peto

@peto@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get good.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can push California to 5 syllables if you really want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science fact⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is also weird if you think about it because they have the republic system too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Curse of Knowledge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You knew it was cursed knowledge when you clicked on it. Caveat Lemmor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok do a good⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine making an AI to be your friend and it still hates you. (I presume, given the current state of the right and twitter Grok might not think it is a bad thing.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Lemmy better than Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did you, personally, leave Reddit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be surprised if I’m the first person to say it. If you find your source though, let me know, would be interested in reading it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is (I hope) an original. Though the form “my grandfather would tell stories” might be bordering on cliché.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My grandfather would tell stories of how the planet used to be covered in plants and you could breathe the air outside. Back when the sky was blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simples.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s more a reductio and absurdum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electrons are easy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you seem to have a problem with me saying that all observations are interactions.

  Futher, if it is true that if observations are interactions, then RQM must be true, surely it goes from a fringe interpretation to just simple fact unless you can find a counterexample?

  At this point, I’m not even sure I quite see what your point is supposed to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electrons are easy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m neutral on the subject of if there are non-observational interactions. Though I ask again, are you aware of any observations that do not involve interactions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electrons are easy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AHH, I think I see what you have misunderstood. I am not saying all interactions are observations, rather that observations are a subset of interactions, hence uncertainty.

  Furthermore I think it would be more useful to say that the wave function only collapses when it is actually necessary to the interaction rather than when it interacts with ‘us’. Unless you can provide a counterexample. Privileging observations made by humans reeks of mysticism in my opinion and is the cause of a lot of the misunderstandings about quantum physics among laypeople.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electrons are easy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do expand, please. It has been a while since I have studied this seriously. Do you have any examples of observations that don’t involve interacting with the system?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electrons are easy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The universe is under no obligation to be understandable to the bits of it that can think. In many ways it’s a wonder we’ve got as far as we have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electrons are easy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have such devices, unfortunately they tend to use electrons instead (electron microscopes). We also have devices that just work by measuring the electromagnetic field (atomic force microscopes). Again though, to measure the field you have to interact with it, so you can’t do it immaculately.

  When talking about particles, the interaction very rarely involves actual contact, as that tends result in some manner of combination. Two electrons for instance don’t really bounce off each other, they just get close, interact and then diverge. If a photon ‘hits’ an electron it gets absorbed and a new one is emitted. Look up Feynman Diagrams if you want to see some detail to this. I don’t think you need any deep knowledge to benefit from looking at them, they are really quite an elegant way to visually show the mathematics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alignment Chart Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just the discomfort it causes to the user, it’s how high quality, non-dissolving paper fucks the sewer system for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electrons are easy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  " - How far is your house? - Oh, it’s just 120"

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electrons are easy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because to observe something you have to interact with it. Dealing with particles is like playing pool in the dark and the only way you can tell where the balls are is by rolling other balls into them and listening for the sound it makes. Thing is, you now only know where the ball was, not what happened next.

  In the quantum world, even a single photon can influence what another particle is doing. This is fundamentally why observation changes things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mythbusters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or at least use classical conditioning to associate the I’m wrong feeling with the impending new cool facts feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unrecoverable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Best I can do is .7, but I’m taking all the risk here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pathetic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At home I can deal with it (and have done). Hotels are a different story and they don’t all have shower heads you can reposition. I’ve even been in ones where the gap between my head and the ceiling would not fit a showerhead between.

  Same with sinks and work surfaces. If I control the space you can bet it’s all comfortable for me, but I don’t always had that luxury.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pathetic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That isn’t even the worst thing. Sinks are. Especially those big, deep professional ones where the bottom is somewhere south of your knees. But even ordinary sinks are almost always too low to be comfortable and you have to do this little half stoop/lean to use them properly.

  Also showers in hotels. The controls are low, and sometimes the showerhead is at or bellow shoulder height.

  Squeezing into an airline seat is comparatively fine, and I tend not to have to worry about the guy in front reclining because they physically can’t. And the look of fury dying in the eyes of the chap who just turned round to complain about it is a memory that warms me to this day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minimum !⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But what are they filtering for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the ologies don't like to talk about theo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More accurately a superposition of both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the ologies don't like to talk about theo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m talking about natures rather than labels though. Or does God only have the definitions humans ascribe to him?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the ologies don't like to talk about theo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So does that mean Jesus wasn’t human?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the ologies don't like to talk about theo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But is God the Incarnate wholly God-nature, or is he partly God-nature and partly man-nature?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the hydrogen made?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They aren’t legal combatants, it’s all fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the hydrogen made?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the issue is where the energy to heat the reaction vessel comes from. The video shows green sources, but that isn’t the only way to do it. The thing is, this is ultimately an energy storage tech rather than an energy generation tech. You need excess capacity to make it work, and if that means you have to make up for a shortful with conventional generators elsewhere, you aren’t actually saving anything.

  I don’t know if the previous poster is right of course, but the planet is an almost closed system, and there really is no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There comes an issue when a private citizen seeks to use the engines of state to punish those whose speech offends them.

  It’s one thing to withdraw society and business from someone who offends you, quite another to demand that the state crush them for you. Of course, most states will do that to a greater or lesser degree. No state extends an absolute freedom of speech.