Hate the laws of thermodynamics? Put that hatred to good use and become a mechanical engineer! Doesn’t matter if it’s aerospace or manufacturing! We all hate that doing fun stuff generates heat, so we design complicated systems to make things like 1% more thermodynamically efficient 👍
(This sounded funnier in my head)
I get cravings for various foods/meals I’ve had before that have nothing to do with being deficient in vitamins or amino acids.
For example, I’m quite certain the cornmeal pancakes my dad would make don’t contain any vital nutrients not satisfied by my current diet. But I occasionally get cravings for them anyway.
Furthermore, when someone gets hungry it’s normal for their minds to start thinking of foods they liked, and lots of people were probably raised on meat heavy diets. So when they get hungry or nostalgic for food their mind will likely think about non-vegetarian food.
Maybe that will go away if they find a wide selection of vegetarian foods they like, but again I doubt that’s the case for everyone, and it definitely won’t overwrite any childhood memories of favorite foods/meals.
Once you stop eating meat, you stop missing it within a few weeks.
This may have been the case for you, but it is not the case for everyone.
Iirc Taiwanese Buddhist vegetarian cooking often uses gluten and mushrooms and other ingredients to mimic the taste and texture of meats as exactly as possible. It came about because many of those who converted to Buddhism didn’t stop craving meat even after becoming vegetarian.
I did it myself on a relative’s very old laptop a few years ago. I think it was specifically the 32bit Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) upgrade for Windows 95 (maybe 98?)
I just searched it up and was able to find an iso with only 129MB which is still impressive. But that’s a clean install and I think it’s for both x64 or 32. If I get more time to look into this later, (or if I can find the floppy disks themselves) I’ll try to find the original and send it to you if you want
Also you’re right, the fact it got images is pretty insane. Then again the only real “graphics” would be default icons, and possibly the green landscape but I wanna say that it didn’t even have that background image when I finished the upgrade; I think it was just a solid color. (The real crazy thing I remember was that the laptop had a color capable screen but had a purely black and white OS on it originally lol)
I think much of the kernel carried over. Also I can’t recall if I updated it to 98 before xp or not. That might’ve cut down on the needed install space.
Anyway you’ve gotten me curious, I kinda want to find that laptop now. Maybe I’ll use it to make authentic “Analog nowhere” style art with paint lol
Edit: This site seems to have the boot images for windows xp floppies and exe’s to create them. Looks like only 6 floppies are needed in total for all of Windows XP SP1
Even using just 8bit color depth you’d only be able to store a single 424x424 pixel image (uncompressed) on a “high density” 1.4MB floppy.
That’s absolutely garbage, but makes it all the more impressive that an upgrade from windows 95 to the first version of windows XP only took two floppy disks.
Edit: It seems I might be mistaken and the two-disk upgrade was more likely from 98 or 98SE not directly from 95.
It always makes me irrationally mad to see the hedron in the logo of “Global Tetrahedron” is not a tetrahedron but a dodecahedron. Especially when the onion logo is, in fact, an onion.
The white dot between France and Spain is Andorra and the one nearest France and Italy is Monaco. I feel like both of them should be filled in, especially Monaco.
Having seen many things on the internet I wish I hadn’t, I think there are actually 12 holes. Roughly working top down:
The term “life” according to NASA is a system capable of Darwinian evolution. That definition is only possible if there is some form of reproduction involved. So in a way, the term “life” kinda literally means sex.
Considering Aristotle’s stance that the purpose of a thing was the same as what it is meant to do (e.g. an antique violin should belong to a musician not a museum because the purpose/definition of an instrument is to be played), life being defined by sex would make sex the philosophical purpose of life.
Newton’s first law applies to virtually any dynamic system, including the actions and thoughts of organisms.
No idea what this is from but I would not be surprised if the answer involves an anvil in a high place
The fact art like this exists just makes me all the more certain that if we find any sort of intelligence in the universe, biological or not, someone is going to try fucking them. It will likely be one of the first things someone does.
“Sir we sent in the battle AI’s to dominate humanity before our colonization team arrives.”
“Good how many have died?”
“Uh none. Aparrently the humans find the slight curvature of the bots’ torsos arousing, so many of them submitted to the bots immediately and just started calling them ‘mommy doms’”
“What?!”
[shows commander a clip of sub begging “mommy” battle droid to step on them]
“…”
“…”
“Perhaps we should leave the humans alone…”
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“Uhhh human horn? How ridiculous! Why would a virile male like Lrrr need human horn? I don’t even know what it’s for! What is it something you uh put in salad dressing?”
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If he calls it his “horn” he’s either Canadian or just someone who has watched too much Letterkenny lol
My hyperfixations jump around a lot though mostly it tends to stay in the STEM arena of things.
Currently I’m trying to design a language framework for building as low-level a language for reality as possible. Strangely (or not) I’ve touched very little in the way of linguistics and I’m wayy out of my depth in the field of logic and of all things category theory as well as philosophy because holy shit it’s kind of amazing we can communicate anything at all lol
In addition to that (and somewhat tangentially related) I’ve also been diving into the science of spiking neural nets and neuroanatomy in an effort to create an extensible self-supervised net I could then copy train to do a variety of tasks for me. Like the previous fixation, I am also very out of my depth in this project (also there are a lot more knowledgeable and well funded people who will almost certainly beat me to the punch), but even if I fail it’s already been a fascinating journey. Oh and I greatly dislike python so I’m basically reinventing the wheel multiple times in rust so that likely doesnt help my progress lol
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God damn that’s impressive. (The degrees not reading lots of random shit on the internet lol)
Out of curiosity, how long did it take you? I’m just starting into grad courses and a PhD does sound enticing (even though as an engineer I’d likely get paid less as with a PhD than an MS lol)
Given that addition is commutative and multiplication is commutative but exponentiation and tetration and the other hyper operators are not, and assuming that there exist partial operations between each such that the repetition rule holds, are the partial-operations between addition and multiplication also commutative?
If not, provide a proof of a partial operation between addition and multiplication for which commutativity does not hold.
Some people literally just don’t have that connection automatically brought up in their brains. Speaking of, why is that the case? Why is it some people don’t have those kind of responses?
Like, unrelated to the original topic, I recently realized many people I know are able to be rude/hurtful towards others despite the fact that if they witnessed that same interaction as an outside observer it would have made them feel angry or feel empathy for the victim.
I’ve realized it’s not really a choice. Like I bet you didn’t have to purposefully decide “Everytime I think about meat I want to think about the slaughter that made it” your brain just started doing that automatically.
But its not the same as empathy (or at least it’s a different kind of empathy).
You feel bad via empathy for the animal cruelty that likely went into the meal, but that’s only because seeing the meat brought back memories of those movies or other knowledge about meat production. The feeling bad is empathy, but the automatic connection between meat and the slaughter is just a memory association. It’s the automatic memory association that kicks off the empathy, without it, even if one can feel empathy for others, the reaction wouldn’t happen.
I feel like that negative association is the part that’s more lacking in society than empathy itself. I feel like if you took a random person and made them watch someone kill a cow, chances are high they would feel bad for the cow. But if the association between murder and meat doesn’t form in their heads they’ll probably not feel bad eating beef because their brain didn’t bring up the connection.
Do you know if there is a word for that sort of automatic memory recall or a way to try and create those in people? Because I feel like discovering how to make those associations stick would be extremely useful in many circumstances.