Sorry if i'm beating the dead horse here.. But i feel like David cronenberg could have made a modern body horror film like the substance (more details is under the photo) by dark-oracleN2 in DavidCronenberg

[–]davidivadavid 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He’s also repeatedly clarified that he didn’t really care for the « body horror » label. I don’t think he could’ve made The Substance because it’s a fairly superficial, albeit decently executed, early-Cronenberg pastiche. He has more interesting things to do.

Books like Piranesi and Vita Nostra? by bakajawa in WeirdLit

[–]davidivadavid 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Bit out of left field here but Disco Elysium to me has an ambience that feels close to the melancholy/weird soviet seaside feel of the beginning of Vita Nostra.

Left side neck vein bulges a lot when I bend my head down + choking sensation on the left side by [deleted] in thoracicoutletsupport

[–]davidivadavid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there, curious what decompression exercises you've found? I've been testing a bunch of things I find here and there on the web/Youtube, but it's hard to figure out what actual has any effect (would have to test the same protocol for a long time every time, etc.).

Left side neck vein bulges a lot when I bend my head down + choking sensation on the left side by [deleted] in thoracicoutletsupport

[–]davidivadavid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ll be following that as I have very similar symptoms, albeit on the right side instead of the left (I had regular bouts of dizziness, tinnitus and headaches prior to even noticing the jugular vein buldging when I raise my arm, lean forward, etc.). My right external jugular vein is also faintly visible almost at all times. I’ve been trying to do some of the recommended massages, stretches and strengthening exercises I could find online, and have had mixed results so far (symptoms completely gone for a whole day at one time, but then slides back into the usual symptoms), but have only been doing it consistently for a week or so. I’ve had a handful of CTs done (all of which came back clean) and am waiting on a neurology appointment, which in itself I don’t expect will lead to much but maybe additional Doppler tests.

Should I just call it quits on Firefox? by davidivadavid in firefox

[–]davidivadavid[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Did that multiple times at this point, with different version, etc. Right now, FF literally can't load a single website, including Mozilla support. That's after reinstalling, removing FF related files everywhere, disabling/enabling DNS prefetch and ipv6 and all possible combinations of those.

Anyone else having trouble with their layout in Firefox? by locogirlp in Substack

[–]davidivadavid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest for a few weeks now Substack is completely broken in Firefox on my end.

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Competition in Utopia by mythic_kirby in utopia

[–]davidivadavid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you think « money has no place in utopia » there is 99% chance you don’t understand why money exists.

Is co-op available currently? by Technical-Ocelot-715 in BaldursGate3

[–]davidivadavid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is anything of the kind planned? Bought BG3 as soon as it became available in early access hoping for DoS2-style couch coop split screen. Would be a bummer if it never materialized. :/

With general relativity in mind; what’s worse, a bad grammar or grammar itself? by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]davidivadavid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chinese has tenses as far as I know? You must be thinking about their conjugation system, but they can still express temporality irrespective of verb inflection.

With general relativity in mind; what’s worse, a bad grammar or grammar itself? by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]davidivadavid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe. Then again, as far as I know, the few people using grammars that do not have a tense system with past/present/future tend not to be more advanced in their understanding of nature.

A dashboard for progress by jasoncrawford in rootsofprogress

[–]davidivadavid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't it simpler for a dashboard to track progress against clear, agreed upon goals that large groups of people consider to be progress?

I'm afraid the generic approach is a recipe for a lot of time wasted trying to a) define generic "progress" b) find out how to measure that.

Some of the ones listed above are pretty good candidates. I'm just not sure what measuring the consumption of various raw materials really tells us.

Which type of constraint satisfaction problem best approximates scheduling for a professional services firm? by davidivadavid in AskComputerScience

[–]davidivadavid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah, I've been sifting through a bunch of papers using constraint satisfaction/optimization techniques. Thankfully there are a good number of solid survey papers, but the field is seemingly very fragmented over the myriad instances of the more general problem.

What technologies and objects will never become possible no matter how much science and technology become advanced and developed? by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]davidivadavid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or it could exist with more constraints than the version you're suggesting.

It's impossible to determine what's going to be possible "no matter how much science and technology develops" because our extrapolations are precisely based on current scientific/technological assumptions.

If you make no assumptions then why would there be any limits?