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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmer_code

The python library 'permutation' has some functionality around this that's fun to play with:

https://permutation.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#permutation.Pe...

I found new joy in shuffling a deck of cards, after learning that every (proper) shuffle that every human's ever done has returned a unique deck that nobody's ever held before.

edit: I just remembered a guy who made a javascript demo that encodes small strings into a card deck order: https://jerde.net/peter/cards/cards.html (explanation page linked)

Have Joplin plugins been secured/sandboxed yet, or are they still able to exfiltrate data? That's one reason I never used it for very secure notes, same with Obsidian. Joplin also used to store notes unencrypted locally, not sure if that's still the case. Of course most people don't mind, but I was investigating the highest-security note tool I could find at the time.

Deaths from Excessive Alcohol Use — United States, 2016–2021 from CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 73, No. 8, Feb 29, 2024

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/pdfs/mm7308a1-H.pdf

- One third of these deaths (about 61,000 deaths) happen from drinking too much on one occasion, such as from motor vehicle crashes, poisonings involving substances in addition to alcohol, and suicides.

There are a few gists floating around regarding how to export by remote chrome debugging an older version of Authy desktop app, which still worked for me recently. This page explains too:

https://jaketrent.com/post/export-authy-desktop-data/

If you are a comedian working on a joke and write one about a political assassination in your private journal, certainly you can't be charged with communicating a threat, because you did not communicate it. But if a friend/enemy finds your notebook, knows you have no intent to harm, but reports the journal to authorities out of spite anyways, then the friend could be culpable for communicating a false threat, even though the joke is in your handwriting. Maybe they were getting at something like that?

In any case, it was very awkward wording at best for a report from Reuters, it should have been either explained or left out.

I really liked the LED explanation at the 4:00 mark. Can anyone who is familiar with semiconductor physics opine on how well this explanation models the reality?

I was thinking of this being the first half of the twin paradox, but perhaps for the apparent "time gap" in the spacetime diagram to appear, it's necessary for the traveling twin to turn and head back towards Earth quickly to shift simultaneity plane back in the other direction.

I think the lasers would also need ~10,000 years of fuel, as opposed to ~10 years of fuel if you could somehow figure out how to carry it. But the energy to sustain in either case is probably measured in Dyson spheres, or some fraction of all energy in the universe pretty quickly too.

This seems cool if there are more complex needs or configuration that can't be done with simple proxying and nginx rules.

I think what those people are either missing or ignoring is that his main motivation was to be a spiritual entertainer, as he described it, and I believe he's best interpreted and understood that way as well.

If people want to learn a rigorous deep understanding of certain philosophies and spiritual beliefs, there are innumerable other ways to dive into this, and better people to listen to. To me, his conveyance of ideas is better suited to impart interesting and different ways of looking at the world in a general manner and to pique one's imagination, not to learn spiritual concepts in a rigorous way.

I always felt he succeeded in that way, simply by attracting more people towards an interest in a spirituality and philosophy, and giving a starting point from which they can pursue serious ideas if their interest is sustained.

Also, how can the test masses remain in free fall, while each satellite is undergoing course corrections? Or are corrections infrequent enough for satellites in this earth-following orbit that it wouldn't cause any real amount of downtime? Of course Earth is free-falling.

In case anyone missed the multiple duplicate HN postings from this person's comments-

https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa...

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Check out the 2022 study "Comparison of psychedelic and near-death or other non-ordinary experiences in changing attitudes about death and dying"

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Specifically Table 7, which shows changes in attitudes of psychedelic vs non-drug (who had non-drug near-death or other non-ordinary experiences) participants.

It shows changes of certain attitudes towards death between these two groups. There is a large positive change in curiosity about death. The increase in the attitude you mention, the Approach acceptance ("I look forward to life after death") was actually increased more in the non-drug participants who underwent NDE or similar, as compared with psychedelic participants. But a far larger effect in the decrease of avoidance attitudes ("I avoid death thoughts at all costs"), and an even larger effect in simply having a reduced fear of death.

From this, and from personal psychedelic experience, I do not think increased belief in an afterlife is the primary driver of a reduced fear of death following psychedelic experience. I think the attitude change has much more to do with gaining universal acceptance of death as a natural consequence of life.

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jfkihlstrom/ConsciousnessWeb/P...

I also found very interesting Rick Doblin's 1991 published critique of the Good Friday experiment, a few years after founding MAPS.

https://erowid.org/plants/mushrooms/mushrooms_journal2.pdf

I love this - I've never heard the euphemism impact your experience used to mean that your life may end. What a wild PR assignment

(language off the company's safety notice https://www.omnipod.com/en-gb/fsn-11-2023)

One thing that's rarely mentioned is that for employees who accrue fixed vacation time, the monetary value of this time tends to be legally required in most US states to be paid out upon the employee's termination. I'd guess that with unlimited vacation time, $0 is paid out.

"This isn't working and I'd like to start this again with a new ChatGPT conversation. Can you suggest a new improved prompt to complete this task, that takes into account everything we've learned so far?"

It has given me good prompt suggestions that can immediately get a script working on the first try, after a frustrating series of blind spot bugs.