ashes-of-sol

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by ashes-of-sol 2y ago
Orbital velocity increases as you get closer to the middle, not the other way around. An example closer to home, our orbital velocity around the Sun is 29.8km/s. Mercury is 47.9km/s (on average, it actually varies throughout its o
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by ashes-of-sol 3y ago
Every now and then I'll have a craving for a can of coke to go with some pizza, and every time I'm amazed at just how sugary it is, how bad it makes my teeth feel, and the impact it has on my body
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by ashes-of-sol 3y ago
It's such a shame, because the flight engine is superb, the graphics and sound design are spectacular, and (especially in VR) the immersion is just superb. But the game is a _grind_. It does not respect the players time at all.
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by ashes-of-sol 3y ago
Sure, if you want to make it dead simple for bad actors to be able to get around safety measures. This is a complete non-starter from a user safety standpoint.
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by ashes-of-sol 4y ago
Yeah, you wouldn't put out a trail camera and say "look at the selfie this deer took!". I'm willing to grant the author a little slack though considering this seems pretty tongue in cheek
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by ashes-of-sol 4y ago
There are different types of depression. Some are related to how we live, either as a person or the society we find ourselves in. But others are related to physical brain imbalances which will absolutely benefit from medication.
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by ashes-of-sol 5y ago
> It means developing your skills or learning new ones, and coming to a new understanding of a topic of interest. This feels very much like "outer" work, tacking on new skills or understanding about externalities. "Inner w
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by ashes-of-sol 5y ago
Error messages are much easier to parse now!
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by ashes-of-sol 5y ago
Rich did a talk about this back in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhkdyCPYgLs
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by ashes-of-sol 5y ago
It's not. First, it's not just satellites. There's hundreds of thousands of pieces the size of a marble that'll cause catastrophic damage. And even more smaller pieces, even millimetre long bits of paint have caused dama
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by ashes-of-sol 5y ago
Would you mind sharing the abandoned libs/framework? When you say you have too many "I'm clever" functions, do you mean within code your team wrote, or in the ecosystem at large?
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by ashes-of-sol 5y ago
I think saying it's "not even close to ready" is way over the top. I've been vegan for two years and was a cheese lover prior to that, and I'm happy with the selection there is for doing things like mac and cheese,
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by ashes-of-sol 7y ago
Decisions about who to put on a ventilator are happening daily in Italy. It is no exaggeration
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by ashes-of-sol 7y ago
We have universal health care, but that does not typically cover dental, mental, or pharma costs. I think our system has been allowed to be mediocre because it still looks good compared to the US
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by ashes-of-sol 7y ago
Perhaps instead of "pro life", a better moniker would be "forced birth"