture in themselves?
Ditto for Feruchemical nicrosil.

Can a Rosharan human (the species existed before the Shattering) burn lerasium or drain nicrosil?

Why

The Lost Metaldid Harmony make Wax and Wayne burn some lerasium instead of making them Mistborn directly, as with Spook
?

And lastly, is the cosmere-wide story arc just Autonomy and Odium being jerks to everyone?

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