owenfromcanada
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
- Comment on Selling as is. 3 days ago:
I think the cab is missing a little bit of its Xtra
- Comment on SUCC 3 weeks ago:
sighs haven’t heard that name in a long time…
- Comment on Is it just me or is this a terrible idea? 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
…Abigale?
- Comment on what is an "over-under" during sex? 1 month ago:
Seg fault
- Comment on lemmy.ca user Is this true? 1 month ago:
Surprise, I’m both!
- Comment on lemmy.ca user Is this true? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Flying or regular?
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 1 month ago:
I’ve never been mauled by a mayo.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s about how electromagnetic energy travels through space.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
This is pretty much the basis behind all math around electromagnetics (and probably other areas).
- Comment on Ladies Beware! 1 month ago:
What does he do with them when he catches one?
- Comment on 🧿👄🧿 y'all need to step up ur game 1 month ago:
👁️🫦👁️
- Comment on Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt. 1 month ago:
- Comment on me to her after roughly 27 seconds 1 month ago:
“Fine, we can bone, but I’m gonna be grumpy the whole time.”
- Comment on Relaxing 1 month ago:
Wait, I’ve seen this one before
- Comment on It's the spherical chicken of legend! Somebody get the frictionless vacuum! 2 months ago:
Assume spherical chicken
- Comment on Tencent's soulless Age of Empires Mobile cash-grab is here to ruin your childhood 2 months ago:
So I’ve heard. I’m avoiding it for the same reason I avoid analog crack cocaine.
- Comment on Yeah really helpful 2 months ago:
1,517 people found this helpful
- Comment on Tencent's soulless Age of Empires Mobile cash-grab is here to ruin your childhood 2 months ago:
Mobile gaming is like dumpster diving–there are a handful of good ones among the utter trash.
One of the good ones I found is Exiled Kingdoms–it’s an homage to 90’s RPGs, and it’s good on mobile.
- Comment on Was Trumps "booming economy" proof that "trickle down" policy actually works?? 2 months ago:
#No
- Comment on Gone Home studio Fullbright are now making games about horrible toilet spiders 2 months ago:
Thanks I hate it
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 2 months ago:
It’s one of those ambiguous things that employers seem to be leveraging to their advantage. Where I work, plenty of people do 8-5. Those of us who have been around longer and don’t give as much of a shit will count lunch as part of our day.
- Comment on Daily Dungeon gives you a fresh dungeon-puzzle every day inspired by Wordle 2 months ago:
Also check out Rogule
- Comment on Deceased at None 2 months ago:
my sink after I shave
That’s what I said: sprinkles.
- Comment on Deceased at None 2 months ago:
Sprinkles make everything better
- Comment on Gender 2 months ago:
I’m actually on Manjaro, but ( AUR ) probably wouldn’t have been as easy to recognize, and ( Flatpak Repository ) or ( AppImage Install ) seemed like a lot.
- Comment on Gender 2 months ago:
Gender my_gender = Gender.random();