And if you directed most of that beam away from the sun and a smaller portion toward the sun (to keep your beam splitter in place) you could move the whole solar system
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Not sure which way you mean this:
A) In the “(insert dictatorship-style government with extreme censorship that claims to be “socialist”) isn’t authoritarian because that word was made up by the CIA.” kind of way, or
B) In the “this meme was likely made by someone who fits option A, where they purposefully try to make authoritarian seem meaningless to defend their favorite ‘socialist’ dictatorship” kind of way, or
C) in the “People throw authoritarian around so much to the point it basically has no meaning because multiple groups purposefully shift their definition of it around so it doesn’t apply to themselves or people/governments they like.” kind of way, or
D) purposefully vague so you reap upvotes from people who agree with any of the above
If it’s D, well done my friend lol
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Alternate DE’s: xubuntu is a classic and it’s fast. LXQT is also lightweight but not as modern feeling imo. Debian install disks should let you choose either of those DEs (or some others) when installing
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My first times playing ER was mouse and keyboard. I got progressively better but it was incredibly difficult. I thought I just sucked at games, couldn’t get past any enemies that moved fast. And duo bosses? Forget about it.
Then I got an Xbox controller and hooked it to my PC.
That next run-through, I made it from Limgrave to Leyendell in about the time it originally took me to clear Stormveil
It really is just funny that—not only is it an American flag—but it’s the “Earth” flag and it only shows the globe centered on America.
That view of the globe only shows like 20% of the world’s population since the majority of humanity lives outside of the American continents.
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Tbf honey bees aren’t really monarchic. Iirc they have a very advanced democracy where hive decisions are made by unanimous votes (you vote by dancing the same way as those who share your opinion of course because you’re bees lol)
Plus the queen basically is just stuck in the hive forever after mating once. The workers are the ones who have exciting jobs with novelty.
I’m not a physicist, but even if Astatine is being produced in minute quantities by decay, a half life of 8hrs should probably put it lower on the numbers than Americium.
Americium is produced anywhere you have lots of free neutrons. This may be rare on earth outside of nuclear power plants and bomb test sites, but not necessarily rare in the universe. Especially since it has a half life of 432years, so unlike astatine it can actually accumulate a bit and not just decay immediately.
Astatine basically doesn’t exist. The total amount in the entirety of earth’s crust at any given time is estimated to be less than a gram.
So I feel like the amounts should be flipped or at the very least closer in orders of magnitude.
If we are trying to avoid losing any information due to abstraction, I’d say at least somewhere in the low hundreds.
All actions are done out of desire and human desires are numerous and often contradictory even in the same person. Many people who think they are utilitarian likely still wouldn’t be okay with the Omelas structure of torturing a single kid even if that act allowed thousands of others to live painless lives.
Is it more right to avoid violence altogether, or is violence to prevent the slaughter of others better than doing nothing?
Morality is complicated and since morality dictates much of how we interact with others, it is likely the most significant factor in politics.
The second most would be personal desires. People with weak or localized empathy don’t tend to care about any politics that doesn’t affect them or their desires directly. Since desires are also diverse, this is multidimensional too.
Now, that being said, if our goal is to reduce the dimensionality as much as possible… the answer is basically any number you want.
Data analysis techniques will let you reduce the dimensionality of n-dimensional data to whatever number you want. In fact using similar techniques to word embedding would likely be very effective even if you simply group people by how similar their views seem to be (no need for you to actually define dimensions)
If we assume that there are around as many important dimensions to politics as there are typical English words, then we can assume the number of dimensions needed for encoding a person’s politics without losing relationships would be about the same as a word embedding vector.
In typical LLMs this is anywhere from around 50-300 dimensions.
Honestly, now I’m really fucking curious. If you created a quiz with thousands of political/philosophical questions and then had a large enough number of people take the quiz, you could legitimately do this with an autoencoder and see how many hidden neurons (dimensions) you would need for a precise encoding.
You might not be able to tell what those dimensions represent, but it would be incredibly fascinating to be able to subtract political ideologies from one another like you can with word embeddings.
Like with good embeddings you can subtract “France” from “Paris” then add that to “Poland” and it will give you a vector very close to “Warsaw”
Imagine being able to map out political or philosophical ideologies like this! You could ask it how far away two ideologies are too, or ask it what the average between two ideologies is, etc.
I feel like that would be incredibly fascinating to mess around with AND like the average example it could give you an idea of gaps in our political spectrum, ideologies that don’t exist yet or haven’t been named. It could show you attractor points or clusters and give insight into inherent human nature.
Damn I want to make this.
If you already tried proton and it hasn’t worked for the games you want to play, you have my sympathies. However, if that’s not the case, I highly recommend trying it out.
I’ve been running Arch on my main PC for two years and, so far, Steam’s Proton has worked with every game I’ve tried it on.
If you need to install the game using a windows installer like a repack, wine seems to work for that. Then, as long as you can find the game’s exe, you can add it to steam and choose to have it run via proton. And after that it launches just like every other game would.
Even NVIDIAs raytracing has worked for me which is kind of an impressive feat considering how much of a pain NVIDIA graphics can be on Linux sometimes.
I live in the Rockies. The mountains around me have been completely bare of snow for almost the entire winter. Like the peaks are just bare gray stone where the snow used to be year round.
I keep hearing people saying how sad it was they couldn’t ski this year because there was never snow… we basically haven’t had any winter/cold-weather at all, and they’re upset about skiing… I’m pretty sure there are more serious things to worry about.
Abbott: “So say you’re 40 and you like a girl that’s 10. Well you’re really too old for her because you’re 4x her age. So let’s say you wait 5years. Now you’re 45 and she’s 15, so you’re only 3x as old as her, but that’s still a bit much, so you wait another 15years and now you’re 60 and she’s 30. Only half your age now.
