Not the same in all western countries. Afaik it was tradition in most countries for the wife to take the husband’s surname, except in Italy and Spain. Regular people also often didn’t have surnames, instead they were “son of …” or named after their or their parents’ occupation. Edit with more musings: surnames could also be their place of birth, their farm, … Names which would then get made hereditary in the early 19th century, but many people still kept using the old changing forms for generations longer. During his life, my great grandfather wasn’t known by his official surname in his village, only the state called him that.

In the last few decades, most western countries (afaik again) are allowing the woman to chose if see wants to change her surname or not. Or to use both surnames. They also allow the man to change his name to that of his wife. Equality.

And that recent development is also why it’s not a problem for same sex marriage. Back when the wife had to take the husband’s name, same sex marriage wasn’t allowed so there was no naming problem. Countries that allow official same sex marriages are typically also countries that will already have equality for surnames.

No mention of rules for pesticide and manure?

If I lived next to a farm, then I’d be worried about excessive spraying of pesticides (cancer) and manure (the whiff).

When sitting on the toilet with my pants on my ankles, my cat would crawl into my pants and start his pre sleep wash.

I expect the €799 to include vat, while the $699 will be without. $930 /1.25 = $744, which is a lot more reasonable. Sony using the same sale price for the whole eu when each country has different vat rates, is probably because of profit maximization. Too many people only look at the first digit in 799.99, so no matter if after currency conversion + vat the price is €720 (20%) or €762 (27% in Hungary), they’ll just slap on the sale price of €799.99.

I wondered if the graph would look entirely different when looking at mass instead of atom count, and not really:

Hydrogen and helium make up 99% of all atoms and 98% of all mass.

https://sciencenotes.org/composition-of-the-universe-element-abundance/

I had a similar experience. The first 2 years where chemistry was a subject, there was always a giant Mendeleev table against a side wall. And in later years it was mostly bring your own, but if you forget, then we’ll give you a copy.

Iirc, they knew that it was stupid, their publisher forced it on them. They weren’t happy about it either.

I found an estimate of annual expenditures of 3.25 billion, without content payouts, but with engineering/legal/moderation costs. As 2024 revenue I found back 36 billion from advertising & 14.5 billion from subscriptions. Forbes had an article where Google claimed to have paid out $70bn in 2021-2023 to content creators, this number probably includes subscriptions. In those 3 years youtube had an ad revenue of 89.5 billion, but I have no number for subscriptions. These are all very opaque numbers. Based on these opaque numbers, I’d guesstimate youtube’s profit margin at 42%, which I find excessive.

$36bn ad revenue + $14.5bn subscriptions: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/

$3.25bn annual expenditures: https://www.clrn.org/how-much-does-youtube-cost-to-run/

$70bn payed out to creators from 2021 to 2023: https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/youtube-70-billion-creator-payments/

Edit, how I got to my guesstimate of 42%:
36bn ad revenue in 2024. An average of 30bn ad revenue in the 3 years prior. Estimation for the subscription income in those 3 years: 30/36 x 14.5 x 3=36 billion. 73bn expenditures & 126bn income = 53bn profit. 53/126 = 42%.

This is another sign of how youtube’s story of “we’ve never made a profit” is bogus. More and more organisations are advertising on youtube, youtube is pushing the limits on the amount of advertising that viewers can stand & at the same time they’ve started paying creators less.

It looks like they’ve really started abusing their market position in the last few years: more income and less expenditure. And it’s probably no coincidence that there are no financial figures for youtube alone.

If there is visible mold on a part of a surface, then it’s reasonable to assume that a much larger part of that surface already has mold, it’s just not visible yet. Bread is basically a sponge, the surface of a sponge is the entire sponge, so that mold can have spread everywhere in the bread.

I found this overview which looks right to me: https://www.eatingwell.com/article/91553/4-moldy-foods-you-can-eat-plus-which-foods-to-toss/

Should you be dead from eating mold? I suspect that it’s a lottery with many factors: which types of molds that you have eaten, the quantities, your immune system, … But keep at it and eventually you might win a price.

Personally I’d call it buy to play with an unlimited demo and optional mtx. Back when I played it, the default stash tab wasn’t remotely enough, but after spending 20 euros I had enough tabs for all my needs and I then played several seasons without spending anything more. It’s still the best freemium model that I’ve ever encountered imo.

Civil + military capital punishment was only officially abolished in 1996 in Belgium, so about 133 years between the decision to stop doing it , and actually putting that into law. And a few months after the law was officially changed, the serial murderer + pedophile Dutroux was arrested, after which there was a lot of public support for the death penalty again. A bit of fortunate timing in unfortunate times.

Wrong Lemmy headline, the graphic is about “death penalty for non military crimes”, which implies that there were death penalty executions after those years on the map.

As an example, in Belgium the last execution was in 1950, by firing squad. The Belgian state had extended the state of war to be able to put war criminals & collaborators in front of military tribunals. That last 1918 execution by guillotine was also ordered by a military tribunal, it was a Belgian soldier who had murdered one of his two fiancées plus her unborn child: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Ferfaille Had he not been a soldier, he would most likely not have been executed. The last execution in Belgium that was ordered by a civil court happened in 1863.

I wonder if the ballroom will contain a throne and will thus actually be a throne room.

I assume you mean DeepSeek? And it doesn’t look like it, according to what I could find, their biggest innovation was “reinforcement learning to teach a base language model how to reason without any human supervision”. https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1

Some others have replied that chatgpt and copilot are already modular: they use python for arithmetic questions. But that apparently isn’t enough to be useful.

I hadn’t heard of that protocol before, thanks. It holds a lot of promise for the future, but getting the input right for the tools is probably quite the challenge. And it also scares me because I now expect more companies to release irresponsible integrations.

I would rather not have it attempt something that it can’t do, no direct result is better than a wrong result imo. Here it’s correctly identifying that it’s a calculation question and instead of suggesting using a formula, it tries to hallucinate a numerical answer itself. The creators of the model seem to have a mindset that the model must try to answer no matter what, instead of training it to not answer questions that it can’t answer correctly.

A large language model shouldn’t even attempt to do math imo. They made an expensive hammer that is semi good at one thing (parroting humans) and now they’re treating every query like it’s a nail.

Why isn’t OpenAi working more modular whereby the LLM will call up specialized algorithms once it has identified the nature of the question? Or is it already modular and they just suck at anything that cannot be calibrated purely with brute force computing?

Personally I’m really glad that we don’t have karma farming on Lemmy. It creates a lot of content for reddit, but it’s mostly regurgitated low quality filler.

My last cat was the same, he expected every exit to lead to a different outside, and they all had to be checked before he would deign going on his litterbox.