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Re:A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and...
on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @08:59PM (#40871478)
Chalmers in point 2 is not saying to imagine such a world, but that such a world is logically possible. Chalmers gives as an example of a logical impossibility a male vixen since it is contradictory. He states "... a flying telephone is conceptually coherent, if a little out of the ordinary, so a flying telephone is logically possible. Nevertheless, that zombies are logically possible, may be begging the question, that consciousness is non physical.
Re:CADmium: A Local-First CAD Program Built for the Browser
on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @09:22PM (#40436353)
To illustrate what can be done with the BOSL2 library for openscad this can add 3 "diamonds" to the RIGHT, FWD, and TOP direction of a square, with the RIGHT and FWD diamond's corner touching the square on the side and the TOP diamond sitting atop the square:
cuboid([8,8,2]) align([RIGHT, FWD, TOP]) cuboid([5,5,2], spin=45);
Re:CADmium: A Local-First CAD Program Built for the Browser
on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @06:59PM (#40435143)
Another option is the BOSL2 library for openscad which has align, attach and anchor operations and many other useful operations and parts.
Re:Vitamin D Is a Hormone
on Monday March 18, 2024 @04:47PM (#39749805)
In the case of sunlight exposure to UVB an equilibrium is reached where the amount vitamin D produced in the skin equals the amount destroyed by UVB. This does not happen if you pop vitamin D pills. I've recently written an app that calculates the time required to obtain adequate vitamin D by lying prone in the sun, with most of your clothes off, and using MED the minimal erythema dose as a guide to safe sun exposure. At the height of summer it is a surprisingly short amount of time that is required to get adequate vitamin D even for people with dark skins.
Re:Classic components could be replaced by rubber in next-gen loudspea...
on Sunday June 04, 2023 @12:57AM (#36183211)
This was about 10 years ago but here in New Zealand I found someone who could repair and replace the rubber so my 30 year old infinities are as good as new.
Re:Pop_OS 21.04
on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:11PM (#27684147)
The tiling window manager in popOS is well thought out, has intuitive key bindings. As a former i3wm user I find it a significantly better.
Re:The underground farm growing salad crops in a disused air raid shel...
on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:48PM (#20762196)
The light that is required to increase vitamin D production is UVB. The Penn State researchers used a pulsed UVB source for their research. Lower frequency light will not activate the conversion to vitamin D. Glass absorbs most UVB light therefore laying out mushrooms on a window sill will not work.
Re:Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?
on Saturday January 12, 2019 @03:31PM (#18893127)
The problem here is that UVB levels, required for vitamin D synthesis, decrease dramatically before 9am and after 6pm, whereas UVA does not. The best option for vitamin D synthesis is short sun exposure around midday.