Fuck Nestlé

The current species of sharks evolved around 200 million years ago, so yeah the species of sharks today have everything in common with the species of sharks 100 million years ago. Sharks are famously also remarkably stable in their evolution. They do evolve and branch out with specializations, but physically the basic shark form has been the same for a very long time. The sharks that were around 400 million years ago when trees first evolved would have been very similar to the sharks we have today.

Yes, vampires have existed longer than the Christian faith. The idea is someone with a high faith stat imbues a volume of water with holy energy. The higher the stat, the more energy gets imbued. This however does rely on what ritual is used and how well it’s performed and of course the stamina and magic level of the person performing the ritual. The holy energy transferred also drops off with time, this is a logarithmic curve. So a high amount of energy drops off fast, where a lower amount of energy can stick around for a while.

The volume of holy water flasks isn’t just arbitrary chosen, it’s the exact right volume for a common priest to imbue with holy energy and have it stick for a practical amount of time. Now remember the holy energy doesn’t really do anything to vampires, sure it burns and hurts them, but they are eternal beings not pussies. It won’t cause real physical damage, at least not any meaningful amount. So it’s best use as something akin to pocket sand, something to distract and annoy vampires with.

Some monsters other than vampires are susceptible to holy damage, but many aren’t. So the practical use is limited. In theory you could get a bunch of priests together and have them bless like a firetruck full of water. But no group of vampires would be caught out in the open like that. They employ guerrilla tactics, not open warfare. Plus the rituals will get in the way of each other, so the energy transfer is actually very poor.

Honestly this is basic stuff, the local library has many books on this very subject. Ask your local librarian for something like Hal’s tombes of magic part 2 and 3 or Abbacula’s collected works on Divine Magic, it’s all in there.

Or like a wise person once said: You’d be surprised what a shoulder mounted rocket launcher can kill.

One day I had worked for 18 hours straight. I was going home at 1AM and walked past a McDonald’s. It was in the middle of summer, 35 degrees all day, but cooling off at night. I really needed a pick me up, so I walked in and approached the counter. A pretty lady looked at me and said: “I know exactly how you feel and what you are here for”. In my mind she transformed into an angel and felt the holy energy radiating out. Then she followed up with: “I’m SO sorry, our ice-cream machine broke”. I didn’t even say anything, I just stared at her, a tear pushing it’s way out of the corner of my eye. I mumbled something like “It’s fine, don’t worry about it”, turned around and walked out. I’m not even sure how I got home that day, I was just mentally destroyed. This was 20 years ago and I still remember that moment :'(

Be careful, those generals can teleport you to a random Waffle House at any moment

I do like fries with skins on, but the potatoes need to be good for them. I do like it when the skin crisps up real good.

Is was so sad to see those earlier experiments. A lot of those people actually thought they were helping those kids. But then when the results became clear they were really shocked and sad to see it was them all along. Often it was just little subconscious nudges.

There were however a lot of people who knew exactly what they were doing, at the cost of those kids. Especially that story about the “kid” claiming he got raped by his father was terrible. It really shows how something with good intentions can spiral out of control real fast.

Fuck those Spelling to communicate people, they should go to jail for the shit they are trying to pull.

The main question: Skin on or skin off?

Yeah those refurb drives from eBay were the last good source. I got a bunch of them last year, 2 of them had issues but were replaced under warranty by the manufacturer. All of those seem to be either gone or not priced very well.

Doing anything PC related these days is very rough with prices being sky high. And even if you are willing to pay, there isn’t a lot of good stuff to get. It sucks ass.

I personally recommend watching the video at 1.4x playback speed, if not at least 1.25 times

100% agreed, it feels like Salt makes his videos and then slows it down by at least 25%. When playing at 1.25 times it feels totally natural. A higher speed is perfectly fine even, since the information density is very low.

I know a lot of people like to do some drugs and vibe out to Salt videos, but it kind of annoys me. The length of his videos have gotten longer and longer and I feel like the quality has went down some. Not bad, but not as good as it once was. And the low information density and slow speed definitely contributes to that.

But that’s my personal view, other people might feel differently. The vids are still good, so it doesn’t matter all that much.

I feel like it’s more like 75% wrong and 25% right. The biggest issue is the answers may seem right, because that’s what those models do. They generated answers that would fit, regardless of if they are right or not. This makes it very hard to tell if they are right and in my experience they are wrong in some way a lot of the time.

Sometimes it in small details that don’t matter much, sometimes it’s in big ways. But the worst times are when it’s wrong in little details that do matter a lot. As the saying goes, the devil is in the details, so details matter.

This is why I hate it when people say LLMs are good for coding, because they really really aren’t. If there is one place where details matter, it’s in coding. Having a single character in the wrong place can be the difference between good working code and good working code with a huge security hole in it. Or something that seems to work, but doesn’t take into account a dozen edge cases you haven’t even thought of. In my experience those edge cases present themselves whilst writing the code. When the working out part is skipped, that crucial step is being skipped. This leads to accumulation of tech debt at about the same rate an AI startup burns money.

