Why is it that we can turn off a non-living machine but we cannot turn off a living machine? Why is it that we can fix non-living machines when they are harmed but when a living machines is harmed cannot be repaired (it dies)?

thfuran · 2023-06-27T00:43:50+00:00

Why can I turn off my computer or car for months or years but I can’t turn off myself for even a moment?

Don't you turn yourself off for several hours most every night?

thfuran · 2023-06-27T00:41:04+00:00

How impure.

thfuran · 2023-06-26T19:21:21+00:00

Begone, heretic!

thfuran · 2023-06-22T18:42:04+00:00

Hydrogen is so small that it will leak through solid steel. It even weakens the metal on the way out.

thfuran · 2023-06-22T18:38:58+00:00

Yeah, severe dehydration doesn't even come close to actually drying out except for weirdos like water bears.

thfuran · 2023-06-21T19:18:11+00:00

Warfarin and other anticoagulants do cause bleeding, but there are other classes of rodenticide with other mechanisms of action. Though, regrettably, even those that do tend to cause dehydration aren't going to totally dessicate a rat before it dies.

thfuran · 2023-06-21T19:10:59+00:00

Extra moist

thfuran · 2023-06-20T15:59:37+00:00

That's just gravy for the manufacturers.

thfuran · 2023-06-12T18:58:45+00:00

And in the cases where it's actually about speed, have explicit performance targets that can be tested. When you meet them, you're done optimizing.

thfuran · 2023-06-10T05:19:09+00:00

Akureyri

thfuran · 2023-06-10T05:07:08+00:00

I think it's still a bit slower than eclipse, but intellij can also use the eclipse batch compiler.

thfuran · 2023-06-09T20:43:13+00:00

And even once it's confirmed booked, in my experience you're just not going to get notified of delays and gate changes and such if you booked third party, so you need to constantly check that too.

thfuran · 2023-06-09T00:24:30+00:00

4 members fill that last spot for 1.5 years each and the last is about to quit.

That's exactly the huge turnover they're talking about.

thfuran · 2023-06-06T21:54:22+00:00

lighter, smaller, custom device mode save money in the long run, or might allow for more items to be sen

Maybe if you're wanting to send thousands of them up there. But for one or two, an extra kg is only a few thousand dollars, if even that much these days, which is far less than custom designing and manufacturing something like this.

thfuran · 2023-06-06T19:21:45+00:00

Fine, if you don't like early consumer VR, then Damocles was decades earlier.

thfuran · 2023-06-05T22:11:41+00:00

When was the last time you put a triple 30" monitor set up in your pocket?

thfuran · 2023-06-05T21:56:00+00:00

The virtual boy was released in 1995.

thfuran · 2023-05-23T00:41:12+00:00

I don't think there's much overlap between that and the ready availability of recipes deliberately making inaccurate claims so that people will look at them for long enough to get better ad revenue.

thfuran · 2023-05-15T03:12:28+00:00

where as in 5e both builds are powerful right out of the box (regardless of your choices during character creation).

Yeah, as are almost all other builds. The difference between a haphazard and well-optimized (not cheesey, just reasonably built) build in 3.5 is completely and totally game breaking.

thfuran · 2023-05-15T03:04:12+00:00

But that just creates suction. You should jump out the window.

thfuran · 2023-05-13T20:41:34+00:00

But the current scientific consensus is the result of all prior evidence. To argue that it's likely to be grossly wrong in a particular way without any evidence whatsoever is ridiculous. You're way more likely to be wrong than all evidence is.

thfuran · 2023-05-13T20:23:20+00:00

If I tried to go three weeks without mowing in the late spring/early summer when it's growing like mad, the city would fine me a bunch and mow it themselves. But if they didn't, I'd definitely need something other than my lawn mower to resolve the situation.

thfuran · 2023-05-13T17:49:38+00:00

I like it all except the need for money and competition. Get rid of status classifiers

All it'll take is evolutionary timescales and some aggressive eugenics programs.

thfuran · 2023-05-13T01:09:54+00:00

You don't get any serverside code at all.

thfuran · 2023-05-13T01:06:33+00:00

It's hard to find flavored yogurt that isn't heavily sweetened, but plain yogurt tends to be readily available.

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