TheFattestNinja

I mean even without knowing the area if you are hiking (which implies you are walking) 3.7 miles in 16 m then you are the apex predator of the world my friend. That's 20/25 km/h

I agree with your comment but otoh would a guy on pcp no be just as deadly at 90 mph?

If we doing this we should rather do automated reaction speed/sobriety tests. Had a friend almost die bc he drove the day after being drunk bc he fell asleep from being sleep deprived even if he was "sober" by then

While I can imagine it's possible that usage of substance A "breaks" new ground in your sensitivity to substance B by "opening" some new pathways, I find it unlikely:

The "standard" pathways for most substances is to build a tolerance to it (and similar compounds) over time of use. If you drink coffee a lot you don't get hyped by the same dose of caffeine, if you drink lots of alcohol it's harder to get you drunk, etc.

So if anything I'd expect "veterans" to be less sensitive to it. But there are substances that permanently reduce your tolerance to them, usually by causing some form of permanent damage, so it's possible that you might "break" something limiting your experience.

I find myself more and more over the year falling back to creating lots of "getOrCreateX(args)" and I must say I still haven't found a single scenario where this is worse than "get" and "create":

1) It helps with encapsculation of race conditions (you don't need to acquire locks outside to do if(get==null) { create } when you can have it in the function itself)

2) I normally don't care in my code if this is a pre-existing instance or one that I just created. I just want it now to use.

I personally find this approach superior to CQS.

I know this is probably not the cause, and maybe it's just me being a naive SJW, but in my view London's financial institutions lost 90% of their credibility capital recently not so much because of Brexit (which hit them too) but because of the whole LME Nickel trade rollbacks shenanigans. Yes I know LME != LSE, and I know it was a lose-lose situation, but they co-exist and as a person who is not into finance they share their credibility to an extent.

Isn't cucumber the green elongated ribbed vegetable that is mostly watery and used in salads, while squash is another word for (a variety) of pumpkin?

I'm not familiar with this notion (or much of German's political scene). Can you elaborate why the Greens are known fronts for the CIA there? (as in, what are giveaways?)

It's unspecified and supposed to be unique for everyone. I think from the initial derision the protagonist doesn't believe in the concept.

"come and go". Did it go?

What about the Pakistan floods? What about the rising temperature trends and acidification of the oceans? What about the heatwaves and etc. I mean I could go on forever...

Yes, there is sentationalism sometimes. But things are looking potentially really dire. Maybe they are overestimating probabilities but "the chances of being eaten by a lion on wall streets are very, very low. But one time would be enough". If the cost of an event is very severe, the Expected value of the risk is high.

《SPOILERS 》There is some idea that if conceived can destroy you. Greco wants to use it to attack the protagonist. The protagonist defends himself by delaying his perception and passing all inputs through a simulated concept so that when Greco communicates the idea it would destroy the sandbox and not himself. But Greco never tells the protagonist the idea. It just lets the protagonist formulate it themselves as a reaction to all the triggers Greco planted beforehand. Before in the story the prot limits his mind not to think "dangerous" things but the limitation of that model is that you need to have a way to describe what not to think about without thinking about them actively. Since hes not aware of the idea existing beforehand he has no limits in place against that. And so they lose their mind.

《SPOILERS 》There is some idea that if conceived can destroy you. Greco wants to use it to attack the protagonist. The protagonist defends himself by delaying his perception and passing all inputs through a simulated concept so that when Greco communicates the idea it would destroy the sandbox and not himself. But Greco never tells the protagonist the idea. It just lets the protagonist formulate it themselves as a reaction to all the triggers Greco planted beforehand.

While I do agree that panic is unhelpful, the "who" is holding the doom sign does make quite the difference, in the same way you'd pay more attention to an oncologist giving you 6 months to live than you'd do to a random guy with a cardboard sign giving you 6 months to live.

The issue is not so much the sign being held by a young activist, but from all the other 100's of k's of scientists and experts behind it.

To me it's the opposite. I prefer to be as close to destination as possible so if I have to arrange an alternative it's shorter and probably cheaper.