ThePyroPython
@ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
- Comment on I feel happy.. 6 days ago:
Ah stop your moaning, you’ll be stone dead in a moment.
- Comment on New Harry Potter series based on the "magic" of Weed 1 week ago:
- Comment on Space Quarry 2 weeks ago:
Then go to ZipWorld. That way you get to zoom over the typical North Wales Quarrys used for Dr. Who.
Also whilst you’re there, check out Bounce Below and Surf Snowdonia.
- Comment on Make gravity your bitch 2 weeks ago:
This unlocked a song that has been buried in my mind for YEARS:
Now some of you may think that gravity is strong Cuz when you fall Off your bicycle It don’t take long Until you hit the earth And you say, “Dang that hurt!”
But if you think the force Is powerful You’re wrong
You see, gravity It’s weaker than weak!
And the reason why Is something many Scientists seek
They think about dimensions We live in just three But maybe there are others That are too small to see
It’s into these dimensions that gravity extends Which makes it seem weaker here on our end
And these dimensions are rolled up, curled so tight That they don’t affect you in your day-to-day life
But if you were as tiny as a graviton You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on And they’d find you…
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone, ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
- Comment on logs are for quitters 2 weeks ago:
Yes boss, I did work out the dynamic range of that log amplifier we wanted to use in our next product’s sensor PCB, it’s 80dB.
The results are over here. (points to a roll of A-4 paper)
It has 40 data points and only took me 1 week, 10 pencils, and 20 erasers to plot the chart. Yeah I can present it, it’ll take me 10 minutes to roll it out, pin it down, and fetch the A-frame ladder.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 weeks ago:
Mathematically yes. Practically, right now? No.
So you need a resistor of this value for your widget.
For that many places of precision you’re looking at a potentiometer with a 10 nano-ohm precision.
I am not aware of any commercially available resistor that can do that but you could create one using microelectronic structures used for ICs and derive a 10 nano-ohm resistor by design and then chain enough of these elements into a resistor network or potentiometer to create the super precise resistance value you want.
Cool, congratulations.
Now how are you going to use this 10 nano-ohm resistor? What voltage will you be applying across it? What current do you expect it to handle? And therefore what are your power requirements? What are your tolerances, how much can the true value deviate from the designed ideal?
Because power generates heat through losses, and that will affect the resistance value so how tightly do you need to manage the power dissipation?
How will you connect to this resistor to other circuit components? Because a super precise resistor on it’s own is nothing but an over-engineered heating element.
If you tried connecting other surface mount devices (SMDs) from the E24 or even E96 series to this super precise resistor then the several orders of magnitude wider tolerances of these other components alone will swallow any of the precision from your super accurate resistor.
So now your entire circuit has to be made to the same precision else all of your design work has been wasted.
Speaking of which, now your heat management solution now needs to be super precise as well and before you know it you’ve built the world’s most accurate widget that probably took billions of dollars/euros/schmeckles and collaboration from the worlds leading engineers and scientists that probably cost more time and money than the Large Hadron Collider.
- Comment on >meme arrows 4 weeks ago:
All correct.
The only other things to add is that “Effective Altruism m” started as asking the question “what charity or charitable causes should you donate money to for the greatest positive effect in the world?” and because lonely terminally online people in the tech industry got hyperfixated on the answer evolved from “mosquito nets and access to drinking water” to that belief outlined in the previous comment.
The other thing is “timeless-decisions” which is where you should consider the far future impact of EVERY decision you make because all these little day-to-day decisions (what to eat, how to dress, your hobbies, how much you sleep, etc.) will have a “butterfly effect” on the lives of future people and whether the super AI that eventually comes will judge you to be a good person to be rewarded or a bad person to be punished.
It’s basically Calvinism for Tech-bros where God is an AI.
Behind The Bastards has done a four-part podcast on an offshoot of the Rationalists called the Zizians who were recently directly involved in that stabbing and shootout with the border patrol agent in Canada.
Also, a lot of Tech-Bros are into Rationalism like Musk, Zucc, Theil, and Sergey Brin. Basically, everyone who was at Trump’s inauguration thinks that his appalling actions justify the ends because it gives them the money to make the god AI to ensure they survive the impending judgement day and collapse of civilization.
- Comment on What's the problem sweetie? You've barely touched your eggsicle 4 weeks ago:
Untap artifact everytime the current US administration doorsteps a country for eggs.
