Gravityloss

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by Gravityloss 6d ago
I haven't followed these sort of programs, but aren't they promoting and celebrating psychopathic manipulative behaviour. In real history, often what's at stake is survival of a community and people want to genuinely work tog
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by Gravityloss 10d ago
CE is a tool against protectionism. If a thing is CE stamped, you must allow it to be sold (if you're a member).
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by Gravityloss 10d ago
I guess if going in the UK gets tough the royals could move somewhere else to reign. Sigismund was king of Sweden and Poland, though he couldn't maintain both. Maybe we'd need some drama with usurpers and uncles and so on to keep
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by Gravityloss 10d ago
In Sweden they have these huge roundabouts in the countryside. Very large diameter and gentle curves. You can maintain your speed. Awesome. Saves energy too. I assume there's a huge amount of tried and tested traffic innovation that co
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by Gravityloss 11d ago
These all seem backwards. I like to think in shapes. I like to draw and sketch, as that has the lowest barriers between the mental concepts and physical ones. I do not like to use cad software. It is painful to express ideas with it. Also s
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by Gravityloss 11d ago
Very nice music. It has the same song three times?
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by Gravityloss 12d ago
At some point I got the damn Chess app every time I wanted to switch to Chrome. You know, typing cmd-space, ch and enter. I've learned I can't remove Chess from my computer. After numerous incantations of various spells and reboot
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by Gravityloss 12d ago
Hmm turns out I have hyperphantasia? No wonder it feels it's hard to explain things to people a lot of the time...
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by Gravityloss 19d ago
Those are so called flute sounds or harmonics, ie you don't press the string against the fretboard or fret normally at all. Instead you touch it very gently to force a vibration node there where your finger is. It doesn't work at
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by Gravityloss 19d ago
Oh my god, it's a beautiful way to explain how slide rules work. Without spending a single word. Thank you!
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by Gravityloss 19d ago
I guess I'm now officially old and cranky, as planetoids receiving glow-ups was just a bit much as a term.
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by Gravityloss 19d ago
https://xkcd.com/385/ This sort of thing is really hard to avoid. If you've ever spent time as somehow very different in a social setting, you can see this happening all the time. Even in positive ways.
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by Gravityloss 19d ago
I think often in families, if a generation is successful with money (for example as engineer or enterpreneur), then next generation often become artists or politicians etc.
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by Gravityloss 22d ago
But on this flight it did not have a combustion engine, I assume it was fully electric and if so, the title is 100% correct.
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by Gravityloss 23d ago
For some reason, almost all audio apps have very odd scroll and zooming behaviour (and home/end keys also do weird things). Also doing basic things like starting playback or recording from start or from cursor tends to be quite complex
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by Gravityloss 24d ago
I didn't read the whole thing but how would fizzbuzz or something like that look like in the language? I found lots of writings and examples but some basics are also nice for a person who wouldn't want to invest a lot of time at f
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by Gravityloss 24d ago
I have biked with lots of coaster bikes and lockup has never been a problem. Like with a lot of things, you just need a little bit of humble attitude and trial and error to get the feel and then once you get it, it gets easier and easier. I
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by Gravityloss 26d ago
Selfie geolocation
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by Gravityloss 27d ago
And I wonder how they actually spoke. Since there was no visual communications medium except for cave art. (Some of which is very excellent. Try drawing 3d curved horns in perspective.) So people would have used verbal communication more. A
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by Gravityloss 27d ago
And while not all the way to Venus, Earth's history has multiple mass extinction catastrophes that have happened. Some have been due to things like asteroids, or volcanism but also just chemical imbalance. An ice age is small beans com
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by Gravityloss 27d ago
Thank you for this comment. It is interesting and also beautifully written with no fluff. For some reason few web pages, blogs or even tweets are written in this style.
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by Gravityloss 28d ago
We rode a birch log powered narrow gauge steam train and it was absolutely splendid. There was some smoke but it was nice and adding to the experience. Mostly it was steam clouds. Open and closed carriages were available. It was very slow m
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by Gravityloss 29d ago
I'm thinking of the Ottomans capturing Constantinople. Very much paraphrasing: Since Ottomans had a massive cannon made with new technology. Since Constantinople hadn't hired the cannon inventor. Since Constantinople was poor. Sin
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
In a large part of the world, the people voted for those people. https://deming.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/inconvienent-t... On the other hand, there's also a market for generating outrage and p
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
Ah, but minutes (or an hour) don't have any context to a person. "A bomb dropped every two thirds of the duration of a football game, excluding breaks". No, that sounds too mathy. Perhaps "three bombs per two games"
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
In FPS maps like Quake you only realized how much invisible clip blocks the map makers put in once you play an amateur map that doesn't have them. You hit things, get stuck and can even get crushed and die. Or you can try and play an e
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
Sure, there are effects like that power corrupts. But there are differences between powerful people.
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
A lot of other modern furniture looks like it was just the default in CAD. Ie completely rectangular arm rests with sharp edges etc. I get that a car like Ford Sierra looked featureless and too simple in its time, I guess it seemed like laz
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
Does it correlate with human longevity?
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
Thought experiment, not completely serious but something worth considering. This would be 5 h per week, or 250 h per year, or over 10 years, 3.5 months of continuous 24/7 exercise. This is a large amount of training. 4% of your waking

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