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dimensional_dan commented on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?    · Posted by u/publicdebates
powersurge360 · a month ago
Tell your friend to look up the Western Reaches style of play. One of the core ideas is that you begin and end each session in a safe zone so that you can have a rotating pool of adventurers. You can tuck in some rules for having mercenaries for when you have fewer than the encounters are balanced for and you’re off to the races.

It does reduce the possibility of highly on rails campaigns and instead requires more of a sandbox plan with one page dungeons and stuff. Even so, it seems made to solve this exact problem.

dimensional_dan · a month ago
D&D has too many rules. I invented a really light weight set of rules so that we can engage in more "role play" as opposed to RTS. It's more fun for the casual game and you don't waste so much time between turns.
dimensional_dan commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto   twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84
ikt · 2 months ago
Yep, that's what I thought nano had done:

https://nano.org/en

instant, fee's a fraction of a cent, I thought this was it, international payments that don't rely on visa/mastercard!

and then it just went no where :\

dimensional_dan · 2 months ago
Turns out nobody is actually interested in transacting with crypto otherwise Nano would have been a winner. I also love Banano, a Nano fork where you mine by folding proteins. Work that has actual value.
dimensional_dan commented on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders   windowslatest.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/jinxmeta
luke727 · 3 months ago
> Office products are bastardized with copilot buttons everywhere.

They put copilot in notepad. NOTEPAD.

dimensional_dan · 3 months ago
Maybe it can finally get the new lines correct for a given application? ;-)
dimensional_dan commented on The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies   theatlantic.com/ideas/202... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
joering2 · 3 months ago
Supposedly it cost gov 4 cents to mint 1. Does it have to be done with zinc tho? Why not plastic or some cheap material? Although you may be able to 3D print a penny at home (just like it being made from zinc can actually stop someone), but just like with a real one, its not like you will show up at your local bank with $1 million dollar worth to deposit.
dimensional_dan · 3 months ago
The other option would be to rebase the currency such that a single penny was a meaningful unit of money again. One potential such way would be to issue new paper notes which represent the old note with a decimal place move such that $10 becomes $100. This has been done before but might not be a great idea for the USA.
dimensional_dan commented on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia   cnn.com/2025/11/12/busine... · Posted by u/andrewl
cwmma · 3 months ago
It's because technically the dollar is divided into Dimes, Cents, and Mil. (this is why dimes say 'One Dime' on them instead of 'Ten Cents'.

So while the mil isn't really used anywhere else that regular people see any more due to inflation, it is a valid division of the dollar and that's why they are able to get away with it.

dimensional_dan · 3 months ago
Has a Mil ever been minted?
dimensional_dan commented on Aerocart cargo gliders   aerolane.com/... · Posted by u/fcpguru
hermitcrab · 4 months ago
I've done a few gliding flights. They were all towed to height by a powered aircraft and then released. Winch launch is an alternative to towing, but sounded like a fairly terrifying alternative where you were yoinked into the air by a huge winch. The terror isn't an issue if the glider is pilotless. But IIRC they used something like a 7 litre engine to winch an incredibly light glider. Presumably it would require something really powerful to launch a cargo glider.
dimensional_dan · 4 months ago
I have done it. It's actually quite thrilling, feeling that initial burst of acceleration.
dimensional_dan commented on Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes   cubbyathome.com/boxed-cak... · Posted by u/Avshalom
dghlsakjg · 5 months ago
Standard flour? Which standard?

There are a lot of different kinds of flour. At most well stocked grocers in North America you will find pastry flour, all purpose flour, bread flour, organic flour, self rising flour, etc. That’s just the white wheat flour that you could use to make a cake. Don’t forget that whole wheat and different varietals of wheat exist. If you make cake with bread flour it is going to be very different from one made with pastry flour. There is no such thing as “standard flour”. Hell, even the mill that you use to grind the wheat berry can drastically change the nature of your flour.

That’s the whole point of this article. That what you think of as a standard might not be a standard forever, or it might not be a standard at all.

dimensional_dan · 5 months ago
> all purpose flour

Use that one. It's flour, but like for all purposes. You can make cake with it fine.

dimensional_dan commented on Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults   bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentr... · Posted by u/redbell
dimensional_dan · 5 months ago
Oh man one more negative thing to worry about.
dimensional_dan commented on Face it: you're a crazy person   experimental-history.com/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
CityOfThrowaway · 7 months ago
I read the post differently – the point of the exercise is not that you need to know the answers to the questions. It's to gauge your emotional reaction to the question itself.

By examining the types of tasks you will be consistently faced with, you can ask yourself, "Do I actually want to do that?"

dimensional_dan · 7 months ago
When you break down anything into its subtasks there's basically nothing that anyone wants to do. Sometimes the ends help justify the means too.
dimensional_dan commented on Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome   academic.oup.com/pnasnexu... · Posted by u/MattSayar
dimensional_dan · 7 months ago
Can we remove the down side but keep the joy?

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