🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@darnell There are a lot of good reasons against masks... communication is a big one. Not only does it allow us to convery important information with our facial expressions, but also deaf people cant lip read.

@olives At least now instead of a few people being tortured to death in the most excruciating ways for stealing a loaf of bread... now that same torture is spread out evenly over 7 million souls so we only experience a slow and miserable collective agony instead.... oh how far we have come.

@darnell I think its good w are over the masks, even if COVID is still around.

@chestas I think i am more upset that there are chess teams that are gendered at all... like why would they need to split the teams by sex anyway.

@skobkin being done with a small ball:

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/electromagnet-grid.html

@skobkin

checkers with some ferrofluid looks easy enough :)

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ferrofluid-in-movement-on-a-hexagonal-grid-of-electromagnets-on-board-the-ISS-KSat-eV_fig2_334770953

@skobkin very doable without much advanced EE... but still a tehcnical challenge. Sure, would be fun.

@thor

Very true, but I think the description I just gave would cover 95% of people on it... just my gut feeling though from past talks.

@realcaseyrollins

@skobkin usually electromagnets using thin wire wth many turns

@thor @realcaseyrollins

Also, youmay find this interesting... I have almost 0 tolerance for caffein. I can drink it and i wont die, but if I do I find it generally unpleasant. It lasts forever for me and I cant sleep at night even if I drink it in the early morning. On the other hand amphetamines make it easier for me to sleep, assuming i took it early int he day.

@thor @realcaseyrollins

Very different in feel and physiology, it isnt about potency.

Amphetamines give you a sense of excitement and fun... you feel them coming on by a sudden desire to do things and everything seems exciting.

Caffein you just feel your heart race, maybe more awake, more energy... but not much in the way of excitement, motivation, or really anything from an emotional perspective.

Caffein makes me awake but makes me wish I wasnt (because i still want to sleep).. amphetamines makes me happy im awake.

@skobkin yea this is one of those things we would have to test.. im not even sure how much power youd really need.

@skobkin im not so sure of that.. i mean wire isnt that expensive, and those robots need to communicate nad have processing power... id imagine the coils would be cheaper, at the very least affordable.. just taling about some chunks of iron and a bunch of wire.

@skobkin well there are chessboards that move pieces though.. a few models.. the reason i think it may be harder to do is becasue why would they build all these fancy robots inside the board that use magnets to move it.. surely the first thing they tried was a grid of coils.. surely, at least before designing a hoard of robots inside the damn thing.

@thor

Only time i feel lonely is if I have lacked physical intimacy with a woman over a very long period, then I start craving that (and sometimes over a shorter period).. otherwise no, I dont really get lonely.

@realcaseyrollins

@thor

Not me I could go a year on a deserted island all alone and I'd be sad when i finally had to go back to civilization :)

@realcaseyrollins

@skobkin if you dont mind jerky movement that might work... in practice id imagine it would be harder than it seems (or else it would have been done)

@thor

While I spend a healthy amount of time around people I much prefer my alone time. I just spend that time with people more to show them I appreciate them then out of need for a social life.

@realcaseyrollins

@thor

I actually find ADHD itself to be a bit of a super power rather than something needing medicating. It is an indication of a high-bandwidth brain.

I find the medication does slow downt he ADHD and reduce the bandwidth of ones mind.. and while that may help with things like sleep, not getting distracted, and motivation to engage on a project, it also reduces your overall abilities.

I think most people who actually have ADHD eventually find ADHD isnt really the problem at all, at least not directly. Instead the problem is how one copes and responds to their natural info processing.

@realcaseyrollins

@skobkin yea i similarly thought using electromagnets should work.. you would need a grid of them smaller than the pieces for the motion to be smooth, but im not sure why people use other approaches.