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by quchen 1y ago
Fake with a layer of gold around it has the same moments of inertia.
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by quchen 1y ago
No, that measures volume, not gold content. Anything at least as dense as gold, maybe with with gaps in it to match the density, and a layer of gold around it is indistinguishable from pure gold this way. A more reliable and still relativel
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by quchen 1y ago
How are you? I hope this message finds you well. I have a question. ------- It’s simply not a game I want to play. My mind recommends answering »state your business«, but my polite-mind tells me not to.
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by quchen 1y ago
Have you been to a really long opera? It’s quite impressive. After hours of pretty intense performance and singing, can you not appreciate the street musician the day after? Do you have a strong desire to go to the opera again the following
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by quchen 1y ago
You make it sound very negative. It’s a strong experience, and after a strong experience most people have it on their mind, and talking about it is one way to integrate the experience. Previously insufferable people have a new channel to be
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by quchen 1y ago
Losing control is something that happens at higher doses. It’s hard to quantify this without prior experience, but most substances can be taken on a level of »three beer drunk« where you’re very clearly not sober, but you can still talk, an
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by quchen 1y ago
Quite the opposite, much like when skydiving, going really fast without any close reference point makes everything stand still. And in space, there wouldn’t even be (very loud) atmospheric drag to physically remind you about what speed you’
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by quchen 1y ago
It baffles me how there are still blogposts with a serious attitude about this topic. It’s akin to discussing possible loopholes of how homeopathy might be medicinally helpful beyond placebo, again and again. Why are hyperreals even mention
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by quchen 2y ago
Thank you for your work on XFCE. It's been the best WM/UI for me for over a decade.
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by quchen 2y ago
I beg to differ! But it takes a while for it to become intuitive. »Chain in, rail out« gets you 90% there though.
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by quchen 2y ago
A video game is a very well-defined problem, and usually comes with simple metrics for success – health, time, or in Factorio’s case, ultimately science per minute (or per minute played, for AIs?). Real world problems are much harder to def
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by quchen 2y ago
Sounds interesting, could you post that checklist?
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by quchen 2y ago
It’s the same dose (per body mass!) for humans, and ketamine is heavily used in human medicine for similar reasons. The main difference is that for horses it’s mostly used as an anesthetic, while for humans it’s also used at lower doses as
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by quchen 2y ago
It is however not unheard of, or even uncommon. With moderate tolerance, binging a couple of hours will reach the 1g threshold quite quickly. Ketamine tolerance upon continued use can reach some really wild levels. I’ve worked with people w
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by quchen 2y ago
1404 gets samey after a while (when going for the monuments). I’d say 1800+DLCs is the same game, but with so many regions and tiers and options.
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by quchen 2y ago
Ha, my first Anno was 1503. Guess what in my mind is the prettiest Anno! 1404 and 1800 are nice too I guess. o:-) (A friend’s mum was famous among us kids because she could play 1602 well, I always got bankrupted by tools. How did she do it
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by quchen 2y ago
The post says > His nazi salute was probably not a nazi salute That’s it.
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by quchen 2y ago
Just so you know, my downvote for this !@*(% comment is one of the few ways we Germans dare to be patriotic.
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by quchen 2y ago
It certainly adds to it, especially here in Germany. However, the number of times I heard comments like »I don’t want to worry about my car not starting if Musk starts throwing a tantrum« has been quite constant the last couple of months if
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by quchen 2y ago
A good example is "the subtle art of not giving a fuck". It's a book where the author rediscovers stoicism, badly, hidden within a chapter where they use "fuck" a lot. Reading any amount of say Seneca will be better
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by quchen 2y ago
> Even calling it 'overdoses' is nonsensical. It has a very clear definition and "did not like the experience" is not it. Overdose can mean multiple things, the one you’re referring to is the medicinal overdose with d
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by quchen 2y ago
MDMA and ketamie synergize nontrivially and strongly. I highly recommend against taking MDMA to ease off the ketamie. If you want to combine them for the resulting experience then power to you, but taking MDMA to make ketamie "simpler&
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by quchen 2y ago
I’ve come to appreciate power-limited DSLs. The problem is, they are very tricky to design: too simple and users will start templating, or even worse: programming in them (e.g. Yaml+Sh); too powerful and you’ve got yourself another full pro
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by quchen 2y ago
In my experience, sacred geometry, and all these other terms like frequencies and energies and what not create highly ambiguous language. Esoteric concepts piggy-backing on physics’ success (or mathematics), trying to legitimize nonsense. M
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by quchen 2y ago
I totally agree with this being an obviously bad idea, but then again I thought Twitter was an obviously bad idea because we had SMS, and Instagram would be an obvious bad idea because who would take pictures of themselves all day long.
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by quchen 2y ago
Unless this concept becomes a mass phenomenon with many implementations, isn’t this pretty easy to filter out? And furthermore, since this antagonizes billion-dollar companies that can spin up teams doing nothing but browse Github and HN fo
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by quchen 2y ago
I think Idris addresses this fairly well, if there's more than one instance (and the code is ambiguous) you have to annotate which one.
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by quchen 2y ago
Sometimes, yes. Depends on the venue. Taking a sticker off is a zero discussion throwing out reason in some places (filming or not), and an overhead phone filming is hard to hide. The sticker is a clear sign that it's not just words on
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by quchen 2y ago
There are a couple of smaller burns here I have connections to, I like the participatory idea, as opposed to pure consumption like a holiday park. If burning man is (or was) like that I would find that pretty appealing. Not sure about Augus
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by quchen 2y ago
I want to dance like that though, so I don't go to places without a no picture policy (important: with stickers) anymore.

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