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- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 3 days ago:
I still don’t quite get why planes are somehow the exception - likely because something about engineering and use of real planes makes inverted Y preferable? I don’t find the inversion intuitive in any context.
Up is up, down is down, and I see no other reason why it should be complicated further for some cases. I just piloted a spaceplane in Space Engineers after piloting a dragon in World of Warcraft and both games just have up on up and down on down. To me, this is how it should be, or at least there should always be an option to make it so.
For any casual play, it just adds to a consistent and predictable experience.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 days ago:
I’m just completely unable to learn inverted Y.
Any game that doesn’t have an option to make it regular is unplayable for me. Oh, and sadly IRL radio controlled planes are too. I tried two, and both got smacked into the ground and needed repairs.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 days ago:
Wow, that’s an interesting way
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 days ago:
It it would be a lever behind, X axis would be inverted too.
Y inversion is just terrible and has no good explanation in relation to non-piloting games (and even there most people would be better off with regular Y)
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 days ago:
You’re a monster
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 4 days ago:
Flying games should have an option to choose regular or inverted.
If you’re into piloting, got a joystick or something - sure, inverted is your choice.
Otherwise it’s just unnecessarily confusing.
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 6 days ago:
I think it refers to insertion of mRNA inside the cells.
Except mRNA does not persist and thereby cannot be seen as a genetic alteration.
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 6 days ago:
It is, which is why I said “related” as a hedge - and also mentioned that you don’t have to be any kind of biologist if you just listened to your biology classes back in the day.
Basic education is enough to understand, in general terms, how it works.
So, what makes you skeptical of these vaccines? Or are you trolling around?
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 6 days ago:
Because I studied well at school (which is enough as a prerequisite), and also happen to have a major in microbiology, which is related to what we’re talking about.
If there are things in particular that you are skeptical about, let me know.
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 1 week ago:
Yes, because we knew no better. Now we can be more precise and replicate specifically the parts immune system can recognize that are not harmful to us. If anything, we made vaccines safer than they were before.
It’s like saying solar panels are technobabble because we once gathered nearly all energy by burning wood or coal. Sure, we did, but why do it now? We know better options.
Besides, it takes school-level knowledge of biology to understand the reasoning behind these vaccines. They rely on the knowledge we had for many decades now; it was only hard to produce such RNA sequences at scale and to meet all the standards while doing so. Now we can do this, and it makes no sense to do otherwise.
Traditional vaccines are more dangerous and, at their best, just as efficient. Besides, they typically take longer to develop and test, and time was a pressing issue. Some traditional-style vaccines got eventually rolled out, but they did not outperform the alternatives, and so they didn’t gain much traction.
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure you misunderstood the way these vaccines work - no judgment, media is ass these days - so let me clear it out for you.
mRNA vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna) give cells a piece of RNA (ribonucleic acid) coding the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. mRNA normally serves as a translation layer: it simply comes to rRNA, lays down and says “we make THIS”. And there’s the end of it. No long-term changes are made, the cell just produces respective proteins for a while, before new genuine orders come along.
In this process, spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 are being created, are being recognized by the immune system as something that is clearly not yours, destroyed and remembered. Spike-coding RNA does not replicate without being written into DNA and ceases to function.
Vector vaccines (Johnson & Johnson, Sputnik V) put the spike-coding sequence into another virus that is otherwise harmless. Then this virus enters your body with a shot, and then much the same thing occurs.
To be clear: viruses do these kinds of things all the time. SARS-CoV-2, that very virus causing COVID-19, does this too, except it instructs cells to replicate the entire thing, so that it could infect other cells and proliferate. In this way, such vaccines are no different than just getting infected, with one MAJOR difference in that you don’t get sick in the first place and don’t have random dangerous code replicate all around your body. Harmless spike proteins get formed in a controlled manner and quantity - and that’s it.
Even if you were an evil billionaire wishing to decimate human population or something, you’d have very hard time making something RNA-based that somehow persists in the body and also doesn’t reveal the effects for a long while. Easier to do with vector-based vaccines, but very hard to make it unnoticeable, either.
- Comment on ISO 26300 1 week ago:
Thanks! Will try
Also, hey, you share treasure trove of info and then say sorry? :)
I’m thankful you have shared it!
- Comment on ISO 26300 1 week ago:
Zotero is straight up godsend - especially with some useful plugins. Figuring out how Zettlr integration works took a while, but it was fairly convenient at the end.
- Comment on Like a heart 1 week ago:
Alright, that explains it
- Comment on ISO 26300 1 week ago:
Wow, I appreciate the time and effort you put into this, and yes, it sounds a bit reassuring :)
I probably feel the way computer noobs feel when someone here enthusiastically calls them to join Linux lol (I already did, no need to advocate here! :D)
And yes, with that in mind, I’ll give it another spin. I’d like to have that basic file example!
- Comment on ISO 26300 1 week ago:
Oh, this is based on my first impression I had a while back when I noped out of it :D
This is less of a detailed problem description and more like a scream over perceived complexity of something that should be so simple, especially for someone who’s very far from programming or advanced computing overall.
Outside of documentclass, there are all the paragraph, section, title, there are all the packages introducing all sorts of things (like, why there’s a need for external PACKAGES to do the very basics?!) etc.
Tables are straight up scary to write in LaTeX, you insert all the parameters and then write it out like some sort of matrix but without any decent sctructure; and plotting - I didn’t even try to comprehend it.
Overall, it feels like some unnecessarily nerdy way to edit docs. Probably powerful, but same sort of powerful as editing configs to customize things. Please, make it any sort of user-friendly!
- Comment on ISO 26300 1 week ago:
I believe Zettlr editor uses pandoc to convert MD to LaTeX.
Indeed needs some manual tinkering, as long as I remember, at least since MD is not so feature-rich :D
But thanks for the recommendation!
- Comment on ISO 26300 1 week ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on ISO 26300 1 week ago:
I wonder how people actually work with LaTeX.
Do you actually write all the headers and stuff manually through a TeX editor, or do you use tools that do it for you?
Because the former sounds incredibly tedious.
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 week ago:
Except there are all the other planets swinging in the way, with their own gravitational influence.
- Comment on No brainer 2 weeks ago:
Also, 7 inches are generally enough to teleport through a wall
- Comment on “The Bark Defense: A 99.999% Successful Method for Keeping Emily Safe from Strangers and Garbage Trucks” 2 weeks ago:
Oh, the good old Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology.
Haven’t seen them in a while
- Comment on We Deserve Way, Way More Time Off 2 weeks ago:
Not in my plans for the weekend.
- Comment on Peak 2 weeks ago:
Gotta say the “fake one” looks better lol
- Comment on production line 2 weeks ago:
Honestly if drones came from the oven they’re gone anyway
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
Both, preferably
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I’d just rather not have any except ones I’m working on. Sterility requirements bring in a lot of headaches.
A decent lab requires several intermediate clean zones and several layers of sterile coats, plus if anything opens outside the flow cabinet, it’s as good as empty, except now you also get to manage the contamination of the surroundings.
And some molds are REALLY sturdy.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Microbiologists hate wild microbes everywhere
- Comment on need this pic without text please 2 weeks ago:
Checkmate
- Comment on This was a real thing and it "makes smoking easy" 2 weeks ago:
Lol