I like the analogy of a broken clock. People say a broken clock is right twice a day. But that’s only true if you already know the time and therefor know it’s right or not. The same thing is true when asking an LLM for anything, it might be right, it might not be. The only way to know is to already know the answer, which makes the whole thing rather pointless.

Yeah but the machine is in ounces, where the can is in Florida ounces. Once you convert it’s perfectly fine.

Now you’re asking the right questions. That’s not just simple editing, that’s AI editing. I’m going to give you the honest brutal truth, AI editing is everywhere.

I believe the font was actually just poorly readable and it said Dank Souls instead.

They said, sobbing

Well obviously gravity has infinite range in principle, however it does fall off with the square of the distance. So it will get irrelevant at some point, with local sources being the major factor. But obviously the Earth’s influence is still quite significant, since the Moon doesn’t go flying off. The Moon’s orbit is what it is because of the gravity of Earth, although the Sun is a huge factor as well.

The Moon’s gravity is what’s causing the tides on Earth, so both objects influence each other through gravity signifanctly. The spacecraft will be decelerating on the way to the Moon because the Earth is pulling it down. However once they cross a certain point, the Moon’s gravity becomes dominant and they get pulled towards the Moon. They are going too fast to be able to be captured by the Moon and get into an orbit. But they are going too fast to be captured by the Moon. So they will sling past the Moon, the Moon will pull them around and they will fall back to Earth again. They would then be going too fast to be in a proper orbit, instead being flung past the other side. So they will perform a braking maneuver to go back into Earth orbit and slow down further still to land back on Earth.

What confuses people is they see astronauts at 300km up and they are weightless. So one would assume gravity falls off much faster than it does. In fact at 300km the gravity from Earth is still 90% of what it is on the surface. The reason those astronauts are weightless is because they are falling.

Imagine a skydiver falling down and shaking hands with another skydiver, they are weightless compared to each other. If it weren’t for the air rushing by, you would be able to tell they were falling and they would look weightless. In fact there is this awesome video floating around where skydiver also have a car falling down and they get in it, it all looks weightless, because it is. The famous vomit comet plane does the same, it flies up, then follows a parabolic curve down (aka falling), before pulling up again. Whilst falling things are in fact weightless.

So if those astronauts are falling, how come they don’t fall down to the ground, obviously something is keeping them up there. The answer is speed, they are falling down, but at the same time going horizontally at great speed. Such a great speed in fact, they miss the Earth and instead fall around it. Imagine shooting a cannon faster and faster till it goes over the horizon and if fired fast enough all around the world.

Going to space isn’t about going up, it’s about going fast. The reason rockets go straight up is because they want to get above much of the atmosphere as fast as possible. This reduces air resistance and makes going faster easier (or possible even). As soon as they go up a little bit, they start turning to go horizontally, often in a so called gravity turn. This is where you use the gravity of Earth to curve downwards, so the gravity helps out instead of fighting it. LEO is only something like 300km up, and the widely recognized limit for “space” is only 100km up. You could easily drive that with your car in no time at all, so why do we need a huge rocket to get to space? Because to go into orbit you need to be going 8km/s, not 8km/h, but 8km every second. To go that fast you need a lot of power and a rocket has that power.

Orbital mechanics are really weird when you first learn about them. But we have the great Kerbal Space Program game to get a feel for them. Speed and altitude are directly related, changing one influences the other, often in ways we feel are not intuitive. This is why people who know faceplam at a movie like Gravity where an escape pod points up and just flies off into deep space. That’s not how any of this works, most likely there wouldn’t be enough energy (delta V as the nerds like to say) to get out of Earth orbit. At best it might end up in a helio centric orbit near Earth, but it’s unlikely. It isn’t like you can just point to outer space and go there.

For a deep dive into the old Apollo communications, check out the YouTube channel Curiousmarc. His team and him have been working on restoring (and playing around with) old Apollo hardware. They go through a lot of the features and functionality, as well as teardowns, repairs and testing all of it.

https://youtube.com/channel/UC3bosUr3WlKYm4sBaLs-Adw

But how could this happen? The DOW was above 50.000?

Can we PLEASE stop calling everything …gate? There wasn’t even a gate involved in the first place. This naming convention fucking sucks.

Yeah agreed, the suggestions are so bad. It’s really weird to see YouTube embrace AI shit like that, since their platform is being swamped with AI slop. Users don’t want to watch it, advertisers don’t want to be shown on them and those “creators” have zero commitment for the platform. They do however have all of the costs parsing and storing those videos, indexing them into the search engine etc.

It’s really shocking how bad all of the AI stuff I’ve seen is. Am I taking crazy pills? This shit sucks ass. People who don’t know any coding often shout how successful AI is with coding, but as someone who has worked professionally in that space for decades: It fucking sucks, it’s so bad.