• 0 Posts
  • 37 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: December 25th, 2023

help-circle


  • I’m writing only based on your text, not the video, please excuse any doubling of content.

    It is easier explained if you build an imaginary machine instead of lifting / lowering that does the same thing. The single most important thing to understand is that the lower the pressure the less heat you need to add to boil something. There are funny graphs for each liquid (for example https://courses.lumenlearning.com/umes-cheminter/chapter/vapor-pressure-curves/ ).

    The intro explanation

    The water in your containers will behave based on their individual combination of pressure and temperature. I’d at any point the water vapor falls below its boiling point at the current pressure it starts to form a liquid. At this point you’ve made a fancy rain machine.

    Note that water itself adds pressure to a system because of its volume even as a gas

    A machine

    Imagine you have a container at 100 mmHg which according to a random online calculator leads to a boiling temperature of 50 degrees C.

    Now you heat this up and lead the water vapor into another chamber which has only s pressure of 10 mmHg. Water has a boiling temperature of only a bit over 10C there! So you keep it at 20C to be sure the water never gets liquid again.

    But wait: now you’re adding water vapor into a low pressure container - you’re literally pressing a gas into it - so you increase the pressure in there.

    The first container, the source of the gas, becomes irrelevant: As soon as the additional water increases the pressure to around 20mmHg it starts condensation again as now it’s boiling point moved above the 20 degrees.

    The flaws

    As you’ve asked for the downsides: it’s a very convoluted way of manipulating water to achieve the same result as simply heating it. You would need way more energy to lift the containers far enough or otherwise decrease the pressure than the energy needed to boil it.

    Other than energy and logistics I don’t see a downside. Liquids don’t behave differently in terms of boiling no matter the source: pressure, temperature or a combination.








  • There I can help, well kind of: not a medical advice though!

    I highly appreciate the effort you’re putting in - and in addition to preparing for everything practice w few communication patterns on how to make them give you the info you need. You won’t be prepared enough for some of the shit people come up with, no chance.

    S good example could be a set of guided questions or statements they should disagree or agree with.

    I’m not medically educated at all so I can’t come up with food examples but what I’m trying to say is: prepare at least as well for crazy as you’re preparing for hard facts.

    And for the drugs I can at least give s language perspective: slang has often very local derivates so while pages Likes these are w good stating point: https://www.addictioncenter.com/drugs/drug-alcohol-slang/ nothing beats a native speaker.

    So you could either start a career as drug addict, or if you lack the funds and time, you could reach out to your local social workers and ask them to give a brief slang training wherever you work. From experience many are very happy to help others who get helping!

    Just a few ideas, perhaps something resonates with you! Good luck ❤️


  • I assume we’re in a similar boat so let me assure you: no, you won’t - because we wouldn’t even realize it happened.

    Only after s few months one of us will recall this thread and be like “oh, yeah. Twitter. Seems really dead finally. Good.”

    And to be clear I expect they person to be you because my memory is awful.


  • You need a doctor’s for the exact figures. Just saying “a pill” without dose is btw completely irrelevant.

    And yes, you’ll pee most of it out what you can’t absorb.

    Something to check for is vitamin K (not sure about your local naming scheme though y shot seems to suffer internationally). You’re body needs that stuff to absorb the B. I actually have a K production problem, that’s why I was B deficient.

    Doctor prescribed 10k I.E. B with fitting K - daily! That’s a crazy amount that would be absolutely useless without my specific circumstances.

    And one more thing: ADHD or not you need to find your way to remember medicine. D just kills your mood, blood pressure in a few years might just kill you.

    My approach for example is a the tier alarm system, mix of voice assistant, a daily mail and push notifications. Plus I have my medicine both at home and at work.




  • I did refer to your original question on how there are people who disagree on the statement that humans are more intelligent: if you treat that as a question about which axiom is in effect instead of a change of arguments or makes more sense.

    You’re reference to the consciousness discussion is an awesome one btw! I would describe “closing in on a definition” as “agreeing on a common axiom”.

    But that’s not happening on a forum post where people off various backgrounds and believes fight (instead of argue).

    To make it clear: I’m in agreement with you, I only tried to expand what you already started by my train of thought on why that thread you linked is the way it is :)


  • Oh and I think that’s the root cause for your post: there can not be a common agreement of those positions because they are axiomatic, as in fundamental definitions.

    If you define intelligence one way it’s very clear that humans have more of it. if you use an (aggressive, in my opinion) species agnostic definition even tied to motivation it’s at least not that clear cut.

    Personally I’m more with you but I find the thought experiment fascinating. To quote Douglas Adams:

    “”“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”“”


  • That’s a philosophical question at the heart: how can you estimate anything like intelligence with neither collaboration nor a common understanding of intelligence?

    That’s the gust of it from my understanding: cows show patterns that we interpret as intelligence on w human level. Everything after that is by its nature is human centric.

    Personally I’m with you but it’s impossible to disprove the existence of intelligence on any other scale they doesn’t include human motivation. (I.e. the cow has s higher intelligence than any human but we don’t know any way to force or motivate it to show it in a way that we could understand.)

    It’s easier to grasp as a sci-fi concept for me: what happens if aliens come to earth but we cannot figure out their behavior, motivation, tech or thought. And they don’t (want to) manage to close the gap. How could we assess intelligence beyond the tech we see? Perhaps they just found it after all.




  • That’s what Arthur describes: you’re comparing from my point of view two non issues against each other.

    If you don’t have the profile that either warrants:

    • Google would risk business revenue by having to handle a mittm attack done by them or
    • someone investing in an elaborate scheme to get a fingerprint copy

    And that being worth it instead of just getting you personally is a very specific threat model where I lack the fantasy on what would warrant that.

    Or to give the relevant xkcd:

    https://xkcd.com/538/

    And to answer your specific question: I personally went with keepass2android and have neither issues nor concerns so far.