AnarchoEngineer
@AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 3 hours ago:
Cornbread and fried chicken have been around since before 1980, but the rest is pretty generic and fitting. I also have relatives who were moonshiners out in Ohio by a town which is literally called “knockemstiff” because one drink was powerful enough to “knock ya stiff” lol
Not sure the part about criminals fits though. Old men running illegal rooster fights aren’t exactly organized crime haha
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 3 hours ago:
Cornbread and fried chicken have been around since before 1980, but the rest is pretty generic and fitting. I also have relatives who were moonshiners out in Ohio by a town which is literally called “knockemstiff” because one drink was powerful enough to “knock ya stiff” lol
Not sure the part about criminals fits though. Old men running illegal rooster fights aren’t exactly organized crime haha
- Comment on Prescription 2 days ago:
The real curious thing is that these expected neurological rebound effects aren’t universally experienced. Some people are affected more strongly and in weird ways by withdrawal.
Being ADHD probably has something to do with it, but I can take my adderall (a relatively high dose btw) every day for months and then quit cold turkey and feel no noticeable withdrawal symptoms besides being hungrier and laughing at things more easily on the first few days after quitting lol
Now I wondering if there are neurodivergences for which GABA modulators cause different effects than expected and for which withdrawal symptoms might be negligible. Then again, GABA is like the major inhibitory neurotransmitter so maybe it’s not possible for the brain to function/develop well at all with any anomalies dealing with those receptors.
(This is not my field; I’m just curious.)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
*the importance of getting laid is overstated
Is that better?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
- Travel to a place where prostitution is legal
- hire and/or become a prostitute
- profit (possibly literally)
- Comment on I don't think they're alone on one 6 days ago:
I can eat “properly” with a fork in my left and knife in my right or the other way around and that didn’t take any effort to learn I just could do it.
I’m also a pretty good marksman with either hand/stance.
I kind of prefer using my left hand for drinks or eating snacks, but that is likely due to me working/gaming on my computer while doing so.
When I’d play baseball I preferred throwing lefty, but that was a long time ago and I definitely default to my right hand for most things nowadays. Or whatever hand is free.
Like on the bus if the nearest handhold is on my right, I’ll hold it with my right, and then like switch my phone to my left pocket so I can reach it with my left hand easily if I want to scroll memes or text etc. while my right hand is busy.
I will say that I tried drawing with my left hand not so long ago and for the rest of the day I kept getting tripped up, like my mind couldn’t decide what hand to use to open doors or grab things so I’d get up to do something and then freeze up lol. Weird stuff
My drawing did kind of just improve from that one try though because yesterday I decided to try again and I was much more capable of drawing precisely. Still a little shaky but not too bad.
Oh and a few of my family members definitely are preferential for different hands in different tasks, and oddly enough I think tennis is one of them. I know there are more but I can’t remember which other ones they’ve mentioned. Skateboarding with non dominant leg is one but I think that’s a common thing.
Also I really just hate writing with my left hand because everything smudges, and I’m not at the level of DeVinci where I can just flat out write in reverse lol
- Comment on Systems theory 6 days ago:
Other animals that build stuff use natural materials. Humans are the only ones that process raw materials into different materials and build with those.
Wrong on both counts. First, animals that build stuff don’t just use “natural materials” they use whatever is available to them. Birds make nests out of everything from sticks to metal hangars and from moss to our “unnatural” polyester products they can get their hands on.
Second, bees and ants and termites and wasps etc. use raw materials like fibers or pollen or grains of clay and sand and typically mix them with their saliva or water or other bodily excretion or all of those together to create building materials.
Animals don’t create stuff with iron or plastic not because we are the only ones capable of understanding resource machines, but because we are in the sweet spot where many tools are available to us. We are large enough to work with fire and hammers. If termites could make steel they absolutely would, but they can’t. They make concrete though because they can. Diatoms make glass (which most other living things can’t do) because they can. Ants farm and domesticate “resource machines” like fungi or plants or other insects (kinda like we do) because they can. We just happened to be in the sweet spot for making our own resource machines without needing to wait for evolution to evolve them.
You could argue that a wooden hut with a thatched roof is a natural structure, but not much else in human architecture
I think most houses even just a few hundred years ago would be “natural” even by your definition.
Clay and mortar are just rocks we mix with water rather than saliva like insects would. Wood from trees like beavers. Slate shingles from, well, slate. The only real issue would be glass for windows and that is a naturally produced resource, we just produce it in an easier way than diatoms do (we actually kinda use their skeletons funnily enough along with geologically occurring silicate sands ofc) and voila you have a relatively modern house. Nails would require a long process but good news you don’t need them to build a house, they just make things easier.
