Gravityloss

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by Gravityloss 9d ago
Those are so called flute sounds or harmonics, ie you don't press the string against the fretboard or fret normally at all. Instead you touch it very gently to force a vibration node there where your finger is. It doesn't work at
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by Gravityloss 9d ago
Oh my god, it's a beautiful way to explain how slide rules work. Without spending a single word. Thank you!
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by Gravityloss 9d ago
I guess I'm now officially old and cranky, as planetoids receiving glow-ups was just a bit much as a term.
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by Gravityloss 9d ago
https://xkcd.com/385/ This sort of thing is really hard to avoid. If you've ever spent time as somehow very different in a social setting, you can see this happening all the time. Even in positive ways.
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by Gravityloss 9d ago
I think often in families, if a generation is successful with money (for example as engineer or enterpreneur), then next generation often become artists or politicians etc.
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by Gravityloss 12d ago
But on this flight it did not have a combustion engine, I assume it was fully electric and if so, the title is 100% correct.
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by Gravityloss 13d ago
For some reason, almost all audio apps have very odd scroll and zooming behaviour (and home/end keys also do weird things). Also doing basic things like starting playback or recording from start or from cursor tends to be quite complex
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by Gravityloss 14d ago
I didn't read the whole thing but how would fizzbuzz or something like that look like in the language? I found lots of writings and examples but some basics are also nice for a person who wouldn't want to invest a lot of time at f
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by Gravityloss 14d ago
I have biked with lots of coaster bikes and lockup has never been a problem. Like with a lot of things, you just need a little bit of humble attitude and trial and error to get the feel and then once you get it, it gets easier and easier. I
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by Gravityloss 16d ago
Selfie geolocation
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by Gravityloss 17d ago
And I wonder how they actually spoke. Since there was no visual communications medium except for cave art. (Some of which is very excellent. Try drawing 3d curved horns in perspective.) So people would have used verbal communication more. A
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by Gravityloss 17d ago
And while not all the way to Venus, Earth's history has multiple mass extinction catastrophes that have happened. Some have been due to things like asteroids, or volcanism but also just chemical imbalance. An ice age is small beans com
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by Gravityloss 17d ago
Thank you for this comment. It is interesting and also beautifully written with no fluff. For some reason few web pages, blogs or even tweets are written in this style.
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by Gravityloss 18d ago
We rode a birch log powered narrow gauge steam train and it was absolutely splendid. There was some smoke but it was nice and adding to the experience. Mostly it was steam clouds. Open and closed carriages were available. It was very slow m
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by Gravityloss 19d ago
I'm thinking of the Ottomans capturing Constantinople. Very much paraphrasing: Since Ottomans had a massive cannon made with new technology. Since Constantinople hadn't hired the cannon inventor. Since Constantinople was poor. Sin
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by Gravityloss 20d ago
In a large part of the world, the people voted for those people. https://deming.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/inconvienent-t... On the other hand, there's also a market for generating outrage and p
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by Gravityloss 21d ago
Ah, but minutes (or an hour) don't have any context to a person. "A bomb dropped every two thirds of the duration of a football game, excluding breaks". No, that sounds too mathy. Perhaps "three bombs per two games"
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by Gravityloss 21d ago
In FPS maps like Quake you only realized how much invisible clip blocks the map makers put in once you play an amateur map that doesn't have them. You hit things, get stuck and can even get crushed and die. Or you can try and play an e
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by Gravityloss 22d ago
Sure, there are effects like that power corrupts. But there are differences between powerful people.
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by Gravityloss 26d ago
A lot of other modern furniture looks like it was just the default in CAD. Ie completely rectangular arm rests with sharp edges etc. I get that a car like Ford Sierra looked featureless and too simple in its time, I guess it seemed like laz
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by Gravityloss 28d ago
Does it correlate with human longevity?
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by Gravityloss 29d ago
Thought experiment, not completely serious but something worth considering. This would be 5 h per week, or 250 h per year, or over 10 years, 3.5 months of continuous 24/7 exercise. This is a large amount of training. 4% of your waking
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by Gravityloss 29d ago
The ad doesn't show me how the device works, there's just a person talking and making promises. I guess the device's resolution and contrast are so low and it looks a bit underwhelming in general that they didn't go with
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
Weird, I have the same, I don't remember flagging these stories, though there aren't that many. Maybe on mobile it's easy to misclick...
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
I've flown from Helsinki to Tampere, under 200 km, long long time ago. The cabin personnel had to push the refreshments trolley uphill and downhill the aisle as there was not much level flight portion. I don't really know why it e
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
Lots of places have water or mountains preventing car or train travel or making it go the long way around. Ferries are slow. Those would be natural applications for this. Tallinn-Helsinki city pair for example. I wonder, if this can get app
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
That's absolutely incredible. I would never have thought of that. Thanks!
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
And the actual word is French too...
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
There were designs to hurl masses from the Moon also with a sling. Massively less infrastructure than a linear mass driver.
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by Gravityloss 1mo ago
Sure. Many pines can survive forest fires. But some other trees don't or are short lived anyway. I never suggested trees live forever. But 100 years is not a long time for many.

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