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by mnl 6y ago
The difference is that in fictional works these devices might harm fictional characters, but in the real world this can maim, disfigure and blind actual people causing actual and pretty nasty suffering. There are safety regulations for this
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by mnl 6y ago
I must be getting old because all I can see is an insanely dangerous gas welding torch.
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by mnl 6y ago
Here's Sabine again stating things without further reasoning. I'm sorry but I have a hard time reconciling Laplacian determinism with quantum physics, I'd like to see more details. Anyway, I don't think it matters really
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by mnl 6y ago
Being omniscient this special molecule can tell which identical molecule is which in the gas, that's some interesting physics. Of course it can also predict the final states of collisions between other molecules. Even when that infor
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by mnl 6y ago
This special molecule of Stephen's is essentially a Maxwell's demon (it could use that information to open or close the door by choosing appropriate collisions, or simply act as the gate itself). There's a lot of literature
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by mnl 6y ago
I don't care for them. If people enjoy that good for them I guess, but nothing changes the fact that they're fantasy. The colors are simply made up, that information isn't in the film, you can't tell from luminance which
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by mnl 6y ago
Physics isn't ontology. You perceive a phenomenon, pick quantifiable observables, take measurements of them using units which are nothing more than reference measurements, come up with a mathematical model for those observables and tes
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by mnl 6y ago
The thing is Pi is ubiquitous. One of the interesting consequences of the recent redefinition of the SI units is that now h, k, e and a few others are considered exact constants, just like c. A caveat: physicists are well aware that their t
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by mnl 6y ago
> I can not accept a claim that mathematics is discovered Why? Finding out that Pi is irrational and then transcendental are discoveries. I won't be able to make anything work if I fork mathematics to make it rational. Same thing th
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by mnl 6y ago
Ok (although this isn't reddit yet): Tomorrow Never Knows (Chemical Brothers' breakbeat, just 30 years earlier), A Day in the Life , Helter Skelter , Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey and I Want
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by mnl 6y ago
How can Muddy Waters Anthology drop 445 places in 8 years? I've had a soft spot for the Miseducation since 1999, but pumping it 300 places to make it into the top 10, I don't know about that. I don't understand the swings wit
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by mnl 6y ago
May I ask about a reference for that? There's the Herzberg continuum in 200-242 nm and I understand there's O2 photodissociation and therefore ozone production there. What am I missing?
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by mnl 6y ago
We're supposed to be civil here but frankly the linked post is twaddle. You can't give the reason for not having unaffordable personal libraries and then disregard it immediately because you're selling your theses, whatever t
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by mnl 6y ago
Many years ago I was using an MCA (multi channel analyzer) ISA card connected to a surface barrier detector to measure beta decay spectra. This stuff basically counts the number of pulses from the detector binning them according to the heig
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by mnl 6y ago
And physicists have been writing code for a while simply because the number of software engineers with a working knowledge of physics (as in ready for research), have been trained in numerical analysis (as in being able to read applied mat
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by mnl 6y ago
I'd never have thought cancel culture would extend to Newton. The thing is if we were only taking into account the contributions of saints according to contemporary moral standards, we would have empty libraries. If we're into bui
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by mnl 6y ago
I consider PC a wonder material yet I went back to 1.7 AR coated glass (higher than that it's a bit overkill unless you really need it IMO). It's crisper, actually cheaper, heat resistant and virtually scratch proof if you clean i
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by mnl 6y ago
Of course I make fun of it. It's the only way to cope with this kind of stuff after being exposed to it for decades. It's cranks in physics, they don't take the trouble to really look up anything by doing actual work, they ju
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by mnl 6y ago
Of course it's lazy, but I said I could improve on it, don't expect me to put in more work than that. Then it's the job of the alternative theorists to come up with working models with better descriptions and/or predicti
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by mnl 6y ago
I don't understand what's so interesting about pointing out things you personally dislike in whichever discipline without making any attempt to justify why you think they're wrong. That's simply prejudice of the lazy sor
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by mnl 6y ago
He likes WordStar 4.0. There are people who like WordPerfect for DOS, Word 5.1 for Mac or even XyWrite. It's fairly easy (not always cheap) to get almost any old computer you could think of in very good condition to run the programs yo
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by mnl 6y ago
You could have said the same stuff about the neutrino after Pauli introduced it in 1930 to explain the missing pieces in the beta decay. The alternative could have been giving up on the conservation of energy-momentum, but then if you have
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by mnl 6y ago
A few comments. This is a port of Basilisk II. If someone feels uncomfortable using an Electron app, they can still install plain Basilisk, which works just fine. I don't know if you can distribute OS 8.1, but there certainly might be
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by mnl 6y ago
I would have mentioned at least DESQview because it's rather nice and then OS/2 for obvious reasons. About the memory model, for instance Wikipedia does a decent job (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_me
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by mnl 6y ago
It's just that at some point you run out of letters, having some 35 glyphs more just comes in handy. Very much so if you have indices for different spaces. Notation shouldn't be a problem if it's compact enough. Then the bra-
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by mnl 6y ago
I think that if you really believe your idea has some merit, you should still write a paper. After that you can blog about it for any audience out there and maybe write a follow-up. You're a professional, you know how it works.
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by mnl 7y ago
Well, it happens to be both things. I have no doubt that you will find international criminal law fascinating, you just have to google it.
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by mnl 7y ago
Wow... So the military of the state that has contributed most to the global cumulative CO2 emissions (25%) can "solve" the problem with indiscriminate attacks and war crimes everywhere else now. Fascinating. Are people forgetting
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by mnl 7y ago
>Europe outside of Germany has no advanced industrial capabilities at all Could you at least google about this topic before going on building a whole theory on top of an absurd statement? So France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden etc in the
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by mnl 7y ago
> If we were really nitpicky about falsification, we would completely cease doing/studying/researching psychology, economics and a whole host of complex topics. Each scientific discipline has its own standards. We're talki

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