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I've tried Soylent and Huel. I definitely prefer Soylent. Huel has a strong flaxseed flavor, which makes it taste strongly like a protein shake. In my experience, though, Soylent isn't that good for chugging. It's pretty thick and is better drank in sips over a long period of time

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/memes · 3 pts · 5d

For anyone reading this who doesn't understand, shikata ga nai is a common saying in Japanese that literally translates to "nothing can be done." It's used very similarly to the English saying "it is what it is." It's not a reference insofar as just speaking in another language isn't really a reference to anything

Nine Sols is awesome. Completely underrated game. Default mode was unreasonably hard IMO, even the story mode is quite challenging

For me I really slept on Inscryption and Hollow Knight. With Inscryption, I was never really that into card games, and I've never really liked dark/edgy games. But it ended up being unexpectedly good

With Hollow Knight, it took me a couple tries to really get into it. I didn't really like the fact that I couldn't find anything that I wanted (including things that I've already found - I got lost a lot). And sure, I know that getting lost was the point of the world design, but my version of getting lost was the unproductive, frustrating kind with a lot of backtracking. In the end, I figured that I just needed to have a wiki open while playing, and thing got a lot more bearable

The algorithm remembers the things you've looked at. Based on what you've looked at, it guesses what type of person you are. You are now grouped with other people that it thinks is like you. Then it looks at other people in this group, and it sees what they've looked at. If it finds something that you haven't looked at yet, it'll show that to you.

Generally speaking, this works because if someone who has similar interests likes something, there's a good chance you'll like it too. The unintended side effect (or intended side effect, depending on your perspective) is that you're likely to be only shown things that conform to your current perspective, which can amplify biases and skew your perception of what's going on in the world

on Marx would use MY distro! · c/memes · 3 pts · 22d

In addition to the other comment, a lot of companies typically sell support for their software, not the software itself. That counts for a lot in the business world

It's not a matter of semantics, it's a matter of drawing a distinction between 2 emotions that are often confused with each other. Call it whatever you want, but what OP calls love is clearly not what a regular person would consider to be love. This distinction, which has been made by several other people in this thread as well, is important because people will and often do justify being a creep as that they're "in love." See how already so much of OP's argument hinges on the idea that he is in love? To be clear, he is very explicit that he is not just attracted to her - he is very clear that he believes he feels what a regular person would consider to be love.

Granted, in hindsight and given his responses so far, it seems unlikely that drawing this distinction would make a meaningful practical difference. But I fail to see how addressing one of the core parts of OP's arguments can be considered as meaningless argument over semantics

Sewing/designing clothes really clicked for me. Haven't tried woodworking, but I imagine it scratches the same itch and utilizes similar skills: 90% of sewing is just planning, calculation, and measuring. Then, watch everything just fit together into place

Not top brass, but I've been in/am in mentorship roles. Not leadership in the strictest sense of the word, but I might as well pitch in. I think a big factor in what makes or breaks a good mentor/mentee relationship is acknowledging that your mentees have different goals than you. You may want a project to finish on time, but not everyone does. You need to cater to your mentees to make sure they're getting what they want out of the relationship - you're kind of working for them just as much as they're working for you. It's a lot of work to be a mentor

This person's advice is comprehensive and correct. You need to accept it. What you're feeling is not love. Love is something that is built up over years of being in a relationship. No relationship, no love. If what you're feeling is as strong as you claim, then the correct word would be infatuation, or possibly obsession.

You're going to come off as extremely creepy to her. Let it go.

My understanding (not a historian, don't quote me on this) is that one of the big explanations for the collapse was particularly bad famine that affected the entire region. It led rural people to migrate into relatively-more-prosperous cities, often by boat (hence "sea people"), but this migration led to increased strain on city infrastructure, especially since the cities were facing the famine as well.

on Copper · c/science_memes · 3 pts · 30d

Apparently, yes. You can prevent thermal throttling if you expanded the base from 4 cm x 4 cm to 4.5 cm x 4.5 cm, and if you increased the height from 16 cm to 100 cm. The temperature caps at around 97 C.

on Copper · c/science_memes · 6 pts · 30d

Ea-nasir promised that these were good quality copper, and I do not have any reason to suspect otherwise. But I'll have you know, if the copper is of inferior quality, I will make sure to send my messenger to complain. He will not hear the end of it!

on Copper · c/science_memes · 8 pts · 31d

Good question. I had to modify my code to run more efficiently, since not throttling implies that the copper block reaches a steady state with very little temperature changes over time.

But, with the changes, I can say that there is no copper block length that would prevent throttling with a 120 W CPU. It seems the heat transfer within the block is slow enough over such long lengths that you get diminishing returns with longer and longer copper blocks. Here's a graph I made summarizing the different block lengths that I tested

With a 65 W CPU, a 32 cm (double the original length) copper block is sufficient to prevent throttling, but it'll reach steady state at 97 C