u/sometimes_angery

Évek óta itt lakom, és azt hittem, úgy fogok meghalni, hogy sosem tudom meg, mi ez a hang, de hátha tudjátok:

Esténként szokott lenni rendszeresen 4 sípoló hang, kellemes, nem bántó, de lövésem sincs, mit jelent, vagy miért szól. Most épp ilyen fél 12-kor szólt este.

Tudja bárki, mi ez a hang? :D

EDIT: Egyik kommentelő lefütyülte, pont ilyen. És messziről jön, hangos hang, kintről (nem pl. egy szomszéd lakásriasztója).

Did anyone actually try to clean their Milanese strap with an ultrasonic cleaner? Some guides say it might remove the glue from the magnets, or even remove the coating which is apparently a PVD finish that could come off?

I'm interested in actual experience of actual people who've done this.

Diaspora was a wild ride. I absolutely loved it.

I was very VERY vary of starting to read it, because I was afraid it would be a chore. I saw the notes on his website and... Man. Even that I did't seem to understand at a first glance, how was I to understand an entire book of it?

I've been kind of wanting to read it just for the challenge, but put it off for like a year. For some reason after having finished Blindsight (which I also loved) I was ready.

And it is *so* good.

I do have a bachelor's in CS and I did learn about Euclidian and Riemann spaces, at one point I'm sure I was able to do the squiggly signs and make some kind of sense of it or even replicate a proof, but that was a decade ago, and I kind of went into the book being stupid at math again.

I think anyone reading it now has a huge advantage in understanding it because of AI, which is what I used for the complex passages. For me, math is just geometry described via signs, and physics is math applied to our world. So for stuff that went over my head (I'm quite visual but have a hard time visualizing the math described as text), I just made photos of the passages describing the math and asked AI to read and visualize them for me. Which resulted in it generating embedded HTML, so basically an interactive visualization with sliders, and seeing/interacting with the math as visualized, interactive geometry helped greatly with understanding the concepts. Sure, you can't easily visualize 5D in 2D, but you can project it to kind of understand it anyway. Plus I had to learn about bosons and fermions and how they work, but that's just fascinating, especially since that part *is* real science. And even if AI hallucinates, at worst I now have a fake understanding of the fake science :D

Another tip is to push through Orphanogenesis even if you don't quite understand it, because that is maybe the hardest to understand part of the book, it gets easier after. It's kind of like a hard skill check at the beginning, but you don't need to understand the nuances of Orphanogenesis to understand the rest of the book. And even if the flash-forward chapters don't make sense from the getgo, try to remember the phrases or re-read them after you finished the book, because *then* they'll make sense.

What also stood out to me is how Egan can do both cinematic action and deep science. Some scenes just read like as a movie script, while some parts almost like an abstract of a science paper.

I'm 100% sure some of the science and its implications still went over my head, but in addition to genuinely riveting (imaginary) physics and math, the surrounding story was also super gripping. The imaginary science was fascinating for me, especially in contrast to Seveneves (which was also very scientific but I found those descriptions utterly boring); and the non-science part of the story was also intriguing and satisfying, especially in contrast to Tchaikovsky's Children of... trilogy (whose story I found repetitive and unsatisfying, see my rant here) (and yes I'm still gonna read the fourth book).

What I found interesting that this kind of science I found attractive, while Seveneves' one just alienated me.

I guess I like my sci-fi with wild ideas (even if non-scientific, like the dimensional warfare or the Dark Forest theory in Remembrance of Earth's Past) and massive scale with a mystery at its core.

Maybe I'm ready for more Egan now.

Nemrég volt fent egy poszt, hogy a Tatai utca körül vannak problémák, mert a régi MÁV szállót befoglalták kétes személyek, akik embereket zargatnak és lopnak a környéken.

13. kerületi lakosként pont elkaptam, hogy honnan jön a probléma, így tudom majd, hova ne menjek az egyévesemmel sétálni.

Ha ez nem budapesti és közérdekű, akkor nem tudom, mi, és nem értem, mire jó a modok ezen típusú cenzúrája.

Mods pls.

Sziasztok,

Klímámra (Audi A5 B9-ben) ráférne egy rendes tisztítás, sajnos ecetszaga van nyáron, ha sokat áll az autó a napon és felmelegszik (télen meg ha árnyékban van, nincs baja). Ózon csak átmenetileg segített. Ha lehet, márkaszervizt kikerülném ezzel főleg a magasabb árak miatt. Örömmel venném, ha tudnátok ajánlani valakit a 13. ker környékén, aki megbízható és ismeri ezeknek az autóknak a rendszerét. Ha más nincs, elviszem a Taylor métához, őket ismerem/jól dolgoznak, csak hát a város másik fele innen.

Köszi a tippeket!

And it's not even discussed that much. The scan is destructive. Meaning if you go ahead with it, you. will. die. It is a *destructive copy*. I don't understand how people don't discuss this more. They mention "your body dies" but they don't seem to comprehend or care that by the process of uploading, they do not go to "heaven" - a copy of them does.

Does that not bother anyone?? I'd *never* upload a copy of me if that meant I'd die (unless I'm terminally ill). I'd never experience anything in the cloud, since only a copy of me lives there, while I'm dead.

I've switched machines and it seems like it'll take some time until someone buys it. I've just had it in a box for a week now, but I guess I'll easily have to wait weeks for someone to buy it. I didn't find much online about how to store it. I'm worried about the water left over in the boiler. Or should I not be? How do you store single boiler machines like this over a longer time?

I have the opportunity to build a new coffee corner. I'll have about 150cm available (so I guess more of a coffee bar than a corner), and need some inspiration on cool espresso corners that would match my setup, since I'm very visual and have a hard time to come up with what would look good without looking. I've been to Pinterest but much of it is AI slop and am looking for ideas.

I'll definitely take my Meticulous and the Philos, also have a kettle, will probably add a standalone steamer down the line which will also be black (haven't decided what exactly yet).

For one, I'll have a tiny faucet bc. the kitchen sink will be on the other side of the room and I'll probably put the RO system underneath it. I've been thinking along the lines of wood/acoustic slat panels maybe? Some plants like Epipremnum or something, maybe 2 shelves with LED strips on the bottom for lighting? Looking at more darker wood vibes. Would 1m shelves look good? Centered or offset?

Do you have any ideas, exact products maybe that you could recommend? Shelves, counters, slat panels, anything you would recommend that you'd use in your dream espresso corner? Thank you for the tips!