takeheart

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Feeling no pain is actually terrible as you won't know when you hurt yourself and you don't properly learn to avoid dangerous situation. People with this mutation have to rely on others for danger assessment as for example they won't notice easily that they have open wounds or even broken bones. Tragically this boy died at the age of 13 when jumping/falling off a building; the sources differ but it's likely that he engaged in risky behavior if he couldn't feel any pain from falling.

[–] takeheart 10 points 19 hours ago

I can see her switching spin direction now and then if I continously watch the animation. Looking at the feet alone makes this more likely.

I'm under the impression that it depends on when I naturally blink, for instance when the extended leg is maximally to the left or right. Maybe that brief interruption of the visual stream allows for reclassifying the virtual information instead of fitting it onto an existing pattern.

[–] takeheart 40 points 1 day ago

I mean he's not the first to claim this:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book

It's unlikely tho that the Kreml ever foresaw him becoming president. No-one did really.

[–] takeheart 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Search engine optimization ruined the web. Change my mind!

[–] takeheart 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

¿Where is the hat coming from tho?

[–] takeheart 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A lot of software is reliant on very precise timing. The world at large would notice immediately due to the many disconnects, glitches, bugs, desyncs, not to say anything of all the physical processes controlled by machines going wrong. As a simple example consider an industrial oven (or any process really) that is programmed to shut down at 4:39:20 but at 4:39:15 the 1 minute skip happens. An airplanes auto pilot that is suddenly missing the last minute of sensor data to. base its micro steering on. Any big internet service that has to deal with thousands to millions of clients trying to reconnect at once because their previous connection timed out. Bad stuff.

This would be immediate world wide chaos and likely panic as the cause for all the chaos would be unknown and forever would be. Economic crash likely.

Think of all the attention and effort the year 2k problem got, but this one is worse and there is no prep whatsoever.

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[–] takeheart 7 points 3 days ago

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What now, isn't the reward for a coup that you get reelected and immunity for future missteps to boot? Oh, wait wrong country.

[–] takeheart 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hmmm, it seems the modern way for autocracies to deal with elections is to control the information space. I don't see election being called off, but major social media platforms boosting one side while attenuating the other goes a long way. We know Musk is all in on this and the other big players like Zuckerberg & Co seem all too happy to oblige. Tiktok is an open ended question at this point.

 

Thought this was a nice shot (hihi, shot) near the end it symbolizes that the two men who started out as foils have become inseparable friends. Visualized in this shot as one body with 2 heads and 4 arms acting in unison.

[–] takeheart 42 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Never understood the whole conspiracy angle on the pyramids. When I was in school we always learned that the fascination with the pyramids wasn't just with the labor, engineering and man power required but with the division of labor, the social command and the economic planning required.

Remember that the pyramids have no direct tangible return on investment and were multi generation endeavors. So the question encroaching a contemporary observer is: ¿What must the structure of a society look like that produces such monuments?

[–] takeheart 43 points 4 days ago

The crowd was literally chanting "hang Mike Pence". Kudos to him for not going along with Trumps plan of overthrowing the election.

Yet still I can't help but wonder whether he was secretly hoping for Trump to lose the 3rd election and the Republican party returning to its old ways somehow. Why? Because he's been suspiciously silent ever since when he had the cachet and moral standing to be one of his greatest detractors (from the Republican side).

 
 
[–] takeheart 4 points 1 week ago

My go to map app on my android tablet. Reliable, quick and tidy.

[–] takeheart 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hmm, if I remember my Zelda correctly, that's a save point:

1000084270

[–] takeheart 10 points 1 week ago

Ha, reminds me of how grassy lawns started out as a status symbol to show off that you were so rich that you needn't use your land for agriculture or gardening.

 
 
 
 

Windwaker has my favorite portrayal of Ganondorf.

He's made out to be human, sympathetic almost. While he may be misguided in choosing his methods, his actual motivation isn't. Thru his background story we come to learn why he behaves the way he does. He's tragically misguided, not mindlessly evil.

All the more I felt for him thusly when he gets cheated out of the fruits of his labor near the very end based on some technicality he couldn't possibly have foreseen. It's notable how only at this point, he flies into rage and draws his swords to destroy his enemies.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by takeheart to c/vgmusic
 

This is the remastered version. In the og game many players didn't get to hear the flute depending on the sound card they used. Imo the flute adds a lot, good to have it baked in now.

 

So after I last updated my deck I got a generic error message. No biggie. But then suddenly on the next reboot: stuck at the boot logo. Tried lots of things, no way of getting back in. Not with the current kernel, not with the previous one. Really annoying as I use my deck as a general purpose computer too.

So I created a recovery USB. Reinstalling the OS (which attempts to preserve user data and games) failed silently. So I reluctantly copied my entire home folder to an external drive and went with the nuclear option of completely reimaging the internal drive. After steam os finished installation I restored my entire home folder from the backup and restarted the machine.

I was expecting to having to manually reinstall and reconfigure so many apps and settings. And was verily not looking forward to it. But lo and behold: pretty much everything worked just the way it did before the fumbled system update. My desktop layout and window arrangements remained the same, settings and preferences were preserved, it didn't even log me out of email account. No manual imports of settings required. I had to reinstall most apps via the Discover store first, that much is true. But that took just a couple of minutes.

So yeah, really happy with how that went. Last time I had to reinstall everything on a Windows system it was a major pain as settings are all over the place (on the system drive, in the registry, inside appdata, inside the my documents folder, etc). I guess it has to do with the Linux philosophy of "everything is a file".

In the future I'll actually move my /home/ folder to my SSD card so that if this ever happens again the process is even less painful.

PSA: when you backup your home folder make sure to include all the hidden folders and files (anything starting with a dot like the .config folder).

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