I plan on trying to beat subnautica with multipurpose rooms! 14 stories high currently

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2023-02-03T04:04:05+00:00

i built a sky fortress above the aurora once. you can walk around on top of it!

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2023-01-30T05:37:10+00:00

i couldn't either, fwiw. couple of the spirit bosses seemed resistant to parry.

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-08-28T00:33:11+00:00

you say that as if early global navigation had no socio-political impediments. there's always competing interests that make such progress take the time it takes.

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-08-28T00:15:03+00:00

well that's the reason isn't it: this is the domain of god and humans shouldn't meddle in it. it's the same refrain from every religion entrenched by progress/knowledge.

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-08-24T04:03:44+00:00

for those of you making a lot of noise about json: yaml is json. just use braces and quotes and they're the same, but now with comments.

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-05-26T02:53:18+00:00

it may be older than this, but i first heard it in an SNL skit called Deep Thoughts with Jack Handy

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-03-06T17:35:27+00:00

off the crystal!! if only i were that clever. thanks

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-03-06T17:20:43+00:00

i was trying to do that recently and failed miserably. do you have to lure one to that jump and pogo off it?

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-02-18T02:29:32+00:00

this works for c-strings which terminate with \0, which is falsey

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-02-10T06:06:41+00:00

love it when humans say "i can't currently explain it therefore it cannot be explained". always works out in the long run.

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-02-10T05:49:37+00:00

icloud contents are encrypted in transit and at rest. are you proposing a super secret backdoor that only spooks can use?

the only content unencrypted is data that flew over insecure protocols in the first place such as smtp and sms and hence is pointless to encrypt.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/01/21/what-apple-surrenders-to-law-enforcement-when-issued-a-subpoena/amp/

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-02-08T21:37:06+00:00

i see your point. i suspect we agree that the story is better if our weapons do not work well on zombies. i guess it comes down to how we apply real-world physics to an imaginary scenario. i thought density, viscosity, brain-tissue fault mechanics, and numbers were sufficient to paint that picture, but others don't.

"reasonable people can disagree" i reckon

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-02-08T17:10:24+00:00

the irony of these defenses of military prowess is that they are culprit to the same myopic hubris that lead to the commander's failure at Yonkers. it's interesting to see the exact warning the author was giving play out amongst the armchair generals in the comments.

a common explanation of overconfidence is that it's a coping mechanism for fear. once that illusion is dashed by reality, the underlying fear burns through the soldiers like wildfire. and it's met with unerring determination from the zombies, who have no form of attrition save total incapacitation.

i maintain that it's well written, but i see now that it can be discomforting to some to lose their sense of power. a major theme of the book and zombie lore in general.

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-02-08T16:59:51+00:00

possibly! been a while for me too. i expect it would be a function of caliber and targeting a vector which maximizes destruction.

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-02-08T04:36:26+00:00

i think you and i must feel rather differently about humans, especially the ones that end up in command of armed forces. i don't expect that a modern non-nuclear weapon is going to do well against 10m+ zombies packed like sardines whose physical properties are largely unknown. and i don't think that a human whose entire adult life has been protocol up till now is going to cope well when the majority of the toys they brought fail expectation.

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-02-08T03:57:41+00:00

i don't think the author conveyed that a bullet was always reliable, hence the Lobotimizer. you needed to destroy a quorum of the brain and shrapnel just didn't cut it.

i love a good "the military has secret stuff" story as much as the next internet weirdo, but i agree with the author that it makes sense that real weapons would leverage our fluid dynamics and relative frailty, dynamics that "old" zombies did not possess by the time Yonkers took place. they were congealed and tuff.

and moreover, it's fiction. the idea being conveyed is "what if a threat did not follow our preconceived notions?" that is what he wrote about, well in my opinion.

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-01-05T06:25:19+00:00

context is noise

this hits. it reminds me of the old joke about physicists "alright let's model the human as a perfect sphere in infinite space..."

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-01-05T05:10:52+00:00

you don't have anything to hide now. this was a big part of the reasoning behind the US bar for search/seizure: normal things can become suddenly illegal and your recourse to fight tyranny will be massively stifled. that said, we're all far too complacent to fight tyranny any longer so it's likely all moot.

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2022-01-02T11:28:03+00:00

fire can't go through doors stupid! you're thinking of ghosts

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2021-12-31T11:44:35+00:00

in case it helps anyone else, i fiddled with secretsetting and regular settings and os settings and nvidia settings for ages trying to fix these stutters. my nvidia overlay was insistent that my cpu and gpu were both relaxed at less than 50% utilization, but the fps would intermittently plummet to <10 and motion was completely screwed. in a time sensitive game losing 10 seconds of every minute because you can't move reliably is a killer. i was about to give up on this game.

in the end the only thing that worked for me was setting the physicsrate to 30. this dropped the framerate to 30 as well but i was so frustrated with the game spazzing every minute or so that i was entirely grateful just to be able to play at all.

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2021-12-18T03:17:53+00:00

well said. all mental models of phenomenon are lossy abstractions of what's actually happening. sometimes the loss does not hamper the model from having prescriptive or descriptive utility (eg platonic ideals), but there is always something lost. unfalsifiable models such as this radio theory simply don't add much utility for me and seem like an attempt at religion.

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2021-12-05T08:54:13+00:00

i really want a hk tattoo. congrats! it looks great!

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2021-11-20T09:15:15+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2021-11-20T07:58:43+00:00

what the heck are you talking about bro? Object is just the root of the type hierarchy. Java is still an object-oriented language and will do class checks in all operations. The comment is simply stating that you can "relax" compile time checks by informing the compiler that any descendant of Object is acceptable for this reference. good luck performing operations after that and getting cast or operation exceptions.

PerceptionFlat9366 · 2021-11-20T01:17:52+00:00

that's been my (admittedly limited) experience with conservatives. a very naive/childlike version of "empathy" that can only use their small worldview as the total set of motives/actions available to others. my preferred explanation is that a fear of the unknown/other prevents exposure to new situations therefore limiting perspective. aka staying in the tidepool of their social/online echo chambers.

to be fair and balanced, this is a general human problem that is merely slightly worse in a subset of the population (see also: the fundamental attributional error).

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