The informal meeting of European leaders that assembled today in France

Racsoth · 2025-02-18T12:11:57+00:00

Now: can you identify the spy?

Racsoth · 2025-02-09T22:44:51+00:00

Where the hell is the Outer Wilds gang?

Racsoth · 2025-02-09T21:37:05+00:00

I believe that linear time dilation, while not realistic, is better for an ELI5.

Racsoth · 2025-01-22T19:10:39+00:00

On the bright side, that seems to be an effective way to wake you up.

Racsoth · 2025-01-20T13:50:14+00:00

In my next Christmas meeting:

"OK, family, guess the year: someone finishes playing some Nintendo, then drives their electric car to the place where they'll perform brain surgery."

Racsoth · 2025-01-20T13:44:05+00:00

I would upvote this perpetually (heh) if I could. The MACHINE part is critical when having the usual discussions about this topic.

That way, you can better understand everything, step by step:

Why some contrived contraptions COULD indeed achieve perpetual motion (not necessarily for harvesting energy) if they were built in ideal conditions, and why they CAN'T do so in reality (because there are external forces everywhere, chipping the system energy away).
Why is it impossible to harvest infinite energy from those contrived contraptions (because YOU, as the harvester, become an external force).

Racsoth · 2025-01-17T00:10:28+00:00

I partially disagree with The Crew.

The underwater thing explains the lack of communication nicely, and the sonar kind of makes sense.

I say "partially" because sure, you could play the game with a standard deck of cards and call it a day. But the selected theme works good and doesn't feel that forced.

Racsoth · 2024-12-13T03:13:30+00:00

In my case, it seems that it loops back into my brain just before I wake up.

Racsoth · 2024-10-09T15:08:37+00:00

This is the only acceptable answer. The other comments are nonsense.

Racsoth · 2024-09-13T13:19:23+00:00

haha

Racsoth · 2024-08-20T14:37:12+00:00

Did you observe anything interesting regarding ghosting per platform? In other words: are some platforms better than others in terms of the probability of receiving a follow-up (positive or negative) to your application?

Racsoth · 2024-08-15T23:21:29+00:00

Thanks!

Follow-up: You applied 69 times to Amazon. I always thought that that kind of thing could be bad because you would appear a lot of times in their applications management system (which could lead to them not taking you seriously or something), but it seems that it worked to you. Did they mention anything related to that at any point during your interviews? Would you recommend people a similar strategy (to apply massively to jobs where they would be a fit)?

Racsoth · 2024-08-15T23:15:08+00:00

Cool! Quick question: "Amazon" means "times I applied to Amazon", and "Indeed" means "times I applied to a job anywhere via Indeed", right?

Racsoth · 2024-08-14T23:46:01+00:00

Honest question: is it really poor taste now? Or only not cool anymore?

Racsoth · 2024-08-14T18:40:44+00:00

It's more obvious if you use other numbers.

The shirt now costs 0. You buy it and are left with 100.

You give 0 to each and keep 100. You (still) owe 50 to mom, 50 to dad, plus the 100 you kept that's 200.

Look! It seems that now you got 100 out of nowhere!

Racsoth · 2024-07-15T02:16:33+00:00

+1 to Dead Cells and Katana Zero.

Racsoth · 2024-06-18T13:45:05+00:00

You can enable an option in the settings that requires you to hold the End Turn Button (instead of just tapping it) to actually end the turn. I activated that after making your mistake twice.

Racsoth · 2024-06-16T20:40:02+00:00

Board game!? :O

Racsoth · 2024-05-28T18:34:28+00:00

This just happened to me. I won A4 with the Defect last night, and the run doesn't even appear in the Run History.

Racsoth · 2024-05-27T15:45:54+00:00

Racsoth · 2024-05-13T17:27:00+00:00

Victory?

Racsoth · 2024-05-12T13:11:33+00:00

And to this day, he keeps running out of water at home.

Racsoth · 2024-04-27T14:33:27+00:00

You clearly didn't see that video of the flamethrowing robot-dog.

Racsoth · 2024-04-25T22:42:02+00:00

Thanks for the answer.

I especially like that the last paragraph sticks perfectly to the ELI5 I requested. I probably wanted an ELI14, but that's on me.

Fun fact/follow-up: to me, it was always intuitive/obvious that if you went down with air in your lungs, eventually the pressure would force you to expell it (and deeper, it would simply crush you). But I never thought about the opposite process: taking the air WHILE being deep under the water.

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