It’s still one device.
The second factor does not have to be a second device. Like everything security, it’s what you’re protecting against. Shoulder surfing and device theft are not something I worry about in my home setup, for example.
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I know what window I want to switch to, I don't need "intelligence" to predict it.
One way to implement this is to use window manager with one workspace per window (or multiple related windows) and use a single hotkey to switch to it. Very muscle memory efficient and takes no confirmation delay.
That's pretty much what I do! 3x3 virtual desktops, Win+(qwe,asd,yxc) switches to one just like the keys are laid out on my (qwertz) keyboard.
Top middle is browser. Bottom left is everything chat and communication. Center left is the editor. Whatever is out of place is mercilessly closed or moved if I'm feeling generous.
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This was famously answered by Archimedes in his Eureka moment: https://www.longlongtimeago.com/once-upon-a-time/great-disco...
No, that measures volume, not gold content. Anything at least as dense as gold, maybe with with gaps in it to match the density, and a layer of gold around it is indistinguishable from pure gold this way.
A more reliable and still relatively cheap test is via conductivity.
My life hack for this kind of situation is to say “hello” back. Works every time.
How are you?
I hope this message finds you well.
I have a question.
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It’s simply not a game I want to play. My mind recommends answering »state your business«, but my polite-mind tells me not to.
quchen commented on What happens when clergy take psilocybin nautil.us/clergy-blown-aw... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
I wonder if a similar thing to the dwarfing high of heroin applies to these psychedelics. Would the amazing awakening experience I'd have with an LSD trip make all other mentally exciting moments and smaller awakenings I come across in day to day life more boring in comparison?
Have you been to a really long opera? It’s quite impressive. After hours of pretty intense performance and singing, can you not appreciate the street musician the day after? Do you have a strong desire to go to the opera again the following days?
quchen commented on What happens when clergy take psilocybin nautil.us/clergy-blown-aw... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
I swear psilocybin affects the sense of importance, sacredness, meaningfulness. One can be staring at the most boring thing and see the Universe in it. Doesn't mean there's really anything important nor useful in it. Just like a shot of dopamine affects feeling of pleasure, psilocybin affects the brain's feeling of "importance".
You make it sound very negative. It’s a strong experience, and after a strong experience most people have it on their mind, and talking about it is one way to integrate the experience. Previously insufferable people have a new channel to be insufferable, scientific people will analyze what their brain chemistry did, dull people will brag about how extreme it was, and so on.
quchen commented on What happens when clergy take psilocybin nautil.us/clergy-blown-aw... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
I am not terrified, rather scared of loosing control, hurting people I like, feeling ashamed forever afterward, the usual. I use to not give shit but I’m old now and I have a much bigger social net I care about.
But I do know people which I would categorise as really terrified of loosing control.
Maybe “letting loose” was the wrong expression here, I meant “loosing control” rather.
Losing control is something that happens at higher doses. It’s hard to quantify this without prior experience, but most substances can be taken on a level of »three beer drunk« where you’re very clearly not sober, but you can still talk, and take care of the essentials of life like going to the toilet and walking home in public without attracting attention.
For example, the average person will feel altered mood states and mild visual hallucinations (patterns on surfaces, think very detailed mandalas or fractals), in the 50-75μg range of LSD. They will not see pink elephants, they will not try to call their dog on the phone, they will not strip naked, they will not make growling sounds at trees.
Now, I do voluntary work in drug education, and there’s one important thing to say, it’s that everyone’s different, and it’s fine not to do psychedelics, or any other substance.
> Lightly is incredibly slow
Its relative! Sitting on a couch and watching the pixel move from the sun to the earth for 8 minutes feels incredibly slow but if you are actually traveling in a light speed aircraft then it won’t feel that slow.
Quite the opposite, much like when skydiving, going really fast without any close reference point makes everything stand still. And in space, there wouldn’t even be (very loud) atmospheric drag to physically remind you about what speed you’re actually going.
It baffles me how there are still blogposts with a serious attitude about this topic. It’s akin to discussing possible loopholes of how homeopathy might be medicinally helpful beyond placebo, again and again.
Why are hyperreals even mentioned? This post is not about hyperreals or non-standard math, it’s about standard math, very basic one at that, and then comes along with »well under these circumstances the statement is correct« – well no, absolutely not, these aren’t the circumstances the question was posed under.
We don’t see posts saying »1+2 = 1 because well acktchually if we think modulo 2«, what’s with this 0.9… thing then?