Most of our old civilizations last so long as ruins because they’re made out of stone, sure we mined that stone but so do ants and termites. The roads the Romans built are just as natural as ant mounds are and so are the pyramids (minus the gold caps at the top perhaps).
- Comment on Systems theory 6 days ago:
On that note, humans are nature. When other animals build things like beavers building dams, or bees building hives, ants building hills, termites building thermodynamically efficient concrete (sort of) structures etc., we still call those things “natural.”
Point is: all our modern infrastructure is natural because building shit is just what our species does and we are just as much nature as any other species is.
We aren’t special; we’re just another weird species in a long history. We aren’t the only species to build stuff, aren’t the only species reshape the environment around us, aren’t the only species to literally poison the area around ourselves (and hey we mostly do it on accident whereas pine trees kinda do it on purpose). Hell, the Great Oxidation Event literally filled the whole atmosphere with what was—at the time—basically poison. That event not only caused mass extinction on a global scale, but it also changed geology and mineral formation worldwide.
We aren’t special just because our machines are often made of metal instead of proteins. We’re just another species on this rock, and everything we’ve built is just another mark on that rock made by life.
- Comment on I don't think they're alone on one 6 days ago:
Nah, use whichever one is closest to her and closest to where it needs to be in the moment, or switch off if one gets sore.
(I’m not fully ambidextrous (my left hand writing sucks), but this is one of the good skills to be ambidextrous in)
- Comment on It took 4 attempts this morning 1 week ago:
Come on man, time to get off, I need to use the phone
- Comment on Dumb stance 1 week ago:
It carries precisely the weight it indicates regardless.
When someone says “that’s a horrible/evil thing you’ve done!” They are expressing that you have done something they think is immoral.
How you let that weight impact you depends on you and your ability or inability to control your response to it.
- Comment on Gotta go fast 1 week ago:
ACTUALLY ITS BOILING SODIUM!!… ~which then gets used to boil water~^superscript^
- Comment on Makes me so wet thinking about it 1 week ago:
Porqué no los dos?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
First, I would like to note that I’m not here to assert any “quantum woo” about measurement and the soul or anything. I don’t think conscious observation has anything to do with the collapse; more likely it’s our method of measurement that affects the outcome. In fact I’d assume these phenomena would exist even in a universe without sentient beings. I’m not advocating for solipsism.
My intuition would be that certain kinds of common interactions “cause the collapse” and then: more particles -> more interaction -> more collapse, which would explain the fact we don’t see macro scale indeterminacy but do notice it at a quantum level.
Second, I’ll admit this really isn’t my field. You sound like you know what you’re talking about and have pointed me towards interesting theories and people to look into, so thanks for that, and I’ll defer to your judgement until I have a better grasp on this topic
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The reason I commented was mostly to clarify that Schrödinger’s cat is not like the meme implies. It’s meant to illustrate how weird it is that the cat would be neither alive nor dead until you open the box, not “the cat is in fact both at the same time.”
But that is exactly the point Schrödinger was criticizing, not supporting.
I was under the impression this was more a question than a criticism. He’s asking where the line is between this indeterminacy and determinacy. At what scale to things move from quantum to “real” and why?
Also Bell experiments have proven this indeterminacy you say is absurd. No theory of local hidden variables can describe quantum mechanics. The state is not a local property of the particle/system until it is “measured.” I’ll admit it’s an uncomfortable truth that sounds absurd, but it’s a truth nonetheless.
Anyway, thank you for the more in depth explanations of both the thought experiment and quantum computing.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Not to be the 🤓 but just so we’re clear, the point of Schrödinger’s cat was to illustrate that you can’t know a quantum state until you measure it. Basically just saying “probability exists.”
The reason it’s a big deal is that this probability is a real property. One that is supposed to be only one of two states. But instead it isn’t really in a state at all until you measure it, and that’s weird.
The point is that instead of assuming it is in one state or the other, you can and often should think of both possibilities at once. This is what makes quantum computing useful. Specifically the fact that, instead of working with values, you can work with probabilities, and until you measure the outcome, you can manipulate the probabilities all you want.
So you simply apply operations that increase or decrease the chances of certain outcomes and repeat until the answer you want has an incredibly high probability and the rest are nearly zero. Then you measure your qubit, collapsing the wave function, with a high probability that collapse will give you the answer you wanted.
If you had measured the particle before hand and run it through the system, it wouldn’t work because its state was already decided.
