So credit goes to Ryan North then.

Thanks for the info, I might even get the book \o

No way in hell.

Good content deserves credit.

This is awesome, thanks for putting in the effort!

Quick edit: do I credit you as /u/klear or do you prefer another handle?

Copper is very ductile and has a low melting point. Making a crude wire isn’t that hard. Oiled fabric is good enough to insulate it.

Finding a permanent magnet would be hard but you don’t need one. A simple salt/acid battery is enough to make a temporary one and use it as your generator’s rotor.

Depending on what metals you have at hand, a lead/acid battery is quite easy to make. It would require some light chemistry skills to make an acid that’s strong enough though. My best bet would be concentrating ethanoic acid.

Your battery only needs to act as an exciter. Once the generator is running you can use some of the current it produces to keep the rotor excited.

Once you got your generator assembled you can just hook it up on a water mill which the greeks knew about. You could maybe even fiddle around using late ancient Greek knowledge about steam engines (see aeolipile) and make yourself a very simple steam turbine.

With a bit of metallurgy know how you can make a DC generator like the ones used in the late 19th and early 20th century. All the materials you would need have been available since antiquity.

An AC generator would be a tad harder to make but not by a huge margin.

It wouldn’t be efficient at all but imho it would be a good PoC and you could then pool up some knowledge and brain power from people around you.

The hardest part might be convincing folks around you that it’s actually more than a party trick.

I currently have three practical ideas that are quite easy to set up:

• lighting with a simple air filled carbon filament light bulb.
• metallurgy with an induction heater.
• fumeless heating with a crude convection heater although this one might be more of a stretch.

edit: I wrote this without consulting any external ressources as it would be cheating.

So if lower frequencies are dominant through bone they should make your voice sound deeper to you, not higher pitched.

Did you mean to say higher frequencies?

This is why windows is here for a few games and Linux is for everything else.

It certainly does. Simply because bipolar disorder doesn’t magically create shit political views.

Otoh it is very hard to be convinced in the long term that you need help. It’s a common phenomenon where people with bipolar disorder go off their meds during manic episodes.

I agree that money helps like hell, especially in the US. Otoh you also need some support around you. And he strikes me as an incredibly lonely dude surrounded by sycophants…

He has a lot of the telltale signs of something akin to bipolar disorder. You can see very easily his ups or downs and whether or not he has taken his meds recently.

It sucks. He looks like someone who needs help.

imho they’re still made for humans. But the goal is to discuss them rather than code with them n_n

Who is Majira?

That’s just because scale suits tend to be more expensive than fur ones.

(I don’t know if it’s true)

You’re a judgemental dunce.

Imho marriage is two things:

• a formal way for society to acknowledge a relationship.
• any symbolic that the married people and their close ones put in it.

I agree that marriage has some inherent flaws being based on the bourgeois concept of the nuclear family.

I would be elated to have a similar recognition for non monogamous and/or aromantic relationships. alas one can only dream :c

There also are some laws that cover de facto relationships but they’re still very lackluster and still based on the nuclear family.

I used to be very against marriage but I’ve seen some great ones recently that were just that: awesome celebrations of important relationships.

Marriage is incredibly flawed. I would still like to think that it’s redeemable.

That’s a security standard preventing keyloggers from guessing your credentials.

Hello Jarvis!

It’s sad being angry that other people supposedly don’t struggle as much as you do/did.

Why not simply rejoice that they don’t have it as hard?

*sad

What a sad way to see things.

That sounds like an awesome relationship.

TIL about the term lavender marriage.