A modern compound bow will fire the arrow in a straight line, directly forwards, as the bow will have a section that allows the arrow to be shot through the space that would be occupied by the stave on a traditional bow. While the bow must obviously be gripped in line with the tension, the rest of the center section is offset to allow the archer to both shoot and sight directly along the line the arrow will travel.

How much firing then causes the arrow to bend would depend entirely on the stiffness of the arrow, but the resulting total energy being imparted is not going to be different just because the acceleration curve is different. If the arrow bends, then yes, you’d lose some energy to that.

But if anything, starting off slow and then accelerating harder as you go is the gentler and more efficient acceleration curve when accounting for that.

No.

Getting sick without already being immune leaves your body trying to speed-run anti-body development, while ALSO fighting the disease using more basic physiological responses.

And even with anti-bodies, you’re not actually impervious. You can still get sick with diseases you’re “immune” to, as even deployment of disease-specific anti-bodies is a complex biological process that can go wrong, come too late, or not be enough.

Given time, a person can develop “immunity” against a lot of stuff, but that still doesn’t mean every cell in your body is then changed in a way where that pathogen just bounces off.

You see this most recently with Covid, as people who are vaccinated still get infections, but unlike with unvaccinated people, the body fights it off in a couple days, rather than a few weeks.

But it does still takes those couple days for the latent immunity to kick in, and for the body to deploy that defense.

Another person already commented on how different components of the immune system respond differently, and might even be what kills you faster than the disease.

Depends.

Compound bows are designed such that you put in a LOT of energy where your mechanical advantage is high (at the start of the draw) then less as your mechanical advantage diminishes (at the end of the draw).

This makes the bow very “light” to pull and easy to hold drawn, but the energy with which the arrow will be fired is higher than almost any other design, save some cross-bows.

For real.

Looking up how almost any potentially deadly disease attacks a human body just makes you go “how tf do you beat that”.

The answer is usually just “your immune systems kills it faster than it kills you” and that ain’t some sure-fire defense. It’s a straight up microbiological war happening inside you.

Video games as a medium, is still new. And that state of so much you could drown in it, is also new.

Just a couple decades ago you could conceivably play every game ever made, and then be left thirsting for something new.

And games are plateauing technologically, if not mechanically. New games are no longer better, just because they’re newer, with nicer graphics, bigger worlds and smoother gameplay. That stuff has been figured out.

Now you have to make games better, by making them better.

It makes sense, unfortunately.

They don’t want to compete with older games. For a time, new games would innovate technologically and qualitatively, but that isn’t always the case anymore.

There are so many amazing games to play. If you wanted to, you could cut off all future content from this day on, and still have more than enough to remain entertained for the rest of your life.

Some studios are still pushing the envelope, but others have stuck with one “as a service” game for almost a decade now. Others still are making stuff that is objectvly unworthy of being played compared to earlier games.

If you can’t make each game better than the last, people will just go back to the last game. But if you take away the last game, they’ll go to the new game simply because the same game but worse is still better than nothing.

And that’s true overrall, too. If you like games, but can’t play your favorite game anymore, you’ll probably end up trying to find something new.

Yeah I’m pretty sure the banks would shut down anything that clones NFC payment functionality onto a device without them knowing about it.

Nothing else ever really achieved what the pebble did. I just wanted a cheap second point of interaction with my phone.

After it went under the industry has doubled down on insane cost, pointless features, abysmal battery life.

I don’t get it. Pepple made all the right trade offs and the third party support was incredible.

I hope this works out.

Yup. And it’ll be a huge improvement overall to simply have both performance and accuracy in one, and not have to pick one or the other, regardless of what application is being run.

fsync isn’t part of wine, which is what they are referring to.

Fsync and Esync are both inaccurate representations, and while they help performance in many places (particularly games), they break other things. Hence, while useful, they never got mainlined.

NTsync is an accurate reimplementation, hence why this functionality will finally become part of wine proper.

then what’s the advantage of using that over the native capabilities of btrfs?

btrfs multi device file systems have some limitations. Adding a drive is instant, but if you want to stripe the data using raid0, that requires a lengthy balancing operation. The alternative is “single” mode, which does not concern itself with striping, and just pools the storage available. The disadvantage, is that in single mode you get the risk of raid0, with no performance benefit. btrfs does not actually make sure that the different blocks that constitute a single file end up on the same drive, which means that if one fails, you still likely lose everything.

