mr_mitm

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by mr_mitm 1y ago
The way I see it is that it could only actually collapse if the electron was headed precisely at the nucleus (the nucleus has diameter zero in this simplified model). Even in classical physics, the electron would move on an ellipsis around
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
In the end, that's true for all why questions in physics. In the end, things don't have a reason for how they behave, they just do. The question of why only makes sense in a framework. Classical EM theory says electrons should fal
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
Single particles do not have a temperature. It's an emergent property of many-particle systems.
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by mr_mitm 1y ago
Being small and relatively unknown has advantages. Sean Carroll touched on this: >But what I'm trying to get across is there are a bunch of structural reasons why physics departments tend to be conservative, and the conservative in
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
I haven't done it, but Ansible would be the equivalent to group policies, no? The learning curve is very different though. You can use Samba and Kerberos for identity management. But again, very different to use.
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
> This is especially important for devices with limited resources, like smartphones and IoT devices. This efficiency is one of the reasons why ellipti I doubt there has been a smartphone in history that had even the slightest issue with
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
So strange, I haven't had this much fun at coding in a long time. It's amazing.
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
I read it as more of an experiment to gauge the capabilities of AI than an attempt at cheating. I'm impressed that AI is that good.
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
Also from the tweet; > It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing You were never supposed to vibe code on serious projects.
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
The controversy exists only in laypeople cirlces to be honest. Consesus among actual scientists is pretty firm.
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
How is that number measured if I may ask?
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
I posted this literally yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43726217
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
You seem to have a concept that a scientific model is either "true" or "wrong", but that's not case. All models are wrong, but some are more useful than others. It's better to judge models by their ability to d
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
Just FYI I have a PhD in cosmology, so no need to explain to me what "Dark Matter" does or doesn't mean, but thanks anyway. It sounds like you saw that video by Angela Collier about how Dark Matter is a set of observations, a
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
That paper focuses on rotation curves, like all DM skeptics. I can only assume because this problem is understandable with high school level math. But that's neither the only nor the best evidence for DM. If your new hypothesis doesn&#
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
Nobody said it's "true", whatever that even means for a model. The claim is that it's the best anyone has been able to come up with. And not for a lack of trying. Everybody also acknowledges that there are issue with DM,
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
This is basically the first and most common objection laypeople have. (In fact, this comes up in every single thread on HN about DM, not exaggerating.) Believe it or not, scientists have thought of that as well. They tried, and nothing fits
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
He wants to look for discontinuities in the Hubble relation. Quoting from the article: > Looking to the future of his research, Lieu says the next step to validating his model of the cosmos could come through observations using earthboun
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
That's mainly because our population roughly grew exponentially lately. That won't continue. Energy production is not something self-amplifying like a population of rabbits, so there is no fundamental reason why energy production
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
I wasn't talking about chemicals. My computation assumed an antimatter engine. Any drive is bound by conservation of energy and momentum. I guess you wanted to object to an propulsion drive. Sure, you can do some fly by maneuvers or us
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
Calling it simply an engineering issue is not properly conveying the ridiculousness of such a journey. For a small space ship of 1000 tons, this would take ten thousand times the current yearly energy consumption of mankind. So we'd n
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
These were fun times. I've been working as a pentester for the past ten years, and the job got a lot harder, with everything using frameworks and containerization. We still get plenty of results, because the tooling also gets better, a
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
That's why it's a good idea to block connections of all protocols into address ranges where an attacker might be able to host a service. Even on internal networks, if you are a corporation. But it gets better than tunneling over I
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
Heat death was never the only option in GR. The field equations always allowed for a big crunch or a big rip.
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
> People can't even be bothered to read docs but will just blindly install a package just because someone was able to package it and upload it to PyPI. That's a straw man argument. No one said "blindly". You can very
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
Are you saying you never pull in dependencies? Why stop there, why not re-implement the std lib as well? Surely there is a sensible middle ground: If you only need a small part of a dependency, consider implementing it. If you make heavy us
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
You can like songs, which will then be added to your playlist of liked songs. Sounds like that's waht you want.
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
This was also my first thought, that for example if you interact with official bodies in Germany, there is definitely an expectation that you speak German, even though you'll be accommodated if you're lucky and the other person sp
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
There was even an expression coined for this phenomenon in Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions We have lots of SMEs that are world leading in their niche, but most people have never heard of them.
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by mr_mitm 2y ago
That's actually not life in a lot of countries that aren't the United States. It's not a law of nature that you can be fired for no reason and no notice. We as a society make these laws.

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