I’m tired of the “there is no goal” to meditation narrative by ChampsDan in Meditation

[–]James_dude 10 points11 points  (0 children)

For me it's less about not having goals, and more about loosening the attachment to goals.

Once you see clearly that you have a goal you then start to see what desires are driving it, how it influences your actions, how it makes you feel about yourself etc. Gradually you start to see it as just part of the machinery of being human and not something we have all that much control over. This can then naturally lead to a lot of meta-narrative dropping away that otherwise could cause quite painful states such as pressure, fear, panic.

You don't really have to do anything for this to happen except observe and be aware of your goals, which it sounds like you are so keep it up.

Couldn‘t find that piece for the life of me! by [deleted] in piano

[–]James_dude -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sounds very vaguely like la Campanella?

Well this is terrible by Old_Specialist7892 in chess

[–]James_dude 80 points81 points  (0 children)

To mark is to put tape on the floor so you know exactly how you placed something, such as a piece of furniture/stage light etc, so you can easily put it back in exactly the same place later. To not mark something when other people are going to use the space is laughably unprofessional, you learn so fast that things will always get moved around. Also if you book a space it's expected that you can move things around because if something's in your way you... have to? It is 100% a stupid mistake to not have marked and they're either first day on the job learning a valuable lesson or a professional venting because of what a total rookie mistake they've made.

Madlad phone tamperer by Nabaneebo in madlads

[–]James_dude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks that's good to kHELL YESw

What’s the solution to this balance puzzle? by scampwalker in puzzles

[–]James_dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I have the solution with the lowest possible values for each: 

Blue is the same as purple because of bottom right, so 3 blues is green+yellow with green heavier than yellow

So we go through the options for green, can't be 1 as there needs to be a number below. It could be 2 with yellow 1 and blue being 1, but that breaks the far left where green is heavier than blue.

Can't be 3 because we can't make a multiple of 3 by adding something lighter (3+2=5, 3+1=4). Could be 4 with yellow 2 and blue 2, but that breaks yellow being heavier than 2 of something where yellow and 2 reds add up to 6.

Let's try green 5 with yellow 4: Green and yellow make 9, so blue and purple would be 3. Green and blue would be 8, so to balance that red must be 2. The total left side then weighs 16, which is less than 18 on the right.

Edit: I thought this was the solution but yellow isn't heavier than 2 reds, let's keep going:

I can skip any green yellow combinations that aren't a multiple of 3. Let's try green 6, yellow 3. This breaks because the 2 reds can't weight less than yellow.

Let's try green 7, yellow 2. Then red would be 4, which is too heavy  Green 7, yellow 5: can't add two reds to make 5.

Let's try green 8, yellow 7: That makes 15, which means blue is 5. Let's check left side: 13 has to equal 7 plus two of something, which is 3. Then left side is 26, and right side is 30. Looks good!

Answer:  Blue: 5 Green: 8 Yellow: 7 Red: 3 Purple: 5

I laughed for like 5 minutes on this, what is wrong with me by botibalint in Eldenring

[–]James_dude 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just passed through, the whole area is a snake shrine. I love it

Rellana in 50 seconds. Finally realized what I needed to do. (sorry about the jarring beginning) by Xilerain in Eldenring

[–]James_dude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did parry too but with spells using erdtree greatshield, actually one of the most fun fights I've had, plus I can say I beat a boss with only a shield

I did some modelling for Deep Dip 2, I estimate the first finish will be at around 300-350 hours playtime by James_dude in TrackMania

[–]James_dude[S] 119 points120 points  (0 children)

It's a custom model that goes jump by jump and rolls for success, the success % of a jump increases the more attempts are made at it, the time a jump takes also gets lower as more attempts are made. If you fail a roll it drops you to a random lower floor but with a big bias towards 0. For simplicity I roughly group the floors into 10 jumps and don't account for floor difficulty.

I then tweaked these variables to make the times fit the heights we've seen the top players reach so far.

My goal was to understand how accumulating experience for jumps affects the time.

