Tailor shop. You can try the armor shop, too, but that’s more hit or miss for cloth items.

Or, if you’re the daring type, a wizard’s tower.

I believe the men are scamming the women. They aren’t married for love or lust, or if they were, that faded with age. And they are so fake just by default that even the ones who do still love each other probably don’t feel secure about it because of course they’d say “No babe, I just love you and am not interested in anyone else” regardless of if that’s true or if they are having orgies at every business trip.

And cosmetic surgeons target insecurities and promise the world whether or not they can actually deliver.

So it wouldn’t surprise me if what happens in a bunch of those cases is an insecure woman gets the surgery done, it looks like it does, and their husband gets a kick out of them ruining their looks in an attempt to impress them, also being happy that it reduces the number of other men that would be interested.

Similar thing for “influencers” or women in porn that buy into the “this is what men want” lie.

Though ironically, I bet there is a sexual angle to it, too, where seeing their wife ruin their looks to impress them turns them on, but I doubt the sex is loving.

Anyways, just my attempt at making sense out of something that seems to me to do more to put them on the far side of the uncanny valley than to help them look any better. If they unironically like that look, I can’t relate to them at all.

Any time Lemmy.world goes down, I get reminded I should check my sh.itjust.works notifications more often when looking at months old replies to comments I made the last time it was down when I wanted to use it.

“I want everyone who sees me to do a double take and then frown.”

Makes sense. Get it into an adversarial kind of context and it will predict more text that goes against other rules “established” in the context.

There will be other paths to do this. Like a context where there’s a lot of suspicion for other parts of the context would be one of my top guesses. Given the way they work, you could gaslight the shit out of them, since they aren’t an entity that has any memory of its actions. You can even edit the context to modify its responses, which will affect the tokens it predicts going forward.

Though I’m curious how this will be handled by companies that expose access to claude to anonymous people on their website, like ddg.

Oh come on now, I don’t wear wooden clogs! They are entirely inappropriate footwear for the finish on my home bowling alley!

“Pterodactyl? … Absent again!?”

I’ve got a kid and had that nervousness. I remember when we left the hospital, it felt like it was too easy, like “we just made this kid, an actual person, and you’re just letting us leave and take it home with us!? Isn’t that irresponsible??”

This place has a large portion of people who are here because they got tired of reddit’s shit and wanted something better.

I think the type that thinks being arbitrary about this stuff is ok mostly stayed at reddit because they are used to accepting arbitrary shit.

And I think the type that defends this are either the bootlickers hoping to get brownie points for supporting the boss’ arbitrary shit (or sometimes the arbitrary shit they assume the boss supports), or they are the type that enjoys abusing any power they get to make arbitrary judgements, sometimes even hypocritically because they don’t oppose the thing itself but are currently using it to lord over someone. The ones of those that are here are probably here because they were reddit mods and left after a power struggle with reddit admins and are doing similar shit here, though maybe not as extreme given that so many are only here after getting tired of power abuses.

My main point though is that it isn’t the electronics or the fan’s max speed that are the critical parts, it’s whether the fan is able to dissipate the heat being generated with the total sum of how everything is set up. If it can’t, then temperature creeps up until that max speed is hit (thus it can’t dissipate anymore and throttles, hits equilibrium at a higher temperature (because bigger temperature differential means more heat transfer even at the same fan speed, so it’s possible it won’t just run away when the max speed is hit), or melts/overheats to failure) or until the fan speeds up and is able to find an equilibrium or reduce the temperature.

Thus whatever tricks they use need to result in fans that are still good enough to replace whatever fan they are replacing or they will cause performance issues.

Though if someone is just adding case fans, then as long as it doesn’t disrupt the airflow, it will help even if it isn’t very good, and you can use multiple quiet fans to replace a single loud one and see an overall improvement even if the individual fans aren’t nearly as good as the single one they replace. So based on that, I’ll back down from my previous “their reputation speaks for itself” because the reality is that they can be overpriced underperforming garbage but still get a good reputation because they aren’t just being evaluated via a/b testing and I was naive to oversimplify it like that.

I’m a bit more open minded; who really knows what’s going on beyond the reality that we see and interact with on a daily basis.

That said, I do think that anyone who claims to be an expert on that stuff is full of shit and either lying to everyone else or themselves.

