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New theoretical calculation solves the "muon g-2" puzzle(bigthink.com)
3 points by addaon 2y ago|0 comments
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by addaon 2y ago
Just swap batteries on critical devices (and rotate them to less critical, eg flashlight -> tv remote) once a year when you check your smoke alarms.
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by addaon 2y ago
Google is (still) a great tool for this sort of conversion. It comes up with just under 58 barrels: https://www.google.com/search?q=57+tonnes+%2F+%286.1+g%2Fcm%...
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by addaon 2y ago
Some of the early ones were great too. I have a bunch of L Prize bulbs [1], some of which have been on for significant duty cycles since their production in 2011, and have had zero failures. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by addaon 2y ago
Muonic atoms are many, many times smaller, and neutral — so small that the reduction in atomic radius by substituting a muon for an electron can catalyze fusion. Purely muon helium would be the smallest such. (Tauons can’t form atoms as the
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by addaon 2y ago
I was just talking about implementing MLT for Pete Shirley’s physics-based rendering class with a friend yesterday… small world.
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by addaon 2y ago
… or that the ability to create art arose independently in two separated populations. As for example writing did, many millennia later.
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by addaon 2y ago
And if that was the original poster's intent, I apologize for nitpicking. My impression was that the use of "generating power" in the given (open circuit) context suggested a fundamental misunderstanding of the behavior of so
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by addaon 2y ago
The thermal power of the sun will heat the panel, to the extent that it is not reflected. But no electrical power (or any power) is being "generated" by the panel, the panel is just absorbing photons like anything else with low al
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by addaon 2y ago
> The generated power will be dissipated through the panel as heat, AFAIK. Solar panels are not constant-power devices. In an open circuit, they will generate their open circuit voltage at nearly zero current (except minor internal leaka
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by addaon 2y ago
It’s a polarizing filter. The atmosphere polarizes sunlight based on the angle the light enters. You can find the position of the sun above the horizon as the point where light is least horizontally polarized (a horizontal filter has the le
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by addaon 2y ago
Numerical aperture. Have a breadcrumb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_aperture
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by addaon 2y ago
… he said, as he seasoned his stew with silphium.
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by addaon 2y ago
I believe if you submit a link that’s already on “New” it will merge them and automatically upvote the existing submission.
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by addaon 2y ago
> smallish castle This makes more sense, as castles tend to move in straight lines. As another comment mentions, if these were cathedrals that would mean a bishop in residence, and we all know bishops prefer to move diagonally.
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by addaon 2y ago
> There is no particular reason to think there is life out there (if there is or not - both are extraordinary) Well, no. One of those is ordinary (“commonplace or standard”). We just don’t know which.
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by addaon 2y ago
Is there a family-friendly solution for bridging downloaded YouTube content to the AppleTV?
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Ask HN: Any way to report ads on YouTube Premium?
3 points by addaon 2y ago|3 comments
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by addaon 2y ago
> Do you know of any (hand-wavy is ok) intuitive explanation for why this machine will halt, beyond the inductive proof's given in your article? If the Halting problem could be solved by intuition, it wouldn't be much of a prob
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by addaon 2y ago
There are also Xylitol-containing toothpastes (e.g. Epic; be aware that they also make a flouride-free version that you likely want to avoid!), although I suspect the dosage of Xylitol is below the effective level.
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by addaon 2y ago
> Like what are the chances you can choose the wrong word across lets say 200 sentences, and still maintain meaning in all of those sentences? See Harry Potter with s/wand/wang/g, for example.
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by addaon 2y ago
> And we'll know it's correct when most of the sentences sort of sound correct? Explain this in more detail? This is like saying that we know code is correct (bug free) because most of the lines sort of look correct. It's
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by addaon 2y ago
What does "after … gas savings" mean? Is there some way to actually get spendable money here, or is this basically the same as saying my yacht was free because I saved so much money on not buying a bigger yacht?
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by addaon 2y ago
This is not my area, but how does your statement reconcile with [1] and [2]? [1] "The fate of water within Earth and super-Earths and implications for plate tectonics," doi://10.1098/rsta.2015.0394, from which: &quo
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by addaon 2y ago
People think of corn as a vegetable, but it’s really just a quantized excitation of the corn field. As corn fields expand to have an increased number of states, and those states become lower energy, the relaxation of the corn excitons relea
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Tauonium: The smallest and heaviest atom with pure electromagnetic interaction(phys.org)
5 points by addaon 2y ago|0 comments
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100V Bi-Directional Enhancement-Mode Power Transistor(innoscience.com)
1 points by addaon 2y ago|0 comments
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by addaon 2y ago
There's plenty of niches where they're just the right machine for the job. Every pilot I know flies with an iPad running Foreflight for everything from route planning to situational awareness.
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by addaon 2y ago
> Talk to the MIRV industry. I didn't get an answer at 800-I-AM-MIRV, and don't know another way to contact this industry. Can you perhaps instead hint why you think that this industry might imply that non-cryptographic hashes
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by addaon 2y ago
It's hard to not mention ColorForth here as a primarily-text-based UI, although it ran in graphical mode and did its own text rendering. There were a few language-based innovations that tied closely in to the UI, including the use of c

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