Caveman @ olafurp @lemmy.world

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I mean, it's kinda true. A rocket just makes fire which expands and pushes whatever it burns out to make it go fast. You got the fire, the fire pushes things away from whatever you're burning and the rest is just optimisation.

If you manage to make a helium balloon that floats in the air, attach a burning log fire to the bottom of it and enclose it in a way that the air intake is on the top and outlet is on the bottom you've made an engine that you just need to aim with a ballast weight.

Still wrong, but you were onto something.

Fuck yeah, I'm tired of having to use the trackpad to move the mouse because my screen dimmed.

I feel like Wikipedia will be way better than explaining. I'll put it here inside a spoiler tag. I don't know a lot about this besides the basics so I won't be able to do it justice. Fair to say it does a lot of stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin

Fun exception is endocannabinoids, giving you a runners high when running.

Endorphin doesn't cross the barrier but morphine does, we basically find ways to sneak stuff into the brain.

It works both inside and outside, it just does something completely different when not in the brain.

That's true, the gut and the brain are tightly linked and are in constant communication with each other, an obvious example is hunger for example.

I felt the need to comment this because serotonin and dopamine produced in the gut have completely different functions from the dopamine and serotonin in the brain. On top of that the body keeps those completely separate with the blood brain barrier so it can regulate those different functions individually.

The gut does play a part in tryptophan production and extraction which passes the blood brain barrier and the brain uses to make serotonin so the gut does affect serotonin levels. But that's just "eat healthy, feel good" type of stuff.

I'm just not a fan of oversimplified version of this where people say "90-95% of serotonin is made in the gut, serotonin is the feel good hormone so gut affects happiness". I mean, most people are aware that what you eat affects your mood but saying the gut is responsible for producing the hormones for the brain is just wrong when talking about dopamine and serotonin.

I feel like I'll be prepared later on but I'm fully expecting to not be ready when the time comes.

I'm an autistic male and for me expressing myself in general is a bit awkward. During tough times I really liked expressing it to my friends and siblings since it's a decent way to process the feelings.

YSK that this is just plain wrong for serotonin at least. Serotonin can't cross the blood brain barrier.

This is such an immersion breaking aspect of modern games and an absolute garbage approach. They're idea is to not break the "flow" for the action players but for players that like puzzles it's absolute horror. They just need to add during new game a "Puzzle hints" menu with Normal, Low and None.

"That rock looks fragile", "Have you seen the rock next to the windmill? It has cracks in it", "What if we shoot the rock with the ballista?" at those points I just want a "Shut up" option.

If I can't figure out the puzzle myself it removes all satisfaction from solving it. I want to be confused, open up a journal that I need to skim through to get relevant information and then put the pieces together.

nzb360 that I got a perpetual license for at 10eur. It's so easy and convenient to torrent stuff for my Jellyfin.

Niagara launcher is free but I paid for the perpetual license. It's a third party launcher that I really like.

I'm also a Jetbrains fan depending on the language, they have so much support for everything just out of the box and are on Linux.

Also games, but I guess people don't want to hear those here. Factorio was definitely worth.

Could be solved that way, I personally don't participate in it.

Don't upgrade unless you're going for motherboard, RAM and CPU upgrade.

Buying RAM today is pricey so I'm not sure if it's possible to upgrade on a lean budget. A used combo of the three might be available though at a decent price.

A lot of screw driver heads started like this.

I mean, you absolutely could make a till but you still have to hook it up to a payment provider like Adyen, Stripe or a terminal that handles the payment.

That might be changing in the near future. Hybrid GPU work is currently being worked on a bunch.

And also the HDMI people since they don't allow drivers that use their official specs to be open source. So to use HDMI 2.1 you have to install a proprietary closed source driver.

They could do it by having a post install blob add-on though so we can blame Nvidia for not putting in the effort.

Not sure why you said that. In programming I lean DRY unless it's a separate use case. The repetitions come from the hundreds of left pad implementations in node_modules

I should learn C because of Unga Bunga reasons. I fully agree that lower RAM usage is better and cache misses are absolute performance killers but at the company I'm at there's just no time or people or scale to do anything remotely close to that. We just lazy load and allow things to slowly cost more RAM while keeping the experience nice.