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Boners are largely age dependent. I remember in high school I got random boners all the time and anything could trigger them. Now, at 40, I have way more control plus novelty matures and wears off IMO.
You should have said hello or tried – YOLO. Those opportunities dwindle with age for the most part.
Try to step out of your own perspective in a mental abstracted exercise and ask yourself, 'If that was me is there any chance I would be touching someone like this and not notice?' Then, 'What is the least amount of meaning I would attribute to such a gesture? – (now conservatively divide that by /10).' Finally, 'If I were in this person's state of mind, how would I perceive a stranger talking to me?' IMO, when with a friend, the person is going to be on the high ground and feeling secure and safe from embarrassment. If you directly address the touching, you're going to be at a disadvantage and get shut down. However, if you can find a way into making conversation, the touching was like an invitation to do so. By not addressing it directly you are using it as a step up into exploring more. The hard part is just the small talk. Many people are just more tactile, but in our present world, touching strangers (at least in the USA) is very rare.
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Wild fermentation is just a 3% salt brine and a sealed container that you burp every few hours to let pressure out. It can explode if too much pressure builds.
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Pineapple, mined salt, water. It gets a sealed lid and then burped a few times a day. Nothing special, nothing bought, nothing fancy. It is just the oldest form of wild fermentation like it was done in prehistory.
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It is wild fermentation using a salt brine. It is the oldest and most fundamental form of fermentation. It just takes around 3% of a natural salt, some water, time, some kind of sugar or food for microbes to digest, and a sealed container. The container must be burped regularly or the pressure will build until it explodes in the worst cases. The lack of oxygen is key to stop most mold growth. Mold is the enemy. Microbes are you're drinking buddies. They are everywhere. Wild fermentation is random in results. There is no telling which microbe present will dominate the mix. Generally, it will be one of the ones that naturally live in and on the fruit. One way to make cool stuff is to mix fruits in ways where the microbes from one can use it to dominate another. Like toss a local apple in a food processor whole, let it go off in a container for a couple of days until it is very active, then toss this into a container of grape juice that is not active yet.
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It makes a killer brew. Something about it is different and super dense in microbe growth. It is one of the only things I've tried that can go off for ages, keep going, and still tastes sweet and like a liquor. It is the best for complex sauces. Once you taste it, you'll recognise the flavor as familiar to candies and things you've never quite known what was creating the flavor. Fermentation changes everything but this one stays closer to the original than most others. I bottled it like 4-5 hours ago, just went to bed, and it is already showing a small bubble stream like a glass of champagne even after a 3% salt brine. The salt didn't even phase what was already there.
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I think the top use will actually be diffusion. A small model could add a lot of variability to palettes to start. Then move on to something like a slider puzzle where an AI is altering the initial terrain configuration in dynamic ways. It would likely create an environment where a player's natural pacing can be compensated for in real time.
I could also picture a function calling setup that attempts to optimise player experience.
I've been looking at ways to generate tiles for CDDA using a small model. There is a ton of potential especially in open source. I won't run any model unless it is open weights running on my hardware.
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He will die suddenly. It will likely be in the bathroom. The level of physical stress at his age should be as taxing as it appears to be. I'm sure he has a Sam Altmann/Lance Armstrong level of blood doping vampirism, but even that won't save him IMO. How and when he dies may be important. He is a traitor. He should not be alive or a candidate for his coup.
This one is going to be ACTIVE. Hope I can keep up.
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Emacs. It lacks a marketing department, but everything is homebrew and unlimited true hacker territory in the original meaning of the term. You can start with the menus enabled so that you do not need to know all the hotkeys right away. You should probably start with Doom Emacs for much of the configuration stuff done for you, but GNU Emacs is a base configuration. One great blog resource is: https://sachachua.com/
::: spoiler This is one of her creations I reworked and use as a desktop background reference:
Emacs is not just a text editor or IDE, it is much much more and all of these.
I was thinking about trying some sewing for headphone covers and a strap. I can easily disassemble the existing materials and reverse engineer them. I would rather try to learn parametric iterative design of textiles and alter the fit of the pads based on a pattern. Anyone have any experience with this application?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tHInlFfMcM ::: spoiler copy of the video description text: Over the years, I've collected a lot of silica gel packages and regularly put them into my stuff, hoping that they will keep it dry. These tests showed me that there is more than silica gel in the typical desiccant packages and that if you don't properly dry them, they can even ruin your filament. Let's compare four different methods to keep your loose desiccant and your silica packages dry! ``` Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:19 What's inside a desiccant bag? 01:54 Sponsor 03:19 Clay desiccant 04:57 Indicating desiccant 06:53 The problem with desiccant 10:26 Get rid of your desiccant bags? 11:06 Drying desiccant 14:38 Drying in a microwave 16:40 How much energy does it use? 19:34 Drying the bags in a microwave 21:48 Do you damage your desiccant in the microwave? 23:18 Summary ``` ::: I'm surprised Stephan did not mention that bentonite clay is commonly used for cat litter.
