McBeige

Inflating is such a cool idea, it'd work for any 3D shape I can think of.

If keeping air pressure is an issue, that might be resolved by making the sheet rigid once deployed. Are there UV curing resins that won't cure at all before being exposed to UV?

Speaking of sunlight, heating from the sun could be used to create the pressure for inflation. Or off-gassing from UV induced reactions.

It keeps getting recommended on HN - should there be a book club?

Ive been wanting a syntax-tree-viewer for months, to help me learn functional languages where figuring out what is even going on syntax-wise in the exmaples provided by tutorials keeps being an issue for me. Does anyone know of a way to see a syntax tree for any given snippet of code for any given language? I'd try Zed, but I'll have to wait for Linux support.

It's besides the point, but a slight correction: you wouldn't assume someone's preferred pronouns from details about their genitals (it'd be offensive to ask or try to check!), but from how they present them self - through gendered appearance or perhaps by just stating it.

Those two books came to me at a time when I was very receptive to and in need of their messages, and I'm still digesting them a year later. Very short, highly recommended to anyone who cares about: emotion, our place in the world, or cool futuristic societal and technology ideas. My favourite sci fi.

It's so weird. I think that sometimes, but I don't usually think about it. Most of the time it's just a short moment "awake" and aware that all of this is batshit absurd, then recognizing that there's nothing for me here up here except the view, then continue on with my life without remorse towards the next hill top or valley or whatever lies in wait for me. I think it used to give me vertigo, now I'm used to it. I feel tentatively okay about all this.

Is this an example of federation?

It works for me on Firefox on Android. The color wheel thing is sticky while the rest of the content is not. The wheel changes to illustrate each new example as they're scrolled past.

It's lightness and weight, as in Kundera's 'Unbearable Lightness of Being'.

Lightness is nice, it's comfortable, but vertigo inducing. So we also long for weight sometimes.

Adrian Chaikovsky's Children of Time explores similar topics. I recommend it, it's alright and the ideas are cool.

What type of discipline do you mean? The self discipline to behave in a way that enables you to live a good life? Or external discipline that makes you behave in a way (not necessarily a good way) out of fear of punishment?

Which of these are desirable?

Is it possible and efficient to instill the former using punishment?

I'm guessing it's irrational as in rational vs irrational numbers. Rational means a fraction of whole numbers, so irrational numbers are those which cannot be represented as such a fraction. A 1/4 turn is rational, a 1/pi turn is irrational.

I feel like the light has to be parallel for it to work, so sunlight is a better example than a table lamp. Although I can't imagine any rotation of a simple 3D lattice having a nonrepeating shadow. Perhaps a more complex 3D crystal is necessary?

Those additional lives are hypothetical and in the future, and maximizing the number of humans alive might not be the right thing to do. IMO this is one of the really juicy questions.

> You can't really boil down trolley problems into "Would you kill x or y?".

Thoughts on why you can't? I think you can and must.