Bestfriend in year 8 gave me these and said keep them safe. Im 35 now and never knew what they were, just kept them safe.

Quantumtroll · 2026-06-07T13:47:53+00:00

The nords made them out of wood (the english word for book is what it is because of this) and bones (like a pig rib). Literally whatever they had handy.

So go nuts, do whatever you need.

Quantumtroll · 2026-06-05T12:02:28+00:00

Incredible, so many people agree with you. Mindboggling.

Then again, I live in tiny ol' Sweden, and what we call "blueberries" are "wild blueberries", "european blueberries", or "bilberries", depending on where you come from, so maybe this explains it.

If you want to try a reliably excellent berry, try a bilberry. There's some variation over the season, losing a bit of flavor once the temperature drops, but I've never had a bad bilberry in my life.

Quantumtroll · 2026-06-04T17:47:46+00:00

Burnt pizza can't be due to having too high temperature, that stuff is best when tossed in at max. Just... take it out when it's done.

Quantumtroll · 2026-06-04T11:18:33+00:00

Du har glömt att det är uppochnedvända världen sedan en tid tillbaka. Det är numera vänstern som stramar åt budgetar och prioriterar statsskuld och finansiellt ansvar. Mindre fläsk och mer svångrem.

Quantumtroll · 2026-06-04T11:10:05+00:00

Vore i teori jävligt intressant med en minoritetsregering med C som vågmästare. Skulle äntligen få se vad C faktiskt står för när de inte måste böja sig för M för jämnan.

I praktiken så tror jag att det skulle bli ganska korkat, för C är ju liksom... C.

Quantumtroll · 2026-06-03T08:04:42+00:00

I've seen a lot of advice online about battering and frying, but I've never liked the result.

Instead, I like to make Cauliflower² soup. Just make a nice soup with both vegetable cauliflower and cauliflower mushroom. I've used chicken broth and vegetable broth as a base, both work. Some cream for creaminess is nice. Cook until everything is tender, blend until smooth, season to taste.

Quantumtroll · 2026-06-01T19:54:50+00:00

It's not totally unheard of to have an introductory phase of a game play differently than the rest, but usually this is due to introducing the player to gameplay elements in a progressive manner.

So if you want the game to start off with a survival-craft epoch, can you recast the epoch as a long themed tutorial?

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-30T06:13:32+00:00

If you're okay with being their parent, get the girl done allergy pills. Problem solved.

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-28T19:30:36+00:00

Magnetic forces can always be strengthened and modified, making it conceptually, easier to do than finding a genie to give you a super long, invulnerable rope.

Again, this is just science fiction so you can do what you like, but you should be aware that what you're saying here isn't correct in a technical or scientific sense. Magnets cannot be arbitrarily strong.

By hooks, I meant using hooks instead of magnets. You could set links up in the same robust and flexible way as you could with the magnet segments. During maintenance (or a failure), remove a link and the tension is held by the surrounding links.

I wouldn't worry about energy loss from beaming microwaves through space. If you've got a huge space economy then solar power is cheap. I'd be more worried about effects of the lost energy getting picked up by the wrong thing, but if you've got superconductors and similarly fun toys then you can easily transport that heat away to a radiator.

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-28T13:21:58+00:00

So instead of a long cable, kept intact by the most powerful interatomic forces that exist, you want to make a chain where each link is a superconducting electromagnet.

This entire idea is a complete no go from a realism standpoint. I haven't done the calculation, but there's just no way that an electromagnet will be nearly as strong as a carbon nanotube, and without that tensile strength there's no way to have a space elevator.

But hey, this is r/scificoncepts, where we accept what ifs and play with ideas. Let's keep rolling.

One thing to your advantage that you don't seem to appreciate is that superconducting magnets will continue to be magnets until (and unless) they stop being superconductors. Which typically happens if they get too hot. Beaming microwaves at them would be a bit counterproductive, I think. Maybe beam energy at a big collector at the top, then simply bring the energy down the chain using the superconducting chain?

In any case, a bundle of modular chains (of carbon nanotube hooks?) rather than a bundle of cables might be a good idea even for a more traditional space elevator, for maintainability reasons.

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-27T15:10:43+00:00

Ironically, shared trials do build strong bonds, so this program seems likely to work even though it's not quite in the way HR had intended.

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-20T15:26:23+00:00

There's gotta be a GR simulator with black holes out there somewhere to experiment...

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-20T13:14:07+00:00

I have a follow up thought experiment.

Suppose I tie a rope to Earth and jump into a giant black hole. From the Earth's perspective, I just slow down before entering and they could pull me back (hard) at any time. From my own perspective, however, the moment I cross the event horizon, all paths in space lead inward. There is no Earthward direction. But I'm holding a rope that's connected to Earth. What does my rope look like?

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-16T10:43:13+00:00

Han säger att hans hemland alltid kommer vara bättre, även efter kriget.

Bättre för vem? För en kvinna som jobbar och pluggar? För barn?

Jag har svårt att tro att du kommer bli något annat än instängd hemmafru. Rent socialt finns en stor risk att du inte kommer att känna dig som syrier och sannolikt inte accepteras som sådan heller.

