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@noelle Whats an afrofantasy? Just takes place in africa?

@hans_w You are well worth the follow. And if you are contributing to friendica as a developer to help fix those issues then hopefully it might be resolved int he near future after all. I got the impression friendica was rather stagnant in that regard.

I would say most of the time when i try to reply to your posts I cant, every once in a while I can reply but most just cant go through at all so I have to delete my message.. happens all the time.

@stux Been a QOTO feature for over a year now :)

@hans_w Just FYI ever since you moved to friendica half the times your server gives an error when I try to respond to you and most people int he fediverse struggle to interact with friendica servers.. its very buggy in terms of the activity pub standard to the point that most of the time people cant even tell you they are having problems.

I have nothing against friendica but outside of other friendica servers it borderlines on non-functional sadly with little hope of being fixed.

Its so buggy I usually wont even follow someone on friendica because ill just get server errors from them all the time. You are the only person i make an exception for.

@waltercool

As we already covered Babbage was the originator of the idea, and according to you one of only two people you listed as being worthy of being called the inventor, and was literally a professor. While the idea came to him before being a professor most of his work was done refining and publishing his ideas as a professor.

So even in your own example trying to assert professors did very little prior to the 80's you contradicted yourself.

The fact is the overwhelming majority of people who contributed to the invention of the computer from atleast the 1800s onward were all professors and did the bulk of their work as a professor.

Even the argument about the government funding it is very weak.. First off, who cares where the money came from, that doesnt act as a counter argument to the fact that professors did the work and thus demonstrates their capability... Two professors were the dominate driving force from at least the 1800s onward in refining the ideas leading up to computers so your point is moot anyway, as we covered even your primary example from the 1800s of the founder of computers was a professor and did most of his work on computers from such a position.

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@roboneko

Yea I can only really speculate with dogs, but they just arent evolved for long distance running. Even in cold weather they are designed to retain heat with a nice thick fur and survive the cold. Other than panting they really cant do much to cool off. I suspect that while the cold might somewhat extend their running range int he end they would still overheat long before we would.

It really is two factors. One is the inability to sweat, the other is mechanical, humans have more "slow twitch" fibers than any animal, 3x the ratio of a chimp, and a mechanical advantage geared to favor distance over strength. So even if we put aside the inability to sweat their muscles were be very inefficient at long distance running and would tire out in no time. As you point out they can barely keep up with a fast paced hike over the course of a whole day, they certainly cant run at top speed for hours on end in even the best of conditions.

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@waltercool

First off how does it matter if Babbage first began thinking and talking about computers a few years before he was a professor. He continued the work well into the course of him being a professor... The argument here, and an absurd one, is that professors have never accomplished anything. This is wrong and trying to do mental acrobatics to suggest all the accomplishments by professors somehow dont count is nonsense. Either these people are smart and well acomplished or not, period. Clearly they are.

Second ENIAC being used for encryption or anything else is not relevant to the discussion. Does not change the fact that it was built by professors in an academic setting, the rest is just noise to the point of the success (or lack there of) of professors. It isnt even clear what your arguing at this point.

As for earlier machines that are mechanical in nature and produce some output, I explicitly stated "electronic computer". The fact that there was knowledge and devices that preceded it and were inspirational and neccesary to its creation is great, but again adds nothing to the point of fact being made here that professors made ENIAC.

I honestly cant even tell what your arguing against or why other than "I must hate everything academic so let me just try and fail to make random arguments and muddy the water". Yes inventions come from a long history of incremental innovation, so what, point is professors were the bulk of the people who took the steps that moved us from mechanical devices to electronic computers and then finally to electronic networking. The rest is just noise.

@polarisera

@polarisera

Repeating your incorrect assertion with no supporting facts to a reply that lays out in detail counterexamples to your assertion does nothing to support your case. In fact all it shows is that you arent reading or considering the facts at all and just repeating like a parrot a conclusion you made without due consideration of the facts at all.

Similar dialogue:

The world is flat!

::here are a bunch of things that prove the world is flat::

The world is round is a fraud, its flat!

Simply repeating over and over you think something is wrong when given actual counter examples you dont address is just about the weakest argument one could attempt to make in any context.,

@waltercool

@zpartacoos

Key word there being pulling :) Pretty sure if a body builer was 50% strong and tried ripping your limbs off he would do some serious damage too :)

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@waltercool

Umm Charles Babbage was a professor, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge to be specific.

Ada lovelace did not invent computers, she predicted the possibility of them, but did not create them in any meaningful sense.

The first electronic computer was ENIAC and it was built at the university of pennsylvania by a collection of professors. Later the first internet was also built by and refined by professors to interconnect universities.

Literally all the final pieces that made the computer possible, its assembling, and making it work, were all done by professors.

I mean hell if you just stated Babbage was the inventor and he was a professor as well.

@polarisera

@polarisera

You say on a computer on the internet, literally invented by, implemented, and proven by professors.

@waltercool

@waltercool we live in a democracy, you can vote for whatever leaders of your local and national educational system you want. beyond that most parents wouldnt know the first thing about most subjects to even know what or how to teach it or what is important. You can pull out your kid and homeschool them however you want. But in the end if you want your kid to earn a degree this assumes they are able to successfully master all the major subjects adequetly. You have control as to how they learn, but you cant just make up fictions and expect someone to certify your child with a degree in subjects they dont understand.

@worldsendless Hit the getting started menu item. Same place that has the links to your timelines, direct messages, etc. Its one of the items.

@valleyforge

Depends largely on criteria. In a ~30 mile marathon run a extremely fit human would beat even a horse. However an ostrich would beat a human by covering that same distance in half the time.

That said I'm not sure how an ostritch would fair if we were talking, say, running from california to new york which would take many days to do. Make the distance long enough and maybe we could outperform an ostreich, I'm not really sure.

But point is aside from the ostreich there are very few, if any, animals that could keep up with us long distance. I am not sure about dogs but I kinda doubt even they could keep up with us over long enough distances. The reason the ostreich can do it is because its a bird and birds are extremely optimizes for weight, so even though they dont have some of our advantages like sweating that weight optimization makes up for it. But dogs being relatively heavy for their size and not being able to sweat would almost certainly make it impossible for them to keep up with us long term. According to the science our ability to sweat is ultimately why we can outcompete almost any other animal on the planet.

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@mc

::insert mom joke here::

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Interesting fact of the day: A chimpanzee is about 1.3x to 1.5x stronger than humans when it comes to pulling, jumping, and lifting with the legs in general. However when it comes to physical strength in terms of **pushing** humans are significantly stronger than chimps. Similarly while our legs arent as strong in terms of explosive power (jumping) we are many times better at endurance (using our leg muscles for longer). A human can cover a much farther distance on foot than a chimp could.

So the general factoids about chimps being stronger then us are very misleading. They are simply adapted to be stronger at the sorts of tasks they are suited for and weaker in others, while humans are stronger than a chimp in other ways.

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