[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 4 points 15 hours ago

I guess I have to agree because it supports what I've said all along: pie is the best food.

Pie transcends cubic barriers. It cannot be constrained to merely one construct.

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There are different levels of understanding.

I'm trained in physical sciences. I studied at university and then worked ~8 years for a research department and at one point learned 2D NMR and how to run molecular simulations on a supercomputer. I'm well aware of the challenges of winning grants against colleagues and getting papers published and surviving peer review and then hoping your work gets noticed outside your weird little niche.

My buddy is a schoolteacher. He can run circles around me with arithmetic and explain the scientific method in rap format. Kids eat it up! But he's probably never done a gradient integral (not that I remember how either) or contributed to a collegiate press release.

We're both ostensibly working with the same core principles but the reality ends up quite different. Context matters.

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 points 4 days ago

Monsieur Florbo

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 4 points 4 days ago

Ah the joys of playing with an oscilloscope.

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 10 points 5 days ago

Hideous, but rather accessible.

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 9 points 6 days ago

C'mon, we all end up at /dev/null eventually. Just don't gaze long into it or it might gaze into you.

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 12 points 1 week ago

Everything you can buy is also available for free.

Iffff you're willing to spend many many hours grinding against artificial RNG and pretending your time has zero value.

But yeah enough patience and persistence can technically get you almost everything (I stopped after 50 warframes).

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 44 points 1 week ago

Thank fuck there's no one here promoting Brave.

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 96 points 1 week ago

Sure it is. Linus Torvalds was the 51st person in his lineage to be be named Nus, so following Finnish tradition his parents put the roman numeral prefix in front of his name. It's quite a coincidence that he also uses an operating system that follows the same convention!

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 21 points 2 weeks ago

I'm actually inclined to believe this somewhat, for the simple fact that Krafton could be legally liable for slander if the statements are untrue.

Also, did we know previously that 90% of that $250M was allocated to the three executives? That's a bit shocking to me. If Krafton really wanted to create goodwill, they could say that money remains on the table but would be 100% allocated to the rest of the development team now instead.

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In such trying moments I like to direct my friends to the next logical line of inquiry.

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 11 points 3 weeks ago

There's a national urgent medical line (111)

What? I've been lied to. I was told the UK line was 0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3

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