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12 minutes ago, exchemist said: No it didn’t. But you hastily deleted your first offensive response (thank you, I appreciate that), though not before I had read it, and now, later, you have come up this instead.😁
..you should be happy, like Putin, that Moscow wasn't bombed.. :) yet (for real)
and draw conclusions from it, which I doubt you will. After all, people don't learn from other people's mistakes, as we can see..
15 minutes ago, exchemist said: You make a good point. More men seem to have NPD than women* but there are women with it too. I suppose I didn’t consider them in the context of an evolutionary mechanism, as being child-bearing their scope for spreading their genes around is a lot less than for promiscuous men. And being less physically strong, their capacity for forcing themselves on someone sexually is less.
..your theory is clearly flawed because you claim that narcissism is linked to reproduction and physical strength..
A woman can have several children, and in extreme cases even ten, but a man can have thousands of children every year..
If someone is physically attractive, they don't have to force anyone to do anything, either by using force or deception.
Where did this idea of linking narcissism with sexuality come from?
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13 minutes ago, Eise said: As they still have...
Narcissus has empathy by the kilo whenever he or she wants it..
And he/she doses it out to the clients when he/she needs to.
5 hours ago, exchemist said: Third, the lack of empathy that seems to be a feature of narcissists may have given them an advantage, socially, in ruthless in pursuit of their objectives. So they may have tended to rise to positions of social power, enabling them to mate with more females.
..on first reading, this offensive and sexist remark escaped my attention..
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6 minutes ago, studiot said: Your comment about potatoes is interesting, I have never tried tha.
I think that most rural recipes contain potatoes because they simply extend their shelf life to a week.
If you bake bread, try adding boiled and smashed potatoes to the dough. Start with one potato per loaf of bread. Later, you can experiment.
I'll send you a private video.
7 minutes ago, studiot said: The difference between tortilla of spanish origin v italian origin is also relevant since the spanish version includes potatoes, (not potato flour).
But there (Tortilla de Patatas) is potato as a filling..
It makes a difference when you have a filling and when you have that potato in the whole cake (and indistinguishable from bread).
But from the point of view of a sick person, you can't even use the same plates that had something on them that causes allergies.
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My entire statement was prompted by the previous comment about gluten intolerance.. except that this claim was untrue, because for most of the world's existence, most people ate baked flour mixed with water = pancakes, without any preprocessing by yeast.. and they had no gluten intolerance.. otherwise they wouldn't survive.. It took some time before someone invented yeast..
"Yes I think is the yeast having time to digest the gluten that makes traditionally proved bread more digestible. Since Chorleywood came in, half the country seems to have developed gluten intolerance!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process
From what you can find out online, bread in the UK is not of good quality.
The best bread is in the countryside. Here, they add potatoes to it. It can last a week.
(Not potato flour! That's something completely different!)
I don't think that's what I'm thinking of, but there's an article on Wikipedia:
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6 hours ago, Phi for All said: And in the US and France (that I know of), that's not a pancake, it's a crepe, or a blintz.
Perhaps you should allow for cultural differences in naming foods. Just a thought. Threads might be less antagonistic.
Deepl.com (which is not Google Translator, but is better):
English:
French:
What do the French call what Americans eat for breakfast?
which you say is not a 'crepe' ? i.e. what is it from French point of view?
6 hours ago, TheVat said: There's a latke to be said for recognition of cultural variations in naming!
To me, it looks like a "potato pancake"... ;)
(based on appearance only)
In my language, it is impossible to distinguish between what we call a pancake and what you call a crepe in the US. And so everything turns into a pancake ;)
A pan is an item used to prepare pancakes. Therefore the word pan + cake.
There are special pancake pans, such as these:
They are specially shaped so that it is easy to flip these pancakes over to the other side..
I have several of them. Even more than regular pans.
The pan determines how big the pancake is, because all the batter spreads out on it.
