u/todofwar

My doctor decided to try out Adderall, and I can't find anyone with stock. Most pharmacies said they haven't had any in stock for a month, one place said they've been out of stock since December! It's a generic drug and not a hard one to make, this feels ridiculous that supply is struggling so much. Don't want to get political here so all I'll finish with is this really sucks

I know the effect would be absolutely negligible, but I was thinking of the old experiment where you detonate a firecracker between two blocks and show they end up perfectly spaced about the center of mass. When you launch a rocket, it is riding a continuous explosion. Does conservation of momentum imply the earth gets affected by the rocket change in momentum? What if it's a rocket accelerating from LEO to escape velocity? For sake of argument, let's say it's a rocket on an asteroid half it's mass. Will the asteroid end up flying away from the rocket? Or does it matter the direction the rocket fired the engines?

My company subscribes to Claude, so I decided to take it for a test drive. There's a desktop app I've wanted to build but never had time for, so I just vibe coded it. And I immediately understood the appeal, it's actually a great experience *at first*. I'm pretty convinced the technology is not going away, and within five years steam will need to have separate filters for AI art and AI code just because the AI code filter will filter everyone (not commenting on whether or not that's morally justified, just a practical thing).

BUT, and here's the big but, there's no way someone who doesn't know how to code is shipping anything with AI alone. After the first prototype, every new feature required multiple iterations and tests. I realized lots of features were only implemented at a surface level. And at the end of the day, I realized that if I had coded everything myself it might have had a longer initial time to prototype, but I would be solving bugs and adding features way faster because I would be internalizing the code base just by working on it.

I think we'll ultimately get an open weight model and open source harness that gets broadly adopted, but it will be a much smaller model that can reasonably run on a 5090 class card or maybe two. A $10,000 workstation is nothing compared to other labor costs, companies will either get back to actually giving engineers their own computer or buy compute, but nothing near the scale needed for the current frontier models.

Round 1: peasants only have bare hands

Round 2: they get their farming tools (hoe, wood axe, pitchfork etc.)

1st round I think 6 should do the trick. At that point they can swarm and even if two die, we're talking full rage mode so the other four will manage to pin the knight, get his sword away, and start slowly cutting into the gaps

2nd round I think three would do, they will have reach and even though they won't penetrate armor they can surround the knight and keep poking him until he tires out

Edit: meant to clarify the knight is on foot, but for bonus round let's the say the knight is mounted but can't win by vacating the field

Designing airships for a sort of fantasy setting. They have a substance that they can use to lift ships, and I'm trying to figure out a system of propulsion. It's kind of a classical Mediterranean type setting. It got me thinking, what if it had 20 or 40 guys pulling a series of row machines connected to a fly wheel. The fly wheel drives a propeller to move the ship. I feel like in a big realistic airship the drag would make it impossible, but assuming the same rough shape of a trireme but in the sky, could it move reasonably fast? How would you combine the force from the individual rowers into one output? Could it be built with tech circa 100 AD?

Designing airships for a sort of fantasy setting. They have a substance that they can use to lift ships, and I'm trying to figure out a system of propulsion. It's kind of a classical Mediterranean type setting. It got me thinking, what if it had 20 or 40 guys pulling a series of row machines connected to a fly wheel. The fly wheel drives a propeller to move the ship. I feel like in a big realistic airship the drag would make it impossible, but assuming the same rough shape of a trireme but in the sky, could it move reasonably fast? How would you combine the force from the individual rowers into one output? Could it be built with tech circa 100 AD?

I recently started taking stimulants in my 30s, and so far I think they just make things worse. I'm on 15 mg of focalin xr, and when the first wave\* hits it might quiet my brain a little but I don't get that surge of motivation I've seen people talk about. Then in between the peaks\* I feel so lethargic and foggy, and in the evenings I get a solid couple of hours where I'm practically a zombie.

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Going to be trying other stimulants soon, but I was wondering if anyone else experienced this? Also if you're an adult about to start meds, definitely temper expectations.

