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I didn't notice, but you're right, it really does!

Consensus in this thread seems to be that this is a neat gimmick but nothing else.

Maybe because I have a friend working on a video game as a solo developer, and putting a /lot/ of energy/money/time into art--I really see the potential in this (type of thing).

This is not really for the player's benefit to put on whatever mods they want.

This is for fast iteration for artists and creators to automate a huge (sometimes necessary evil) burden.

Location: Digital Nomad

Remote: sure

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: full stack generalist about 6 months into a transition to AI. pytorch/fastai docker

Resume: github.com/gdoteof

Email: geoffgolder [a] gmail.com

To be fair, the article did little to nothing to address if it's theoretically plausible. Just that we are far away at the moment.

Light curve is hard to explain without tumbling, and my suggestion is it could be explained by the solar sail changing it's reflectiveness purposefully.

I don't find the author's reasoning in the related article[1] that its not a solar sail very convincing. I am not an astrophysicist, but, the author plainly admits that the measurements are within expected bounds of a solar sail.

Instead, the argument is surrounding the psychology of the hypothetical creators of said solar sail, or plausible ways we missed some data. Since we are just speculating at this point, who am I to say?

But to answer some specific criticisms:

- Perhaps the brightness/darkness cycles were the sail turning on and off as a mechanism to control velocity

- Perhaps the 25km/s speed being a crawl for interstellar travel was because it was meant to slow down while passing through our solar system. Either so we might notice it, or so it can collect data while here a bit better.

I am having a hard time understanding how rare an event this space-foam-fractal theory is predicting, but if it's extremely rare a solar sail seems a completely reasonable hypothesis still.

1. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/is-oumuamua-an-interstellar-sp...

I think it’s very dangerous to tell people not to go around claiming the internet is doomed.

People doing that appears to have been the very thing that built the consensus to stop the legislation.

I went back and learned a lot of math recently. I found the 3Blue1Brown youtube channel to be hands down the most useful for developing intuition.

I honestly don't think there is better mathematical content than his being made.

I use ddg as my primary search. I haven’t counted but my gut says I do a second search on google ~40% or more.

I like ddg, i support them, but for any but the most basic queries google is a solid tier above.

Well, they certainly can't compete on search quality.

> consumed 500 ml of freshly brewed dark roast coffee blend per day,

half a liter per day of coffee is a lot! I wonder if they controlled for caffeine

some highlights from my reading:

- 372mg caffeine per day

- water-only group specifically avoided caffeine

- coffee/caffeine group had to abstain from all caffeine for 4 weeks before study (baseline to 300+mg a day is a LOT for someone with no tolerance)

- they base their claim of the 'darkness' of the roast mattering on other similar studies, with less pronounced results, that used lighter roasts.

"Among several previous studies of the effects of coffee consumption on DNA damage, only two were randomised controlled trials, with DNA breakage rather than oxidative modification of DNA bases analysed [23]. Bakuradze et al. [14] also studied the effects of coffee C21 consumption, after 4 weeks of intervention, and found a decrease of DNA strand breaks by 27% in comparison to the control group with water consumption (p<0.001). Misik et al. [22] studied a much shorter intervention period (5 days) and a different coffee type and used isolated lymphocytes. In comparison to C21, the coffee had an approximately twofold content of caffeoyl quinic acids and trigonelline and about half of N-methylpyridinium. Therefore, the coffee used by Misik et al. is a light/ medium roast type while we used here a dark roast blend. We assume that the different degree of roasting accounts for the different outcome observed. "

> Step one is getting you to use a compromised server.

This is not at all uncommon. Consider I need to send you files, either once or on a batch schedule.

You say, "give me your key, you can drop them on this server"

I feel safe since I am just writing files to your server, not expecting you are going to drop arbitrary code that will run next time I open my terminal.

> When is it a bug fix, and when is it a hard fork?

The simple answer is that this is a false dichotomy. A hard fork was necessary to fix this bug.

I will say maybe, if and only if, you have an objective measure of such.

As it stands the slippery slope of abuse far outweighs any potential benefits.

Is there any other game that has been consistently making "the news" for a decade?

What I want to know is, do they tend to "bank and climb away"

I don't see any evidence that people perceive them to be less bad. That article fakes a reference to that claim but it goes to a link that is irrelevant to the claim.

I have known many menthol smokers and have spent most of my life around smokers. I have literally never once heard the opinion menthol was somehow safer. In fact, I have often heard the opposite; with claims that the menthols have "fiber glass" in them.

Actually, I would say Yelp is far worse than it was 5 years ago. Not sure how much fault it is of Yelp's, but reviews aren't really worth as much today as they were in Yelp's early days.

I went on (am on) a long international trip, and had my mail forwarded to my father's. It prompted me to sign up for that, and without any verification I immeidately started getting scans of every package being sent to my father's house. He was never notified by them, nothing came in the mail. This was ~8 months ago.

Vermont legalized but set up no tax structure. Legal to grow and gift, but not sell. There was a lot of pressure to get it legal, a veto from the governor, and apparently no consensus on how to tax/license it.

I am currently in Cuenca Ecuador. It's certainly not true that everyone speaks english, but there is a strong ex-pat community.

It's a beautiful, very cheap city. There is fiber internet and there are universities here. A good intellectual atomosphere? Hard to say; there are intelligent people around and you can become friends.

I am here specifically to focus on intellectual pursuits while living cheaply. Latin America in general is wonderful for that.

probably using stolen CC's to buy ads

I am extremely skeptical that they can get good tracking with no base stations on mobile-esque hardware. But if they can, wow!

Ive never had a NDE, but I have had DMT. Reality itself pales in comparison to how "real" and vivid the experience was.

Unlike other hallucinogens which apply a "filter" to the senses, DMT was like a wormhole to another dimension.

If that's what death is like, it makes me think consciousness would asymptotically approach anhiliation but live "forever" in whatever state a DMT trip is.

I experienced this for years, but it never seemed to actually affect "rest". I'd have multiple intense dreams per night, waking up often between them. But not feeling sleep deprived at all, if anything the opposite. However i was also in my early 20s so maybe it would be harder now.

The government doesn't need to run one. They just slurp up data from the ones we sign unto voluntarily.

By your definition, something could be both under valued and over valued at the same time.

I find an ultra powerful visionary being childish and making fart jokes very funny.

Very short backstory: I was very severely punished for breaking security on our pcs at school (utilizing interactive startup on windows 95 to not start the "fortress" process.)

For a final project presented which was ostensibly a limited auto-translation application, I made an application which just popped up an alert, "program unable to run due to security"

Got an A!

I enjoy lurking some niche subs

/r/waifuism is probably my favorite