Are you kidding? If someone really has good evidence for the Earth being flat, that could potentially be one of the most important observations of all time!
As the Litany of Tarski goes:
“If the Earth is flat, I desire to believe the Earth is flat…” etc.
(Though, I will admit that it gets boring later when you’ve heard all the arguments and rebuttals.)
Same for "microwaves are bad" believers. They are angry people. Over what, I do not know, but I think they have a deep fear of their own ignorance and use anger to compensate. Somehow they learned at a young age the winner of an argument is perceived as correct or smart, and the way to win is to wear people down. Every conversation is arm wrestling.
Since the train only shakes side to side (and not up-down or forwards-backwards), you only really need spring dampening along one axis.
While you could set up a linear rail with some pretensioned bungie cables (similar to how the Hover Glide backpacks work), I’d recommend using parallel leaf springs as they’re lightweight, low-form factor, mechanically simple, and low stiffness.
The key to supporting human weight is to replace the thin plastic leaf springs with sheet metal. You can also add more springs in parallel (increasing the weight it can support, but reducing the travel).
Another interesting clue to add to a growing body of evidence that the obesity epidemic is due to an unidentified environmental contaminant and not explicit changes to diet or “discipline”:
https://twitter.com/mold_time/status/1412827749828513800?s=2...
Yes that's probably a factor. Exposure to endocrine disruptor chemicals such as phthalates (plastic softeners) is correlated with lower testosterone levels.
And we have extensive research linking low testosterone to obesity. In fact the causality appears to run both ways with low testosterone causing an increase in adipose tissue, which in turn drives a further reduction in testosterone production. Vicious cycle.
But diets have changed over time. Americans on average do consume more calories than 50 years ago, and get a higher proportion of their calories from sugars.
While they might be linked, I find it difficult to believe modern males have lower testosterone than pre-80’s females (which I’d expect if simply “Low-T” was causing the current surge in obesity in both genders).
It’s possible the threshold (where Testosterone is converted to Estrogen) is lowering, and both fat deposition and other things are all downstream effects of phthalates.
However it’s just as likely that this is due to antibiotic-contamination in food changing our gut flora, or Pesticides/Lithium/PFAS/High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup/EM-Radiation/Elevation are messing with our homeostatic equilibrium in other ways…
It would be interesting to find a study that controlled for each of these factors to find the strongest correlates.
Even worse, two parties with animosity against each other will rank each other at the bottom of stack, allowing the generally amicable independents to sweep the election. It’s the perfect way to incentivize depolarization.
Everything in BotW has that formulaic/modular/cookie-cutter feel that a Bethesda game does. None of the side quests particularly stood out to me, whereas I’ll frequently recall hidden gem areas in OoT and Wind Waker with fondness.
It’s clear that it was a game that was produced highly in parallel, with independent parallel teams (of interns?) and obscene levels of modular asset reuse. Exploration is often rewarded with a cookie-cutter item, or (even worse) a Korok seed rather than an expansion of the lore or new stories.
Many of the things I hate about procedurally generated games or the recent spate of mass production open world games (ie Genshin Impact) are present in BotW.
On the opposite end of the spectrum are games like Dark Souls, with relatively little asset reuse and great lore-expanding rewards for exploration.
This exists! But with a slightly different set of libraries than the highlighter used by the post author: remark-shiki-twoslash[1]. Shiki tokenizes using the same language definitions as VSCode, Twoslash uses the same language service.
Hi HN, I've been working on this tool for the last couple of months, and I feel like you guys might appreciate it.
I love OpenSCAD, but it's showing it's age. So I decided to build a luxury version with VS Code's Editor (with Intellisense!) and a WebAssembly-port of OpenCASCADE (the same BREP CAD Kernel in FreeCAD and CadQuery). Everything is client-side, from the model compilation to the deflate-encoded shareable URLs. You can even install the editor to your computer (or even Chromebook!)
Given the recent news from Autodesk making everyone skittish about the future mobility of their .STEP files, I figure that CascadeStudio can provide another place for people to edit and share their 3D Models and BREP designs.
As the Litany of Tarski goes: “If the Earth is flat, I desire to believe the Earth is flat…” etc.
(Though, I will admit that it gets boring later when you’ve heard all the arguments and rebuttals.)