It’s less like “the cat is both alive and dead” and more that “the terms ‘alive’ and ‘dead’ do not apply to the cat till you open the box”
- Comment on I wish I lived on a beach so I could go for long walks on them 2 weeks ago:
Of course it would, wireless messaging relies on photons which travel at light speed
- Comment on Or a glazed doughnut idk 2 weeks ago:
Where’s the bush meme for “another horny poster has hit c/shitposting”
Is this number 3 or 4?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Well, time to learn a trade I guess
- Comment on bro 2 weeks ago:
I bet you can when I wrap my lips around you
Unfortunately I’m not bisexual so that would depend on your gender and on wether I’m going through a sex-repulsed phase atm or not
▫️Do you like me ?
☑️ Do you like me ?
- Comment on 3D Print some math. 2 weeks ago:
I mean typically people refer to planes as hyperplanes once you go past 3D, but I’ve definitely heard them just called “planes” too
Hyperplanes are just a generalization of planes to higher dimensions. Often you hear the term when working with vectors because, like in 3D, you can define an n-dimensional hyperplane by a surface normal vector and a point. All lines perpendicular (orthogonal) to that normal vector which pass through the point form the plane.
It’s a useful concept and since we already have a word for that kind of structure in 3D space we just use the same term for it in other dimensions
- Comment on These various juices look delicious. 3 weeks ago:
Considering the pink one in the middle has no warnings and is just called a “humectant” the main ingredient is probably propylene glycol and the rest would be mostly water, both of which are edible.
Even if there are small amounts of chemicals like isopropyl, you could likely take a very small sip to realize it is not delicious and you wouldn’t die or get horribly injured.
- Comment on It made it interesting when they started with a name and not a number 3 weeks ago:
I hooked up an old rotary phone to our landline when I was young and was very sad that dialing 0 did not connect me to an operator
- Comment on bro 3 weeks ago:
Dm me a picture of the note and I’ll draw the x digitally.
But this kind of thing is why we need to break up. I can’t keep doing this. I shouldn’t have to jump through hoops like this to prove I like you, when I say it, I mean it. I feel it every time I look into your eyes. I feel it every time you walk into the room, when you smile, when you laugh, but I’m running out of ways to tell you I love you, I’m running out of ideas for how to make you believe me. I feel like we’re growing apart and there’s no way to close the gap.
I cant keep this up. I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, but I can’t keep this up anymore. I can’t keep watching you doubt every compliment I try to give you, I can’t watch you disregard praise because you think you’re unworthy of it. You are worthy of it! You are worthy of love and happiness!
But when I tell you that, you don’t believe me. I don’t know how to make you believe, and it’s just pure agony to be unable to make you see how amazing and beautiful and talented you are!
I just cant take it anymore, I’m sorry but I really can’t do it. This can’t go on. We can’t go on
- Comment on bro 3 weeks ago:
I volunteer to be everyone’s first boyfriend/girlfriend if needed/desired. Comment and I will respond by breaking up with you, thus ensuring proof of our relationship will be on the internet forever
- Comment on I gotcha, boss 5 weeks ago:
No, have you?
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 1 month ago:
I think the most extreme and consistent bipolar weather I’ve seen was in Nevada where during the night it’d get down to 30°F (-1°C) and then almost as soon as the sun came up the frost would evaporate as daytime temperatures rose to 113°F (45°C)
In terms of chaos, I’d say Utah takes the cake. Not just because it can go from snowing to 90°F weather and back repeatedly in a week, but because during those chaotic weeks you can drive less than an hour in any direction and find completely different weather.
If violence in the chaos is desired, the southern Midwest probably wins. Tornadoes and golf ball sized hail will fuck up your day and then everything is unbearably sunny again. The east is a close second since it gets wrecked by hurricanes occasionally, but less frequently than tornadoes hit the midwest
I doubt Californians think their state is bipolar. Same with other temperate states.
- Comment on It should be a strict rule 1 month ago:
Just abolish golf entirely, multiple problems would be solved at once
- Comment on smoooooth 1 month ago:
There is life deep within the earth that will likely survive no matter what happens to the planet. The sun could fade, we could nuke the surface, have an asteroid completely resurface half the planet, and microbes will survive and eventually recolonize the entire world.
Not that we’d want a mass extinction of so many unique and beautiful things, but it is a comforting thought to realize we can’t really do anything that would render earth entirely devoid of life. And even if everything we know was lost, life would rise again to reclaim the rubble.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Honestly, even this edit makes voting for democrats the correct choice. If you can delay the trolley’s destruction, you have more time to attempt to destroy the tracks or kill the driver etc.