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 4 weeks ago:
(Cyberpunk sting plays)
- Comment on >meme arrows 4 weeks ago:
Sam you can’t “effective altruism” a way of making people not using the general purpose AI tools you designed to “cure cancer” to make silly memes or saucy images.
If you wanted to cure cancer, you should have made an AI start up focused on curing cancer. But no, you had to buy into that “Rationalism” logic-circle-wankfest and now you’re disappointed when people aren’t making the “correct” timeless-decisions and “optimising for the future” because they’re regular people that spend their free time touching grass and hang around in person and not debating pointless logic thought experiments with strangers on niche Internet forums.
- Comment on wriggle wriggle 4 weeks ago:
New hentia category unlocked?
- Comment on Sounds logical to me 5 weeks ago:
Agreed. I’ve kissed two boys as like dares but didn’t like it and I can acknowledge a guy is hot without being turned on by them so I think I’m comfortably on the straight side of the spectrum.
- Comment on When fighter jets are scrambled to intercept a plane for security reasons, what can they actually do? 1 month ago:
I can only speak for the UK and from a amateur perspective but here’s the rough breakdown:
90% of the time it’s likely a private pilot that’s wandered into a restricted airspace without realising it. They’re politely escorted out.
9.9999% of the time is an adversarial nation testing the response time of the quick-reaction force defenses. They’re politely but forcefully escorted out. Maybe some insults traded over the radio but that’d be about as heated as it gets.
0.0001% they pose a threat and refuse to be escorted out. At that point it’s basically the same thing of asking “what would happen if someone climbed the fence to the White House and towards it and when the secret service pointed guns at them didn’t stop, would they get shot?”
It’s the pilot’s call at that point, but if they posed a threat to life then yes they probably would shoot them down.
- Comment on No one can know my shame 1 month ago:
Correct, my mistake lol.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 1 month ago:
Oh shitting hell lads, it’s Boris The Bouncer Bot!
Quick lads, run! Scarper before he tackles and smothers you unconscious!
- Comment on No one can know my shame 1 month ago:
Don’t worry, it’s just there until your bofy decomposes and is eaten by the worms. Then over enough time, the wood will rot away leaving your skeleton which in turn will slowly fossilise and then when the sun expands in 5 million years time, the earth will be scorched and then obliterated and your remnants will return to the stars until the universe keeps expansion until no atom of matter can interact with another and the universe fades out.
Just enjoy the absurdity of it all or get believing in a sky daddy. Either way you won’t have to worry about the forever box.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 1 month ago:
Raaaahssclaarct
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 1 month ago:
Americans now need a wanking license.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 months ago:
No… Let 'em burn.
I want Brad so emotionally scarred that every time he goes to tweet some bullshit he has a depression inducing anxiety attack that he has to find the nearest corner to go cry in until exhaustion.
- Comment on "Me Ug! Ug feel ACADEMIC!" 2 months ago:
As an R&D engineer I feel both seen and offended by this meme. Excellent work, am I ok to cite this meme in IEEE format?
- Comment on Romantic 2 months ago:
I see some of you have never played Battleshits before.
Rules are as follows:
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Two people enter a toilet cubicle each and proceed to try and shit.
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The first one to shit wins.
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If both players have shitted then the size of the shits is judged and the largest shit wins.
It is a puerile and crass game of speed, deception and defiantly not for the weak-stomached as I found out to my own detriment as a spectator.
This has been your daily reminder that we are all just slightly more evolved apes with access to the power of gods.
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- Comment on Driver caught doing 122mph on 30mph road as UK’s shocking speed records revealed 2 months ago:
Lifetime driving ban.
- Comment on What job do you need this hard hat for? 2 months ago:
Unfortunately these buffs don’t stack. And the effect only works when constructing large enough engineering feats where people have to look straight up to see the whole thing.
- Comment on Thank god "shit" is censored 2 months ago:
Now you know how machinists feel about CNC.
- Comment on To whomever invented LED bus advertisements: I despise you. 2 months ago:
Sir, this is c/mildlyinfuriating, let me whinge in peace.
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- Comment on Chosen 2 months ago:
I’m wondering if they’ve had the timing belt or clutch replaced.
Not quite sure what the human equivalent of those would be.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 2 months ago:
So that’s why Musk is sticking his oar in UK politics. Wind your neck in you weirdo, you’re giving actual engineers a bad rep.
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