Not necessarily, there are plenty of people who argue in bad faith or refuse to accept logic in the first place. Failing to ‘win’ against someone like that doesn’t indicate that my position is wrong since they weren’t open to an actual debate in the first place.
If my opponent is debating in good faith and presents an argument that I cannot counter, then yes, I am generally willing to adjust my view.
Plastic and elastic deformation are both terms used to refer to the behavior of a material under stress (such as compression, tension, or torsion).
For an ELI5 since I don’t feel like cracking open a material science textbook or really getting more nuanced than this for a basic explanation, elastic deformation is generally reversible without permanent changes to the structure of the material, while plastic deformation imparts a permanent change.
All materials have elastic and plastic deformation modes that can be identified based on their characteristic stress-strain curve. Generally, the linear portion of the curve at lower stresses is the elastic region, and the plastic region begins where the curve becomes nonlinear.
For example, a wooden beam in a house will bend under normal load. As people move out of the room that beam is in, it will straighten back out- that is elastic deformation. Put too many people or some very heavy furniture in the room, though, and the beam will become permanently bent or even break altogether- that is a plastic deformation.
Some solid books on this topic are Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design and Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain
The colloquial use of elastic and plastic to describe certain groups of materials is based off the behaviors of these modes of deformation. E.g. elastics are stretchy and return to their original shape. If you really want to get into semantics, there are only four types of materials: metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites. Everything else is one of those 4 things.
For a particularly recent example, I think Maphra’s cover of Doomed by Bring Me The Horizon is fantastic.
Lmao no.
GIMP never called itself Photoshop. The problem here is this clone is using the trademarked name and lying about official association with Ho, not that it has similar functionality to Notepad++.
Also, Blender predates Maya by at least a couple years, so not sure what you’re going on about there.
Encouraging people to get the depopulation (emergency use authorization mrna) shots is also disqualifying to me
the unforgiveable thing to me is the lack of basic first-principles reasoning and also an inability to read scientific journals criticially.
Really telling on yourself here lol. If that was your takeaway from research around the vaccines then you lack the very competencies you find it unforgivable to lack.
Nice, the default file types isn’t a deal breaker for me. I’ll have to give it a shot! I’ve been testing debian on my laptop before changing my desktop over. Hadn’t found a good solution for a handful of my windows-only programs yet but this seems like it might do the trick.
Winboat looks really interesting. How does it compare to just using WinApps? It seems like it’s basically just doing the heavy lifting for setting programs up, yeah?
Where there a will to enshittify, there’s a way.
They could weave dependencies in such a manner as to prevent other critical stuff from running without it, or straight up build it into something that would prevent the system from running properly if you remove it.
Of course, they’d lose the vast majority of their userbase, but short term profit line must go up according to the idiots with MBAs.
Edit: fixed a typo
Yes, it’s fuckin yummy
I think it has more to do with expanded computing resources allowing for devs to skip optimizing their code since it is no longer absolutely necessary to get something useable.
Then why bother commenting?
I don’t see how someone else changing their last name has any appreciable effect on my life. If it makes them happy, I guess I’d be happy for them?
Either going for food or playing board/video games together!
Idk, not sure I really want to live in a post-apocalyptic world. Life is already hard enough as is.
That’s exactly where I learned about it! They ran it as a worldbuilding tool for the Ethersea campaign.
How does half a pickup truck compare to a large boulder the size of a small boulder?
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but this reminds me of The Quiet Year:
The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization, and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every action is set against a backdrop of dwindling time and rising concern.
The game is played using a deck of cards – each of the 52 cards corresponds to a week during the quiet year. Each card triggers certain events – bringing bad news, good omens, project delays and sudden changes in luck. At the end of the quiet year, the Frost Shepherds will come, ending the game.
The game occupies a niche somewhere between a ttrpg and a board game.
Purchasing card. It’s a special credit card that companies give to employees to make purchases when they cannot issue a purchase order or it is otherwise more convenient to use a credit card for a transaction.