Making pancakes is a real culinary art. Pancakes should be flipped when one side turns golden brown, tossing everything up in the air.
When you walk into someone's kitchen in Europe, you can immediately tell whether they make pancakes or not by whether they have the right pans.
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19 minutes ago, exchemist said: The thread is about bread, not pancakes.
The transition from real pancakes (without yeast) to bread (i.e., pancakes + yeast + a lot of waiting) is extremely obvious, so I don't understand why you're arguing about it here..
Have you been asked for your opinion here?
26 minutes ago, exchemist said: And most of the rest of the world does not eat pancakes.
..can you read English? The whole world doesn't eat that crap that the English call pancakes, I already wrote that...
If you went somewhere in South America, Africa, or Asia and said you wanted something to eat, they would probably pour some kind of paste from a cup onto a pan, stir it a few times, spread it around the hot pan (etc.), and make some kind of pancake. Most people do this with flour because it's the easiest way.
Get your brain out of that hole and go out into the world. Four percent of the world's population lives in the US. 95–96% no.
ps. I would call the differences between these dishes “symbolic”..
This is one of the best things about baking:
butter roll or milk roll..
Today I ate something like this:
yeast cake with blueberries:
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On 8/15/2025 at 5:42 PM, studiot said: An interesting coincidence.
To make pancakes,we take flour, milk, water (mineral water), eggs, and salt. Where are yeast? There isn't any. And most recipes for pancakes, or variations thereof, are similar. You can replace mineral water with beer, or replace milk with cream or kefir, or basically use water + flour.
Most of the world (outside the West) eats pancakes that have never seen yeast.. And they've never even heard of gluten intolerance..
This in case,
this is NOT a pancake:
(this is some kind of pathetic joke about pancakes..)
This is what real pancakes look like:
Pancakes are a very simple recipe. Once you add yeast to it, you'll have to wait hours before you can even eat it..
After adding yeast, a bread-like dough is made, which rises.. If you want to reduce the thickness, you'll end up with a pizza.
It's not what “the average person in the world eats,” because it simply takes time to make it..
They probably invented pizzas for those who can't eat regular pancakes...
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1 minute ago, studiot said: Nevertheless some wars are more predictable or perhaps as MigL put it inevitable such as the 'War of Jenkin's Ear', the Punic Wars are examples.
In countries where there is no authoritarian ruler or dictator who makes all the decisions, it is much more difficult to start a war, because such a democratic politician must somehow “encourage” his supporters and, worse still, his political opponents. So this process takes time, and it is visible in the public forum before military action begins. But I don't think it has anything to do with statistics, does it?
In countries where there is succession to the royal or princely crown, problems can be expected when there are too many candidates for the crown. The candidates are also rulers in other countries and have sufficient support in the armed forces to initiate military action on foreign territory. But nowadays, there are few countries that are exposed to this risk.
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Having a unified system for exchanging information between different scientists from different countries obviously speeds up the development process. But first, you need to have this exchange of information between people from different countries. In ancient times, only rulers and perhaps merchants exchanged messages. Most people could not read or write.
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On 8/13/2025 at 5:08 AM, Trurl said: There are statistics predicting how likely you are to buy something.
But these statistics are based on reliable, objective factors that can be measured. Whether someone buys bread, soap, and shampoo can be calculated based on how quickly they consume these consumable goods. Mainly, it is an extrapolation based on historical data.
Wars depend on unpredictable factors. You have the whim of some autocrat, a sudden unexpected incident that sets off a snowball effect, you have a war that is over, but in reality for some it is not over yet, it has only been frozen in time, and they are just waiting to unfreeze it... etc., etc. These are unmeasurable factors.
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Democracy is a transitional state to dictatorship.
And dictatorship is a transitional state to democracy.
Between them, you have transitional states called civil war.
Thank you for your attention!
ps. Now figure out which state each country is in.
ps2. As long as there were no weapons of mass destruction, it somehow worked.. but now it's complete chaos..
