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This is what I immediately thought of. "El Paquete" is an ingenious solution to the issues on the island.


Question: the authors use the term "inhomogeneous" to describe the oil pattern. Is there a difference between heterogeneous and inhomogeneous?


Heterogeneous refers to a mix of dissimilar compounds, while inhomogeneous is more about a varying of properties throughout a single compound.

So in the abstract, the friction surface is called inhomogeneous because it's referring to the floor as one component with a varying friction coefficient.


subtle difference: "heterogeneous" generally implies a mixture of distinct, separate elements or components, while "inhomogeneous" can refer to a lack of uniformity in properties within a single substance

at least in chem


This is interesting because about 20 or so years ago when I was super into bodybuilding, you couldn't talk about a "cycle" on a bodybuilding forum without talking about a "post cycle protocol."

I know that's different than permanent TRT but I feel like you couldn't get very far researching that stuff without understanding that you natural test production (and sperm production) would get "shut down" as soon as you started adding exogenous androgens.


Yeah, it's well known that steroids shut you down. The problem with the broscience is that the PCT is talked about like it reverses everything like an antidote, but long-term bodybuilders often end up on TRT because eventually they can't get back to baseline.


That isn't true. Dedicated bodybuilders, starting more commonly ~5 years ago, decided that PCT wasn't worth it. Instead of typical 16-20 week cycles followed by 4-6 weeks of PCT, they adjust the dose between supraphysiological and (generally) top-of-normal, i.e.: blast and cruise.

It's not because they couldn't recover, it's because they don't want to or see the point.


I think many of these folks like the idea of drone delivery as long as it's not THEIR house next to the droneport


Can you elaborate?


Ah alas there's no way to estimate it?


Doesn't reddit host its own images, so, none?


Hm, I dropped my context.

Some days I go on reddit (without logging in so /r/all) and it seems like half the posts are screenshots of tweets posted for discussion. So my snark was meant to be taken as, "if subreddits are not allowed to post screenshots of tweets, how much of reddit's traffic will disappear?", implying that reddit is more dependent on twitter for content than twitter is dependent on reddit for traffic.


This is my suspicion as well.


You guys are having sex dreams?


Is this different from using epoch seconds as a random number generator seed?


You can try different epoch seconds until you get a seed that fits your (malicious) needs. You can also try different RNGs until your need is met.


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