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skarn 9 points 2 years ago

It certainly feels like that at times. The key being the non verbal part, it's the part that feels things i can't explain, like I have to poke and probe some part of my brain by imagining, to try and see how it reacts to certain thoughts and observe the emotions, then try to put it into words to explain it to the conscious part of my mind. Like, the subconscious is not unconscious, it's perfectly conscious just not verbal.

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skarn 7 points 8 months ago

I can't see any obvious keywords there, it would be very telling to be able to determine what theye filtering on, if we had enough unredacted/redacted pairs to find out

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skarn 6 points 2 years ago

I think an additional effect is that, the drop in pressure causes any liquids exposed to it to vaporise, which is an exothermic process, and it's a race to see whether it boils off entirely or the inner part freezes to solid from the drop in temperature through conduction. So the immediate surface of your body would either dry out or flash freeze but the inner part take a while to solidify.

Why there is any ice in space and it doesn't just sublimate away over time I'm not sure.

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skarn 6 points 2 years ago

By thunder... My new favourite exclamation

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skarn 6 points a year ago

Yes, I write more than twice the work emails than I send. I spend 15 minutes on slack composing a reasoned response with examples and references then edit it down to one sentence. Because I know from bitter experience noone reads long form, at least, not for work. They'd rather spend weeks back and forth on one liners with days in between responses, or only when prompted, than answer one email properly and the whole thjng sorted in a day. Even this is too long. But I'm going to hit submit before the urge to edit overhwlems me.

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skarn 6 points a year ago

As in, I wish to be the one who ends all wars. They only end when I stop them. Each one, individually.

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skarn 5 points 2 years ago

Amazing that with a battle involving thousands of soldiers, over a number of hours, with cannons and horses and 1500 prisoners taken and only 27 deaths.

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skarn 5 points 2 years ago

I can pop my ears whenever I want, like someone else mentioned. Handy on flights, but I haven't been able to teach my kids how. If I forget to blink for a bit and then blink involuntarily when my eyes itch, my jaw snaps shut also involuntarily, causing my teeth to snap together. I can roll my tongue, which is apparently a genetic thing. I can hear high frequency sounds, like bats, and rodent repellents. It can be painfully loud when noone else around me can hear them, so they have a degree of disbelief if I mention it.

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skarn 5 points a year ago

Facebook started out as invite only for a few years so they might have been looking to emulate its early trajectory. Gmail also started that way.

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skarn 4 points 2 years ago

Can almost hear what they're saying. I wonder if it would be possible to lip read or if it would be too unreliable.

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skarn 4 points 2 years ago

My father worked in Saudi Arabia, and I was visiting on school holidays. They had brewed wine and gin on site and I had enough to get drunk for the first time in my life at 17. I had to talk to my father and pretend I wasn't drunk. Apparently it worked as he has never mentioned it. I climbed up a water tower, and we got spotted doing that, and not realising my brother was snogging the girl I fancied while we did it. Then a girl I'd barely spoken to cornered me and wanted to know who I fancied, I asked what that meant and she said who would I kiss. I said I'd never kissed anyone, and she kissed me, then left without another word. I left the country the next day.

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skarn 4 points a year ago

My understanding was that the law was changed in the US so student loans couldn't be wiped by bankruptcy, and the government then increased how much it could loan due to the security. Tuitions rose to meet the new supply.

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skarn 4 points 2 years ago

Think they meant run Windows in a VM if you need it

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skarn 3 points 9 months ago

I'd look to Swiss army knives for inspiration. Knife, screwdriver, scissors, pliers. A light. Someone said phone holder.. I'd have the phone embedded in the arm, positioned to be easy to see and access. Have the lock screen be various health stats: heart rate, Vmax, Time. Usb charging port... Be able to both charge the arm, and charge devices from the arm, maybe with a retractable cable ala cyberpunk 2077. Camera in a fingertip, ideally connected to XR glasses, so I can see behind or under things easily, able to be a microscope. Electric arc lighter in another fingertip.

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skarn 3 points 2 years ago

This was 30 years ago. I was from Australia. The night is still a clear memory to me. I had a choice and thought, well if I'm going to get drunk for the first time in my life, why not do it in a country where alcohol is illegal? At least I'll have a story to tell.

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skarn 2 points 3 years ago

Clearly a catfish

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skarn 2 points 9 months ago

I have narcolepsy so it'd happen uncontrollably, usually when sitting still without talking or moving. Like in a large meeting or presentation where I don't have an active part to play. Sometimes a sympathetic colleague would nudge me awake. Somewhat career limiting but I was stuck with it for 30 years. I started on medication a year ago and it has been much improved.

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skarn 2 points 2 years ago

Energy storage. We could already produce all the power we need and more using solar power, the problem is that we can't store it in an efficient energy dense form. The word efficient there is doing some heavy lifting. It needs be comparable or better than our methods today in terms of cost, safety, energy density, climate impact. If we could solve energy storage, it'd change society and technology dramatically.

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skarn 2 points 2 years ago

I expect that's due to the 30% cut taken on subscriptions purchased through the app store

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skarn 2 points 2 years ago

This one? https://github.com/... It has an ingest folder you can drop all your books into and it'll ingest and process them over time, if that's of interest

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