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On 8/12/2025 at 12:30 AM, HawkII said: If Humans forgot about all Religion, what could the Gods theoretically do about that?
Whatever you want... ;)
You have a very primitive understanding of what it means to be God, i.e., you have slaves who are supposed to bow down, make sacrifices, pray, etc.
Such mindless creatures can be created in a 3D game, and they will behave according to some primitive pattern. It's terribly boring.
On 8/12/2025 at 12:30 AM, HawkII said: I remember once a fascinating moment I read in the Jewish/Christian Bible where someone asked God "What do people do, who don't know you exist?" God replied "I made the Moon for people to Worship"
This is obviously nonsense, as the Moon was formed by the collision of a protoplanet with Earth.
i.e. it was a conversation between someone who knows everything who has no idea about anything, so as not to waste time, it was shortened to one sentence...
On 8/12/2025 at 12:46 AM, joigus said: Worshipping is deeply wrong. Worshipping is incompatible with questions. If I had any inkling of a god, I would batter it with questions before any worshipping took place.
..then ask..
And then you'll cry that everyone knows your personal details... ;)
On 8/12/2025 at 1:20 AM, joigus said: Dreams and visions have to do with the workings of the brain.
...“AI”/LLM has hallucinations, and they release them as text, and you get angry that you get some “crap”.. funny.. funny..
It's interesting that when a human has hallucinations (i.e., everything they are currently saying), no one has any objections, but when LLM has hallucinations (i.e., everything you have in the console), people on this forum have objections... ;)
On 8/12/2025 at 5:16 AM, Markus Hanke said: They could show themselves.
In what form?
Could it be a form that destroys someone's life?
You have a company, a family, children, and then you will lose everything.
You had that in the case of Isaac's sacrifice etc.
If someone has committed some wickedness in their life, they can expect such attractions in the next generations of their children and grandchildren.
You have no idea why people can be punished for the sins of their ancestors who have long since passed away.
People notoriously take revenge on people from the same group as those who have committed crimes, so why shouldn't “gods” practice such techniques... ;)
On 8/12/2025 at 10:58 AM, HawkII said: God can make Camels talk.
But animals talk to each other, but you're too stupid to understand them..
All that chirping from the birds in the sky isn't noise, it's just them talking in their language..
Do you know how to make a Russian from Putin's regime start speaking English? You have to give him a plane so he can fuck off from that collective farm... ;)
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5 hours ago, studiot said: Since then I dont't think I have ever met an IT person who asks "What do you want or What do you need ?"
Because you don't understand the process...
The typical process is as follows:
- the end user says they need something, and the request is addressed to support (because a typical user has only access to it). It is called "bug report" or "feature request".
- support is reviewed by the manager, and if they decide that it makes sense/many people are asking for it, then it is forwarded to development.
Why would development ask you if you need anything?
Does the chef come and ask you if you need anything?
At most, the waiter will come, asks, and then do whatever he wants..
He can say that the cooks have already gone home or that the food has run out, etc.
There are special applications for managing such bug reports and feature requests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_tracking_system
Large corporations do not allow ordinary users to contact developers because they fear that they are HR people who will try to poach them by offering higher salaries, etc. So basically, software is now anonymous—you have no idea who made it by name.
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28 minutes ago, studiot said: Unlike you younger folks who so readily accept the latest bees knees in It long before it is needed and certainly well before any beta testing, I have seen so many 'new improved' washing powders ( sorry IT upgrades) come and go that it is boring to try to keep up.
It is a great effort on my part to get something as I want it and annoying to find it changed by upgrades almost every time I log in.
Once upon a time filled in lots of details here, but now I don't even know how to access these things, if it is still possible.
I don't think this comment is directed at me. I didn't program this forum. If there is an option in version v1.0, and they later remove it in version v2.0, but at the same time they didn't reset it, and the code still uses these options, which cannot be modified, then it is the fault of the software designers. People are hired and fired in companies. The most knowledgeable people leave because they are not paid as much as they want, and the new ones have no idea what is in the old code.
