lostmyoldone

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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
Good question! I'm not entirely sure, but if we consider that: 1) Air is a decent insulator compared to earth 2) Most thunderstorms are quite close to the ground 3) The electric potential is caused by colliding masses of air. I would
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
If you get a solid strike, I would agree that almost all bets are off. At least unless you put some real money into it, but nothing that usually makes sense unless you are protecting really expensive equipment. A friend of mine had a stri
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
Had a relatively close strike happen during a thunderstorm, a thunderstorm that was intense enough that we had to stop the car entirely as you couldn't even see the hood of the car through the waterfall like rain. When the lightning st
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
It kind of makes sense, actually. We're extremely good pattern matchers, much more than we are aware of, but it stand to reason that as our more complex survival mechanisms seems to have close ties to how we perceive ourselves and mayb
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
I don't think presidents or any other dignitaries should get preferential treatment regarding behavior on a social network any more than their behavior would be excused in a social situation without their title. As long as it's ca
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
I looked into it a few years ago. Because it's also about structural racism, you need to compare rastes and numbers with comparable international figures, as there are biases stacked upon biases if you only look at domestic relative ra
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
If it was only third parties, then maybe. But if google analytics actually tracks data from a logged in incognito session, then it's probably a completely different in the eyes of the law. It becomes more like: The mask maker put the n
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
This is too long, weird, and yeah. I was too tired, sorry about that. But anyway, meds+therapy+physical movement+probably magnesium and zinc is good, only meds usually a bit pointless. If your near term memory is especially crap, prescripti
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
There's no "biological proof" of a lot of things that has to do with a brain, and while some people do anything for money - even if their title say "doctor" - ADD/ADHD is still a very, very, real thing. We migh
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
Absolutely. The years in my life between when my daughter was ~ 7-11 I don't really remember at all, it's still quite painful to not really remember those years. I was alive, but not really living. I could not get the simplest thi
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
I got diagnosed with ADD in my late thirties, and by then I could only do the dishes and clean my apartment if I didn't sleep the night before. Since then, I've met several people with ADD/ADHD that has the same experience, a
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
Tagging this on: If one is a chronic procrastinator and also find the idea that people doesn't think about something exactly all the time to be a very strange thought, it might be worth doing at least an initial evaluation for ADD. A
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
Big tired after an intense day, and I haven't really sat down and digested the article, but it seems close enough that I think my - admittedly primitive - tip can be of relevance. If you get stuck, you tell yourself in whatever way you
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
There are research where they've done short haul (~1km i think) neutrino comms at about 0.1bit/s. Slow but still cool, and yes if you could get high enough bitrate for less money than you could gain in HFT trade, it would probably
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
I can agree that uncontrolled digital lending for all future wouldn't be in the best interest of society under the current economic system, but while the letter of the law might not change during a chrisis, how it is interpreted very w
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
If you have an FPS or interactivity target that needs to be guaranteed to be better than about 0.1-1 second - depending on platform - you can't have any disk IO at all on the UI thread, or any thread that's supposed to react at in
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
There's more than a few clues that at least some depressions, or rather - depression like states - on short timescales are closely related to our brains dynamic "electrochemical" state than of anything else, as disrupting the
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
In some sense your eye might not care, but it really do seem that either eye or the brain cares. Not necessarily about the background or foreground itself unless the background is really bright, but something more like the relative contrast
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
If I understood it correctly, the risk of "exhaustion" was one of th drivers of the strategy here in Sweden. Apart from the fact that ordering a lockdown would have been impossible. Yes, the possibility was explored, but it was fo
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
I don't know the specifics of etherum, I actually do think they are somewhat robust against the more trivial attacks. However, in some blockchains it is absolutely feasible to become a majority miner for a short period of time by simpl
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
There is a strong culture of reaching for consensus, and to (in most cases) follow rules and recommendations, but it's nothing even close to a taboo to criticize public figures. We generally criticize everything, and everyone, but ther
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
After reading the article and your response, I've tried to get an overview of John Rawl, theory, and criticism. However the scholarly criticism I can find referenced don't seem to mention any of the issues you list. They mention a
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
There are 43/42.5" monitors that aren't too expensive, but if you want much bigger you will have to go TV, which can work okay as long as they support a reasonable colorspace encoding that enables quick enough color changes b
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
Yes it is if you physical ability to resolve pixels (eyesight) are less than the DPI of the smaller monitor, which I take to be what was what the top poster shockinglytrue meant by his age related character point size increase.
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
For non whitespace text that might be a good figure but it doesn't automatically imply that the same would be true for the full width indented text. I don't personally feel that the indentation most programming languages employ ha
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
I wonder what the equivalent of 10 words is for code in <programming language> ? The large number of symbols in many languages that are clearly not words in the usual sense might make the comparison a bit tricky, or wouldn't it ?
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
It's not impossible they are breaking Swedish law, as our computer security laws essentially requires you to have an explicit right to do something with regards to someone elses computing resources to be allowed to do so. As far as I u
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
I only know a very little rust, but since it's generally a good practice to never defer writing (or other side effects) to an ambiguous future point in time - with memory allocations as the only plausible exception - is there any way i
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
This one rests squarely on Apple, as it was their auth service that contained the bug. While an application could potentially (not that I know exactly how in this case) further verify the received token, that verification is exactly what an
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by lostmyoldone 6y ago
Is this actually true, except from a normative perspective? Onne would definitely expect the highly gifted to think/act differently socially as well as in several other areas, but is it actually correct to say they have less "deve

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