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I can read German newspapers, but I speak much more poorly than I read or write. Sometimes I converse in German when I meet with that part of my family who live there. I'm currently studying Chinese and as a hobby I practice talking Japanese with a friend of mine as a kind of mutual motivation...

Civ 6 has more interesting mechanics than 5 did and it seems deeper (great people ledger and districts are notable additions), still not as deep as your run-of-the-mill grand strategy multiplayer games. So far early settling seems to be the strongest strategy as there's no way to do anything...

You should definitely study any second language. I think it opens a new perspective on the world that you can't access if you only know one language. Good luck and keep at it.

It was ad hominem based on what you represented with your actions in this thread with the expectations that you desist and deny or insist and confirm it. I find your behaviour quite annoying and dismissive as usual, I'm not trying to guess what you think about your own behaviour. I agree with...

The implications of this follow from determinism, recreating the human brain in the lab would add some evidence to soft deterministic perspectives of the world, or more precisely it would debunk a number of currently unfalsifiable non-deterministic positions, it would still leave a number of...

It was a general question to everyone involved (ie. Hado), plus it follows the dismissive sarcastic style of your post below: Not sure why you bother participating with this annoyed attitude of yours. Nobody said Einstein's ideas were pure intuition or magical inexplicable genius, stop...

Seems more of a question for electronics engineers than programmers. I suppose you'd need an FPGA/Arduino of some sort and some handy assembly IDE.

Tannhauser wanted to say that GR was an a-priori thought experiment at its origin. It wasn't a theory available with the empirical evidence of the time period it was born it. Simply put, it was intuition, a mere guess backed by an understanding of previous theories and mathematically rigorous...

Secular humanism, bits of transhumanism. Pragmaticism over semantics, existential optimism, agnostic rationalism, intellectual branches of Buddhism.

Clearly you don't understand physical dependence. It's not something that can be overcome with just your mind once you are addicted. A brain of an addict is a very different place from that of a healthy person. It's been rewired and functions improperly, it can't repair itself easily or at...

The process of recovery is a rigorous training of discipline, so it should be obvious that it strengthens your will and self-regulation skills. I wouldn't say it makes you stronger than before, every time you succumb to pressure, be it internal or external, you become weaker and you deplete your...

Science is a tool for answering questions and providing solutions. The questions and needs that arise from natural desires of men. It doesn't override our desires, morality or preferences, rather it enhances them and allows us to make informed choices about which principles or ethics are...

If we ignore my excessively sarcastic delivery, as of today the installed panels don't generate electricity as they need to replace the panels broken during assembly (which they were dumb enough to install having that knowledge regardless). So assuming they will have that fixed, if ever, then...

Happens to everyone and you can learn to minimise it. I usually think how I got to the conclusions I'm about to act on, was it unconscious, has it grounds in prior experience, am I biased? etc. Most of the time it's detrimental to overthink stuff like that, better to assume it was nothing of...

So as expected, after wasting about 2 millions $ the solar roadways team delivered a tiny paved area of LED lights that don't produce electricity and mostly failed immediately after installation and the first rain since nobody thought insulation or drainage were relevant in the design. Maybe...

Ditto your observations on people. I think it's a very strong social convention to escape into dumb or relatable territory as soon as something uncommon appears in the discussion. It's not that those people are incapable of entertaining intellectual topics, it's more of a mixture of being...

I used to donate some money to the wikipedia and internet archive when I was younger and giving away substantial amounts of $ wasn't a great concern as I had an almost limitless supply of it as it wasn't what I earned myself. As it is now my outlook has changed and I only consider donating or...

Effectively it's a paradox that makes you wrong here. Not just on this matter, but on every controversy out there. If you expect and assume that every veteran should avoid this topic, if this information isn't repeated and disappears from the public awareness then it will become increasingly...

Typology is a pseudo-scientific vague and always positive in its outlook supplementary illusion of self-validation or self-understanding following the Forer effect and a few other cognitive biases that was created in order to bring notoriety and profit to the Myers family and related individuals...

https://youtu.be/FGknHojgdpY?t=1057

At all times there are bound to be petty people obsessing over their trifle lives and matters. I think a big part of growing past that limitation is not caring or worrying that they are what they are. Instead use their negatives to keep improving and avoiding similar mental or habitual...

From stuff (I think) you'd like: Transistor (awesome story driven tactical rpg) SuperHot (cleverly simplistic tactical fps) You mean Bethesda Softworks? EA would be a pretty witty shorthand for Bethesda... (or explain the joke here)

Very well put, I agree. Basically a harmonisation of internal drives with a healthy regimen for the sustenance of one's needs. It is what later on gives rise to apparent self-respect in the person and by extension to apparent self-control. Exactly. Moderation of this forum follows a summation...

Quite nice, great visuals 6/10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUvH3xf0e-I

Can you provide a general equation for your solutions? This problem is about describing the general case.