Though my name comes from understanding enlightenment in a Buddhist sense is real, though even that isn’t as mystical as it can seem to the unenlightened. It’s just the process of growing wiser and “enlightenment” is the moment of epiphany when some piece of wisdom clicks.

Like one of the early ones I remember having is realizing that doctors, police, or whatever authority people are just people like anyone else, they have good days and bad days where they might just want whatever problem you have for them to go away rather than get solved. Some are diligent workers, some cheated their way to where they are, some failed upwards. Some think “I don’t know” threatens their position and will instead lie with confidence, assuming you’ll never know any better. Some assume they even know better without actually knowing and just act on that.

It’s obvious in hindsight but felt pretty profound when it clicked in my mind.

And the moon drifting away is stealing some of our rotational energy, making the days longer.

We’re also lucky to be on this planet during the time the sun and moon’s apparent sizes match. Being able to see a total solar eclipse where you can see immediately around the sun without needing a spaceship might be incredibly rare in the universe. Though total solar eclipses in general are pretty common, assuming our gas giants’ accumulation of moons is typical for giant planets, they’d happen any time the moon passed through the giant’s shadow.

I think either way it’s just speculation how things will be affected. Like space is big but it’s also going to be chaotic af and remember that both galaxies have inner cores containing supermassive black holes and a higher density of stars, as well as both galaxies have satellite galaxies with their own cores that can join in on the chaos. Those black holes have high energy jets that they shoot off perpendicular to their accretion disc, which could get messed with as matter starts coming from all directions instead of generally falling in from the galactic disc.

Currently, the stars in both sets of galaxies have relatively stable stellar orbits and are moving together. The collision will affect those stellar orbits, not just increasing the number of rogue planets flying around out there but also the number of rogue solar systems, including a non-trivial number that will be flung from both galaxies.

No idea what would happen to us if our solar system was one of those. Do we need a galaxy or would it just make the night sky more boring to not be in one?

Insert picture of Big Bird in front of a circle of sitting kids with wide eyes and a speech bubble: “… and after it swallows our entire planet whole, it will destabilize the outer planets, swallowing some of them and hurling others out into inter-stellar space where they will become rogue planets. It doesn’t matter how many vegetables you eat or chores you finish, this eventuality is inevitable, which is today’s word of the day!”

Even that isn’t going to necessarily help.

When the sun depletes all of the hydrogen in its core, gravity becomes the dominant force once again and it starts collapsing. Eventually, the temperature and pressure increase from that collapse will ignite helium fusion, but in the time between those two events, the core will have built up some amount of inertia, which means the collapse continues and overshoots the new equilibrium point. This means the temperature and pressure further increase, adding even more helium fusion to counteract it until the pressure generated from that fusion overcomes that inertia.

But this rebound will also be an overshoot, but this time pushing outwards, followed by a reduction in temp/pressure, reducing fusion, then another collapse once gravity overcomes that inertia, and it’ll oscillate like that for some time.

The science isn’t exactly certain about what specifically this will look like but I’d be surprised if it isn’t “strip the atmosphere from the earth, even if it’s already in the new goldilocks zone for once the sun eventually reaches equilibrium” levels of violence, possibly on each outward oscillation after that burst of higher fusion energy.

Oh, there’s also still a huge amount of hydrogen in the outer layers that are collapsing with the core, suddenly being pushed on with the force of helium fusion, that can also ignite hydrogen fusion in the outer layers as it oscillates, adding even more energy, though this could act to dampen the oscillations, but it will still be violent in our direction.

My guess would be best case is humanity is forced to live underground for several million years, if we are able to tune energy gatherers properly to keep producing solar power but not get destroyed by those periodic mini novas.

Also, even if we can manage the heat from the increased radiation, the higher pressure solar winds might overcome our magnetic field during the new equilibrium anyways. There might not be a “goldilocks zone” at all, at least not for our planet, unless maybe we can supercharge our magnetic field, which might be possible since moving to another orbit is already a Type II civilization kind of thing (considering we can’t just move our planet and expect everything to be fine with the rest of them, moving earth outwards will likely require doing something about the gas giants), so the rest of it might be trivial or solvable.

But it’s fun and interesting to think about the details :).

You were downvoted because you’re wrong, or at best technically accurate but inaccurate about the results.

Your fan speed is set by your fan controller.

