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New comment by lavasalesman in "Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’"

lavasalesman — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:13:46 +0000

I like your explanation.

> There is lots of matter that is still unstable.

What are you referring to with this?

New comment by lavasalesman in "The midwit home"

lavasalesman — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:33:44 +0000

The "recursive landscape of terror" doesn't stop once you install Home Assistant, it continues during maintenance. And at that point you're dependent on it to run the systems in your house. Thus I recently decided to get rid of my whole setup and go back to normal.

Further, the tinkering aspect isn't enjoyable to me because I don't feel like I'm learning anything useful, I'm just trying to duct tape together other people's hobby projects that adds support for this or that bulb or radio.

New comment by lavasalesman in "Rolex earns billions every year. Where does the money go?"

lavasalesman — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:07:09 +0000

I read this as Roblox and was equally curious about the answer

New comment by lavasalesman in "Solar storm expected to make Northern Lights visible in 17 states"

lavasalesman — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 17:00:37 +0000

What's the difference in appearance between these?

New comment by lavasalesman in "Bard coding update with Colab exporting"

lavasalesman — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 15:57:41 +0000

UX is a feature

New comment by lavasalesman in "RustDesk – Remote desktop software, written in Rust"

lavasalesman — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:57:08 +0000

Rust apps are in their "Nintendo 64" era

New comment by lavasalesman in "The E-bike Is a Monstrosity"

lavasalesman — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 17:58:28 +0000

"E-bikes’ identity crisis might seem like the symptom of a transition"

E-bikes seem to be quite popular around where I live. What's of more interest is the identity crisis that e-bikes have triggered in the author.

New comment by lavasalesman in "You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018)"

lavasalesman — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:21:27 +0000

Migraine rescue medications that target CGRP receptors like Nurtec or Ubrelvy would help with this. They're modern migraine meds and have no side effects for me.

New comment by lavasalesman in "I Can’t See You but I’m Not Blind"

lavasalesman — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:50:58 +0000

I don't have aphantasia but if I never learned about the mind's eye from other people I think I would have used it almost never, just sometimes as a memory aid. Everything I think about is done abstractly; ie words in books and conversations take on no image in my mind, only the ideas transfer. After learning about how imagery springs to other people's minds when they're reading, conversing, etc. I've tried to do it myself and it is possible but always a conscious effort and usually tiring. The benefit for me is that images are more memorable than ideas alone so my recall of the things I try to visualize improves if I do it well, and has led me to try things like diagramming the things people say, also improving recall and understanding.

New comment by lavasalesman in "Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit"

lavasalesman — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 22:38:17 +0000

Where did they even get the songs if they weren't provided by the owner? Bittorrent?