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New comment by nugga in "Q1K3 - An homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript"

nugga — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:52:33 +0000

The way I could try to make sense of it is, something is being moved from outside so pushing the mouse forward means look down. Flight sims, joystick, 2d plane, ...stuff.

New comment by nugga in "Q1K3 - An homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript"

nugga — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:16:55 +0000

Nice stuff but I almost went mad when I realized there's no invert mouse option.

New comment by nugga in "Psilocybin Produced in Yeast"

nugga — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:55:59 +0000

When "researching cannabis", using just pure thc may not be optimal because cbd, cbn, and other chemicals produce a different kind of high and, if I recall correctly, especially cbd counters some of the most negative effects of thc, etc.

Similarily, people might be worrying about oversimplifying mushrooms to just psilocybin because mushrooms have more than one chemical in them and they might work in a synergistic way as well.

New comment by nugga in "During the Renaissance, the beard was the defining feature of a man"

nugga — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:29:40 +0000

You might be talking about long beards taking some effort to maintain but keeping some 5-15 mm stubble is pretty convenient and fast with an electric trimmer and changeable blades.

New comment by nugga in "Palantir forced out of job fair after outcry over ICE contracts"

nugga — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:53:05 +0000

I don't have the answer to these questions: who benefits from people staying in usa illegally and why? Why are (some) people illegally staying in usa being 'weaponized' as a political tool? As long as we have borders and nations, why shouldn't a country decide who gets in and why?

New comment by nugga in "Dignity"

nugga — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:25:16 +0000

Baselessly prejudiced discrimination is obviously bad, but whites in the west had a head start of hundreds of years of amassing wealth and power. That's how the game mostly works.

We're born, we do the work and we die. We're not entitled to anything.

>The only solution is to replace the class system with something that provides unconditional dignity for all.

Basic income, let's go!?

New comment by nugga in "Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party"

nugga — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 19:59:35 +0000

The 'narrative' on the international stage often times seems to be might is right. Cute mythological stories hardly change that.

Almost everything we appear to hold so dear and immutable or self evident seems kinda arbitrary depending on how far back you go and whether you consider yourself part of this team or that.

Nationalism or tribalism is a whole lot of make believe, is what I'm saying.

New comment by nugga in "Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party"

nugga — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:37:03 +0000

How do you qualify what constitutes a part of the country though? A whole lot of land changing hands and being conquered by force happened throughout the world's history.

I wonder how much of that unity sentiment is/was constructed and pushed on by leadership due to the area around current China being littered with competing kingdoms and a lot of internal strife and disarray throughout its history, not just the past 100 years.

In Chinese cinema, or at least some films, the theme of unity and to some extent 'glorious leadership' seems to be prevalent. Just came to mind that even in some Jet Li films (or equivalent) set in more ancient times you could probably be faced with some monologues or statements to that tune and at least I was a bit taken aback by how blatant it felt.

New comment by nugga in "More Older Couples Stay Together Because They Live Apart"

nugga — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:04:05 +0000

I saw some articles somewhere that some people, despite living together in a relationship, sleep in different beds or even rooms.

New comment by nugga in "Neuralink Live Stream [video]"

nugga — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 10:31:14 +0000

I can only go by what he and other people close to him say but he says he used to do plenty acid and been to retreats in asia for months and months (cumulatively) during his early life and seems to be good pals with people like Joseph Goldstein (who studied under asian teachers in 60s/70s). He has probably experienced all kinds of stuff.

Point being, if you get (at least some of) what there is to get then does it matter where your body was born or what it looks like? Is it a bad thing that western born people are bringing this (buddhist/hindu/jain) thought to the west?

I would revise your statement that there are the monastics who dedicate their lives to this, the lay people who practice and the commoditized 'yoga' as exercise/stretching folk/peddlers who are far removed from its spiritual components.

New comment by nugga in "Neuralink Live Stream [video]"

nugga — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 05:29:25 +0000

I'm interested in hearing more about about being a charlatan with the meditation app especially considering, as far as I remember, you can get it for free by just asking.

New comment by nugga in "Tobacco out, hemp in for Tennessee farmers"

nugga — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 07:24:16 +0000

I wonder how legislating such low thc content affects the viability of (industrial) hemp because I seem to recall reading that for example higher thc may help protect the plant against pests and possibly affect other qualities of the product as well as having synergistic or other medical qualities when combined with cbd and other cannabinoids in oil or other forms.

Are we gimping the potential of hemp by clinging to the war on drugs reefer madness mentality?

New comment by nugga in "SpaceX faces daunting challenges if it’s going to win the internet space race"

nugga — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 08:17:34 +0000

I bet plenty of online gamers would like to play globally with good latency instead of being confined to local regions.

New comment by nugga in "Penn Jillette fasts 23 hours a day to maintain his 100lb weight loss"

nugga — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 05:37:37 +0000

Coffee and herbal teas may not be as beneficial during fasting, because as you said, they may be more "substantial".

I was watching a compilation clip about intermittent fasting [0] recently. According to Dr. Rhonda Patrick, coffee and other drinks than just plain water (and maybe vitamins and supplements as well?) break the fast by starting up some metabolic enzymes [1][2].

I guess there goes my round the clock tea gulping. :|

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjMdqevE88

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjMdqevE88&t=13m17s

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjMdqevE88&t=20m10s

New comment by nugga in "Penn Jillette fasts 23 hours a day to maintain his 100lb weight loss"

nugga — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:58:02 +0000

I seem to recall hearing that the big(gest) benefit of a short eating window of something up to 8 or 9 hours is reduced markers for inflammation and that working out before breaking fast might be good as well. Can't find sources right now though.

New comment by nugga in "Starlink – SpaceX’s broadband internet system"

nugga — Fri, 24 May 2019 15:00:12 +0000

I wish they offered sensible guaranteed minimum bandwidth and didn't oversubscribe their links too much and included good QOS/traffic shaping with maybe prioritizing game traffic (or udp) for lower latency gaming.

I'd be more than happy getting say a guaranteed 5 MB/s (~50 mbps) steady with super low latency on the cheap everywhere on the earth. I'm currently getting about 1-2 MB/s on 4G mobile internets for ~25 eur a month but at least it's _real_ unlimited.

New comment by nugga in "When Women Outrun Men"

nugga — Sun, 19 May 2019 09:24:14 +0000

The article may have some strangely worded parts but he seems to be an incredibly strong willed and determined person going from a fat slob gulping down milkshakes (paraphrasing his words) to a seal and an ultra runner.

He was on Joe Rogan at least twice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tSTk1083VY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvWB7B8tXK8

New comment by nugga in "John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (1996)"

nugga — Wed, 15 May 2019 06:30:03 +0000

There are some changes in the movement physics which might not be obvious. QW is more forgiving wrt bunnyhopping as you can gain momentum more easily compared to NQ. The speedrunners still use NQ afaik because it is the original single player game.

https://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/topic/2356/qw-physics-vs-nq-...

New comment by nugga in "First SpaceX Starlink satellites loaded into Falcon fairing"

nugga — Sun, 12 May 2019 15:24:47 +0000

Some people on the Spacex subreddit calculated that the upcoming Starship vehicle could dispense over 500 Starlink satellites in one launch: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/bnjrnf/elon_musk_on...

New comment by nugga in "Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil"

nugga — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:56:44 +0000

>The majority of their economy has for decades been built around enabling the rest of the world to burn fossil fuels.

I just had this mental image of a drug cartel trying to go legit and leaving their criminal past behind.