GrappleHat

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Recommend me a LaTeX/TeX live equivalent app for Android in c/fdroid@lemmy.ml
[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago

Joplin is FOSS & supports live LaTeX. The editor is markdown & you use $ for inline LaTeX & $$ for full line.

They've got both desktop & mobile versions. One of my favorite apps.

Is it weird to try to behave perfectly? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
What was the last skill you learned and how? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I recently learned to whistle as well! (in my late 30s). I'm bad at it, but finally can make a recognizable tune.

More recently though I've learned to cut my own hair :)

What are the best Halloween-themed music for today? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

My favorite Halloween playlist. I return to it every year!

Where does the energy come from to lift water by osmosis? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't remember all of the details, but I thought it was essentially the water's surface tension that foots the energy bill when climbing a paper towel or a capillary in a tree.

The surface of fluids like water are unhappy. Molecules on the surface would much rather be deep in the fluid because on the surface they have "dangling" Van der Waals & polar bonds to one side. You can calculate the potential energy of the surface due to all of those dangling weak bonds, & that's the energy that is used to climb a capillary (the energy isn't free).

I could be misremembering though, I admit. School was many years ago...

Some Halloween Rom Hacks in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Earthbound: Halloween Hack was really great! I played it this season. I wish it were longer though.

Thanks for posting the others! I'll check them out!

What are you getting your significant other for Christmas? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Nice clothes. She likes Free People, Anthropology, & Sundance. I try to choose a dress or jacket or something I think she might like (always get a gift receipt though!)

How do adults find happiness in life? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 69 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Small things. Sounds. The temperature of the air. The fact that my side isn't hurting right now. The kids costumes who were just trick or treating at my house.

What’s the oldest you can be to go trick and treating? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 weeks ago

I'd rather teenagers be trick or treating than doing other stuff. If they come to my house they'll get candy for sure.

Straight men, what's the weirdest thing you've been told you can't do because it's gay? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Putting a wig on my best friend and spooning him while he's asleep.

Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted - Phoronix in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Russia is sanctioned for invading Ukraine.

Lemmy 100%? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] GrappleHat@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

If it's a topic I'm super passionate about & there's no community on Lemmy then sure. But I'm not going to start a new Lemmy community every time I want to post a random dog photo or whatever.

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Interesting article about optimizing time (behavioralscientist.org)
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Populus (1998) & "god games" (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Happened on this 1998 game by sheer chance and I'm really digging it! As far as I can tell it was never popular. It's a mixture of an RTS and a "god game" where one unit (your shaman) is very powerful & special (chess analogy: sort of like mixing the central role of the king & with the power of the queen).

Strong "tribal" vibes that were popular in the '90s (think Deep Forest music, the game Riven, etc). Very nostalgic for me as I was a kid at the time. I'm playing the PSX version, looks like the PC version was even better!

Has anyone ever heard of this "Populous" series? I'm curious to try other titles, and to try more in the "god game" genre (a genre I never even knew existed!). Any other "god games" worth checking out?

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How every tech ‘gatekeeper’ is responding to the DMA - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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Super Metroid (lemmy.ml)
 

Super Metroid's color palette and lanky sprite were always a turn off for me. But I'm finally giving it a chance on SNES (MSU-1 version) & I'm really enjoying it!

Vibes are: Quake + the movie Alien + Nine Inch Nails' album The Downward Spiral. Pretty cool aesthetic after all!

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Vocab word for "filler" items? (lemmy.ml)
 

In many games there are a lot of stupid filler items that you don't know what they do and they don't matter. (i.e. crafting ingredients). They are so ubiquitous across games that there ought to be a word for them. Sort of like a "MacGuffin" (except a MacGuffin moves the plot along, and these filler items don't).

Is there a name for these filler items? If not, got any ideas?

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Google loses antitrust case vs Epic Games. Jury rules Google Play store constitutes an illegal monopoly (www.theverge.com)
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau (www.gutenberg.org)
 

I've read a few books about simple living/minimalism but I just finished 'Walden' and wow... it's beautiful. Many patient observations of simple natural phenomenon are wonderful meditations and potent lessons. It seemed just as relevant to present times as to when it was written. I finished feeling like there's so much more to extract from that book, definitely going to read again!

Maybe you were aware, but if not I wanted to share with you fine folks in case you've missed this gem like I had. It is in the public domain in the US (published 1854) so you can get the ebook or audiobook for free from Project Gutenberg!

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