MergerFS does not mess with any of the filesystems being combined. It can be configured to work in different ways, but each drive will remain its own, consistent, functioning file system. Drives can be browsed individually, removed, added etc. Instantly. To “empty” a drive, you just move the files on it to the rest by using the non merged folders. By default, “writing” a new file will always go to the drive with the most free space, and individual files cannot be stored “across” several drives even though the contents of a folder can be. This way, whatever is on each drive, can never be damaged by the failure of another drive.

So the benefits are isolation, and convenience. The downside is a definite performance hit, which may not be significant depending on your system or what you’re storing in the merged filesystem.

So I could do that for the root folder as well I imagine?

No. And you wouldn’t want to. First for the performance hit. Second, because mergerfs merges folders (drives have to be mounted, first), and uses a third as a mountpoint. As an example, to “expand” your home folder, you’d move your homefolder somewhere else, then merge that moved folder with the new drive (which you still have to mount somewhere), and then you’d mount the resulting file system where your old home folder was before.

You could even have two folders on the second drive. Use one to merge somewhere you want to pool all your storage, and the other to put stuff on the second drive in a way where losing the first won’t make half the files go missing. You might use that to store a copy of the OS install from the first drive, for example.

If you want to just extend storage space, maybe mergerfs?

/media is now for the system to mount stuff automatically. Using /mnt for something you’re configuring personally is fine.

You could mergerfs the new drive with some folder you’re already storing a bunch of stuff, and it will pool the storage capacity of the drives for that folder.

That’s a never-ending process of everyone voting and discussing where the line is and where it should be.

There is no “final” solution, instead the solution is for people to collectively and continiously keep solving it every day.

There is no “unflagged”. “Undetermined” works exactly as if it was just another language, to the point that if a community doesn’t have it allowed, you cannot make posts or comments that are “undetermined”.

Which they shouldn’t, because then content might not get correctly tagged. Because, again, “undetermined” is just another language and can prevent people from seeing content in the same way.

When you don’t select a language when posting or commenting, the lemmy server picks for you, based on how the community is set. When configured correctly, your posts will automatically get tagged with the right language.

If not, then the community mods have not set things up correctly.

Can someone help me how to set it up that comments I write are kept in “undetermined”?

You do not want this. The language flags exist for a reason, and provided the community you are posting/commenting in is configured correctly, things should work right on their own.

This is because “default” is determined by the languages set for the community you are posting/commenting in, not your account. (Though some clients have had trouble respecting this).

If “undetermined” was your default, but that weren’t enabled for the community, the comment/post wouldn’t go through. Clients that don’t respect this run into errors when users try to post or comment. Hence, unless you manually set the language of your post/comment, what it ends up as depends on where you are posting/commenting.

It’s not something you can configure as a user (unless you mod a community).

It’s worth noting that you can select multiple languages in your account settings, to make sure you’ll see any and all relevant content.

Additonally, if you post everything with “undetermined” that still means that people who don’t have that “language” enabled, can’t see your content. It’s not a “everyone will see this” setting.

Also, you’re digressing.

I merely consider it necessary to function in modern society, and hence a service a government might conceivably provide.

You really like making assumptions about what I mean, and twisting my words, huh?

You classify email and internet search as non-essential?

And what does how they are classified have to do with the ability/inability of government to provide them in a sufficient manner?

You claimed something that HAS HAPPENED, could not. There’s no comeback here for you to find.

Those are some pretty specific additional qualifiers. Did I hit a nerve?

I’m responsing to someone claiming governments inherently cannot be good providers of essential services, which is patently untrue.

The nordics are home to numerous government institutions, providing a variety of services that are perfectly satisfactory, and often excellent.

Are you claiming that email or search engines not being among them today, means the rest mean nothing, or that they never will be?

If the current services are anything to go by, those things getting added to the list, will be fucking great.

Ok but we were talking about a faraday cage scensrio.