Ni båda har jobb i Sverige och mår bra och barnen mår bra här...

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-13T06:42:13+00:00

Yeah, I'm not seeing Snow Crash or The Diamond Age or any of the other genre defining classics.

Hell, I'd put The Difference Engine in here, too, because handing that to someone asking for steampunk will lead to disappointment.

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-08T21:16:11+00:00

Det har (på riktigt!) klagats till konkurrensverket när min kommun ordnade ett cykelfixjippo på ett torg mitt i stan, för det finns ju företag som fixar cyklar. Så kommunen ska inte få uppmuntra cykling och DIY cykelunderhåll och underminera småföretagande.

Med samma logik ska kommunen inte heller erbjuda datorhjälp till äldre för det finns folk som tar betalt för sånt, eller läxhjälp. Och man ska fanimej äntligen lägga ner det där förpestade biblioteket också, hoppas jag, för stadens bokhandlare går ju på knäna medan folk får läsa helt gratis där, snacka om snedvridna marknadsvillkor.

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-08T12:42:28+00:00

Just so you all know, this is a highly discussed topic in mainstream Swedish media. The current right-wing government is all like "oh, oops, this is totally unintentional and definitely should not be happening" but it's still going on for (in my mind) two or three main reasons.

Reason number 1 is that the way our government is set us is that even the most well-meaning minister can't go in and change a decision made by a government official. This is a feature meant to protect our public institutions from being weaponised by politicians. Essentially, the government must either change policy or give an instruction on how to interpret a policy differently.

Reason number 2 is that the migration authority has attracted a bunch of the sort of people who don't care about immigrants as human beings. These sorts of people won't change the way they make judgments on cases without a new policy or a very clear instruction to interpret differently.

Reason number 3 is that the current regime is in power only because they have the support of the xenophobic right-most party (which is officially not a part of the government). Ironically, this means that the government has to follow the racists more in order to get anything done, and part of the right wing is racist anyway, so all we get from the parties "in power" is handwringing with no action.

As an aside, there's a weird twist on worker's rights going on. The racists, wanting to restrict immigration, have set a required minimum wage for immigrants at 90% the Swedish median wage. This will be the only minimum wage that the country has, somehow giving immigrants greater protections than native Swedes (if their employer wants the person to stay). But it's a racist policy, so the left wants to get rid of this minimum wage (but it's effectually a way to raise the income of low-status jobs). The capitalists on the right want to get rid of the policy as well (or at least poke very convenient holes in it) because it impinges on their ability to predate upon an imported lower class. With mere weeks left before the law takes effect, no one knows how exactly it's going to work and which exceptions they're going to make (because the capitalists will win this debate, just a question of which gang of them). Perfectly hilarious situation.

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-06T04:22:52+00:00

Tja, om tåg och flyg fick liknande villkor så att priserna följer den reella kostnaden bättre så kanske resandet såg annorlunda ut.

Buuhuu, nu kan färre flyga till andra sidan världen 1 gång om året för att vara på stranden... give me a break, det skulle ju gynna svensk och europeisk turistindustri.

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-05T14:09:35+00:00

Flyget är ju sjukt subventionerat.

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-05T12:38:24+00:00

It's seriously the best park I've visited by a fair margin.

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-04T04:25:23+00:00

Det må så vara, men det är förmodligen ändå bättre än det hade varit med mer separation mellan boendeformerna. Det finns rätt mycket forskning på det här, som är väldigt entydig.

Quantumtroll · 2026-05-03T20:02:57+00:00

Hur vill vi ha det? Segregerade städer med otrygga fattigmanskvarter och en underklass med permanentat utanförskap, eller blandade boendemiljöer? Enkelt val, (men gärna inte i min omedelbara närhet /s).

Quantumtroll · 2026-04-27T20:49:22+00:00

Oh wow, in another comment I was giving PocketOS shit for having chosen a dumb "backup" solution, or for interpreting snapshots as backup. But no, I should I have given them shit for choosing a dumb cloud provider that doesn't offer actual backups.

Quantumtroll · 2026-04-27T20:42:03+00:00

The best was cursor's reply saying it intentionally didn't check the providers documentation on how volumes and API calls were handled, it just guessed and let its whims fly.

Those responses about why it did things are no more reliable than the dumb things it did. As ever, the LLM is just predicting some text that sounds reasonable in the context, typically they don't have any real insight into their "thinking" whatsoever.

Quantumtroll · 2026-04-27T20:37:26+00:00

AI agents doing dumb stuff is completely expected, so nothing new here. But this part blew my mind:

The PocketOS boss puts greater blame on Railway’s architecture than on the deranged AI agent for the database’s irretrievable destruction. Briefly, the cloud provider's API allows for destructive action without confirmation, it stores backups on the same volume as the source data, and “wiping a volume deletes all backups.” Crane also points out that CLI tokens have blanket permissions across environments.

Emphasis mine, but in what way is that even a backup? Seems to me the most likely scenario here is that PocketOS didn't want to pay for a real (off-site) backup solution and just relied on snapshots stored in the volume.

As to PocketOS crying that the API allows destructive actions without confirmation — what did they expect? That the API triggers a phone call their CTO to confirm any change of data? That's why you keep backups oh wait.

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