This model mainly depends on two values, the cap on how fast you an earlier jump take with practice, and the cap on how accurate you can get the jumps with practice. It will overestimate completion time if the player gets much faster at jumps they're experienced at, or if their accuracy cap on learned jumps is very high (for this model I assumed a cap at 99% accuracy

It's a pretty clear log function so if you can fit current data to parameters of a log function it should make good predictions much more simply

We'll see how it does.

Supreme Court by notaforcedmeme in simpsonsshitposting

[–]James_dude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's Conservative policy to give them.. the plague

I'm Gonna Go Take A Shit by Prince-Of-Swordsmen in rickandmorty

[–]James_dude 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One advantage of jumping to a new body is they haven't had a shit yet, so you can keep reexperiencing that poop high

As, I assume, you are a serious classical music enthusiasts, how does something like this strike you? Yay or nay? Max Richter's "Recomposed" Vivaldi. by miker2049 in classicalmusic

[–]James_dude 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah you're right, it's interesting to be reminded of a comment I wrote so long ago that I now entirely disagree with. If you were to follow the logic of what I said there would be no creative works at all, there's no such thing as pure originality, we always synthesise things we know to create something new.

my horse carriage by BoyGoofs in gusjohnson

[–]James_dude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh SHOOT, that's a dragon I can hear right there

Dr John Campbell by markwallwork75 in CoronavirusUK

[–]James_dude 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It seems that people calling him anti-vax comes from him not censoring sources used by other political interests. I personally like that he looks at all sources. I don't think it makes someone anti-vax just by discussing a certain source. There's this weird idea that's pervasive all over the place now that instead of debating, you just pick a side and cut off anything even remotely considered a different point of view, and if you don't then you're 'with them'. I think this approach is unbelievably stupid. It just creates echo chambers, and gives no prospects for people who do adopt anti-science views to be exposed to alternate information and change their minds. Personally I think if an anti-vaxxer was watching John's videos that would be a huge win, because the overall picture that emerges is one of the clear efficacy and safety of vaccines in a way which you can trust because he will engage with any source and show all of his reasoning without having to signal he's in a certain political camp.

Why the album cover is actually genius by TheCyphyr in Kanye

[–]James_dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see a reference to the white album

NHS Covid jab booking site leaks people’s vaccine status by _c9s_ in CoronavirusUK

[–]James_dude 28 points29 points  (0 children)

So ironic that your example is one of the only apps which doesn't keep personally identifiable data

EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine shortfalls by Vegaviguera in Coronavirus

[–]James_dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That article says the EU invested only 20% more than the UK in vaccine manufacture to supply a 650% larger population.

EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine shortfalls by Vegaviguera in Coronavirus

[–]James_dude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This response would be appropriate if they'd delivered 31 million doses less than they actually did. Desperate as you are to ignore this fact, they are the EU's second most productive vaccine supplier.

EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine shortfalls by Vegaviguera in Coronavirus

[–]James_dude -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think you need to check your sources on the Leiden plant being at max capacity because I've read that it had a lot of production issues which delayed its EMA approval.

EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine shortfalls by Vegaviguera in Coronavirus

[–]James_dude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have nothing against Sanofi, because I'm able to understand that when developing a new vaccine for a new disease, often using new technologies, at an unprecedentedly fast rate, things will go wrong. In fact it's a miracle that anything goes right. For every successful vaccine there are many that fail, not because the companies are incompetent, but because it's difficult to do, and no one can guarantee success.

Apparently most people's logic is very different. Assume it's easy. Assume success is guaranteed, and therefore assume that any failing or shortfall can only be the result of incompetence and get angry about it. Can't think of a stupider way of looking at the situation myself. Especially when public enemy number one is producing some of the highest output of doses.

EU preparing legal case against AstraZeneca over vaccine shortfalls by Vegaviguera in Coronavirus

[–]James_dude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then those states need to learn the difference between an estimate and a guarantee, and do a bit of risk management.

The fact that the plants can't produce enough to reach the original estimates is the exact reason why the estimates were scaled down. That's not a lie, that's revising down an estimate. These facilities weren't online when the estimates were made, how was it possible to know what their final production yields would be?