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.
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.
I am not sure what debug syntax tree mode does in Zed, but if it's about tree-sitter generated syntax tree, you can see that in Neovim or Emacs (assuming you have major-mode/grammar loaded):
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.
If I assumed any woman wearing pants and a tshirt wants to be called a man, I'd offend them more often than not. Guessing somebody is transgender because they aren't conforming to gendered fashion conventions is an extremely bad idea.
The parent wasn't just talking about the top-level of their clothes, though, but about overall presentation. There's generally a lot more cultural signifiers embedded that you can cue off of than just "pants or skirt?" after all. Haircuts (highly gendered even at similar lengths), subtleties of makeup and jewelry, the cut of the aforementioned t-shirt and pants, body language, etc. (And there's still room to get it wrong, of course. But fortunately people who're living in the gray areas are generally aware they're doing so.)
Explaining all the details of how to distinguish e.g. a butch lesbian from a trans man to someone from a different cultural tradition is, of course, an incredible pain.
I've known plenty of women with male or gender neutral clothing, "boy cut" hair and no interest in jewelry. They weren't men. Assuming that a woman is transgender because she isn't "girly" is idiotic.
The number of people, particularly women, who don't adhere to gendered fashion greatly exceeds the number of transgender people.
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.
I just had a conversation with an LLM trying to find a word to describe your feeling. Life is indeed weird. Here you go:
The concept of "thrownness" (Geworfenheit in German) was an important existentialist term coined by philosopher Martin Heidegger
. Here's a quick explanation of what it means:
- Thrownness refers to the idea that human beings are "thrown" into existence without getting a choice or having any control over the fact of their being.
- It suggests humans find themselves born and existing suddenly, through no will or decision of their own. There's an abrupt, arbitrary aspect to being thrown into the world.
- This thrownness highlights the inevitable given facts and limitations of one's particular life, time period, environment, language, culture, etc. that define the situation into which one was thrown.
- Humans do not get to choose the circumstances of their thrownness, which can seem alien, foreign, strange, or absurd. This can provoke anxiety, angst, or existential crisis.
In short, thrownness describes the jarring, arbitrary way humans find themselves existing in a world not of their choosing, highlighting the strangeness and uncertainty of the human condition.
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.
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.