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\*(In case you didn't know, focalin xr is just half ir grains and half coated grains, if you look at a plot of the blood levels of the drug it shows up as two peaks, second peak roughly 5 hours after the first)

I remember pixel art games started getting huge 10 to 15 years ago in the indy scene, and now we're seeing the N64 era graphics make a come back. I'm guessing it's the people who grew up with those kinds of games getting old enough to lead their own studios now. I wonder what will happen 10 years from now, cause from PS2 onwards we just kept getting more realism and I can't quite say there's been any significant shift since the PS2 era that rivals the pixel art to low poly 3D to modern 3D

I just feel like, if they really were about to hit take off speed, they have no reason to IPO. An IPO raises some cash sure, but not usually a huge amount because lots of shares have already been issued privately and you can't issue new ones without devaluing existing shares. I have no idea how many shares they are ready to issue, but I imagine they could get the same amount of investment by more private investment and debt. Also, they are not a hyperscaler. If they have a profitable model, they can max out subscribers and let hyper scalers worry about scale.

To me it feels like they know the ship is about to sink, and the private investors and high level execs want a way to cash out now before Armageddon next year

Weird idea I know, but I've always noticed plucking right at the 12th fret has a very interesting sound to it, and I wonder what would happen if you put a pickup there. But short of having an 11 fret fretboard, not sure how I would do it. Could you have a groove in the neck? Maybe a super low profile pickup? Obviously you couldn't use the 12th fret itself, maybe not 11 and 13 either. Curious if anyone thought about is

Edit: to everyone saying it won't work if I use frets higher than 12: yes, I'm well aware of that. This would mostly be for playing in the open position

I was thinking back and realized that I had the biggest improvement in quality of life when I went from 25k a year to 50k a year (modest cost of living area, I paid 800 a month for a decent one bedroom). I'm making many times that now, but it's really just been small things here or there. Bigger house, way more savings, nicer vacations. But fundamentally I don't think life changed much from 50k to 100k or even beyond that. Granted, having a kid on 50k sounds extremely miserable but I'm talking about supporting only yourself on that income.

Just curious about others experience and if it informed your fire number.

I've been re listening to a podcast on WWI (so I'm obviously not an expert) and I was wondering why the Germans saw unrestricted submarine warfare as their only option. Why not pair a sub with a commercial ship, go under as soon as a British ship appears, and when the British ship tries to interdict the commercial ship the sub sinks the British ship with a torpedo. Was it a question of military ship armor being effective against torpedoes?

Also, allied convoys overcame the submarines in 1918, why couldn't the Germans try convoys? That second question is now hindsight I guess, the allies were skeptical of convoys until they worked after all.

Seriously though, come on Microsoft wtf. I know Windows has been going downhill but if it sucks to use the Microsoft built in UI system, maybe fix it? You know, like let users create windows in the Windows operating system?? Last I checked you don't need the start menu to be cross platform, you don't even need a macro to manage different OS compilation targets

Just wondering if anyone else has had this experience. I started focalin xr, and the first day I felt nothing on it. Second day I might have felt something but barely. Suddenly on the third day I experienced that "silence" I've seen mentioned, where the internal playlist pushed pause. Now on the fourth day the effect kicked in much sooner. Just wondering if anyone else has been through something similar with stimulants

I stumbled into this one because I wanted to tell my kid a story set in the world I've been building but I didn't think the main setting was developed enough. So I decided to pick a highly undeveloped kingdom in terms of lore and set it there, figuring they're young and I'll spend less time obsessing over details.

It actually really boosted the wider world from a single well thought out empire with placeholders surrounding it to a fully realized world. I noticed I had shoved way too many tropes in one place, now I can sprinkle them around!

(Side note, telling your story to a toddler is such a great hack. I understand how Tolkien got so much done and Christopher definitely deserves much more praise and credit)

I haven't seen this elsewhere but it's probably not original. What if generating slop code is a feature? Get a bunch of production code written that only an agent can really read anymore, making you dependent on LLMs, then jack up the price. Basically how Amazon worked, they got you hooked then enshitified. It would explain why anthropic is happily eating cost now, it's code only they will be able to maintain in the future

Finally decided to try medication after getting a diagnosis. And I didn't feel anything. It was a low dose of a simulant, I'd rather not say which but it was one that is supposed to be effective right away. My doctor said they were starting me out at a lower dose to see how I tolerate it but I was expecting something. Are the effects just more subtle then I thought? Do the "quick acting" stimulants still take a bit of time to be effective? I thought I'd at least get some anxiety, but honestly at a couple points in the day I forgot if I took it or not