u/Quetzal_2000

In the Netflix Three Body Problem, episode 3, Jack and Jin play level 3 of the game, Turing and Newton think they have solved the problem with classical physics and computing, but the alignment of the three stars creates a greater gravity attraction on the San-Ti planet, and physical bodies, such as soldiers, horses, etc. are suddenly pulled out of the ground.

Now, like all the simile-physics in the series, time is strongly accelerated. But here, it is the fact that if there was a stronger attraction from the alignment of the three stars, the curse of the planet itself would be altered, and not mainly the bodies on it. At least this is the way I analyze it. Perhaps there would be some kind of delayed effect on larger bodies such as the planet, due to the inertia of it is trajectory (its former acceleration), but wouldn't all bodies on the planet be attracted with a bigger - compounded - strength to the suns with the planet itself?

Though I read the book one or two years ago, I am not sure how this sequence is described in it, and if this sort of incongruence is from the author of the book or the series, though I would suspect rather the latter.

What is your view of this episode and the level 3 sequence final within it?

I bought a brand new Genesis Tour de Fer 20 in 2023, and inevitably, now is the time to change my brake pads. Reference says the brake pads on this model are Promax DSK-717. However, I can't find this specific model in stock in Paris. It seems that disk brake pads are not standardized. My shop says it holds 18 different models, but not this one.

On Amazon I found a metallic model which pretends to be compatible with "Promax DSK-310 710 715 717 720 913 Decipher Solve Render Render-R". Should I trust this model (though I would prefer organic) to fit my brake pads?

How do you manage changing your brake pads, as this is one of the parts that are consumable?
Any help here will be welcome.

I have been using C1 22 for many years now. I import my photos from my MacMini M2 to an external Drive. Today, after a few months not using the software, it refuses to import a limited amount of photos (15) from my SD Card. Same procedure as before, the import page opens, I select photos, but clicking on "Import 15 images" doesn't make the software react.

Same behaviour on my brand now MacBookAir M4. I am registered on both installation of the software.

Have you encountered the same issue? What could be the cause (and thus the remedy)?

Since 2022, I have arranged my calendar and my daily notes to be organized in folders with year, and month . YYYY/MM. This is made possible by the parameters of the Daily Note core plugin (YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD) which should be taken by Calendar Plus (both are activated) However, recently, when I create my new daily note, it appears at the root of my folder structure, and not in the YYYY/MM folder. Yesterday I was able to revert this behaviour after checking the parameters of the Daily Note and Calendar plus plug-ins, but today it is coming back to the same problem of creating the daily note in the route of my vault. Have some of you had the same problem? How should I solve it? How are the 2 plugins interacting? If to developer is reading this post, could he comment?

Currently, I just identified the possibility to export notes page by page as screenshots on the device itself, or a whole notebook by the partner app. My workflow involves exporting a selection of consecutive note pages to PDF, where they can easily be uploaded and recognized (much better than on the Supernote I must say) by an external AI.

A good step for this use and others would be to be able to export a selection of pages as a unique PDF file from the Pages menu on the device itself. I have been using Supernote for more than 4 years, and the development of the Ratta team has been astonishing since then. Plugins also opens new possibility. But this feature should be core I believe.

The MindMap plugin by u/Decent_Tap_5574 looks great. Thank you for making it available. The coments below are for improvement. I found it is a bit slow (for this simple 2 branches drawing, it took 15 to 20 seconds to output). My worry in the current version is that an unexpected effect is that the previous drawing in my page shifted to the left, out of the screen. This is not an infinite canvas page.

I also discovered that you can redimension the text in the text boxes, but not the text boxes themselves. I suppose this would be complicated, though possibly feasible.

Being able to activate the Undo button would also be necessary. As a result of the 2 limitations above, I cannot recover the writing that slipped out of the left of the page. This is not critical, but at the moment I would feel nervous with using Mindmap and wrirting on the same page.

If some of you are interested in the "natural capital" approach (mistake in transcription below), subject of my current research, this post is waiting for your reading and remarks (click here).

https://preview.redd.it/t2qgl521i14h1.png?width=1404&format=png&auto=webp&s=e19cc8a7035d4bc02c7ffe3c74c9122769b33471

After building up my ebook library and my notes for more than 4 years on Supernote, the internal storage of my Nomad, which inherited the files of my A5X (same account for sync reasons). So I plan to purchase a microSD card for my Nomad and to place my ebook library there, but also older working notes, which are classified by year and project.

I've read good advice and feedback on how this works on this sub reddit (here for example). Basically, the same as on the device's internal storage itself, except that you cannot link from a note on the internal storage to the SD card. Small limitation for me, but a real one. I am more eager to learn now from users feedback on SD card storage size, speed at type, as well as your usage. Have you found that certain sizes slow the device? Is there also some recommended card speed (cards from 100 to 200 Mb/s can be found online).

Any feedback on micro-SD card usage on the Nomad or Manta would be useful to share, as a benchmark.

I have been recently trained in Ecosystems Natural Capital Accounting (ENCA) - French version being Comptabilité Ecosystémique du Capital Naturel (CENCA) - an approach of national and local accounting experimented by the OECD and European Union. The 3 weeks online training was dense - with intense sessions of Geographical Information System, under a lesser known GIS named SAGA and some manual manipulation on an Excel or OpenOffice spread sheet. ENCA basically measures the changes in "natural capital" under 3 accounts - carbon, water and what is called ecological infrastructure (ecosystems) - over time, bringing them back to a common ecological unit (not monetary).

It is quite interesting, more useful to projects and to government bodies than business IMHO, but requires technical skills, mainly in GIS as the accounting part is actually easier than the part with GIS. As I was already MSc trained in Ecological Economics since 2010 - a field currently even less known in France that in other countries such as Austria, Sweden or Spain (Barcelona), I wrote and sent a series of observations to my trainers, focusing mainly on the poor practicality of the tools used.

But the approach is interesting, and I would welcome any feedback on ENCA or other competing natural capital accounting, ecosystems or nature accounting you have been able to experiment. And if you have any questions related to this approach.

Some links as references:

- https://www.ecosystemaccounting.net/?page_id=50 with our trainer

- Application to Kenya and Vietnam (French text): https://www.onfinternational.org/projet/enca-realisation-des-comptes-du-capital-naturel-pour-kenya-et-vietnam/

- https://enca.vito.be/en with a module using QGIS (Sys4ENCA)

- https://www.gov.uk/guidance/enabling-a-natural-capital-approach-enca (not sure it is the same approach though)

My Tusa mask strap broke on the first day of a 4 day diving training, after 2 and a half years of practice in pool and 20 openwater dives. Fortunately I had brought my freediving mask, which I wore the whole week. Wanting to replace the strap, I found out the shop in Paris (Le Vieux Campeur) no longer sold that brand, and the replacement straps they have are not the same width.

If you are familiar with that brand -Tusa- do you now what other brands are compatible. Would a Decathlon/Subea strap be compatible? Would it be reliable? What other brands are compatible?