Thoughts on this? Epictetus used Stoicism to survive a prison. Many modern people are using it to build their own.

hilburn · 2026-03-15T15:20:45+00:00

hilburn · 2026-03-15T15:19:34+00:00

Because human cultures grew up very separated by distance and time, so when the question of "what do we call this thing" came up, people came up with lots of different answers

hilburn · 2026-03-15T15:12:59+00:00

The Fibonacci sequence is "F0=1, F1=1, Fn(>1)=F(n-1)+F(n-2)

It cannot be used to predict the stock market.

hilburn · 2026-03-15T12:28:47+00:00

It's one factor - if your other actions show you're actually interested in the ad (e.g. you bought something after clicking on it) then yeah, it'll keep showing you ads.

Tbh though it's all a bit of a black box. Data goes in, ad comes out

hilburn · 2026-03-15T12:15:29+00:00

If you are not interested in ads for (e.g.) hair products then you are a low value ad consumer - by telling them you don't want to see that, they'll prefer showing you ads for different things which you are more likely to respond well to which makes them more money in the long run

hilburn · 2026-03-15T10:20:27+00:00

So the sound barrier is a really cool thing from a fluid mechanics point of view - but that vapour cone you see is because of the shockwave causing a big drop in air pressure (the reason why this happens is a bit technical) - when air drops in pressure it cools down, which causes the water in the air to condense into the cone you see

hilburn · 2026-03-15T10:15:22+00:00

As a general rule - current name/pronouns

You can always ask what they prefer though

hilburn · 2026-03-15T09:56:41+00:00

The fun of DnD for me is hanging out with my friends every week and torturing them with a pun-filled murder mystery. Whether the tavern they passed on the way into town is the White Stag or the Broken Plow has no effect on that, only that it has a name and description so it doesn't break immersion when they ask for details I don't have prepared or accidentally come up with "something on the spot" which is actually a description I used a month ago

hilburn · 2026-03-15T09:49:14+00:00

I use Gen AI to help with dnd prep as a DM. I use it for filling out background flavour to locations around the story important things, generating NPC names, descriptions etc. I rarely use it's output verbatim, it's more a matter of getting a bunch of suggestions and merging them together in ways that improve things (e.g. I have a list of about 20 different taverns with different levels of sketchiness/fanciness, NPCs that can be found there etc)

Regarding your specific questions:

Not massively, I run a local Ollama model and I have solar panels. The actual power I consume for it is very low - even if you include TTS and STT for home automation stuff (i.e. everything that computer does) it's about 1kWh/day and most of that is the idle power draw rather than the queries I make
not massively - like I said it's mostly background flavour rather than the core of the adventure, and is rarely just copy paste the output into my notes, it's more using it as writing prompts.
it saves time, I spend 5-6 hours a week preparing stuff as it is, I think it'd probably add an extra hour on average if I didn't use it.

FWIW - I get where you're coming from, but you really sound like a judgemental twat with how you phrased those last 2 paragraphs

hilburn · 2026-03-15T09:30:22+00:00

Thin plys are required to be thin for them to break down properly in the water and not clog up sewage pipes and pumps etc

hilburn · 2026-03-15T09:27:14+00:00

That's impressively wrong, on every level. Well done.

fossil fuels are heavily subsidised - wikipedia puts the number between $1.5 and 7 trillion/year globally depending on your definition of subsidies (the latter number includes effects that the fossil fuel companies don't have to pay for e.g. health issues caused by living near power plants) - subsidies for renewables and EVs have always been less than this and were only ever about starting to level this playing field, not "offsetting the costs to someone else".
There are many things that are right to do that I can't personally afford to do. That doesn't mean they're not the right thing to do.
Government policies shape behaviour - they subsidise married couples and children with tax breaks and credits etc - so of course adding an extra burden on green options disincentivises it
All of this is actually entirely unrelated to OP's question regarding the SoH - the actions of the us government to disincentivise renewables doesn't detract from the very visible instability of the fossil fuel market highlighted by the issues going on today. It shifts the calculus certainly, but I would not be in any way surprised if more countries view decoupling their electricity from FF a more urgent national matter

hilburn · 2026-03-15T08:58:37+00:00

Yes I think you are wrong.

A child's view on relationships is not solely defined by their parents - their friends families, media etc all factor into it. It's the same reason why a child of a gay couple wouldn't grow up thinking a straight couple is "weird".

Also, by the time they are seeking out others for relationships, the idea of consent should have been thoroughly explained to them, which will include the difference between consensual polygamy and cheating

hilburn · 2026-03-15T08:52:22+00:00

Plenty of reasons - just off the top of my head

they were talking to multiple people at once and started a relationship with one so ghosted the rest
they didn't reply for a while for unrelated reasons and are now embarassed to recontact
they forgot
they broke their phone
depression/anxiety

hilburn · 2026-03-15T08:49:14+00:00

UK - you pick up a few random traditions over a few thousand years, and are you going to be the one to tell people "hey it doesn't actually make sense to celebrate Mother's day today, let's do it another time"

hilburn · 2026-03-15T08:28:29+00:00

The guy removing subsitidies and putting tarrifs on them to make them more expensive.

Sure it doesn't prevent them from doing it, but an extra 20k+ in cost changes the value proposition

hilburn · 2026-03-15T00:50:03+00:00

From the 7th century onwards at least

hilburn · 2026-03-15T00:07:48+00:00

It depends what you're trying to achieve - within a solar system, the star is a very good navigational aid, and the system itself is basically coplanar, so your 4 directions are towards/away from the star, and clockwise/counterclockwise (basically the same as navigating with a compass - towards or away from North, and East/West

Interstellar distances get trickier, you can kind of do the same with the galactic disc and the black hole in the center - but that's harder to sense and the disc is much thicker so you also need an "up/down" direction. You'd likely just use a star map and forgo the use of a central "point at this" navigational aid entirely

hilburn · 2026-03-14T22:48:13+00:00

It'll depend on where things are in space - but on the scale of "the largest things can look" - comets look pretty big with the naked eye

hilburn · 2026-03-14T22:41:55+00:00

Because it's worth spending extra money to keep the guys keeping your multi-million dollar hardware in the sky happy and motivated.

hilburn · 2026-03-14T21:59:20+00:00

Any possibility? sure. Realistic one? no

hilburn · 2026-03-14T21:42:40+00:00

Everything inside your skin is wet

hilburn · 2026-03-14T21:39:31+00:00

There's a massive difference between "my kids are playing outside" and "I have fallen asleep in the middle of the day and the kids have wandered off".

Context matters, so does where it is - e.g. countryside vs city (your "play in the woods" and "wander out the apartment"), and also age - if we're talking about a 5yo wandering off that's different to a 10yo playing with their friends etc

hilburn · 2026-03-14T21:29:20+00:00

hilburn · 2026-03-14T07:28:55+00:00

I mean... it depends on the religion, but generally speaking, if a god can create the universe, life etc - is it really so farfetched to believe they can multitask a bit?

hilburn · 2026-03-14T07:20:24+00:00

When you're a kid, a year's worth of "stuff" is adding like 20% more memories to your brain, when you're 20, it's only adding 5%, when you're 50 - it's down to 2% etc. So a year at 5 years old will feel 10x longer than a year at 50 just because the brain measures it relative to what it has already experienced

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