How long do you have to wait till you’re both the same age?”
Costello: “Well 4 then 3 then 2… at this rate she’d better be willing to wait for me too.”
Abbott: “what do you mean?”
Costello: “Going like this, eventually she’ll be older than me and she better wait for me to catch up.”
Abbott: “Why would she wait for you?”
Costello: “WELL I WAITED FOR HER!”
I’m reasonably certain an anarchist would have purged gollum, plus Sam is the one thinking about his friends and small community while Frodo is constantly focused on world scale events.
Sam just wants to grow potatoes and keep his friends safe. If that means killing a spider that literally almost ate the devil then sure he’ll do that, but mostly he just wants to be a gardener.
Frodo also turns on Sam despite how helpful/loyal Sam has been the entire time and later is corrupted by absolute power. This is reminiscent of a certain ml country that turned on anarchists as soon as the revolution happened…
My English teacher back in highschool was very picky about using “they” like most people do. I can hear him say “you have to use FORMAL LANGUAGE” in my head still lol
If it’s an unknown person we were told to use “he or she” instead of “they” and “his or her” instead of “their” despite the fact that no one fucking talks that way when referring to an unknown individual.
Like even saying “everyone should bring their laptop to class” would be marked wrong because “everyone” is singular so the “correct” version is “everyone should bring his or her laptop to class” which imo is way more confusing
However, he was also fine with us using masculine singular pronouns when the gender of a person wasn’t known, which I guess is kind of the case in like Spanish and some other Latin languages but still, just really weird rules
Growing up with sisters, I’d say she’s actually probably wearing makeup in both pictures.
The left is “full face” makeup so like foundation everywhere and highlights and contour and blush etc. etc. lots of layers and up close it’s obvious.
The right is a “no-makeup look” which is not actually no makeup but minimal makeup meant to look as though it’s natural. Thats likely why her eyebrows are perfect and her skin is completely blemish free in the “no makeup” photo.
Full face makeup is common for performers or when going out to some fancy event. Dates could count here but probably not most dates since it takes serious time and effort to put on and take off a full face look. And it is somewhat uncomfortable / annoying to have on. But it gives a lot more possibilities for artistic flare too. So many women (or just people in general) find it fun to do.
Minimal makeup is still art but also takes significant skill to get right even though there’s often much less makeup to put on.
I highly doubt most people are going on many dates in full face makeup. Probably more makeup than just a minimal look, like eyeshadow/eyeliner, but probably not putting on three layers of makeup over their entire face
Funnily enough, all my engineering professors seem to encourage the use of genAI for anything as long as it’s “not doing the learning for you”
What’s funny is that there’s basically no practical use for GenAI in engineering in the first place. Images like technical drawings need to be precise and code written for FDM/FEA etc. needs to be validated by some kind of mathematical model you derived yourself.
They say “it’s a useful new tool” and when I ask “what is it useful for” they typically have no answer besides “writing grant proposals” lol
There are lots of useful applications for machine learning in engineering, but very few if any practical applications for genAI.
Sorry I couldn’t parse that first sentence could you rephrase?
Also, I actually have been on Weibo but it really seemed too like… pop culture obsessed? Not my thing, plus my Mandarin sucked even back then when I was still actively learning it
I have also seen c/manufacturingconsent.
Anyway, I’m guessing you brought up Weibo as a “people can talk bad about the government there so clearly they don’t censor anti China speech” but that’s really not an argument.
China is pretty open about its regulation of the media. I mean you’ve likely read the terms and conditions for most of their media platforms so you already know it’s against their policies to promote ideas contrary to the vision/interests of the CCP or create dissent or however they phrase it. I’m sure small comments slip through here and there because their impact is small and censorship takes effort, but major posts against the government are not staying up very long. (If you can find long standing / popular dissenting post on Weibo to prove me wrong I’ll change my mind on this)
As for bringing up manufacturing consent and “what the west is trying to do” guess what buddy, if lots of people/organizations are doing a fucked up thing, it’s still a fucked up thing.
To be fair, I think trying to ensure your citizens hear good news is actually a pretty good idea, but I’m not a big fan of censoring news in order to make that happen.
Want to make the good news I see outnumber the bad 10:1? Fine, but leave the bad news in there. And I definitely don’t think organizations should censor their failures/problems. Admitting when you’ve made a mistake shows you’re trying to improve; hiding your mistakes makes you seem much less trustworthy in general.
Not everywhere else, China bans speech that shows the party or the country in a negative light lol
Pull a page out of Disney’s book: dead parents.
In what way could this character have lost his parents in this universe? Vary the emotional damage to fit the theme you want (you can even have the character’s parents die in a stupid way if you want the story to be somewhat humorous)
Create a villain (or hero) to have committed that act—or use factions you already thought of—and voilà you have a character revenge arc set up.
You can repeat this with basically any universe, and it still feels fresh if you just keep changing a few things around.
Did it happen recently to this person or a long time ago? Maybe change it to be a different family member or a friend. Maybe this was a massacre where there are multiple survivors seeking revenge. Maybe instead of seeking revenge they are really just trying to hide because whatever villain took their loved ones is hunting for them still.
Hell you can even push the entire thing into the past, turn the revenge arc into the lore of the world if the completion of that revenge arc would have had a large impact. Then the main quest could be trying to undo what has been done, or trying to stop another group from trying to undo what has been done. You could even obscure the actual events and make legends that all are loosely based around the truth but contradict each other so your characters need to uncover what really happened. (Cultures like having myths that make them seem better than they actually were)
When you need random characters to play roles in the plot, its often fun to just pick a random race/culture/class in your world and then say “how could a person from this group have ended up where I need them to be and with the skills I need them to have?”