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Disability is way more complicated than it may seem. I'm generally capable, but I go through major ups and downs of sleep depravation that make me professionally incompetent. I have extensive spinal damage. I must maintain a physical therapy routine to limit my ups and downs, but every month or two, some little anomaly will cause me injury and take a week or two before I can recover to 4-6 hours of sleep. Like I can't turn my head very far left. If I try, there is a high probability of injury near the limit of how far I can rotate. Most of my damage is in the thoracic (ribs) region. This is super rare and unlike any other types of back problems that people usually associate with back problems.
I can't take sleeping aids or my problems are much worse. I flop around like crazy every 5-10 minutes even when I'm sleeping. It is hard to communicate pain tolerances and quantify what is a lot of pain. As an indicator, I've raced bicycles, ridden over 200 miles in a day for fun, crashed multiple times breaking bones, including ribs, and still rode home tens of miles when I could have made a phone call for a ride easily. Even when such an injury could cause me harm in theory because of my chronic issues, the pain is irrelevant to me. I'm the Black Knight of cyclists as far as I'm concerned. It took two SUV's at the same time to substantially injure me and neither of them recovered from the fight and got crushed, kidding... but...
I've run my own business with employees twice and managed for someone else. I would not hire me.
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I was in race shape when I got hurt, and I'm in a very weird condition where I am very close to being healthy but it is just out of reach. A MIPS helmet could have had a substantial bearing on the crash that almost killed me. I highly recommend doing whatever it takes to get one. The tech came out in Q3 of 2013 and I almost started riding one, but didn't want to spend my own money on one when I would likely be given a demo unit with my job as a Buyer for a chain of bike shops. They aren't super expensive now like they were then. Making sure the helmet fits you well too. My face was shredded by glass too. If it wasn't for my sunglasses taking most of the glass around my eyes I probably would have lost an eye, like I have nerve damage in my chin and a chipped tooth among other issues.
I didn't remember any of it or for 3 hours after. My last memory was a beautiful morning, riding to work then the darkest blackest nothing and waking up in the hospital clueless about how I got there. Not a bad way to go really. Massive head injuries are like that, but I was traveling 30 MPH at impact after braking with GPS showing exactly how fast I was going.
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I'm just off the beach as far south in OC as you can get. If I had bot skills I'd crank one out to make local work. I probably could figure it out, but don't have the digital infra and footprint to make it and be sustainable. Given our scale here, we probably need to just use a Cali or PacCo.
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I generally watch the total highest votes counts for top posts at 6, 12, and 24 hours to get an idea of the overall traffic patterns across all instances federated with dot world. I have several instance logins to help federate communities I create, but rarely use them. Sometimes I will use them to see if other instances have higher top post counts.
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Mostly making sure I didn't miss some new drama thing or whatnot. Usually those have peripheral observers that will speak up. Friday nights (SoCal) are kinda hit or miss anyways, but we've been trending down a good bit recently.
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I've been getting some flags to mod remove some stuff. I read them and look into each one, but I need a damn good reason to take action and I rarely see that. I see some stupid, but everyone has a right to that, or a bad day. There are lots of things I don't like or agree with, but only a terrible mod enforces their opinions or is unable to separate themselves from the role of a mod. A bad mod is a visible mod. Feel free to point them out. People can change, and admin should be made aware. Heck, if it is me, I want to know where to adjust my biases or how to better explain my actions.
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The suicide machine by those too cowardly to make gas chambers like the monsters they truly are.
The participation seems way down recently. What did I miss?
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I have no issue filtering. Everyone I watch regularly has a minimum of a masters degree in their respective edutainment field. I don't watch anything packaged by the big 6 or any algorithm. And I run my own dialed AI stuff for many tasks I personally find useful.
AI is not the problem friend. The problem is cultural. Tools are not the problems. The people that use them are.
The world will continue to specialize. As it does, the range of available content will grow as will the difficulty in finding your niche. Most places cater to the lowest common denominator. Perhaps you've found yourself some places where it is time to move on or devolve along with them.
