Thanks for sharing your thoughts. No real arguments from me. It was a mistake on my part to equate what I had in my mind with the meme above. It is really is two different things.
I just spontaneously remembered the FTL drive from the novel "Variable Star" by Spider Robinson and Robert Heinlein. The operator of the drive must hold multiple mutually contradictory thoughts in their mind at once, for hours at a time, in shifts with the other operators. Usually two at a time for redundancy. A failure to have at least one operator holding the required mental state would stall the drive and restarting it was very difficult.
It was never really explained how it works, but it's taken totally seriously. It's not like flying in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" where you fall and forget to hit the ground. I thought it was a clever idea. To make consciousness an explicit part of FTL travel by basically holding your mind in a superposition of thought.
Me, too. It pays homage to the source (maybe it meant "Radio Broadcast"?) while being a real name, and kind of a fun, old-timey one, too. Maybe he likes roast beef. Who am I kidding? Of course he does!
It's RB, not Arby? Oops, I guess it is RB. I read the video description.
The food mechanic is to stop you from farming experience points before going deeper. Once you learn the game some more, you should rarely run out of food, and full exploration of each floor is perfectly doable.
Food is not meant to be a source of good healing. Like, if you spend time passing turns just to heal from food, you will definitely starve. I used to do that when I first started playing the game, and learned it was usually a mistake.
As for the demons, yeah, they can be a bitch. You're supposed to dodge the laser eyes, not tank them. You can hear them warming up, and you get a fixed number of turns to find cover. That's just part of the difficulty. Congrats on even getting that far! It took me quite a few tries to get to the Dwarf King, and to get past him routinely.
Nowadays, I can beat the game every try, and have even beaten it with up to 3 challenges enabled. Sure, there's RNG to contend with, but the real skill of the game is the knowledge of what to do to get out of sticky situations. Like what spells do what, and what items you should save for crafting versus using them.
I hope you don't completely give up on the game like you said in your other comment because it's honestly really, really good
See: https://lemmy.world/comment/23647353
Also, don't ask for estimates. 😂
What is that even supposed to mean? Did they make a typo?
Not exactly. At least I don't think. Einstein didn't believe in quantum mechanics at all, or that it was inherently random until measured. Bohr said it was, but I don't think he necessarily equated conscious observation with measurement. Einstein believed there must be hidden variables, but if there are, they're non-local.
it's a moot point because it's the sensor is the "observer", and it's not "being observed" that affects the outcome.
Thing is, that's an assumption. You dont know that for sure. Just like you can't prove the speed of light isn't different in different directions. I'm not saying you shouldn't be free to believe that, but you must admit it's an assumption.
I'm not a really mystical person, but I don't discount the possibility. That would be arrogant. Simply being conscious is rather bizarre. How does the universe even support that? What is it? Is there a consciousness field? Why does a blob of fat, protein, and sodium ions give rise to consciousness? Surely, life could have evolved and thrived without experiencing life. I can easily imagine mindless, robotic life just doing it's thing.
Since no one can currently explain any of that, and no one can know for sure a wavefunction has collapsed until you've lookef at the results, I also don't discount that consciousness might play a role. I remain agnostic about it.
imply that there's something special, different about consciousness.
If you don't think there's something special and unusual about consciousness, I don't know what to say. 😄 I don't believe in a soul, but at least I admit that consciousness is special, and that the universe is weird because of that.
Damn, that's quite the write-up! I actually haven't watched any of her videos in over a year, but I used to watch them a lot, so I figured I'd give her credit for part of my education. Her takes did seem a little odd at times, but it was refreshing to watch a science curmudgeon sometimes. I simply got sick of her schtick after a while, and did read a little controversy about her. I had no idea about the trans stuff.
Wait, there were 2025 previous versions of the Steam Controller?
Well, no. Not if you put a detector in one of the slits. It collapses the wave function, and the interference pattern disappears. The meme is a joke that your eyeballs are the detector, which is not true.
I was making a bit of a joke myself to get people to think about when the collapse actually happens. It could occur as late as when you look at the screen, and you can't prove otherwise. You know... like, "is the moon still there when you're not looking at it?" Except for real.
Update: It's caused by the "Show Text Post Indicator" setting being on in Compact mode.
Version v0.9.0-1
I forgot I installed Thunder via Obtanium, so I get very quick updates. I guess I shouldn't be surprised no one else has seen it. It also turns out it's caused by a non-default setting.
Is this happening to anyone else? It started after an update.
I already submitted it to GitHub: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/2070
Version v0.8.1. Android 16. Pixel 7 Pro.
After scrolling a couple pages (endless scrolling is on) I start seeing "Instance of 'LemmyApiException'". Once it starts, the tiniest amount of scrolling—even upwards—causes the error. I can make a bunch of rapid, itty bitty scrolls, and each one will hide and reshow the error.
What is Thunder doing with the API on every single scroll? Even up? Makes no sense.
I don't have "mark read on scroll" enabled, or anything odd. I haven't changed any settings in weeks, and this started happening just a few days ago. It might only be happening on my home instance. I could test with an alt.
Update: I can't reproduce this using a lemmy.world account
By viewing this post you are infected, and all future clocks you attempt to make will fail to render, too.
If not, can you please add a setting to disable it? It's just not for me. At best it's a distraction while I wait for the image to load. At worst, it blocks part of the image.
I woke up one day and Fennec wouldn't browse any web page. Like, if I do a search, which goes to DuckDuckGo, I get a loading bar that never goes anywhere. (See screenshot).
If I disable all of my extensions, it'll work again. Then, if I enable them one by one to try to find the culprit that was making Fennec not work, it doesn't break! Until it does, randomly. I basically can't easily reproduce it working or not working.
I switched to IronFox, and installed all the same extensions, and have had no problems for two days.
Extensions:
I've had three comments in my inbox for about a week and every day I try to mark them as read, but it doesn't work. They disappear from the list at first, but then when I refresh they're still there. I get the error in the picture which says, LemmyApiException: couldnt_find_comment_reply
I just went to the website and logged into my instance, and I had no problem marking the comments read from there. They disappeared from my Thunder inbox, too, after a refresh.
I saved one of the comments for debugging purposes, in case there's something we can look at.
When you think about it, it's not much weirder than plugging a GPU into a PC. It has a more powerful processor and requires it's own power supply. Imagine having to plug in your SNES cartridge.
Except GPUs dont have game ROMs on them. Maybe someday they will.