What I want you to do is to prove by listing all cases of when the results of the problem are integers. Produce 1 meant that denominator would be 1. Denominator =1 isn't the only case which gives correct solutions to the problem. I mentioned it as an example which is also a part of the complete...

Yes, look for all the cases when the fraction is such that the division results in an integer. In the most basic case ab+1 can easily be manipulated to produce 1 and then all products of the following equation would be int.

Not my invention and some of you might know it. It's a cool one to understand and try to solve. --- Let a and b be positive integers such that ab + 1 divides a^2 + b^2. Show that is the square of an integer.

Why is this game 2d though? It's a dwarf fortress clone and it trades a whole dimension for simplified UI and pixel graphics. I kind of gave up after my steel walls caught fire which was amusing but then I realised the whole map will burn down.

Disgusting misanthropes, they should all be killed with fire. (World Health Organisation guideline)

A topic ripe with stereotypes. I think you shouldn't draw too extreme conclusions from other people's subjective experiences. People in central europe have a different business front as they go about their daily matters. So they will be more serious looking, more neat and less smiling than...

Lol. Entropy is constant as far as anything that happens on this forum is concerned. You probably meant that entropy increased, actually it didn't. Bronto will do other things and will continue to increase entropy elsewhere in the world (if he were to drop dead which I don't want to happen, but...

I have many other things I want to devote my attention to. Being an admin was distracting for me. I want to slowly desensitize myself and unlearn from visiting this place. I've done my work here, this place isn't going to get any better and I don't find it all that great for me to invest my time...

For all those hyperrealism/sfx whores :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyKWd2IFxR0

Doesn't have to be, feedback adds up. If I met 10 unrelated people telling me I'm a whiny child I'd seriously start analysing what about me is making them think so and I'd try to change a few things about my presentation to see if the feedback stays the same, even if my own opinion would be...

I'm not arguing with you nor I am trying to convince you about anything. What I said here to you is meant as advice, it is not useful now, it may never be useful actually, but there might be a moment when you self-reflect and you realise that your ego is so fragile and that you don't respect...

I actually don't mind being banned, I've long accepted that I might be banned at any moment at anyone's whim if others didn't like what I was doing. I was entertaining the thought of banning myself from the admin console but I thought it's better to keep the allure of this place and overcome it...

I apologise to all the members of the chatbox minority. I can no longer continue to represent your interests. Despair not. It was by no covert plot, I merely wish to distance myself from this place. Let's end on this optimistic tone: I'm not one to tell you what you should do. In my eyes...

No. I only addressed Sinny. I didn't read any of your posts and any of the Bronto's posts from the last 2 days. I wasn't aware you were Bronto's dupe until your last post. I didn't read this thread and I didn't read Bronto's (yours) altercation with Architect. I wasn't an admin by then and I...

Okay, I have an idea about what you might be trying to do here. Do go on, your insight is invaluable I assure you. You didn't demonstrate any errors, you said I was being ridiculous, which is a criticism but not an explanation. I'm not offering any wisdom here. I simply shared how Bronto...

Maybe. I don't care. Feel free to ignore, laugh to your hearts content or elaborate and deconstruct what I said if it ruffles your feathers. I may or may not respond. For whom it may concern: I'm not speaking as an admin here as I resigned from that position before Bronto was banned.

No, he wasn't, he was an angry insecure male who hasn't yet found his place in the world and didn't control his ego. I can understand calling him a dick or a troll from your perspective, but I doubt there was much purpose or long term malice behind his actions, both positive and negative, it...

Sure, I feel similarly. Note that orbital resonance is a form of tidal locking as well. Simply put, the most basic locking we can think of is a 1:1 resonance, which is when a body faces the star with the same side all the time and the orbital eccentricity is 0 meaning that the orbit is nearly...

Deep insights into rio success. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFjYkrq5JU4

Assuming it's a solid body if they find an atmosphere or oceans of water then it will also allow for adequate heat transfer to the dark side of the planet so life won't be restricted to just a narrow habitable band. So finding water (or any kind of liquid) there is doubly relevant since it's a...

There are already a few missions planned for α Cen. Breakthrough starshot is supposed to send a tiny probe on a light sail within 20 years. It's unknown whether this planet is made of rock with any sufficient certainty. Just to note, any planet may be able to support life even if we don't...

Do you use dental floss? Every dentist I've met told me brushing isn't enough and it's important to use it properly. Also yeah, use a good toothbrush like the curaprox Fukyo mentioned. That's what my dentist friend told me she uses so I'd figured there's some merit to it if dentists use it on...

Finished entire Dark Souls 3 listening to it. Tested and rated E for epic. Better than the original ost.

5/10. No distinctive features. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33iPIizR6tI

That's not necessarily what I'd call loyalty, that's blind following. Loyalty doesn't have to be about sacrificing everything for a cause or person. It may be a reasonable bond built on trust and respect that the person you're staying loyal to will reciprocate the same thing. Anyway, it's...