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The States route would let you murder a lot more hookers.
Whenever I IM a coworker I start with "ASL?"
Do you think Custome Vibe mode supports "Through the Fire and Flames?"
@pydsigner said in Kid confuses adwords and adsense, hilarity ensues:
@anonymous234 said in Kid confuses adwords and adsense, hilarity ensues:
but apparently he had his own with 2,000€ in it.
"Hey José, here's a couple thousand euros, don't spend it all in
oneJuan place"
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/features/inside-the-dying-art-of-subtitling/
For example, 72% of Netflix's American viewers said they prefer dubs when watching Spanish hit Money Heist, Netflix's third most popular show ever.
Well, those people are wrong.
Hell, I use subtitles even when watching shows in English. Prefer to read as I find it quicker than the person talking. Plus if they say something I don't understand because it is quiet or mumbled I can just read the subs.
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Fucking spiders?
NO!
I found the article to be very interesting, the pictures were a nice touch.
Then again I am obviously biased.
@xaade said in Idiot comes up with stupid demands for "safe driving" that even @Lorne-Kates says are idiot dumb:
@Dragoon said in Idiot comes up with stupid demands for "safe driving" that even @Lorne-Kates says are idiot dumb:
Large trucks are one of the few vehicles that I always pass if I can, even if they are going the speed limit. I can't see around them so I can't properly prepare for any upcoming road conditions.
He crossed two lanes to run me off the road.
And it was backed up traffic.
Are you sure he wasn't trying to murder you?
@jinpa said in Scientific Science:
@BernieTheBernie said in Scientific Science:
and a comment on that topic in Science:
https://www.science.org/content/article/something-seriously-wrong-room-temperature-superconductivity-study-retractedIt's pay-walled, so a summary or extract would be appreciated.
It seems to be additional info for the Nature article. These seem to be the relevant bits but there is more in there:
The retraction comes even as excitement builds for the class of superconducting materials called hydrides, which includes the carbonaceous sulfur hydride (CSH) developed by Dias’s team. Under pressures greater than at the center of the Earth, hydrogen is thought to behave like a superconducting metal. Adding other elements to the hydrogen—creating a hydride structure—can increase the “chemical pressure,” reducing the need for external pressure and making superconductivity reachable in small laboratory vises called diamond anvil cells. As Lilia Boeri, a theoretical physicist at the Sapienza University of Rome, puts it, “These hydrides are a sort of realization of metallic hydrogen at slightly lower pressure.”
In 2015, Mikhail Eremets, an experimental physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, and colleagues reported the first superconducting hydride: a mix of hydrogen and sulfur that, under enormous pressures, exhibited a sharp drop in electrical resistance at a critical temperature (Tc) of 203 K (–70°C). That was nowhere near room temperature, but warmer than the Tc for most superconducting materials. Some theorists thought adding a third element to the mix would give researchers a new variable to play with, enabling them to get closer to ambient pressures—or room temperatures. For the 2020 Nature paper, Dias and colleagues added carbon, crushed the mix in a diamond anvil cell, and heated it with a laser to create a new substance. They reported that tests showed a sharp drop in resistance at a Tc of 288 K (15°C)—roughly room temperature—and a pressure of 267 gigapascals, about 75% of the pressure at the center of the Earth.
But in a field that has seen many superconducting claims come and go, a drop in resistance alone is not considered sufficient. The gold standard is to provide evidence of another key attribute of superconductors: their ability to expel an applied magnetic field when they cross Tc and become superconducting. Measuring that effect in a diamond anvil cell is impractical, so experimentalists working with hydrides often measure a related quantity called “magnetic susceptibility.” Even then they must contend with tiny wires and samples, immense pressures, and a background magnetic signal from metallic gaskets and other experimental components. “It’s like you’re trying to see a star when the Sun is out,” Hamlin says.
The study’s magnetic susceptibility data were what led to the retraction. The team members reported that a susceptibility signal emerged after they had subtracted a background signal, but they did not include raw data. The omission frustrated critics, who also complained that the team relied on a “user-defined” background—an assumed background rather than a measured one. But Salamat says relying on a user-defined background is customary in high-pressure physics because the background is so hard to measure experimentally."
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Just Souls Things:
@Lathun said in Just Souls Things:
For me it would take the fun out of the game
Perhaps I have failed to communicate it clearly enough that I'm not looking to steamroll everything either. I just feel that the stick has been placed a tad higher than I can possibly jump.
Ah got it, yeah I can see there being no real good solution to that. Could possibly figure out the intended levels for each area and farm / cheat up to it but that seems like more trouble than it is worth.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Just Souls Things:
@Lathun It has been considered. Outright cheating is a slippery slope, though. Why not add some more souls?
Honestly if someone is only playing offline why should I care if they make themselves immune to damage or whatever, if they're enjoying it more power to them. For me it would take the fun out of the game, but I can understand why someone would want to do it if they wished to see the bosses and experience the atmosphere of the games.
Then again I am not a very completive person - I only compare my achievements to what I think I can accomplish and not what others can.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Just Souls Things:
@error I don't believe it was me who said (or even just agreed) with "the wit" part
And I agree about the masterpieces, at least as far as the enemy design. It shows creativity of the kind that Ed Greenwood and all the wannabes evidently cannot even dream of. Which is why I'd like to play these games, but I'm brickwalled from doing so.
There is no need for any other scaling than the flat DR multiplier
scalingwhatsoever.
I am sure there is a cheat engine already made for Elden Ring where you can just bump all your stats to 99, if you really want to experience the story and atmosphere. I am not sure how hard the game would still be with max stats as I haven't tried it but I assume it would be beatable with limited effort.
Sure, the game itself could offer some sort of damage reduction etc but until they do you can always use mods (as long as you play offline) to experience it if you aren't a fan of the difficulty.
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/features/inside-the-dying-art-of-subtitling/
For example, 72% of Netflix's American viewers said they prefer dubs when watching Spanish hit Money Heist, Netflix's third most popular show ever.
Well, those people are wrong.
Hell, I use subtitles even when watching shows in English. Prefer to read as I find it quicker than the person talking. Plus if they say something I don't understand because it is quiet or mumbled I can just read the subs.
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
A yelling wheelchair has been disinvited from further orgy attendance.
I think someone spiked your mercury with dimercaptosuccinic acid.
@Zecc said in Australia's Fauna and Flora :
OR
leave the spider the fuck alone.
Wait, this is Australia? Never mind, killitkillitkillit.
@xaade said in Advanced Trolly Logic:
You're armed with a gun and only one bullet, and you enter a gas station.
You see a man with a knife threatening another man. They're both behind the counter and claim to be the owner.
If you do nothing, the armed man will kill the unarmed man. If the surviving man was the criminal, they will also steal from the store, then attack you, and you shoot them. Either the criminal dies, or 2 people die but you survive.
You can also shoot and kill one of the men. If you shoot the armed man, but the unarmed man was the criminal, they will grab the knife and attack you, and you're now unarmed. Either you and the store owner survive, or only the criminal survives.
I'd shoot myself and therefore no longer feel responsible.
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Fucking spiders?
NO!
I found the article to be very interesting, the pictures were a nice touch.
Then again I am obviously biased.