If they didn't upgrade this software every so often, their work would basically be pointless, so they would be fired anyway. New employees wouldn't even have anyone to ask about what the code was all about. Getting to grips with someone else's code can take years.
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56 minutes ago, studiot said: Depends how much time you had to devote to the subject.
I said: I would write a script, meaning I wouldn't have to do anything..
The scripts run in the background, launched every minute by cron.
You make a script, and then:
And then you write:
In the script, you check whether someone who was banned a moment ago (i.e., their nickname is in the database with the appropriate status) or you browse the contents of https://scienceforums.net/topic/29763-bannedsuspended-users/
visits his/her banned account, for absolute no reasons,
and if so, you send an email (to me, to inform me or you) about the suspicion that someone is a sockpuppet.
I just noticed a pattern in people who later become known as sockpuppets: they visit their old banned accounts with nostalgia.
1 hour ago, studiot said: So it falls to all of us members to try to make it attractive enough to be able to keep going, if we want the that.
Well, I guess we're going in the opposite direction - banning people under ridiculous pretexts is the order of the day here..
Before someone “grows up” enough to have serious conversations, they are already banned, and only their second and third sockpuppet start talking sense... ;)
40 minutes ago, swansont said: And there’s the maxim that anyone who actively wants to be a moderator is not qualified to be one.
...we can see that.. :)
I think you've confused this with the saying that those who do not want to be rulers are the most suitable for the position.
37 minutes ago, exchemist said: Yes that's what I mean. While there are some reputable members whose profile has it disabled, every single person who I have suspected of being a spammer, troll or sockpuppet has also had it disabled. So for me it is a bit of warning indication.
It's more likely to be some kind of error in the code.
I see that the studiot's profile has it disabled..
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16 minutes ago, toucana said: Your mileage may vary. On one occasion a few years ago on IRC we had an abusive troll causing trouble in a novice-friendly channel where I was an AOP. Rather than kick-banning the offender, we decided to have a little fun with him. We used the /whois <nick> command to check his host details , which not only gave us his IP address, but we also found that he had unwisely filled in the gecos field which provided us with his real name too. The reverse DNS look-up gave the location as a rural town in the mid-west. We then found a searchable online telephone directory for that township, and found an entry that matched the name in the gecos field.
We then asked him in channel if his real name was XXXX XXXX, and cited his full postal address, zip-code and telephone number. Guy vanished like a ghost at dawn and never troubled us again ;-)
Well, I was talking about today's situation, i.e. everybody with dynamic private IPs. If someone has a public static IP, they can have HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, VNC servers, etc. there, so basically you had to start by doing
nmap HIS-IP-ADDRESSto check what ports are open at this IP..
He could host personal website there.
Now you see how this can cause problems with anonymity?
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3 hours ago, toucana said: I used to have a static public broadband IP address for almost 20 years until my ISP went out of business and I was forced to switch to EE whose public router IP addresses change every time the router reboots or gets a firmware update - a real pain in the neck [...]
You are in the same position as the rest of the world. They started charging extra money for a public static IP address.
3 hours ago, toucana said: [...] which means I regularly have to use a look-up tool to check what my public IP currently is (EE call it a ’semi-static” public address) and then change the hard-coded value in my IRC client to match (you can’t use the ‘lookup server” method, because you will simply get the 192.168.x.x LAN address assigned under DHCP by your router which is unrouteable on the WAN side.
Try:
curl -s https://ipecho.net/plainalternatives:
curl https://api.ipify.orgif you prefer JSON:
curl 'https://api.ipify.org?format=json'if you want IPv6 in JSON:
curl 'https://api64.ipify.org?format=json'3 hours ago, toucana said: In IRC you can simply run the command /whois <nick> and you will instantly get their full host and IP address details (unless they happen to be using a stealth mode cloaking system). You can then tell at a glance whether they are using IPv4, IPv6, or mobile, and if you are really curious you can run a traceoute and a reverse DNS look-up to get their location as well.
