@freemo good analogy, since in the household despite everyone sharing things the "ruling class" of parents has 100% of the ruling and resource distributing power and if they are bad at it the children can do nothing but suffer.
@methyltheobromine @freemo Canโt remember, @freemo werenโt you looking to hire some people for something? Do you still have openings?
Units are the cheat code to every physics/chemistry test. Once you know the units of your "known" you can usually derive almost any equation from simple logic. At a minimum it will get you close enough that you can remember the rest if you studied at least a little bit.
I just walked an organic chemistry student through hat on a fairly tough problem. Just showed them how every unit for every known can infer an equation, and all those equations for all your known will either get you to a complete system of equations to derive your needed formula, or will at least get you most of the way there and you can fill in the rest with a bit of logic).
It worked, we were trying to calculate morality for an acid when only the percentage by weight is given
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A strongly right wing, anti-welfare anti-"socialism" guy was posting thinking he was smart and said "want to teach kids socialism, when they do chores take 70% of what you give them and give it to the kids who didnt do any chores".... my response was "Dude, you grew up in a house for free, were fed for free, you already grew up on communism, thats literally what communism is, your mother raised you on communism, taught you communism" and he goes "My mom actually paid me $1 for chores which is all she could afford"... to which i responded "Oh she paid you what you she could afford, not your fair free market value? Your right, that isnt communism, thats socialism then, you were raised on socialism".
The guy has been having a perpetual meltdown in the comments ever since. It is glorious, absolutely glorious.
Have you ever had the sensation of hunger turn into a sneeze.
A day or two ago i had that happen and it was so weird. My stomach was empty and got that really uncomfortable feeling where it sucks up into itself and makes you feel physical discomfort. Then it jsut turned into a sneeze and went away, weirdest thing.
@freemo This has the vibes of one of those factory games which is kind of cool.
@freemo I like the first
@youronlyone Agreed, as I said the service is problematic.
But the important thing to point out here is it really has nothing to do with trademark. Its a trademark-like system that has been privatized and is unrelated to legal trademarks.
It would be more appropriate to describe it as a way for companies to reserve domain names at a cost without actually needing to buy those domain names. Perhaps broadly enough to be considered a regex. Thinking this has any real relationship to trademarks just leads you down the wrong path when thinking about this IMO.
#QOTO is back up after a short downtime. As far as I can tell the fix went smoothly. Hopefully that will address the last of the problems from migration.
In about 10 minutes #QOTO will be going down shortly in an attempt to fix a 16G table that may be at the root of one small lingering problem post migration. Luckily we have good backups and the table can always be recreated from scratch.
So should be back up shortly hopefully with the last needed fix in place and we can start the upgrades soon.
@freemo So, if I blast LED with a strong light, it should generate some/small voltage?
Interesting fact of the day. While solar panels do generate some energy from visible light the overwhelming majority is in fact int he infrared part of the spectrum. In fact its peak is well within the infrared but has a black-body like curve.
Since solar panels are essentially just LEDs designed to have maximum surface area this works in both directions. If you apply a voltage to solar panels they will visibly glow in infrared light.
When the two parties involved remain static that would be true in many cases. 10x the deaths for a day is less than 10 years of 1/10ths the deaths. Sure thats fair.
But thats not the case here. We are talking about a relatively small war over a long period of time vs a world war involving the entire world, which based on past world wars is likely to last years.
To put this to actual numbers. WWII resulted in, on average, 10,000 deaths per day over a 7 year period. Resulting in 53 million deaths total.
By contrast in the ukranian-russian war, in its current phase has been going on for exactly 2 year as of 2 days ago. In the course of those two years there has been a total estimated death toll of half a million. That is 684 people per day.
So a large world war results in ~20x more people killed per day then a much smaller, but potentially longer lasting war. Considering a global war tends to not be short, as ~7 years given past incidents that would mean the russion-ukrain war would have to last 140 years in order to cause more casualties than the world war that would result if the USA got directly involved.
@freemo it's only laterally symmetric, but longitudinally it can still provide stability. Suppose the legs are enough ballast to keep it from rolling - the barrel shape just has to provide enough resistance to pitching to counteract the weight of the head and stop the animal from tipping forward.
Also airplane fuselages are just cylindrical because that's the easiest shape to design a pressure vessel in. It would certainly be convenient to have a rectangular cross section from the perspective of volumetric efficiency, but it'd have to be far stiffer and thus heavier. Planes that place a higher premium on aerodynamic efficiency - fighter jets, aerobatic planes, gliders - don't generally bear much as resemblance to a barrel.
interesting fact of the day: Thermal conductivity of all known materials spans ~ 5 orders of magnitude with a perfect vacuum being the least conductive and diamond being the most. (and diamond is insanely impressive at it compared to even most metals).
By comparison electrical conductivity spans 30 orders of magnitude, not counting super conductivity, between a vacuum and silver.
The reason superconductivity probably shouldn't be considered is because while it is truly a perfect conductor it does have a maximum capacity at which point it will break down and show normal conductivity properties again. So it doesn't actually behave like normal conductivity.
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