LichenStone

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by LichenStone 5y ago
I don't know what you find hard to believe in the idea that an ex-KGB man who has been an autocratic illiberal leader for over 20 years now, might just be quite manipulative and duplicitous in his diplomatic communications.
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by LichenStone 5y ago
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, speaking about Putin's rise to power in the documentary Citizen K - > "It seemed to me that, ideologically, he was one of our people. A man of our generation, who gets it, who wants to push Russia in the s
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by LichenStone 5y ago
Also see this - https://tompepinsky.com/2022/03/03/heres-why-mearsheimers-re...
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by LichenStone 5y ago
Both The Witness and Outer Wilds were two highly acclaimed games that I fully expected to really enjoy, but with both of them I left feeling very disappointed, for different reasons. I respect what the Witness does and the craft of how it&#
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The genius engineering of the 3½ inch floppy disk [video](youtube.com)
2 points by LichenStone 5y ago|0 comments
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by LichenStone 5y ago
This is very cool. I've always been very disappointed that programming is so utterly dominated by the linear text format. It feels like so much potential for expression and feedback is getting left on the table, making use of our capac
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by LichenStone 5y ago
> So, a folder could be expressed in terms of a page full of links. This is basically what I do in Obsidian with the Zootelkeeper and Folder Note plugins. Every folder has a note attached to it with an autogenerated index of all the note
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Practical advice for protection from aerial attacks [pdf](who.int)
3 points by LichenStone 5y ago|0 comments
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by LichenStone 5y ago
> Personnel oriented end - on to the blast wave (that is, lying down with either their head or feet pointed toward the blast) offer little resistance to the dynamic pressure component of the wave, and the incident shock (or side-on press
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Conventional Warfare: Ballistic, Blast, and Burn Injuries [pdf](upload.wikimedia.org)
3 points by LichenStone 5y ago|2 comments
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by LichenStone 5y ago
Page 256 (241 in the page print) for "The Physics and Mechanisms of Primary Blast Injury"; I was trying to find information about the effect of lying flat on the ground for surviving a blast, there's some graphs on page 269.
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by LichenStone 5y ago
> Anyone who lived in or visited a third world country and watched people produce works of astounding precision and perfect finish with their bare hands will understand that in the 1st world we are just not very capable with our hands si
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by LichenStone 5y ago
You don't have to be a neoconservative to criticise realism, just speaking for myself I wouldn't fit into the definition of one. Using expressions of particular opinions to demonstrate that people belong to a more general class is
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by LichenStone 5y ago
I think most people who are making counterarguments to Mearsheimer et al are not ignoring or dismissing realism, they are pointing out the limitations and flaws with its predictive powers and usefulness for determining 'optimal' p
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Why Mearsheimer’s Realist Take Is So Exasperating(tompepinsky.com)
24 points by LichenStone 5y ago|66 comments
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by LichenStone 5y ago
Thanks! That's really useful.
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by LichenStone 5y ago
May I ask what other search engines you use? I'm trying to find good alternatives to the usual right now.
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by LichenStone 5y ago
Personally I never really like graphical overhaul mods that do more than just add subtle technical improvements to what's already there. The art direction is usually such an important part of a game that doing things like changing colo
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by LichenStone 5y ago
This reminds me of some Bret Victor talks.
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by LichenStone 5y ago
I really hope they make use of the Steam Audio API in the game, which can simulate sound reflections, occlusion, reverb, and HRTF directional positioning to the listener for sound sources. Would make a ton of sense for a cave environment.
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by LichenStone 5y ago
> “An overly precise memory is maybe not really what we want in the long term, because it prevents us from using our memories to generalize them to new situations,” she said in San Diego at a recent meeting of the Society for Neuroscienc
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by LichenStone 5y ago
The first paragraph on the facism Wikipedia page seems like a decent working definition. It's always a shame when people use such important terms thoughtlessly or in bad faith, integrity in the meanings of things seems like an importan
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Why were so many spomeniks destroyed or abandoned?(spomenikdatabase.org)
1 points by LichenStone 5y ago|0 comments
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by LichenStone 5y ago
I tend to write in a very non-linear fashion, I'll often write individual sentences and paragraphs in a different order to the final product, as I think of them. Then I fill in the gaps, move things around until the writing forms a lin
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by LichenStone 5y ago
Do you mean 'chattering'? Double presses can happen with electrical contact mechanism switches, particularly if they are old or dirty.
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The Weakness of the Despot – Stephen Kotkin(newyorker.com)
2 points by LichenStone 5y ago|0 comments
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by LichenStone 5y ago
Article scheduled to be published 2 days after the start of the invasion, was promptly removed when it became clear the 'special operation' wasn't going to plan - http://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154
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by LichenStone 5y ago
This is an interesting source, thank you.
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by LichenStone 5y ago
Someone who's thoughts I've been listening to for some time now is the cognitive scientist and AI researcher Joscha Bach. As far as I'm concerned he has the best model of our consciousness, life, the universe and maybe everyt
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by LichenStone 5y ago
This is my very favourite Alan Kay talk. I particular like 1:05:34, which reinforces just how passionate he is about computing as one of the best things humans have ever come up with. Also > "Most people can only deal with the pres

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