Such tools are not reliable.
Today I am located 60 km away from me, usually it is 300 km.
On Linux write:
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5 hours ago, exchemist said: I'm curious to understand why it is that some members seem to have this section on their profile disabled? I have observed what seems to be a loose correlation between those that have this disabled and those that turn out to be, shall we say, less than reliable participants: sockpuppets of previously banned members, people with trollish tendencies, cranks, spammers and so forth.
Why is this feature optional and what reasons might there be for a member to want to have it disabled?
Is that what you mean?
I rarely visit other people's profiles, and when I do, I do so without being logged in (so that no one could see that I was viewing their profile), and I had trouble finding such a profile. But what you see above is a legitimate user with > 250 rep points.
Maybe something went wrong during the database transfer?
If I were a moderator, I would be the best moderator on this forum. ;)
I would write a script that shows me who is a sockpuppet: they visit their previous banned profile while logged into their new account.
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13 hours ago, toucana said: If you have ever spent time getting DCC CHAT and NAT (network address translation) to work on IRC via DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol) behind a local broadband router, then you will probably understand what I’m talking about !
In order for port forwarding to make sense, you need to have a public static IP address for your router. Nowadays, this is rare. Private individuals are assigned private dynamic IP addresses. And to have a public static IP address, you need to have a company and pay for it.
People who want to have their own server at home, e.g. CS:GO or Minecraft, continue to forward ports.
14 hours ago, toucana said: They are the PnP generation who expect everything to work all by itself at the first time of asking, and get very puzzled when it doesn’t, because they have no idea how it works in the first place ;-)
Nowadays, we have the UPnP protocol for routers, among other things, which is used to open ports by a specific application:
https://www.google.com/search?q=UPnP+port+forwarding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play
Discussions about port forwarding for Minecraft server using UPnP (or manually):
https://www.google.com/search?q=UPnP+port+forwarding+minecraft
14 hours ago, toucana said: A computer connects via a broadband ISP network, while a mobile phone connects via a 5G mobile data link. These are serviced by completely different carriers, so the two devices would have different network IPv6 addresses.
How can you know that someone is using 5G and has IPv6? You just made that up.
I go to a website that is supposed to provide my IPv6 address (I'm on my mobile right now) and it says that it cannot detect my IPv6 address.
Pick up an IPv6 detection website, and if it detects your IPv6, we will attempt to verify whether you have a public static IP address.
14 hours ago, toucana said: A computer connects via a broadband ISP network, while a mobile phone connects via a 5G mobile data link.
..unless someone is using their mobile phone as a router for their computer (like I am right now)..
Random hotspots in restaurants, for example, you also don't know how they connect, whether through their GSM modem or fiber optic cable.
(my laptops used to be premium class and have built-in GSM modems – I can plug a SIM card to them and use the Internet from mobile cell towers..)
(even worse, you can send and receive SMS messages that come to these built-in GSM modems from Linux)
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1 hour ago, Eric Smith said: The Greeks are credited with advancing geometry by large amounts, but consider if one could go back in time and teach Algebra to the ancient Greeks. How would that knowledge hurt their development of geometry and how would it have helped further the advancement of algebra.
Wouldn't they let themselves be conquered by the Romans?
Why does Narcissistic Personality Disorder exist in humans?
in Psychiatry and Psychology
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...but he talks in some kind of psychological gibberish...
...I like talking to intelligent people who write sensibly... if someone starts talking about psychology, then bye bye... ;)
Can narcissism lead to greater reproductive success? Probably yes..
and it won't be the result of narcissism at all...
Such things are difficult or very difficult to investigate scientifically, which requires repeatability of results from hundreds or thousands of samples.