untoxicness

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by untoxicness 2y ago
The best understanding of matter is in the form of quantum field theory (QFT). QFT is always formulated with some background metric (geometry) of spacetime as an input. One idea is that the metric (geometry, gravity) could be a field just a
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by untoxicness 3y ago
> The excellent VimTeX plugin is the reason to use Vim over another LaTeX editor. I agree that the plugin is best-in-class. Whenever I write LaTeX in Vim without the plugin installed I feel incredibly handicapped. (Also the documentation
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by untoxicness 3y ago
Reminds me of the "lumiroses" from Margaret Atwood's dystopian MaddAddam trilogy. Although the roses are not integral to the books, the general theme of the series is taking bioengineering one step too far.
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by untoxicness 4y ago
What kind of features are not covered by the current implementation of profiles? < https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-... >
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by untoxicness 4y ago
This is correct as long as you restrict your point of view only to sets. Even in pure mathematics one is usually interested in sets with additional structures. For instance, even though one speaks of the "set of real numbers" one
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by untoxicness 5y ago
Indeed. We can only hope this is an intentional self-referential joke.
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by untoxicness 5y ago
#! /bin/bash pdf_one="$1" pdf_two="$2" text_one=$(mktemp) text_two=$(mktemp) pdftotext "$pdf_one" "$text_one" pdftotext "$pdf_two" "$text_two" diff
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by untoxicness 5y ago
> Ability to change order of accounts in UI I was always perplexed when I had to change the ordering of my accounts and still had to do it manually by editing the configuration after all these years. A big improvement for sure!
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by untoxicness 5y ago
While I agree that the article should have mentioned black hole evaporation, I would like to point out that "dA/dt > 0" is commonly referred to as "Hawking's area theorem" as a quick online search can verify
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by untoxicness 5y ago
There are other forms of coercion than bribery.
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by untoxicness 5y ago
You are right, there is no difference. As a matter of fact, many physicists work with a signature of (+,-,-,-) to describe the spacetime of our universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_convention#Relativity
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by untoxicness 5y ago
Another book by Greg Egan exploring different metrics of spacetime is Dichronauts. In Orthogonal the metric signature explored is (+,+,+,+). In Dicronauts the metric signature explored is (-,-,+,+). (We live in a universe with metric signat
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by untoxicness 6y ago
> The website is protected with Google Recaptcha Which website? The Plausible register page uses hCaptcha ( https://plausible.io/register ).
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by untoxicness 6y ago
> I too stumbled upon Classic Tetris through the Youtube algorithm. To me this aspect was the most fascinating point about this article. I cannot shake the feeling that the algorithm "decided" for many individuals how to spend
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by untoxicness 6y ago
"That Harvard Astronomer" is Avi Loeb. Loeb was recently a guest on the Lex Fridman podcast where he talked about Oumuamua amongst other things. [0] I found his view on the subject fascinating and his perspective on science refres
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by untoxicness 6y ago
Brian Kernighan talked about his love of awk on the Lex Fridman podcast [0]. [0] https://lexfridman.com/brian-kernighan/
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by untoxicness 6y ago
This feels different from censorship on Twitter and Facebook to me. I guess the business model of Mailchimp is more transparent and I can appreciate that a company may choose who to do business with.
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by untoxicness 6y ago
Grant Sanderson, the creator of Manim, talked about Manim on the Lex Fridman podcast[0]. He emphasized that he is no software engineer and did not plan on making Manim publicly available when he started. [0] https://lexfridman.co