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  • Mutations happen by chance but the result is not random, because natural selection is not random.

    Update: Regarding your first part: A lot of people misunderstand the role randomness plays. Evolution is not random and not a coincidence but a consequence of any system that makes imperfect replicas in an environment that rewards (or punishes) certain traits.






  • wischi@programming.devtoMemes@sopuli.xyzNoted
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    6 months ago

    Early humans (before they prepared anything) it was actually evolution that made sure we know what to eat. It’s a gradual process that leads to a situation that most common things that are harmful cause pain and everything that’s poisonos tastes awful and bitter.

    In very simplified terms, if you as a human found something to eat and it tasted good, you probably ate a lot of it. If it was poisonous you just died. If you didn’t like it you didn’t eat it, so everybody that was genetically predisposed to dislike poisonous stuff didn’t eat a lot of it and reproduced.

    Pain is a similar story. Everyone not feeling enough pain stopped being careful and died.

    What also adds into the mix is that humans are social animals that learn from each other.

    Note that evolution is a very very slow process so a lot of things started out as instincts (like some animals that just avoid yellow-black striped animals). If this is important in your environment this instinct will get stronger and stronger until it turns into some sort of pain.

    So regarding poisonos, if they are common in nature chances are pretty high that eating a little bit won’t kill you and it will taste like shit.

    Update: That’s also the reason why sugar tastes so sweet and good. We evolved to like it because it was important for survival during a time you couldn’t just go out and buy that stuff in bulk.





  • wischi@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.mlThe future of Linux
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    8 months ago

    Linux is way to fragmented and without a great dominating distro it will never. Waymand, Ubuntu, Mint, Gnome, KDE, WTF, Users don’t fucking care about that jargon. Most Window users don’t even know the name of the browser they are using or that “the internet app” is even called “browser”.

    A few weeks ago I updated Ubuntu from 22 to 23 on my home media center. First tried the Updates App because why not just press a single fucking button like on windows or mac. No - no major updates there. Open a console, apt update and upgrade the hell out of everything, update the package sources with some shady regex command I copy pasted from some random forum, update upgrade again dist-upgrade WTF. After everything was done the layout of the info area (network, wifi, etc) was fucked up. Read some only shit about gnome shell extensions, themens, nothing made sense, force reinstalled the gome shell - worked again.

    And somebody expects that “typical” users to do that don’t even know what Windows Version they are running - sure.