Why don't they mount moving video cameras? I mean, the second part of the fly is pretty boring. They shows us a view from 2 static cameras. Is it so difficult to make one camera moving? With 360 degrees view. Show us the shape of the earth the full circle, show us the moon. Is it so hard?
I don't think they'd need to actually have moving cameras (I think this is what the poster meant) to give a 360 degree view, but 360 degree cameras (well, 180 because they're right next to an obstacle) that could be reprojected to 2d.
38 years old here. For me it depends on the work type. If I need to rewrite someone's API, I will struggle because the code is written by someone and his logic not obvious fir me. If I would write the same logic from scratch by myself, it will be much easier.
What a terrible calendar do we currently have. One guy offered this one: 28x13=364. In that case we have 13 months each of 28 days. Strict 4 weeks in one month. 365 and 366 are non-calendar holidays.
13 months improves some things, but it does not work well for 4 seasons.
There are two definitions of seasons. In the simpler one, they start March 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1. (In the other, they are truer to astronomy and start about 20 days later.)
With 13 months in a year, that would be a lot messier.
Since there is symmetry to the year, it makes sense to divide it into a number of pieces that works well with that symmetry. 12 pieces makes sense because it's a multiple of 4.
If you look at the length of days as a function of year, it resembles a sine wave. You wouldn't create a unit of angular measurement where one full circle is 13 units. (You'd have trig identities like sin(x+13/4)=cos(x)!) There would be similar disadvantages if you divided a year into 13 pieces.
You'd still need leap-days, then, though. Otherwise, in 150 years, june, or whatever is the 6th month, has drifted from summer to winter (or viceversa) by then.
Another issue, is that while 28 is neatly divisible, 13 is not. What is half a year? When do you make up the numbers for Q3? etc. It introduces so much issues, that the net-benefit is hardly there.
Except that people can still be born and die and check in and out of hospitals on those days, so you have to be able to record those days, so they immediately get back onto the calendar but in a far uglier and more hacky way than the entire system that you just tried to replace.
That's what we have, september is month 7, october is month 8, november is month 9, december is month 10, february is the last month, and february 29 is an intercalary day. Someone just fucked up the offset at some point.
Pretty sure this explains the origins of the seven day week:
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
I never smoked DMT, but I smoked salvia a lot. To avoid crazy trips, you have to take it horizontally in the dark quiet room. About 50% of trips started the same: the UFO arrives and hangs over me. Pulsating tunnel is started to connect me with the ship. Then 'they' start to drag me to the ship. The result depends of the smoked quantity. If you got 1-2 hits, you will not reach the ship. Yes, they will help you, they will drag you, but with no luck. But if you took 2-3 hits, the next what you will see is the space. With ships and 'lands'.
So I felt those entities like good older brothers. In IT terms I was like junior and they like teamlids.
I agree that that world feels more real than this one.