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I'll do anything for a room, food, security, internet, and a few thousand dollars a year for electronics and bike parts. I'm pretty useless but will try as hard as I can manage. I can't really go anywhere, and I need someone to do my grocery shopping. I'm out of the house for a PT routine most days for around 1-2 hours. I'm quiet, and don't say much, but I cook a ton of really good food once every couple of weeks, I grow stuff, ferment stuff, will do your laundry and care for the cats. I'm in a lot of pain, but you'll see that I care a ton in my own ways. I can fix almost anything from a car to electronics to household stuff but I'm super slow. Physically I exist for around 1 hour a day where I can be upright and working on something. I'd love someone to unspeakable levels if they wanted me. Money has no value to me. I just want stability and security to live the best version of what remains of my existence. I can't travel or do much else without causing me harm. When I become homeless in the future, I won't last very long. I don't know how to put a number on that.
## pastiche --- ### Noun 1. A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way. (Coordinate term: parody) 2. A musical medley, typically quoting other works. 3. An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge. 4. A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form. --- ### Verb 1. To create or compose in a mixture of styles. --- ### Etymology - Via French pastiche, from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pastīcius, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pasticcio. --- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pastiche
*Etymology 1* - Learned borrowing from Latin cum (“with”). **Preposition** 1) Used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or a which has changed from one to another. *Etymology 3* **Adjective** 1) Clipping of cumulative. *Etymology 4* **Noun** Abbreviation of cubic metre. (ex: *The density of cement is 1440 kg/cum.*) For further definitions omitted see: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cum Why this one? Because I used it in a joke and some apparently did not know the primary use as a preposition.
This is mostly intended as a question for people with severe chronic issues of a magnitude that significantly alter their function to the point of relying on others for basic needs. However, anyone is welcome to reply. From personal experience this type of pain is hard to describe and hard for others to understand, especially the psychological side. So I'm asking because I really don't understand how cannabis works for anyone as pain relief. I have also been on most available opioids and they largely have no effect. They only impact my focus in such a way that I do not care about doing anything or about the pain. It is like they impact anxiety, but that does not do anything for the underlying physical issue. In some cases like tramadol, I get so disconnected from my typical self awareness that I could spiral into a dumber version of myself like being in a figurative pit I cannot escape. Seriously, I use a few games and the times it takes me to complete harder levels to gage how pain or meds are impacting my cognitive function. Long term I use the scope, depth, and my project completion capabilities to gage if I am acting like myself long term. This is what has pulled me off of several meds long term; I simply was not myself in capabilities. The meds made me care less about the pain, but I am interested in a more productive life, not caring less about the thing that is ever present. The only drugs that made the pain go away are the kind that require constant monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit in a hospital. Am I an outlier here; simply more self aware of the way pain treatments alter the mind and only indirectly impact the real issue? Does caring less satisfy your needs? Is anxiety a large part of your functional life?
I have several gel ice packs to throw out and would rather make use of them if possible. Some leak and others have been collected for various uses (chronic health related). Is the gel the same stuff used for plant seed starters or anything like that? Sure, I could search the web and find lots of people selling ads with their impractical MacGyver anecdotes galore, but that says nothing about what is practical and worth actually doing versus conventional alternatives.
A shower thought after my PT ride today was: Let's assume biology is the ultimate final technology to master after a complete scientific understanding of biology, chemistry, and physics is achieved in a very distant future, (full elemental cycles balance becomes possible and ultimate energy efficiency). So my thought was, could it be possible to create a biological thing by influencing the forces that could create the desired outcome in deep time? Is it possible to define an ecosystem in such a way that one can predict how it will evolve in stages? Like the ecosystems of the dinosaurs are thought to have been far less complex than the world of today. If one were to predict the path of increasing complexity, could one predict an outcome or at least a spectrum of possible outcomes? What kind of culture would it take to plan on this kind of scale? Like, if you appreciate the technology of today, it was the product of designs someone started several centimillennia ago, so we take pride in the future creations we make possible centimillennia from now. I'm thinking the primary application would be to assess the spectrum of a distant world to then tailor a payload that would terraform a world, but other note niche applications may be possible Probably another dumb question to ask here, but whatever. It is the kind of marble that gets lost in my brain. I just had this idea of nature as a really bad technologist that only exists on geologic time scales. What if we figured out how to do the same job but better.
