Blue_Morpho
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- Comment on The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. 23 hours ago:
Cryptography is a weird include. Everything else is general knowledge but cryptography is a branch off of math.
- Comment on [politics] ya but, at least Juneteenth still lives! herp-a-derp! 2 days ago:
The only reason to bring them up is because you agree with them.
Hitler shouldn’t be taught because you don’t agree with him? How is anyone supposed to learn from history if you hide everyone that did anything bad. That’s how we got Trump. It was a failure of education.
- Comment on [politics] ya but, at least Juneteenth still lives! herp-a-derp! 3 days ago:
It’s important to remind everyone that he was a piece of shit. Republicans are whitewashing his history.
- Comment on Enzymes be like 5 days ago:
Yes. That’s what they do.
- Comment on Enzymes be like 6 days ago:
It still baffles me how the activation energy can defined as absolutely X because of atomic energy levels defined by quantum mechanics. But then you have an enzyme show up and it’s, weeelllll it can be much lower.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 6 days ago:
. it’s a big deal to people who don’t know how to do a lot of stuff.
It’s also a big deal to the extremely competent developers. The other person I saw use AI which makes me want to try it is Limor Fried. I watched one of her videos where she input a 50 page microcontroller pdf and got useable io mapping header files for her c code. Matching pins to ports in a doc that’s spreads the info out across many pages is a huge grind.
It’s not like I’m illiterate, but I’m open to using a plastic ball point pen instead of catching and killing a goose to make own quill.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 6 days ago:
A dude DYI’ing his bike isn’t something to even take into account…
I’m old enough to remember Hypercard. It was a revolution for regular people to create the one off app they needed to fix their own problems.
Hypercard was a nightmare for professional development. But it didn’t matter. It was a tool for regular people.
- Comment on Fafo 6 days ago:
That old lady was standing near the edge of the cliff. The fence was already broken. I pushed her off the edge. You can’t say it’s entirely my fault.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 6 days ago:
Sure there are useful applications, but I don’t actually need it for anything I do.
I’ve seen applications that are very useful. YouTuber Berm Peak used ai to bypass the controller of the world’s worst ebike so it wouldn’t become e-waste and fix it’s worst flaws. Yes new firmware could have been written from scratch. But he fixes bikes. He’s not a software developer.
It’s like you don’t need a ball point pen to write, you could use a quill and save the plastic waste. But quills are so slow you don’t even consider it.
- Comment on Why The Economist hates wealth taxes. 1 week ago:
It’s not a shift if you have a Republican Congress and President who will not only give it all to their billionaire friends but run up a debt to give more than they took in taxes.
- Comment on Why The Economist hates wealth taxes. 1 week ago:
I’m pointing out that this is putting the cart before the horse. We need actual leftist politicians or it won’t do anything.
- Comment on Why The Economist hates wealth taxes. 1 week ago:
The problem is the wealthy have all this excess money and they are driving up the price of everything,
Transferring $50B from Musk to Kuschner (Ivanka) doesn’t change this. Any excess tax money will go directly to Trump’s friends and family. He is already increasing the debt to it’s highest levels in history to do this. More money won’t change it.
- Comment on Why The Economist hates wealth taxes. 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s my point. It’s not the income that’s as much of a problem as the leadership.
You need leaders willing to spend money on workers instead of owners.
- Comment on Why The Economist hates wealth taxes. 1 week ago:
I think if a wealth tax was implemented, it wouldn’t change anything. Trump would spend the extra money on new wars and bigger monuments to himself.
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 2 weeks ago:
But recall that the force of gravity is the momentum change “due to” the curvature of spacetime
But didn’t you just say that the electric field curves it too?
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 2 weeks ago:
Though the force itself is irrelevant
But force is a measure of the rate at which energy is transferred over a distance.
So if one force is greater than another and the distance is the same, then the energy is greater in the case of the greater force.
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 2 weeks ago:
What I never understood is why the electric field doesn’t distort spacetime more than gravity. The force between 2 electrons is like 4*10^42 times stronger than gravity. So a tiny electric field should cause the same spacetime bending as a massive object.
- Comment on What would happen if the US got rid of the majority of their bases and brought all the stationed soldiers home? What would be the impact on society, the economy, and other things? 2 weeks ago:
And it’s thousands of Americans bringing their money into the region, not just locals circulating existing money between businesses.
- Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket. 2 weeks ago:
The wires are for faster data transfer. Your phone connects wirelessly to the tower and the tower has ( but not necessarily ) higher speed wires to connect back to a hub that connects to other wires. Some towers connect wirelessly back to a hub.
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 2 weeks ago:
Booster bag.
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 2 weeks ago:
the original conversion was from whales but the popularised version is with bacon rended
Reply to wrong post? Pint is 1/8th of gallon and gallon came from old Norman French with latin roots.
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 2 weeks ago:
square inch of pounds
Pound force or Pound mass?
- Comment on Say hi to Flocky! 2 weeks ago:
Are you a lunatic?
Yes I am American.
- Comment on Imagine being Proxima Centauri 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s what I found. But that news is from over a year ago and says nothing about a flare being blocked by Proxima d.
- Comment on Imagine being Proxima Centauri 2 weeks ago:
Googling doesn’t show any recent news about Proxima flares.
- Comment on The speed of light 2 weeks ago:
But it doesn’t explain it. It is a graph of the equation. But that doesn’t explain the equation. That’s why I gave the parabola example.
Showing a graphical form of the equation is still only the question but in another format. That’s what makes it circular. If you ask why something is Y = X^2 and I only show you a graph of Y = X^2, that’s not answer. It’s the question in a graphical format.
- Comment on The speed of light 2 weeks ago:
I kind of despise the time cone answer because it doesn’t actually answer the question. It transforms the question into a picture and uses the picture as the answer which is circular logic.
“Why to thrown objects fall in a parabola?”
“See here’s a graph of a equation. If the object is outside the graph it’s not on the parabola and that’s why thrown objects fall in a parabola shape.”
- Comment on The speed of light 2 weeks ago:
But I’ve never been able to grasp exactly why it would break causality.
It’s what I might call inferred logic. It’s not that traveling faster than light “breaks causality” it’s that light is observed to be constant in all reference frames. From that observation you build a system of motion which requires that nothing can travel faster than light. In that mathematical system, if you break that rule then the math says that you must go backwards in time to go faster than light.
So the “causality” is a side effect of the math system you created based around the rule that light is constant in all reference systems.
It’s like if you created a math system where you observed A=1 and let B=1 and state that A+B=2. Then someone says but what if A+B = -1. Your reply would be that means B = -2 because we observed A = 1 and B can be anything so if we add A + B and get -1 B must be -2. If B represented time you’d say, “Well that means you have negative time!” But it’s just the math and if you give physically impossible inputs you get physically impossible outputs.
- Comment on In some heavy Muslim countries women seems always to wear a black hijab and get in trouble for not wearing one. Why don't they wear colorful ones or with slogans? Is black all to wear? 2 weeks ago:
He’s talking about thick Saudi’s, not slender Indonesians.
- Comment on Intellectual Freedom 2 weeks ago:
Women earn the majority of college degrees at all levels and in all majors.