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Gabu ,

You took the worst possible path to calculate all of this. Just compare energy to energy, that’s the whole point of Watts.

Gabu ,

I’d say with Lithium, that’s only bad news.

Gabu ,

you depend on the wind blowing.

For achieving maximum speed, sure. To simply guarantee you get there? Not at all - the Iberians knew how to navigate solely on maritime currents 500 years ago.

If sails were that great we would still be using them for freight, we didn’t switch to petroleum for the fun of it.

We started using pretroleum because capitalism requires infinite growth as fast as you can muster it. Particularly with modern refrigeration techniques and automation, time insensitive navigation for transport could easily be done with sails.

Gabu ,

The fact it uses clear plastic for the mouth has to be a crime, surely.

Gabu ,

Could you imagine a world in which both products catch on? I shudder just to think about it

Gabu ,

The average person is notoriously shit at doing objective analysis, so yeah, you shouldn’t trust people you know.

Gabu ,

Lord of The Rings

Gabu ,

Nah, anyone that’s childish enough to ask something like that isn’t worth the effort.

Gabu ,

From the tone of the first message, I’m guessing that’s not the first off-by-one error in their relationship.

Gabu , (edited )

If anything Catholicism is much more traditionally Christian, as it’s the stablished status quo outside of the anglosphere.

Gabu ,

Catholicism may be different enough to be considered a separate religion

I believe what you mean to say is that Protestant sects would be considered a separate religion, as Catholicism far predates other sects.

Gabu , (edited )

The biggest thing I can think of is the veneration of and praying to saints.

Which, ironically, is a core part of Abrahamic religions which was abandoned by Protestantism. I.e. Catholicism didn’t add minor gods, Protestantism removed them.

Fun fact: the “-el” at the end of all angel names (except Lucifer and Satan, I guess) means “god”. Not as in “from god”, but as in “the god of-”.

Gabu ,

Well spotted

Gabu ,

The early Abrahamic and general Canaanite religions are super interesting, I absolutely recommend reading on them. Now, considering I’m neither a historian nor a linguistics expert, take anything I say with a grain of salt.
From my understanding and memory on the subject, “El” was used as the noun “god”, as the name of the Canaanite chief god, who would later be usurped by YHWH, and as a title of sorts, meant to indicate gods and important people supposedly affiliated with the pantheon chieftain. I believe the latter is related to the older Assyrian culture, it certainly follows the same pattern. The first and second cases weren’t widely concurrent, however - there is a clear trace telling us the original pantheon leader lost influence over time before being relegated to “just another god” and finally getting absorbed into the figure of YHWH, a bit like how Odinn slowly faded into the background of Nordic religion as Thor became the figure you’d pray to.

In short: both of your scenarios are right, but at different points in history (except they weren’t monotheistic at first).

Gabu ,

I didn’t mean to imply a relation between YHWH and Assyria, but rather link the Assyrian culture of appending god names to important figures’ names and the Canaanite culture of appending “-el” to indicate allegiance.

Gabu ,

I remember we had a lot of fun with Benzene and Benzoates in university, but suspiciously I can’t remember details. Hmmm

Gabu ,

You just do it.

Gabu ,

He’s right, though - unless there are real legal repercussions or it’s an impossible task, just say “yes”. Worst case scenario, you’ll do a bad job of it and whoever requested your service won’t do it anymore.

Gabu ,

Have you read the books in Skyrim (or previous TES titles)? There’s some pretty good stories.

Gabu , (edited )

Solution: don’t use bandaids to begin with - take a small amount of cotton, roll it into a ball and press it against the wound, then hold it in place with a weak adhesive patch or, preferably, gauze. Takes a couple minutes, instead of the three seconds of a bandaid, but does that time really make a difference in your life?

Gabu ,

That’s why I specifically mentioned weak adhesive patches, which are usually made with simpler processes or even organic sources.

Gabu ,

That would actually make more sense

It doesn’t and it isn’t. The whole point of the parable is to say that it’s impossible for a rich person to go to heaven.

Gabu ,

“Hard” as in “impossible”. It’s literally right there in the text. Have you seen a camel fit in the eye of a needle before?

Gabu ,

Which is a meaningless nonstatement.

Gabu ,

That’s actually me removing semicolons from Python.

Gabu ,

No, manga does not count.

“Nuuuuh, the most diverse medium with the wildest stories doesn’t count!! I’ll poopy my pants if you count it”

Gabu ,

That is precisely it. Generative AI is a tool, just like a digital canvas over a physical canvas, just like a canvas over a cave wall. As it has always been, the ones best prepared to adapt to this new tool are the artists. Instead of fighting the tool, we need to learn how to best use it. No AI, short of a true General Intelligence, will ever be able to make the decisions inherent to illustration, but it can get you close enough to the final vision so as to skip the labor intensive part.

Gabu ,

Japanese literature

You mean generic isekai ?

Gabu ,

“Nuuuuu-uuuuuh! Light nobels dun count! I’m pooping my poopy pants!!!1!”

Gabu ,

I think some people didn’t quite catch your joke.

Gabu ,

It’s a simple joke about how your average layman thinks plus a little tongue-in-cheek mention of macs having pretty much no games.

Gabu ,

Capitalism

Gabu ,

capitalisationShouldAlsoBeIllegalUnlessYouUseCamelCase

Gabu ,

Nah, they’d just have hitmen ready to kill anyone who leaves the prison.

Gabu ,

For a specific definition of readable, yes

Gabu OP ,

It’s an European style long, tall and thin house with wonky internal geometry. All windows face the street, parallel to the wind, at different heights. That’s what gives me the most trouble - getting any air flow to effectively make a C curve.

can you construct a vertical awning (if I can call it that) to catch the wind?

I thought about it, but it seems like it’d only make things worse by creating an even bigger region with stagnant air in front of the windows, unless I were to invade the street (which is highly illegal, for obvious reasons).

Gabu OP ,

They’re good for circulating air that has already entered a space, but not so good at getting the air there to begin with.

Gabu OP ,

I’ve tried various configurations of fans pushing and pulling air, but none are much help. The internal geometry of this house is wonky.

Gabu OP , (edited )

Attics aren’t a thing around here, unfortunately. I could get a warehouse-styled convection fan, but the cost is a bit spooky when I don’t even know if it’ll work.

Gabu OP ,

There is literally zero space between the front and the street?

The opposite - there’s too much space, with buildings on both sides. Think a room as tall as the house in front of it, but with the street-facing wall removed.

Gabu OP ,

I swear 25% of our user base is Linux SysAdmins.

That’s impossible, as it would mean 25% of our user base is also furry. Wait a second…

Gabu OP ,

Thanks for the tip, it does seem quite interesting. From what I could find locally, prices are all over the place, so I’ll spend some time reading spec sheets haha

Gabu ,

Ignoring digital releases of card games, which I’ve loved since I was a kid, it has to be Valheim. I would spend hours and hours making structures like castles and villages, with their own defense mechanisms against monster invasions. It’s a wonderful indie game, very pretty for only taking 1GB in storage.

Gabu ,

Hmmmm

Gabu ,

Well, Skyrim is already 12 years old. Most people played it obsessively a long time ago. Of my 1000s of hours spent in Tamriel, only 100 or so were in the past year.

Gabu ,

Impressive and unsurprising. As soon as you start getting complex libraries with multiple dependencies it becomes nearly impossible to review everything. At one time I had an interest in contributing to some AI libraries, but they’re a mess as soon as you go looking for points of improvement.

Gabu ,

Future libraries still makes me laugh.

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