While doing some research on Sega Channel (I was a SNES kid) I found this article which has a lot of cool info.

However many paperclips are the max in Universal Paperclips. Some ridiculous number like “undecillion” but probably a few factors of 10 higher.

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Seems like your phone would get really hot and rapidly degrade the battery, especially while on charger overnight. It’s not designed for continuous workloads.

Phones can rapidly compress video on the fly because they have dedicated silicon just like video cards in PCs. That’s not why the files are large. Why not just shoot at a lower resolution and frame rate?

While I think finding the plane will be a good thing, I don’t think it’ll bring us much closer to finding out what happened. The pilot likely cut the power to the flight data recorder when he powered the whole thing down as part of his “hijacking” process. Mentour Pilot has a great video on it on YouTube.

I just let that mission fail and got on with the rest of the game. I’ll do it next time I play the game though.

You’re correctly identifying thermal mass as why they feel cooler to the touch, but this is mixed up in some incorrect and contradictory statements. You seem to keep changing your reasoning behind why tiles feel cooler to the touch.

The ceramic tiles in your house aren’t really “colder” than you

This is incorrect, and why I replied to begin with.

Flooring is colder than your skin, regardless of the material, unless your floor temp is above 92℉ (33.5℃). You can measure this with a thermometer. If something is the same temperature as your skin you won’t feel anything - there’s no heat transfer. You could have a copper floor if it was the same temperature as your skin, you wouldn’t feel a thing.

[Ceramic tiles] also have a high thermal mass … they easily lose heat to the air.

These two statements are directly contradicting one another. High thermal mass means it takes a longer time to lose heat to the air. Given identical conditions, ceramic will take longer to change temperature than fabric. For example, if you opened a window and it was 40℉ outside, the carpet would drop in temperature faster than the ceramic tile. It wouldn’t feel this way to your skin, but it could be measured with a thermometer.

That thermal mass is why tiles feel cooler than carpet. Your body has no issue warming the fibers in carpet next to your skin to the same temperature as your skin, it’s harder to warm up the tile because of the thermal mass.

You can hold a ceramic tile in your hand and apply a blowtorch to the other side. They’re better insulators than conductors. That’s why you see ceramics used for insulating hot food bowls from wooden tables, or a more extreme example, ceramic tiles on re-entry vehicles. Ceramic is not a good conductor of heat.

Wood is about 0.1 W/mK, ceramics about 1 W/mK, and copper is about 400 W/mK.

The ceramic tiles in your house aren’t really “colder” than you

Yes, quite literally they are colder. You can measure this with a thermometer. A more apt comparison would be ceramic floor vs wood flooring, or ceramic vs air temp, as all this flooring is at identical temperatures, yet feels different to the touch.

Tiles do not feel cooler because they “easily lose heat to the air”. Quite the opposite; they take longer to heat or cool than fabric or wood due to their thermal mass. This is also why they feel cooler to the touch. Your body can warm the low mass of fabric or wood faster than it can ceramic, thus those materials feel less cold when you step on them.

If you’re going to be pedantic, at least do it right.

The ceramic tiles in your house aren’t really “colder” than you

Yes they are; they’re not warm blooded mammals, and they’re at the lowest level in the house, where the coldest air is.

they are very good and transfering heat

Ceramics generally have poor thermal conductivity. Metal is a good conductor of heat.

To be clear, it’s not that I’m saying sfc /scannow and chkdsk are altogether worthless, it’s just that they’re reflexively repeated as a solution to seemingly every issue posted on those forums. It’s more so the advice is frequently useless for the given issue, rather than the specific commands themselves.

Applies to macOS as well. These official support forums are such garbage.

Windows: did you run sfc /scannow and chkdsk? (This has never solved a single thing in my entire building PCs life, so since about 1999.)

macOS: did you reset SMC and PRAM? (This is basically a fancy restart and with Apple Silicon devices, it is literally just a restart.)

You’re wrong about it being fertilizer. The primary ingredient in S-PHOS 560 is aluminum phosphide, a fumigant.

Aluminum phosphide is a highly toxic, inorganic compound that’s used as a pesticide and fumigant. When exposed to air, it generates phosphine gas. (Not to be confused with phosgene, though.)

mildly toxic fumes

Phosphine is a highly toxic respiratory poison, and is immediately dangerous to life or health at 50 ppm.

Dunno where you’re pulling your info from but it’s wrong.

This is bullshit because it’s not a 1% / 99% split.

The successes are more common than the failures in my experience. They’re absolutely not “exponentially rarer than the failures.” I work with many successful veterans, all of us are near or above six figure salaries from our civilian jobs, not counting any military benefits. I’m one of those. My wife is an active duty officer. I got out after I did the minimum time to get the benefits I was after, because I like smoking weed and having a beard. I had a plan to pay off my college debt and get experience in the field. I pulled it off, and even got to travel to Japan and live in Italy. I got even more education benefits for reenlisting for a couple years.

