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841.
by simiones 3y ago
> Vibration of charged particle produces EM-waves. Those EM-waves are not photons. Yes, they are. In the Standard Model, the photon is the "carrier" particle of the EM field. Any EM interaction between any two charged particles
842.
by simiones 3y ago
Really? A Clockwork Orange, Annie Hall, Taxi Driver, and Star Wars all feel the same to you? I think Stanley Kubrick's films alone are more different to one another than half the Hollywood films made today.
843.
by simiones 3y ago
That's not how quantum mechanics works. Radio waves are photons, and photons are radio waves. Different experiments will reveal different aspects of it, but these are not separate phenomena. Also, the exact same thing is true of every
844.
by simiones 3y ago
It's a bit funny because it's actually hard to represent Python code in regular HTML, exactly because of this collapsing. For example, here is some Python code typed correctly in the comment box but rendered without the code forma
845.
by simiones 3y ago
If to you brain-computer interfaces also include AR/VR, then in that sense only I can agree that they are probably the future. However, you are wildly overestimating how near brain-computer interfaces are if you think they will obsol
846.
by simiones 3y ago
> My phone is on my wrist currently (Apple watch), I left my iphone at home. To me your prediction would have been correct (for now). Your Apple Watch is still dependent on your iPhone. You're also unlikely to be browsing the web, w
847.
by simiones 3y ago
Aren't they just a division inside IBM now?
848.
by simiones 3y ago
Sure, but we need to base our predictions of the future on our experience of existing similar technologies to have any credbility. For example, if I predicted that phones the size of a coin are the future, you could meaningfully say "i
849.
by simiones 3y ago
Many people absolutely doubt that. There is absolutely no reason to believe it so far - from all of my experience, both VR and AR are technically inferior to a screen in almost every way that actually matters, except for a short demo.
850.
by simiones 3y ago
But all of these people are already actually truly dead, with their physical body not existing much more than the mummified remains you sometimes find in other places. The fact that they're frozen rather than dessicated is irrelevant -
851.
by simiones 3y ago
> You probably agree with that statement while I have different intuitions. I most certainly do not. That phrase has nothing to do with this discussion in fact - it applies to cases of making private statements either public or at least
852.
by simiones 3y ago
Publishing is a whole other thing, but why should I be worried that someone is recording what I'm saying, in general? And if I'm discussing sensitive information (say, I'm discussing an extra-marital affair, or illegal conduc
853.
by simiones 3y ago
Sure, that's why there are three more items on the list.
854.
by simiones 3y ago
Look at it another way: if they can't even get the launch pad not to catastrophically fail and endanger the facility and all of their permits, why should we trust them to do anything else more complex much better?
855.
by simiones 3y ago
And yet, the SLS has flied one successful mission and put something in lunar orbit without a hitch, while Starship failed in so many ways: - it destroyed its pad - it went off course as soon as it left the pad - 8 out of 33 engines failed -
856.
by simiones 3y ago
It's not that it could risk that, it's that it absolutely means you lose your RHEL account (and any other contract you had with IBM), at least if they find out about it.
857.
by simiones 3y ago
> What's now changed is that these patches are either (a) not distributed as required by the GPL, or (b) the patches are distributed, but in a way that is intentionally less useful, e.g. by having to get them via the Red Hat portal.
858.
by simiones 3y ago
> now that it is known that it was essentially a disgusting totalitarian political censorship and propaganda tool for one of the 2 political flavors in the US. Everything we've seen from the Twitter threads suggests that they were w
859.
by simiones 3y ago
I think most have realized by now that self-driving is not a serious possibility anytime soon for anything other than a nice option to upsell the car by some small margin. And Tesla FSD is not even best-in-class between car manufacturers (M
860.
by simiones 3y ago
Don't lay people hold the ball using the finger and thumb holes with just one hand? The way he throws is completely different from any technique I've seen anyone play in regular bowling (though similar techniques may be more commo
861.
by simiones 3y ago
The definition of marriage in the Church has little to do with the legal definition of marriage - except for the fact that the Church is trying to impose its views on the law where it suits them. Also, different christian denominations have
862.
by simiones 3y ago
One day we'll start having microorganisms that can break down plastics efficiently. It took a few million years for wood, so I'm not holding my breath until it happens, but it will almost certainly happen. So the worse that can ha
863.
by simiones 3y ago
Voters have a much higher chance of collectively modifying this behavior than consumers do. It's not easy, and the will doesn't seem to be there yet, but it's a hell of a lot easier to influence politicians than corporate con
864.
by simiones 3y ago
Collect it for what? Glass is somewhat easily recyclable, most plastics are not. Even if it's collected with utmost care, it will be taken to a landfill, or "sent to China for recycling" (spilled in the ocean) or burned in a
865.
by simiones 3y ago
One important note here is that one of the reasons we use plastic so much is because it is not biodegradable . Any material that would replace plastic packaging, for example, has to at least be less biodegradable than the contents itself.
866.
by simiones 3y ago
Even worse, each "part" of the atom is itself infinitely small/point-like (electrons), or made up of infinitely small things (protons and neutrons, made up of infinitely small quarks).
867.
by simiones 3y ago
According to the comment above, `cmd -u my_special_user` will only use the value "my_special_user" if none of the other 21 places have another configuration for the user, right?
868.
by simiones 3y ago
I don't know why this mistake gets repeated, but NNs are universal continous function approximators. They can't approximate non-continuous functions in general, and there are plenty of non-continuous computable functions. Also,
869.
by simiones 3y ago
The only reason this experiment seems to have worked is because it was brutal. So not sure what the relevance is. I imagine you could induce serious vertigo through VR in someone, and associate it with smoking in the same way, but that&#x
870.
by simiones 3y ago
You may be right about what you're describing, but this sounds incomparably more like bullshit than any chance of being right. I've played with VR, and it's really not that immersive - no more than any other good media. In pa

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