timberfox

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by timberfox 3y ago
As an alternative, here's a really minimalist command-line wrapper to run VMs in the macOS Virtualization.framework: https://github.com/evansm7/vftool
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by timberfox 4y ago
He was an outstanding player and had an impact in the game like no other player before him. His peak performance coincided with the mass media surge of the late 60's. One nitpick is that he did not carry Brazil to 3 world cup victories
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by timberfox 4y ago
What most physicists refer to as "particle" is very different from what lay people understand by that term. If you ask physicists at the LHC about particles, they will explain what I've already mentioned, because what I'
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by timberfox 4y ago
What wave are you referring to?
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by timberfox 4y ago
I'm not a fan of the Many-Worlds Interpretation :-) As for the electron, it is an oscillator described by a wave function, quantized, without locality. Here is an image of the wave function interpreted as a probability density: https:
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by timberfox 4y ago
Quanta is fundamental to Quantum Field Theory so it can't be the deviding factor. I would say we are biased to think in terms of particles because our brains and senses have evolved to perceive macro objects as having a precise locatio
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by timberfox 4y ago
I wouldn't say Einstein was wrong. It is a sad story that he never got to see the work of Nobel laureate Julian Schwinger on Quantum Field Theory, or the contributions of other Nobel laureates like Frank Wilczek. Switching from a parti
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by timberfox 4y ago
My experience is quite different: I feel extremely productive working in the terminal, and what is described in the article as "The frozen world" is for me a virtue of the UNIX philosophy: the structure is not embedded in the data