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by SaberTail 4y ago
I've got 12 months of living expenses saved up, so financially I'm about as prepared as I can be. I'd apply for unemployment. I have a 2 bedroom place where I currently use one bedroom as an office, so I'd try to get a r
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by SaberTail 4y ago
Only by accident. I figure if I'm seeing a story so much that I'm sick of it, I'm using HN too much.
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by SaberTail 4y ago
Off the top of my head: For the disks: Vinyl can get permanently scratched. The disks can get warped. The playback needle can put too much force on the groove and damage it. For the playback: It's incredibly difficult to get a motor to
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by SaberTail 4y ago
Starting running has been one of the best things I've done for myself. It's one of the best ways to explore the world, and I've seen so many interesting things while running. I started in my mid-20s with couch-to-5k. I'd
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by SaberTail 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand your question of "why not just 1 crazed?" The fact is it was a coordinated plot. The plot included attempts to kill General Grant, Secretary of State Seward, and Vice President Johnson. Yes, the hist
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by SaberTail 4y ago
I'm also a distance runner and I've never iced after running. Foam rolling and massaging seem to work much better for me. And +1 on the shoes thing. I do the alternating shoes thing, as well. And I can tell when a pair is wearing
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by SaberTail 4y ago
My anecdote is that I've tried to clear out wax with a Q-tip only to "clog" the ear. I could still hear a little out of the affected ear, and it wasn't painful, but it was very annoying. The only thing that eventually fi
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by SaberTail 4y ago
I find it amusing that Star Trek didn't anticipate communicators or tricorders having a flashlight function like our phones do. When they need lights, they either carry special-purpose ones or shoot a rock with a phaser to make it glow
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by SaberTail 4y ago
You need those cores of mechanics, E&M, and QM. They're so important that most physics majors take them twice, first at an introductory level and then at a more detailed level. It's only a slight exaggeration to say that the s
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by SaberTail 4y ago
Yeah, exactly. There's so much propaganda in the USA depicting the constitution as some sort of inspired document written by enlightened men, and then most people don't bother reading beyond what they learned in school. One only n
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by SaberTail 4y ago
I quit my last job due to a situation like this. The person that built the entire application was very weak technically. I'm pretty sure the motivation for bringing me in was that I would "fix up" the entire mess. There was n
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by SaberTail 4y ago
I had a professor that was fond of saying "the proton is a garbage can" when talking about its composition.
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by SaberTail 4y ago
I'm skeptical that students given a doctored slide rule would fare any better in a similar study. There's nothing inherent to a slide rule that gives you a better sense for what the result should be. You do have to keep track of o
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by SaberTail 4y ago
Worse, it's a power of 4[1]. That means this Hummer (at ~9000 lbs) is doing about 40 times more damage than a Chevy Malibu (at ~3600 lbs). That said, passenger vehicles are almost a rounding error in terms of wear compared to trucks ha
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by SaberTail 5y ago
He was a Kentucky Colonel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Colonel
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by SaberTail 5y ago
I learned it via lcwo.net. Over a few months, I got up to about 10 wpm.
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by SaberTail 5y ago
For double beta decay, it wouldn't change anything, since neutrinos are not Majorana particles in the standard model. For cosmology, it would suggest something about our understanding of the big bang or early universe is wrong. I'
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by SaberTail 5y ago
We can only produce neutrinos as pure flavor states. These are all mixtures of the mass states.
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by SaberTail 5y ago
The LEP experiment at CERN (the LHC now inhabits the same tunnels) collided a lot of electrons and positrons to create a lot of Z bosons. The standard model describes these interactions really precisely. And we can observe how often the Z b
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by SaberTail 5y ago
With the caveat that I'm a few years out from my PhD in the field, this is both really interesting and also maybe not surprising. This is the best attempt to date to directly measure the mass of the electron (anti)neutrino. When a nucl
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by SaberTail 5y ago
Based on what we've observed, and our current standard model of particle physics, only one type of neutrino can be massless. We've observed neutrinos oscillating flavors (for example, an electron neutrino later interacting as a mu
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by SaberTail 5y ago
I agree with the point, but software has at times frustratingly used left-handed coordinates for drawing on screens. DirectX and browsers' use of `z` come to mind.
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by SaberTail 5y ago
Thanks! And it's great to have more and different games for practicing, so thanks for making this.
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by SaberTail 5y ago
The trick to getting good at Morse code is to learn how the letters (and eventually words) sound, rather than parsing individual dits and dahs. I wouldn't recommend using this on anything but the "fast" speed, and even then,
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by SaberTail 5y ago
Unfortunately, the penalties for violating sanctions are very harsh, and the USA has been known to go after charities[1]. Your bank is covering their asses. [1] The ALAB Podcast has an excellent couple episodes about the persecution of the
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by SaberTail 5y ago
My employer gave me one of these when I started, and I couldn't stand it. Not just because it kept running out of battery at the least convenient time, but also because the touch scrolling was leaving my fingers feeling strained by the
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by SaberTail 5y ago
My PhD, in physics, was a mix. When I was building the physical apparatus itself and plumbing it up, I was working 70 hour weeks because it was more or less mindless physical labor. When I was writing software to operate the experiment or a
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by SaberTail 5y ago
You'll find most extreme leftists (by that I mean marxists, maoists, dedicated anarchists) don't care much about "woke culture", because they care much more about class divisions than racial or gender or sexuality or oth
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by SaberTail 5y ago
If Massa thought he had it bad in 2008, Verstappen is going to have it worse if the result does get overturned. Hamilton had it won if the safety car rules had been followed. Either way, I'm not happy with how the last few races have h
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by SaberTail 5y ago
This is more of an empirical thing. We observe effects such as parity violation that can be best explained by an interaction that only works on left-handed particles.

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