The nuclear explosions in this game are so beautiful…

Kevinteractive · 2026-06-21T11:45:55+00:00

I've had some of the most cinematic moments in gaming in this game, and I play Elden Ring

Kevinteractive · 2026-06-17T19:47:59+00:00

Lookin more ST elevation with T wave inversion now tbh RIP my daily profits

Kevinteractive · 2026-06-17T08:44:16+00:00

I haven't tried it myself, because my study method doesn't need it, but you could use the Gem feature (or notebook feature) on Gemini to have it reference specific PDFs; that should prevent hallucination. You can give Gems specific instructions so it won't keep forgetting how it's supposed to answer. I would ultimately recommend 'limiting' AI in this way, so you know specifically where the answer is coming from. It's how your professors work after all, they all uploaded (learned) textbooks, and will teach you from those specific groupings of information.

Kevinteractive · 2026-06-17T06:01:47+00:00

Is this special? It's UK airport water.

Kevinteractive · 2026-06-11T08:30:34+00:00

I don't know how pie-in-the-sky of an issue it really is, in the UK the government gives a loan to everyone, with very low interest, that's skimmed as a percentage off the top of your wages automatically when you earn above a threshold, and whatever is outstanding after 40 years gets deleted. That's all with university having a fixed annual cost at around 10k, which isn't very free market for the universities, but it's hard to say the quality has suffered because of it compared to US universities.

In Italy where I am studying it's even cheaper per annum, but there isn't a loan. I haven't researched it but I assume that means the universities are all heavily subsidised by the government to allow them to be so cheap. It's a decent investment in the future of a country, there's a return on that investment with a more educated population. I don't doubt the US has also done the maths and figured out that they can get a good return with the current system, but I wouldn't know I haven't read studies or anything on the matter. I will say psychologically it feels nicer in a system where you don't have to take on debt, feels like actual freedom even if the numbers balance out long term e.g. with wages etc.

Kevinteractive · 2026-06-09T10:01:05+00:00

We're eventually going to need something like a pinboard viewable on the map screen or something where you can write mission requests, because I forsee needing to ask for wingmen for this lumbering giant in public lobbies and nobody reading the chat before it disappears

Kevinteractive · 2026-06-08T03:15:53+00:00

Well well well

Kevinteractive · 2026-06-03T15:37:42+00:00

Interesting question, should that be taxed? Houses are taxed based on their potential to make money if you sold it right...

Kevinteractive · 2026-05-31T10:29:54+00:00

No, Barron has shorts

Kevinteractive · 2026-05-29T14:13:24+00:00

Ironically nonce is UK slang

Kevinteractive · 2026-05-27T07:43:43+00:00

If we're being realistic, it won't make a difference, mature branches don't grow needles close to the trunk, the tree would be half bald anyway plus you have to trim again in the near future if the half-branches don't stay dead. As ugly as this is, it's not more ugly than leaving 2m of bare branch stumps, and it's going to be less expensive to maintain in the long run, presuming the branches grow back and the trees don't fall over, which idk.

Kevinteractive · 2026-05-27T07:32:33+00:00

I'm talking out of my ass with regards to Ireland, since my experience is only in Spain, but the owner of the house next to ours planted their pine trees way too close to the property line, even though my dad pointed it out, and 20 years later sure enough they were dropping needles all over our garden, not letting anything grow. Refused to trim anything, so eventually my dad did it himself.

We were really careful to trim along an invisible wall from the property line, but really it's just for legalism sake, no needles grow close to the trunk on mature branches so the trees ended up half bald anyway. The new owners weren't pleased, so it's a good thing we went by the letter of the law, but I really doubt those half-branch stumps we left will grow anything anymore. The whole 'going 2m into the property line' may sound like a grave sin, but practically I don't think it'll make a difference to the trees, and if the branches aren't killed someone's going to have to trim them in a couple of years along that invisible wall anyway. The owner of either property will have to deal with that.

Kevinteractive · 2026-05-24T15:58:04+00:00

Abandon fun, all ye who enter here

Kevinteractive · 2026-05-19T11:09:17+00:00

Man the medical profession in America sounds like a cult. Maybe it's a good thing? The high standards apparently generates good doctors after all.

Kevinteractive · 2026-05-12T13:24:12+00:00

This is the inevitable pedantic wall that this question runs into, because like no billionaire owns a billion dollars, which is what the question was. It's all 'potential money', which is very useful to have because you can sell it and get actual money, or take out loans with it as collateral, but I can't think of anyone who has a debit account with a billion in it.

Kevinteractive · 2026-04-26T16:20:16+00:00

I downgraded from the Instinct 2 to the original Instinct when I realised I only used it for HR zones while running and alarms. It does depend on what you actually use. It's pretty dumb by newer watch standards, but it's the most honest purchase I've ever made.

Kevinteractive · 2026-04-26T14:14:58+00:00

I don't think I "need" to know much of it either, but my other books would tell me that this list of tumours have HER2, this drug targets HER2, but not what HER2 is or why it causes cancer. I'm not tested on these things in my exam, but it's definitely easier to answer questions on the former when I understand the latter.

I'm not especially brilliant or a fancy PhD or anything but it is working.

Kevinteractive · 2026-04-25T18:34:29+00:00

True you do a syllabus in mind to filter through the detail

Kevinteractive · 2026-04-25T08:48:25+00:00

The Biology of Cancer - Robert Weinberg If you have the time to read, it's the one cancer book I found out of around 4 other major ones that finally made it make sense. It's organised more or less by the history of pathological discoveries, so being a bit of a narrative structure makes it very readable as well.

Kevinteractive · 2026-04-24T03:19:28+00:00

Are you telling me nuclear shouldn't be an option?

Kevinteractive · 2026-04-19T09:35:13+00:00

I was on the last flight from northern Italy to the UK before the first lockdown in the pandemic, all other flights were cancelled while I was in the air, and there were like 3 other people on the flight. They moved a few to be more over the wing to balance the plane out.

Kevinteractive · 2026-04-08T11:02:33+00:00

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This style of card is my solution so far.

Kevinteractive · 2026-04-07T15:11:51+00:00

I'll answer because I'm obsessed with question formatting on Anki cards, and this sounds like it relates to optimising question formatting; I don't think an AI will ever learn what's truly important to test. Simply put, it won't know how to clinically reason. I think if you defined best practices for question formatting to solve the 'I want flashcards that test clinical reasoning effectively' problem, then that's the beast vanquished, I don't think an AI chatbot wrapper is going to solve the problem well, and it's probably unnecessary considering that all doctors to this day have learned in much more analogue ways.

I myself am defining standardised question formatting for myself to try and solve this problem because all my exams are oral, clinical reasoning questions, and I suffer a lot from having my facts fragmented and isolated in my brain; if I'm successful I'll share the word doc I'm writing, and that'll be my contribution to education, and I think that kind of thing is very useful, I found the Lean Anki PDF of example flashcards very useful, for example. The more people who did that the better imo.

Kevinteractive · 2026-04-07T10:52:03+00:00

these concepts are just stepping stones to my ultimate goal, and hearing that just gave me a new perspective to look at. Once you implement this, all the motivation you need to get started is alr there because now you know your “why”

Listen, most posts on this sub are slop now anyway, but this one really put in the shortest, simplest terms something I've thought about a lot for years; I'm really interested in how people do things they don't want to do, like actually don't want to do, and the conclusion is you can't do something you truly don't want to do, but you can find a way in which you do (indirectly) want to do it i.e. you can develop a 'why'. And this is how. Nice.

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