Oh these emacs users

Reminds me Markdeep https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/

What was the weather situation over this region on that day?

I have no idea. Why do you ask?

They mentioned Vangers!

Here is a nice video on the new Matlab palette, and why it could be better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU

Controlled selection

A raccoon:

[X] Agile hands, use tools [X] Smart, large brain [X] Omnivore [X] Potentially bipedal [X] Social

The hands do not just need to be agile to manipulate objects, they also need to have an opposable finger.

Racoons' "hands" (more like paws) do not have any.

While an opposable thumb is very useful, I don't think it's necessary for "practicing" intelligence. Cut a man's thumbs off and he'll be seriously impaired, but hardly so much that society couldn't develop tool use, agriculture and technology.

I feel opposable thumbs tend to be brought up on the logic of "this is one of many features unique to humans, therefore it must be related to the important feature unique to humans, which is intelligence". In this case it's not even unique to humans: all Old World monkeys and apes have opposable thumbs to one degree or another.

Oh me too, was fun and surprisingly not difficult. Still remember learning cool tricks from the Hugi demoscene diskmag.

>I wonder how much the negatives of being short are caused by lower self esteem due to simply what people say and think about heights.

There are statistically proven negative points in being not very attractive in general. Beautiful people have (significantly) higher chance to become successful in their job and/or businesses.

Do not forget kaaskroketjes!

Hmm, I didn't grow up with those. Anyway I'm more of a frikandel person than a kroket person.