TBC, I don't watch or care anything about the sport. I am curious why it hasn't gone to full military tech style communications between players and augmented heads up display style interfaces. It certainly isn't due to a lack of money. It is like the ultimate battle tech. What could possibly be more American than mock battles over an inflated pig carcass with military tech shit? Like drone view of every player, in helmet view, isolated coms, and off site real time strategy. Sounds about as potentially popular as a consul or *first citizen* hosting naval battles in a coliseum IMO.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4a_kJkVUis Big Clive's video description: > This is not a sponsored video. I feel it's important that people should know about this evolving technology, and Naomi is working on making it affordable. > > During the pandemic YouTuber Naomi Wu presented plans for traditional mercury vapour based UVC sterilising lights with a special housing, to sterilise air in a room without exposing the occupants to the 254nm UVC light. > > With the evolution and availability of the new era 222nm excimer lamps, Naomi has gone on to design a full product designed to be easy and convenient to deploy in populated areas like medical practices, waiting rooms, retail environments, food preparation areas and live events. > > The special feature of the 222nm wavelength is that it is long enough to deactivate viral and bacterial air contaminants, but short enough not to pass through the outer layer of dead skin or the tear-layer of humans. That means that it is currently considered safe to use in occupied areas. > > The filter on the front of the light seems to specifically pass 222nm. Without it there is a very slight hump in the spectral output at around 237nm. The filter attenuates that completely. > > Excimer is an abbreviation of Excited-Dimer, where a dimer is the joining of two molecules. In the case of the excimer lamps the molecules are encouraged to bond temporarily in a plasma discharge, and when they revert back to their non-excited state they emit a photon of light at a specific wavelength determined by the chemistry. In this case it's molecules of Krypton and Chlorine that form brief molecules of Krypton-Chloride (KrCl), before reverting back and emitting 222nm photons in the process. > > The process of creating the plasma is very similar to dielectric barrier ozone generators. By coupling to the gasses capacitively the lamp also avoids contaminating the gasses with the electrode materials. > > Note that the unit uses 500mA at 12V (6W) but has a generously rated 12W power supply that runs cool. > > This technology looks like it may be valuable in medical, care, travel or social environments to limit the spread of pathogens. > > Here's a link to Naomi's pleasingly-named online shop:- > https://cybernightmarket.com/products
**Noun** *(verb below)* ### paragon (plural paragons) 1) A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model for others. 2) (obsolete) A companion; a match; an equal. 3) (obsolete) Comparison; competition. 4) (typography, printing, dated) The size of type between great primer and double pica, standardized as 20-point. 5) A flawless diamond of at least 100 carats. **Verb** ### paragon (third-person singular simple present *paragons*, present participle *paragoning*, simple past and past participle *paragoned*) 1) To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with. 2) To compare with; to equal; to rival. 3) To serve as a model for; to surpass. 4) To be equal; to hold comparison. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paragon
I'm looking for your deepest abstracted definition of the history and political nuance, the philosophical, the ethics, the evolved and historical meaning, and the meaningful impact it has had in evolving political structures and systems. This is not ELI5, or a dumb question like "What is the stock market," /s... It is a question of dumb contexts like: what is it really under the surface, or what is it in your opinion, or what is it in principal, or what is it used for as a justification for other parts of society?
This is me slowly dialing in an intuitive understanding of planting and growing from absolutely no money spent. There are Jalapeños, three tomatoes in pots - experiments, and a pot of green onions. These were just quick and dirty affairs of tossing the refuse from some Pico de Gallo in an empty egg carton and watering it daily. I transferred the individual egg carton pods into the most lazy of mulch and dirt from another dead plant. I didn't even remove the plants from the cardboard carton because the roots were breaking through and embedded when I tried with one. So I was curious how the tomatoes might battle it out in a plant-diator death match style, or at least that is what it has turned into. The right most pot is struggling the most with something like 4 egg carton pods that each consisted of a chunk of tomato guts and whatever seeds that included. The pot on the back with tomato plants and several blooms is only two pods. The black plastic pot is an anomaly. I also had planted a couple of egg carton pods of habanero peppers that never sprouted. Somehow I had a single tomato seed make its way inside and I just went with it. It sprouted later than the rest, and appears to be doing the best. I'm sure someone will be like 'duh, everyone knows to grow single plants in pots' but have you ever really tried it. Here in SoCal, I have a little green caterpillars plague to contend with. I find leaves half chewed and the culprits underneath nearly daily. I could spray them, but the routine of hunting them ensures I get out and water the lot of them. You can't really see it, but there is aluminium foil with a paper towel and a bunch of green beans drying outside of their pods. These are for a future experiment between those that were dried in pods versus dried out of pods versus fresh de-/pods and likely a mix of larger and smaller beans too just to get an intuitive understanding of how each option seems to grow. The green onions were a series of three bunches over the last 6 months that went unused and appeared ruined and ready for the trash bin. I planted them anyways and they are by-far the easiest, most useful, and productive thing I have grown. If there is one thing to have on a window seal for food use and a little color in a drab pad, this is it, do green onions.