coremoff

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by coremoff 4y ago
For the London underground, I've always used a metric of "five minutes per two stops" and this has served me very well over the years
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by coremoff 4y ago
it's what he should have done before signing the deal he signed
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by coremoff 4y ago
I think it only show "any random video with music" if you've liked the video and it appears to be a legitimate music video (i.e. without dialog/non-musical noises etc.). I use YtM a lot and the only questionable videos
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by coremoff 4y ago
the ads are displayed in the smart inbox tabs; if you have turned this off, you won't see ads
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by coremoff 5y ago
I had a similar experience when I tried to learn Polish; my friends, who knew I was trying to learn, simply couldn't understand what I was saying, and couldn't guess either (and my ear found it very difficult to hear the differenc
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by coremoff 5y ago
ah, thank you; I will correct above
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by coremoff 5y ago
Photons are massless and hence always travel at the speed of light. Photons have a wavelength, and that determins their energy; photons of a same wavelength will all have the same energy; the photons discussed in this article have very shor
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by coremoff 5y ago
this is my own experience too. Also in the UK (except that there's no exception; it's all whatsapp)
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by coremoff 5y ago
I have a subscription to YtM; I think it's great (though I think the user interface isn't as good as GpM was). Playing a radio based on a track I like is very good for discovering new music and bands - it has consistently given me
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by coremoff 5y ago
Not an expert; please correct me if anything is wrong. My understanding is: 1. there needs to be somewhere to escape to, for the schwarzschild radius to make sense, and there's no "outside" to the universe 2. we don't kn
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by coremoff 5y ago
yes, it works for whatsapp; note that it does bypass Do Not Disturb, but won't make any noises if you've turned the phone to silent or vibrate.
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by coremoff 5y ago
the thing that I don't understand is why people think that there would be a simulation of a universe; surely it would be more likely that this is a simulation of "you" (well me as obviously you lot aren't real) - vastly
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by coremoff 5y ago
I've only watched the the first five minutes of that video; I think he has some fundamental misconceptions that make it difficult to take much from what he's saying. e.g. for #2 wave/partical duality (which isn't necessa
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by coremoff 5y ago
I don't know that it's a problem, and I'm no expert; my understanding is that differences like that can sometimes indicate that there's something else at play
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by coremoff 5y ago
somewhat related, I think, is the enormous disparity between the strength of the strong/week/electromagnetic forces and gravity (30 or 40 orders of magnitude); possible indication that there's something missing
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by coremoff 5y ago
> if anyone else has any other recommendations in same genre of time travel and re-booting up civilisation There's a couple that I know of: https://www.goodreads.com/series/40821-belisarius https://w
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by coremoff 5y ago
For anyone interested, they do tours in several languages. Additionally, the tours have two sections - the first half that everyone does, and then they offer you the choice of going back up, or going to the museum area; definitely worth spe
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by coremoff 5y ago
you might like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvmuCPvRoWQ
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by coremoff 5y ago
The lesswrong community has discussed this at length, though I think that the value is reduced somewhat by them refusing to release any transcripts of their simulated attempts (where a human pretends to the the AI and someone else is tasked
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by coremoff 5y ago
Without meaning to defend it too much, as I believe it's mostly a marketting/lobying thing... As I understand it, the issue was whether or not you could count a pizza towards your vegetable quota. The argument came down to the nut
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by coremoff 5y ago
it's a big "if"; it's not possible for objects with mass to accelerate to light speed. If you were able to do so, yes you could "get" anywhere in zero subjective time - as mentioned earlier, since no time passe
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by coremoff 5y ago
That is correct. Obviously, given that, you would have no way of stopping, so your arrival would be abrupt (ignoring whatever magical affects would be necessary to accelerate a massive object to light speed).
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by coremoff 5y ago
> What could happen if the speed of light dropped to 16km/s? I've not read the books, but I have read the synopsis, and when I read this bit I was somewhat surprised as there are so many things that break that new limit - would
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by coremoff 5y ago
Gary Gensler thinks crypto is part of their remit: > The SEC has a three-part mission — to protect investors, facilitate capital formation, and maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets in between them. We focus on financial stabilit
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by coremoff 5y ago
thanks again. > photographically document I have aphantasia, so it's a little more abstract for me, but I can still walk around spaces and pin concepts to them :)
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by coremoff 5y ago
one more question, if you'll indulge me: do you keep a number of empty palaces ready for when you'll next need one, or do you create them on demand?
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by coremoff 5y ago
many thanks, that's really useful - I've been wanting/trying to sort out my memory for a while (I did use PAO for a while before it fell out of use, and I've used a small palace for trivial things like shopping lists), a
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by coremoff 5y ago
so many questions :) > So I memorized books. Convert a book into 100-250 bullet points, memorize them in a memory palace do you have one palace per book? Many bullet points per location? Very big memory palaces? do you memorise as you re
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by coremoff 5y ago
I haven't played much 5E, but they probably removed a lot of that when they simplified everything
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by coremoff 5y ago
don't know how it was fixed in DF, however that feels like a problem that was "solved" in DND; if you try and move via a medium for which you don't have a natural speed, you make a check - if you have a natural speed you

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