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Saving Weight on an Interplanetary Lander Using Topology Optimization(autodesk.com)
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Get some gerbils, they love to chew up cardboard! It would be like one compulsive helping out another. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGb4tqOMt1A (Only joking people, don't buy pets unless you are ready to properly ca
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by gerbilly 8y ago
This is why I have to laugh at people who deride older non digital technologies: film cameras (negatives last hundreds of years if stored properly), photographic prints (archive quality non acid paper last ~100s of years also. I have 40 yea
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> you couldn't legally obtain US dollars anywhere, you could only get them if someone sent them to you for instance or if you had legitimate business with the West This reminds me of a funny story. A friend of mine lived in north Am
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> it is clear that there has to be a genetic predisposition that make it easier for this type of behavior to be triggered. You just described one of the major theories about the onset and progression of mental illness: the diathesis&#x2F
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Well it depends, you just don't want just any ash, not ash from burning random garbage anyway. The best ash for soap-making comes from burning hardwood, IIRC.
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It's been a long time so I'm ok, thanks for asking. People who haven't been in that kind of relationship can't really know what it's like. You really do have to sever all ties with a person like that. You can'
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by gerbilly 8y ago
All mental disorders are made of up behaviours, and mental processes that are common to everyone, just taken to an extreme. It usually starts to be considered a disorder when it starts to interfere with functioning, or maintaining healthy r
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Using you as a 'sidekick' so that they can bask in their reflected greatness. They prop up their self esteem by surrounding themselves with people who provide them with admiration. Often narcissistic people are exceptionally talen
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I had to disentangle myself from a friend who was a narcissist. Looking back it feels like I was his 'sidekick'. I was one of his sources of narcissistic supply. He thought he was improving me, helping me with my 'problems&#
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I read it more allegorically than that. Being at war with nature is a good metaphor for our behaviour, because we seem determined to completely vanquish it and bend it to our will. Of course it's a bitter irony that if we are at war wi
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Plant trees and revive massive amount of land loss that most countries have caused due to poor stewardship In some places you can't even plant the trees back. For example if you clearcut trees on a karst landscape, the rain washe
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Wendell Berry once wrote that we are at war with nature, and I think the metaphor is quite appropriate. This war, like most wars, has turned out to be a trickier business than we expected. We must now face two shocking surprises. The first
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by gerbilly 8y ago
10+3 = 13 when talking about coconuts, but 10+3 = 1 when talking about time[1] [1] In America anyways.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
The article mentions we store vitamin D for use in the winter. It also suggests pale skin may have evolved to allow us to produce way more vitamin D in the summer to compensate for cloudy winters. So, the advice would seem to be, go outside
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Is it strange that I get some level of measurable joy out of reading something official that contains a rational and balanced take on a subject I got joy reading the article because it basically tells you not to worry about moderate
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Well, when I got on the internet in 1988, we were all 'smart, high-agency people who have time to spare' Supposing we manage to solve this problem, what's to say average people can't participate in 10 years or so or so w
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Some got to market earlier and the used network effects to retain the market.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> How did 'skilled' programmers recover when a daemon crashed in Sys5 init-based systems? Maybe the daemons didn't crash so often as now? I never understood this new approach, which consists of writing a server process in
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Because in the tech/software industry, the second best thing always wins. Windows vs OS/2[1], x86 vs. Motorola, Atari vs. Intellivision, Betamax vs VHS ... See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_bett
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by gerbilly 8y ago
We have wild chickadees and nuthatches which eat out of our hands in our backyard.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I read it in the original, and I found the only way to do it was to read it for the impression it creates. His sentences are long, and almost devoid of action sometimes, but you get used to reading in this way. The payoff is that he had stu
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> The parent still considers them 'wild' despite providing alternate food source which changes their behavioral patterns. Who says this is changing their behavioural patterns? Maybe native people in north america have been r
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Reposting from below. Eastern grey squirrels were deliberately introduced into city parks for the enjoyment of people.[1] Also wild animals are flexible enough in their behaviour to accommodate interactions with humans. If you observe them
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Meh, I'm just talking about everyday interactions with squirrels in the yard. You're not telling me I'm going to need a lawyer to negotiate that, are you? :-) It's consensual, the squirrels enjoy the interaction and so
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I've wondered, though. What constitutes a pet? We don't need categories to be so rigid. I have some squirrels in the yard who recognise me and follow me around until I feed them. I call them 'yard pets'. Sometimes t
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> But taxi rides seem an odd hill to die on with respect to this question. You could say that insisting that you have the source code to all the software you use also seems like and 'odd hill to die on' but I think now the gene
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But you could argue that's what civilization is based on, normal people making deals with each other face to face.
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>[I] find Word more than sufficient. Ugh, just...no. (de gustibus et coloribus non disputandum)
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Yeah, but I think removing the possibility of those experiences introduces too much intermediation into daily life for everyone else. I cherish those possibilities, like I cherish freedom. I may not exercise my full freedom every day, but I

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