According to the book, there's no need for them to eat it, you just have to give it to them, although I think they may have mixed up 'fascinate' and 'confuse'.
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Thank you for the summary. I don't have time to go down a rabbit hole at the moment, so this was just enough to sate my curiosity until I do have time.
Now that's a better reason for looking for a GUI solution than the OP had. I hadn't really considered how dyslexia would affect CLI usage.
Granted. A moon pops into existance, orbiting Luna, and is tidally locked to it, causing Luna to start rotating. Your admiration of the new celestial setup is short lived as you notice that, over the course of a couple of orbits, Earth's gravity peturbs this new moon's orbit, causing the apogee to get closer to Earth. Shortly the orbit reaches a chaotic tipping point, and it is ripped out of the gravity well of Luna and into the clutches of Earth's attraction.
The gravitational effects of a body thus large approaching Earth are catastrophic, monsterous tides obliterate costal regions and flow deep inland. Earthquakes and volcanoes errupt worldwide as the crust is sundered at every weak point. Hurricane force winds, unlike any before, scour the surface of the planet.
The new orbit is wildly unstable, and the new moon, now christened Armageddon by those who have survived so far, starts to graze the upper atmosphere at it's perigree. The compression heating caused by such a large bidy rapidly raises the air temperature and wildfires break out everwhere that isn't saturated by flooding. Those areas that are soon dry out and join the conflagration. The polar ragions are the last surface areas to succumb, the ice holding the air temperature just within survivable levels until it too flashes to steam, and the last of the surface dwelling creatures of planet Earth perish.
The oceans start to boil under the intense heating of Armageddon's atmospheric entry. The last to die there are the extremophiles that make their homes around hydrothermal vents, but even they cannot survuve the waters boiling away.
Atmospheric drag hastens the decay of Armageddon's orbit, and it plows into the surface of what was, until quite recently, the green and blue marble we called home. The inital blow is a glancing one, barely gouging the surface, but shattering the crust of both the Earth and Armageddon itself. The bulk of the sundered rocks, now molten, make a fraction of an orbit before crashing back down, obliterating what is left of the surface.
The planet is now a shattered ball of molten rock, lifeless and featureless. However, not all life has perished. By some quirk of fortune and orbital mechanics the International Space Station was on the opposite side of the planet when Armegeddon plunged into the crust, and was not obliterated by the ensuing explosion of rick and debris. The inhabitants of that little outpost watch in horrified fascination as the planet they orbit is scoured of all life, it's very face now a molten hellscape. The extea mass of Armageddon has disrupted their orbit too, and they now face the prospect of being thrown clear of Earth's orbit, to freeze in the blackness of space.
It sounds like you've had more than one traumatic trip to the beach. I've never really seen the point of listening to a shell to hear the sea, you're at the beach, it's right there, being noisy at you!
When you're coding as part of a team blaming individuals isn't helpful. For starters, any code should have gone through at least one level of code review, so there's been multiple sets of eyes on it before it causes trouble. Better to learn from mistakes as a team so everyone gets the benefit of hindsight.
As @Tahl_eN@lemmy.world said in another comment, there's concentration and there's flow (aka the zone).
Concentrating takes effort, is often tiring, and requires disipline to block out distractions. It can feel good to consentrate on a problem or task, give it all your mental energy, and achieve your goal. It can be a fragile state though. If a distraction does break through it can completely disrupt your thought processes, causing you to lose track of everything you had in mind, and effectively sending you back to square one. Practice helps avoid that, but concentration is inherently mentally taxing.
Flow is different. You will probably only reach it through concentration, and may not jnitally be aware of the transition, but you'll know it afterwards. The complex becomes simple, stuctures untangle themselves at a thought, you feel mental clarity unlike any other time, everything you'd been struggling with becomes effortless, and time ceases to have any importance. It's more like a trance or meditation than a normal mental state, and you can stay in that state until your body physically runs out of energy. I've ended up sitting at my desk for nearly 24 hours without rising, and without eating or drinking, utterly engrosed in the task at hand, not noticing the sun setting and rising again, and felt entirely calm and rested at the end of it.
I didn’t vote for the guy and even I didn’t even imagine the level of destruction and chaos that’s come so far.
It's been pretty astonishing. I was expecting a lot of vindictive attacks on those who he though had wronged him, and an element of tearing down anything that might regulate his buddies' industries, but this is a level or 5 beyond that. It's like their trying to go as fast as possible, doing as much damage as possible before someone stops them. In fact, I suspect it's exactly that, they know that some form of opposition will eventually form, and are trying to get as much done as possible before that happens. I imagine they can't believe their luck at how long it's taking.
I mean, you are talking very, very specific circumstances there, and quite frankly, if you lose one in the cleft of a root, I'm not sure the other is staying put either.
Before your initial comment, all I saw was an elephant having a bit of fun, now I'm going to wince every time I see it.
Look on the bright side, that's only going to happen once. winces
It's the look in their eyes and the beard that really set the pose off I think. ...I meant on the Owl!
Why was there facial recognition, or any other sort of camera, in those places in the first place? Has something been mangled in the translation, is it a fuss about nothing, or were organisations genuinely going "hmm, we need to check your face before you can use the restrooms"?