And while it’s true that different fans can be set up to spin at different speeds with the same input voltage or PWM signal, if the fan is less effective at cooling at that rate, the controller will end up higher on the fan curve and speed it up to compensate.

The only things that determine your fan’s ultimate speed are a) how high the controller allows it to go, b) how much heat the hardware is generating, and c) how efficiently the combination of coolers and fans dissipate that heat into the air (which also depends on the room’s conditions).

Now we’re just talking about fans, so we can ignore item b entirely as well as the cooler and room conditions. And it then comes down to, can the fan keep up with the heat being generated at the current point in the fan’s curve? If not, heat increases and the controller speeds up the fan. Then, when it hits whatever the cap is, if it still can’t keep up, the hardware either overheats or throttles.

If it can keep up, then it stays where it is on the curve. If it can dissipate more heat than is being produced, it goes down on the curve and the fan slows down as the temperature lowers.

All this to say, if you have fan A that needs to be at 2000 rpm to keep up with the heat being generated by the hardware at say 65°C and someone says they have a better fan, B, that is just set to spin slower at the same signal from the controller, all that will happen is it will fail to keep up with the heat generated at 65, then the heat will rise until it’s spinning at 2000 rpm anyways or the curve hits the cap and the system throttles to reduce the heat generated.

So we couldn’t really eliminate that item b above and it could actually be relevant, though if that were the case, I’d assume people would just curse noctura because their fans suck and their systems run hotter or slower. But they have a good reputation where the main complaint I see is about their price, not their performance.

Personally, I use be quiet! fans rather than noctura, but it’s a similar principle. They make quieter fans by tweaking or redesigning blades shape and angle, bearings, and the motor. Blades make them more effective at slower speeds, and all three can make them quieter at the same speeds.

And artificial flavouring doesn’t help either, since our brains map flavours to nutrients. Cravings for specific foods can be related to how much your body needs nutrients it associates with that food. But artificial flavours don’t come with any nutrients, they are just chemicals that mimic how the actual food interacts with our taste buds. So it can crave foods that do nothing to help with the nutritional needs, you’ll feel good for a bit because of how the body handles hunger (it subsides when we eat, not when we digest it and get access to the nutrients and calories, otherwise we’d always overeat), but then when the nutrient levels don’t change, it craves it again.

That’s how there’s so many people that are simultaneously obese and malnourished. The food has the calories and the body stores them for later use, but it doesn’t have the nutrition while foods have.

Yeah, or the nitrogen execution they did was one of the few ways a nitrogen death could be physically uncomfortable because it allowed CO2 to build up. All they had to do was vent the mask and have it attached to a tank with a higher pressure than the room if they didn’t want to do the “replace all the room’s oxygen” method. Just like any fucking breathing mask that was produced before it happened. They had to go out of their way to turn that execution into a torture and they did.

Yeah, and if anyone needs to go into the room to check on them or declare the dearh, just give them an oxygen mask and they’ll be fine. And if somehow a toddler gets teleported into the room without a mask, just swing the door open and closed a few times and that probably mixes in enough oxygen to be fine until the rest mixes in from the door just being open.

I’m pretty sure this whole time the intent has been to maximize suffering while making it look like they are trying to minimize it.

Like remember how that big tech company renamed itself in hopes of making its name ubiquitous with a VR world that no one really wants other than those who thought they could make boatloads of money from it?

And I’m not saying that they are the only ones that want any VR world, I mean specially the one they were trying to build where they pretty much started with virtual real estate and ad space before even coming up with compelling reasons to use it at all. Also, the virtual reality that I’m really interested in isn’t the one where you strap screens to your face and have cameras or sensors detecting movement of specific hardware to act as input, but that’s all we have right now.

Lol I just realized this: I’m more interested in the Sword Art Online VR world that would kill you in real life if you died in the game than I am in whatever FB was trying to make. Like if a genie or something offered me the choice between trying either of those, the metaverse would be a quick no while trying a nervegear would require some thought.

Though not whatever comes out of Musk’s company. I have little doubt that he’s going to have at least some people working on hacking human brains, for things like mind control, finding secrets, or maybe even doing that thing where they make it look like you leave the simulated VR world but it actually just simulated taking a VR helmet off and now you’re stuck in Elon’s world until he lets you out or it breaks.