Well now that I’m aging, I do have moments of blanking out. I used to be always in “recording” mode of my daily activities, which is probably why I need quiet down time. But lately I’ll take out the recycling, to empty into our condo bins, and when I get back my wife says “where’s the tote?”. And I’m like, " Ah, probably down by the condo bin where I left it". Lol

She wasn’t initially at that level to comprehend the sun as an object with intense heat and super mass. She saw the sun as a lightbulb inside the earth dome.

😀 I haven’t IQ tested her. As a note I’m what she considers a smart engineery computer guy, but she can beat me at almost every game of Scrabble (like 400 vs 250). She can beat me at Tetris every time. She has played this 1010! android game for 3 years straight and not died once. Which is incredible to me. So she has reasoning skills and planning, and some abstract shape solving ability that is very tuned.

But she has zero science background, grew up Catholic, where god did everything, so she never thought critically about the humans on a planet situation.

But she doesn’t pay a whole lot of attention to things outside of her realm. So maybe it is an attention issue not an intelligence issue. i.e. she saw this red car go by and said thats nice and a bit different looking. I said yeah it’s our neighbours down the street She said I’ve never noticed it, how do you know its the same car? So I said: it’s had the front emblem taken off and re painted. Suspension is lowered, there is a performance parts logo on driver rear quarter window, it has smooth rims without a lot of cutouts, and a black subtle wing added on the tail. When she asked how I knew all that I said because we see it everyday on our evening walk together. For her she’s walked by it 100s of times without remembering it ever being parked on our street.

Well I had to explain it as if it were a kids class. We didn’t get into deep theory , constants, equations type stuff. Just overall concepts.

Saying earth surface was round and each country gets different day and night sequences etc, she immediate went to why aren’t Australians dangling off if they are at the bottom. So we had to go over center of gravity and gravity itself.

Which led to the Sun and moon being outside the earth. And I had to talk about the immense distances and speed of light concepts. (Since she thought she could get to the sun in about 45 minutes)

Then the questions came about why, if the earth rotates for day and night, aren’t people flying off. So I had to go over gravity and inertial laws. Referencing something she knew like being in a car and dropping something, it drops relative to you and doesn’t fly back at 100km/h ( inertial frame of reference stuff).

She was obviously skeptical still, especially about stars being distant suns.

And then she came to the conclusion of: how did we get here, if we are tiny spec in the universe on a planet. So we touched on evolution theory.

We eventually got her kids solar system books, and watched some good documentaries on netlix about these subjects and the one about the stages the earth has gone through.

She eventually understood the concepts, but still though we were trying to trick her. Until she went skydiving and realized “the air is 3D” ( her words ). All along she saw the sky as a background 2d backdrop on the INSIDE of the snow globe earth.

I don’t know how she missed this concept most of her life, I guess her circle just didn’t include people that talked about science stuff, and she took her cues from what she could see…flat ground, sky seems far away, sun is tiny but looks like it hits the mountains and water.

Yes, the true flatearthers deny what they are hearing and dig in deeper

Yep, it is helpful for corporate applications, where nothing can introduce possible behavioural changes, that affect users, program function or the application development.

After a few years of marriage, it came to light that my wife thought the earth was flat. It wasn’t some religious thing or cult thing, she had no affiliations. She just came to that conclusion based on visual cues in the world (like ground looks flat) and believed it without it ever being challenged in it.

It came up when she mentioned that a plane fkying near the sun must be getting hot, and I’m like Whaa? I explained the sun is so far outside the earth that that plane isn’t feeling much different than us. She revealed she though the sun was inside the earth (like we lived in a snow globe on a flat planar surface) and the sun just went down behind the mountains at night like half hour away.

I was stunned. We had a 4hour talk about the earth as a planet and the solar system and how gravity works.

She curled up in a fetal position and had an existental crisis for the rest of the day.

Somehow she missed school for the gravity, solar system etc. And I’d destroyed her entire core belief system; that she had developed herself.

Stable will still get security patches and bug updates, just no new major kernel jumps or new features.

In psychology they taught that death : It’s the final stage of life.

And that single line cured me from worrying about it

CBD is the calming part right?

Lol, I noticed that. I suggested making membership closed/vetted if you are going to get that upset about it

Its the short thumb being the issue, I buy the smaller phone screens on purpose

Most common letter E is too far right to be useful as single hand Typer (LH)

I love it. I’m terrible at musical instruments, but love listening. And I find mp3 music muddy sounding so prefer WAV or flac, or just direct from CD.

My taste is music is whatever has something unique or “good”, so my collection covers many genres.

There’s a few songs that raise my body hair, and those are obvious favorites.

Usually listening on a HiBerry Pi Pro since its a low cost DAC and don’t have space for component audio.

I check their other comments to see if it is just a one off, or their overarching personality type. Majority they are dicks to everyone.

I switched from reddit awhile back. It is similar, but so far have seen a lot less hostility than reddit. I don’t have time for those types , so if they turn to insults rather than proper dialog I just block them, even if they weren’t talking to me directly. It makes it a much more pleasant experience

He and colleagues wrote an interpreter to use BASIC on the Altair system. They didn’t write basic from scratch

Its order of operations, to get rid of brackets do the internal, then the 5 tells you there was 5 sets of the amount in brackets. Rather than 2+5 first.

Is your system writing logs?

There’s also over diagnosis where people want a reason for their personality traits and doctor shop. Sometimes people are just quirky as part of life experience, and not everything is a disorder.