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What that means is that the power grid is designed for AC currents, and now there will be DC currents flowing through it, induced by the flexing of the Earth's magnetic field under the storm. That is very likely to saturate the cores in large scale transformers, causing them to blow up.
No more power grid. And these are not things you have spares for or can ship from China. You need to make new ones, in a country with spotty power and complete supply chain breakdown.
So your electronics would be fine, just out of power. Faraday cages are for the nuclear bomb type EMP events.
Android is Linux enough for most use cases, and the big problem is just having root access to it and an ability to customize.
A pure linux phone would just be a pointless annoyance, at least until someone makes a phone with external thermal interface.
What makes it crippled?
More like all over the nearby streets, but i get the idea.
In most of the world city people live in flats/apartments, where you can't really do that.
So i don't see how you can avoid "gas station on every corner" model.
Can't quite play tetris, however - i start to lose track of the pieces once there are like 5-10 of them.
More specifically, has the recent rise and push for recognition of plurality originated from tulpa communities? [1], for example. A lot of the terminology is different from what i remember, so i wondered if it's an evolution or a parallel development.
A complication is that a lot of these are from elementary school geometry books, so i tend to just remember the answer before getting a chance to look at it.
There are qualitative differences, however. I think a better question would be not how vivid the imagined shape is, but how connected and contextual it is.
Someone might imagine a 6 red star and stop at that, someone might imagine a 3 star, but with the whole Kremlin tower attached on a snowy night with distant car sounds.
Testable things i found are looking for reactions. Imagine yourself at the beach, standing half immersed in the sea, enjoying the view, then something grabs your leg underwater.
-Did you flinch, or was these just words? Some people would, since they are contextually immersed in the scene.
-Can you answer side questions, like how calm the sea was, were you looking towards the land or the horizon, were there any birds in the sky, and so on? Some people can, because they were visualizing the scene, some people won't unless prompted, since they were constructing the scene.
In the similar vein, do you project your imagination over the world around you? People who do tend to not comprehend how you can lose things, like forgetting where you parked your car.
For me, trying to make a tulpa 10 years ago ended up amplifying my loneliness, as well as placing it front-and-center, impossible to ignore.
In retrospect that was a good thing, since it prompted me into dealing with a lot of issues as well as discovering some i wasn't explicitly aware of. Trying to create an imaginary person you unconsciously wish you were born as could really sharpen and highlight everything that is different.
But it might as well have ended worse.
It's the same kind of thing as computers and calculators switching from decimal hardware to binary hardware 100 years ago.
Huh? I used to make DIY games as late as early 00s, for GBA, Sega Dreamcast and PS1.
Is that no longer possible with modern consoles?
Is there somewhere to read about the changes in question?
I'm old enough to remember extensive use of analog landlines, and can't really think of any difference to a cellphone other than audio quality.
Like, what's the point of having a non-programmable computer?
How could someone start programming this century without access to one?
I still can't get over Oculus Rift needing an account and an internet connection just to install drivers.
I tend to just write stuff grouped by category into a text file, with timestamp tags (today is 180717). Nothing i tried was more comfortable and portable than that.
Standard search function of text editors take care of tags and searching. Picking a text editor is great customization.
What was a distraction in my case was internet browsing. This got solved by having a dedicated tablet for all sorts of non-essential browsing, and the work computers never having anything but work-related links.
You'd think that's not going to matter, but the little bit of friction that created was enough.
The whole point of programming is to take something complex and break it down into simple arithmetics and logic that a computer can digest.
So you build simple, isolated expressions that do one slightly more complex thing using slightly less complex things, then use these expressions to build slightly more complex things, and so on recursively, all the way up to having a "do the thing" button in an app.
Having these isolated, modular, layers of testable implementations is what makes code that can survive the test of time.
Or provide a reliable service in any other emergency or inconvenient situation - you don't use a taxi to go to the grocery store or to commute to work, you use it in emergencies.
I can see how an app to call a taxi and track rides is a good thing, but i can't see how having random people provide the actual rides is a good idea.