how do you calibrate a fahrenheit thermometer? With celsius it’s hilariously trivial, if the thermometer says it’s about 0 when you see water freeze, it’s correct enough for everyday use.
You do the exact same but use 32 degrees instead of zero. I know celsius is cool and good but most people seem incapable of understanding how its just fucking marks on a line and any non-sciencey advantage is pretty much null.
It makes more sense for the former unfortunately.
The original theory was that it could have been a pregnant women looking down and that’s what lead to the proportions. The idea was they wouldn’t have been able to see themselves in a river or something. But rivers and puddles, not to mention OTHER pregnant women, were extremely common so it’s less likely.
I think qualia and the philosophical zombie thing pokes a hole in the whole non-soul thing but I’ll admit that I don’t have a good materialist explanation.
I’d wager that consciousness is some sort of emergent property of matter operating on a dimension we can’t directly interact with. 70% of our understanding of the universe doesn’t come from directly observing stuff, it comes from observing the effects of it.
That doesn’t mean that you have an eternal soul that survives death, just that consciousness is a bit more complicated than the current materialist explanation.
It’s just better to get used to a baseline level of misery than relying on happiness to get yourself out of a funk.
That said, turn the fucking devices off, get a big fucking cup of herbal tea, and look at the natures for 30 minutes. You are not allowed to press the buttons on the misery-skinner-box until tea is gone and timer is up.
Rookie mistake, they should have said they were forming an economic polycule.
So is a crucial part of the theory no longer “survival of the fittest?” Because that’s straight Malthus.
In what way is “organisms that increase their reproductive success spread their genetic material more than organisms that don’t” Malthusian? Even Peter Kroptkin, the anarcho-communist who literally wrote the Bread Book, used “Survival Of The Fittest” in his writings.
Malthus is wrong for many reasons but the biggest is that humans are not base unconscious animals who rely on genetic variation to influence their behavior. Malthus built his ideas based on uneducated people in a pre-industrial society. But with increasing education and family planning, the exponential growth that Malthus predicted is severely curved. You shouldn’t reject parts of evolution because Malthus used them to justify his political theory. You should reject them if they aren’t scientifically sound.
I don’t think you understand that getting some hokey answers when you do an asklemmy thread about the supernatural is par for the course.
My point still stands even if its modified a bit.
It’s only your mind active in this scenario. You might as well just ask to know everything in existence.
Knowing everything in existence is just merging with the universe which isn’t what I want. I want my ego to still exist, even if only temporarily. I don’t want to go from human -> THE ALL, I want to follow the path with the extra time I was given.
I don’t see how you get to the ascension part anyway, you can only absorb the answers you look for, you don’t get time and space to do anything with it.
If I don’t get time and space then it doesn’t matter what I ask anyway as I’d be dead before I got to appreciate the answer. “Oh what’s the secret of the universe?” But then I’m dead before I even get to think about what it means. May as well just ask what’s on TV tomorrow because I wouldn’t get anything from it.
Tell me all the digits in Pi or some other irrational number so that I can get pseudo eternal life.
Since we have a wish-granting entity then that means the supernatural is somewhat real and I use my newfound time as well as the frozen world to learn everything I wanted and possible ascend beyond humanity.
Learn how to rocket jump and air strafe effectively. Don’t use the Conch at first because it’s a crutch. It’s very powerful tool and highly useful if your team doesn’t have a competent medic but it makes you rely on the passive healing instead of seeking out healthkits.
As a general rule, any 1-1 fight beyond mid-range is a waste of ammo for soldier. Once you start doing 20-30 damage rocket shots you merely become an annoyance. Either jump in to close the distance or use suppressive fire and move up. Sentries aren’t affected by damage fall-off so that’s an exception.
That said, using your rockets to soften up groups of enemies from afar is very useful. But only fire 1-2 rockets and then reload unless you think you can get a kill. Being caught out with 1 rocket in the clip and no shotgun is a death sentence for most soldiers. I’ve been spamming chokepoints to great success only to have a enemy that I could have taken with a few extra rockets kill me. At the very least, keep 1 rocket to escape with.
This is true for every class but turn on damage numbers and know your “rockets to kill” count for each enemy. A heavy takes all 4 of your rockets assuming you hit them at relatively close range. A spy, sniper, scout, and engi may only take 2.
Learn when to retreat back to your team. A lot of new players pick limited mobility classes like heavy and pyro which can’t really escape most fights. They think that once they are in an encounter they are “forced” to continue until they either win or die. But soldier can jump back to a medic/healthkit if they’re in a fight they can’t win.
Yeah…he literally put $1400 in your pocket, assuming you’re American, at the beginning of his administration in response to the covid-19 virus.
Trump did it twice, plus Biden promised $2000 and walked that back when he was in office.
Ignoring everything else, Trump pushed for the checks and called on congress to make increases to what was given out. Biden sent out a lower amount than what he promised and then presided over the clusterfuck that was the end of the pandemic.
There’s a good reason for the going for the last one: Opportunity Cost.
If you’re in a situation and have an ability that can only be used once a day, you can never really know if this encounter will be the optimal use. So you hold off on it and thus get less utility. Even if you are regularly using it, having something you can always get utility out of is far more valuable than something that is strong but wasted sometimes.
I hate their unconscious brains but I think their consciousness is okay.
Humans are driven more by unconscious monkey brain then they care to admit. The people they like, hate, and pay attention to are largely unconscious behaviors. In this way, a human in a social setting is pure animal. The personality and ego are mere tools used by the human organism to navigate these social situations.
The human organism is a unconscious, cruel thing that should be abandoned as soon as possible. The egos created from it are okay. But asking them to separate themselves is hard for the trained let alone the layman.
Kissinger’s death primarily.
95% of the “wholesome human moments” are more or less tribalism/nepotism malfunctioning.
It’s like when a mother cat adopts ducklings because she came across them shortly after birth. But if it was 8 hours before she’d hunt and eat them. The cat doesn’t care about the ducks, it’s just a brain chemistry acting in a weird case. Humans are not different, they just imagine their emotions/unconscious social calculations to be a part of themselves.
I hate having to explain this shit to literal Comp Sci majors.
Even if ChatGPT was literally a perfect copy of a human being it would still be 0 steps closer to a general intelligence because it does not fucking understand WHAT or HOW to actually do the things it suggests.
What operating system and tools should a beginner use to learn programming
Chances are you’ll have to switch to whatever your job has eventually so just pick what you like. I really like VsCode personally because you can read the documentation of methods without leaving your program. The best system and tools is whatever gets you to start learning though.
I want start with python but I don’t know what operating system and tools to use
Python is great and easy to learn but I think it leads to misunderstandings about how programming languages work if that’s your only experience. If you can get a Programming Fund 1 class in C or C++, you can transfer over those skills to Python in a week. If you start with Python, then you’ll be mostly starting from scratch if you need to learn other languages. But it’s entirely your choice.
In terms of programming institutions (universities bootcamps, etc…), do each institutions have its own preference or does it let its student choose?
My university had Windows for the public computers but as long as you turned in your code it didn’t matter where it was written. I know lots of people who used a Linux VM that they carried on a USB stick. They completed their assignments just fine.
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I got a touch-pump soap dispenser for my kitchen. Just put the the sponge on the device, push down, and now you got a soapy sponge. Saves time but I’m old so ymmv.