owenfromcanada
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
- Comment on chees soda 1 day ago:
Y’all better call the weeyoo wagon before you try what I know you gonna try
- Comment on Hold on! 1 day ago:
Is the puppy mechanical in any way?
- Comment on Anyone for some fizzy egg??? 2 days ago:
Damn, looks like Uncle Pork got out again.
- Comment on if you've had or have anger issues, how did you become a better human? 1 week ago:
I’ve had similar strong reactions to other things. In my case, I had some unresolved trauma that I wasn’t even consciously aware of until I worked through it with a therapist. Not necessarily the case with you, but it might be worth talking to a professional if you have the means.
That being said, every office seems to have obnoxious coworkers (that’s pretty much the premise of The Office, and why it did so well). And that can be annoying for sure. For me, I try to not take my work overly seriously, and I try to remember that others might find me obnoxious at times too.
- Comment on Beautiful stories like this just make you smile 2 weeks ago:
Give 'em the test
- Comment on If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 3 weeks ago:
This is probably the best way to go. You won’t be able to beat the flexibility for the price.
- Comment on Rather be homeless than have this as my job 3 weeks ago:
Wait, you guys are getting paid?
- Comment on Terms for intentional anti-extensibility 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, I don’t think anything like this really exists, because it violates good programming principles. Not to say you’re bad for considering it, but there probably aren’t a lot of people working toward the same end. You’ll probably have to resort to personal discipline and/or scathing code comments to remind yourself to refactor things before using them. I may or may not have left comments in my own code calling myself an idiot for not refactoring, or apologizing to my future self. Welcome to the club.
- Comment on Terms for intentional anti-extensibility 3 weeks ago:
In my experience, the typical solution to this problem is the opposite of what you suggest–making your short-term projects of a sufficient quality to be extensible if needed. So I’d be surprised if you find much on this (intentionally, at least).
That being said, if you’re set on locking down a project, I would run the source through some sort of obfuscator and delete the original. This could be converting it to an intermediate format, or just converting all the entity names to random strings.
- Comment on If Santa agrees - no Christmas presents for us this year 3 weeks ago:
It’s a shitpost. And like any true shitpost, even the shitpost community downvotes it. The system works.
- Comment on Hurry 4 weeks ago:
OH YEAH
- Comment on Hurry 4 weeks ago:
Aww yeah, gonna eat me some tall cake tomorrow.
- Comment on Hurry 4 weeks ago:
Hussie is an absolute treasure
- Comment on Hurry 4 weeks ago:
THANK THAT LOG AT WORK ARROOOOOO
- Comment on Hurry 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Selling as is. 4 weeks ago:
I think the cab is missing a little bit of its Xtra
- Comment on SUCC 1 month ago:
sighs haven’t heard that name in a long time…
- Comment on Is it just me or is this a terrible idea? 2 months ago:
As a father of 2 kids, I can say that this is less obnoxious than about a dozen things we’ve been given.
- Comment on After incorporating geodes into my diet I've never felt better. 2 months ago:
…Abigale?
- Comment on what is an "over-under" during sex? 2 months ago:
Seg fault
- Comment on lemmy.ca user Is this true? 2 months ago:
Surprise, I’m both!
- Comment on lemmy.ca user Is this true? 2 months ago:
“What’s your gender?”
“Canadian.”
“No, who do you like?”
“Donuts.”
“No no, what’s in your pants?”
“Polite manners.”
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 2 months ago:
Flying or regular?
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 2 months ago:
I’ve never been mauled by a mayo.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s about how electromagnetic energy travels through space.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 months ago:
If AB = i and BC = 0, then B would be in the same 2D space as C, but one of them would be “above” the other in 3D space (which doesn’t exist in this context, just as sqrt(-1) doesn’t exist in the traditional sense).
So this triangle represents a 2D object that is “standing up” on the page.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 months ago:
The short version is: we use some weird abstractions (i.e., ways of representing complex things) to do math and make sense of things.
The longer version:
Electromagnetic signals are how we transmit data wirelessly. Everything from radio, to wifi, to xrays, to visible light are all made up of electromagnetic signals.
Electromagnetic waves are made up of two components: the electrical part, and the magnetic part. We model them mathematically by multiplying one part (the magnetic part, I think) by the constant
i, which is defined assqrt(-1). These are called “complex numbers”, which means there is a “real” part and a “complex” (or “imaginary”) part. They are often modeled as the diagram OP posted, in that they operate at “right angles” to each other, and this makes a lot of the math make sense. In reality, the way the waves propegate through the air doesn’t look like that exactly, but it’s how we do the math.It’s a bit like reading a description of a place, rather than seeing a photograph. Both can give you a mental image that approximates the real thing, but the description is more “abstract” in that the words themselves (i.e., squiggles on a page) don’t resemble the real thing.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 months ago:
This is pretty much the basis behind all math around electromagnetics (and probably other areas).
- Comment on Ladies Beware! 2 months ago:
What does he do with them when he catches one?