Yeah, I know of a few suicides. I know of a few suicides and drug overdoses from civilian life, too. Divorce rates are astronomical on the enlisted side, I’ll give you that.

What fast food job can get you a career and college afterwards? You won’t get decent healthcare, nor room and board, nor an opportunity to travel with a fast food job.

Not every job in the military is infantry. It’s got more risks than a typical civilian job, but it’s absolutely not the 1%/99% split you’re claiming. Most people make it out fine and it sets them up well for life afterwards. That doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed success, though, and some people treat it this way. It is what you make of it.

Here’s a source corroborating my experience with veterans:

“New York’s 9/11-Era Veterans: A Quantitative Study by Sex, Race, and E” by Lawrence Cappello

9/11 era veterans in the New York metropolitan area performed well above their non-veteran counterparts in most socio-economic categories. The data indicate that between 2007 and 2017 employment, income, and educational attainment rates were consistently higher, and poverty rates consistently lower, than those of the metro area’s general population. These trends held relatively firm during the financial crisis of 2008 and as the veteran population continued to grow into the 2010s. In short, there is considerable evidence within this report to affirm that serving in the armed forces continues to have a direct correlation with greater socio-economic success. This correlation is particularly stark among Latinos and non-Hispanic blacks, where the variances between their non-veteran counterparts are prevalent in income, employment, poverty rates, and educational attainment.

There’s a lot of statistics that can be found in this Pew research article too. I believe this sums it up well. Sure doesn’t sound like only 1% have a successful experience.

A large majority of veterans endorse the military as a career choice. Roughly eight-in-ten say they would advise a young person close to them to join the military. This includes large majorities of post-9/11 veterans, combat veterans and those who say they had emotionally traumatic experiences in the military.

For me, STALKER is all about the atmosphere. They’ve nailed this much. A-Life was cool in the OGs but it wasn’t a complete necessity IMO. I never got into the big mods like gamma / anomaly so my perspective is skewed towards the vanilla experience. It always seemed to me, at least in vanilla, A-Life was only responsible for 10-15% of the encounters. An overwhelming majority was scripted.

While I do miss having to scope out routes with binoculars and ensure I wasn’t walking into any encounters, I don’t mind STALKER 2 being a bit of a walking simulator between missions / POIs. It is a bit empty feeling, but I’m alright with that for a first experience. It is hauntingly beautiful being so empty.

I also know I’m going to play it multiple times so I want to experience the improvement as patches come out. I think if you go in expecting anomaly/gamma you may come out disappointed, but I went in expecting another vanilla STALKER game and it exceeded my expectations. I’m 90 hours in and wrapping up some exploration before going into the “point of no return” endgame quest line, and I don’t regret any of what I experienced. There’s still so much I’ve yet to see. It is very much a worthy sequel.

Ah, yeah that makes sense now.

How does that help Amazon if on the price tracker it appears $20, but with the coupon it’s actually $10?

If I’m using a price tracker and see it for $20 pre-coupon but another site has it for $15, wouldn’t that just drive my business to the other site?

It seems like with using coupons it’s just artificially inflating the price on whatever trackers, and that seems like it would be bad for sales to me.

For Amazon, I use camelcamelcamel to see price history. Personally I’ve not seen price increases just for holiday sales but I also don’t buy a lot of stuff on these sorts of days, I just set a price alert and wait for the email.

It is in the US.

The FTC’s Guides Against Deceptive Pricing generally require that a seller offer an item at a price for a reasonable, substantial period of time in good faith, and in the regular course of business, before advertising that price as the former or regular price (16 C.F.R. § 233.1). The FTC considers it deceptive to offer an item for sale at a higher price for a short period of time in order to support a claim that an item is discounted when the price is then lowered. This practice is prohibited.

Additionally, most states have consumer protection statutes that prohibit sellers from making false or misleading statements of fact concerning the reasons for, existence of, or amount of a price reduction (for example, Cal. Civ. Code § 1770(a)(13)). Several states also expressly regulate the length of time an item must be offered at a regular price and amount of time it is on sale (for more information, see Practice Notes, Promotional Pricing: Specific State Laws and “Up To” Discounting Law and Practice: Promotional Pricing: State-by-State Requirements).

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Bandcamp is a good option for directly supporting artists for the time being, especially if you queue up all your purchases for a Bandcamp Friday, where artists/labels receive all the money rather than BC taking their 20% cut.

Even with A-Life being busted at the moment I am enjoying the Zone very much. They nailed the atmosphere, sounds, and map, and that’s more than enough for me to get into it again. Already looking forward to playing it through another couple times, and of course the mods are going to be awesome. It’s not perfect but I think they did a great job all things considered.