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cynar

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  • Printer recommendations

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  • Not even playing lip service to supporting the open source stuff they built upon. They've also recently been trying to lockdown and paywall (or just drop) features. Including legal action against people trying to undo the damage.

    The general sniff test is they are trying to lock people in before milking them for all they can.

  • Printer recommendations

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  • Both of those have a lot of bang for their buck. I had also missed both completely. 👍

  • xkcd #3238: Soniferous Aether

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  • QM isn't insane to understand. It's main issue is that it doesn't map well/at all to our normal experience. You need to dive into the maths, and accept what falls out.

    The main deeper level here is how the blurring happens. The photons explore all possible paths. The result is an integral of them all. In general, vast areas cancel out, leaving classical (ish) behaviour. This makes sense mathematically, but has no classical analogy to compare to.

  • xkcd #3238: Soniferous Aether

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  • It's quantum mechanical, so the maths gets complex. It can be simplified in a useful way however.

    Basically, atoms can absorb photons and then re-emit them. You can think of the photon flying past at C, but getting absorbed and emitted along the way, adding delays. In QM however, neat particles don't exist, it deals with quantised, probabilistic waves. The above effect gets blurred over the waveform. No one atom definitely absorbs it or doesn't, it gets blurred together into a general slowing of the wavefront.

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  • It can be formed, just not in the vast quantities it was back then. It requires unusual conditions to stop fungi making a meal out of it, before it gets buried deep enough.

  • The only thing you want to see on the website

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  • It could be worse. A "more information" button that automatically starts a voice/video call to the restaurant.

  • Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

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  • He just really likes pressure.

  • Just eat it! (How do you get your toddler to eat?!)

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  • If it's something new, stolen food is best food. Have something different yourself and let them try some from your plate. There's no expectation that they have to eat more, if they don't like it.

    If it's something they chose then they have a choice to eat it or not. It doesn't get replaced however.

    If it's something you chose, then that's more on you. As soon as my minion was talking, she started getting a say in what she wanted. Even if it did mean a mixed bowl of peas and sweetcorn became a staple for a while.

  • China’s ‘land aircraft carrier’ charges flying drone with microwave beam

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  • Assuming 1MW of transfer, and a 10m diameter beam, your looking at 12.5kW/m^2 . Not instant vaporisation, but dangerous in seconds to humans. The penetration was also mean the energy is delivered internally, where it's harder to deal with (short term).

    Any viable power transfer beam also, inherently, makes a good anti personnel weapon.

    While the maths is slightly better for short range transfers, like drones, it would still definitely not be something you want hitting your body.

  • NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating

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  • Imagine you have a paper balloon setup. It randomly takes hits from a high powered rifle. In theory, you could harvest the energy. However, it's delivered in such powerful, random bursts that capturing it is difficult.

    Gamma rays punch straight through the structure of the craft. The actual energy is small (around 1/1,000,000 of a joule), but it's so focused that it damages anything it hits. If it hits the atoms in a transistor, that transistor gets ripped up at an atomic level.

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  • Makes me think of Crawley, in "Good Omens".

  • NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating

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  • Plenty. Unfortunately it's mostly the nasty damaging kind, rather than the sort that can be turned into power. It also doesn't take much damage to add up, when you're dealing with large millennia time scales.

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  • The ring around it makes that less likely, though still plausible. It would also have to leach through the paint.

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  • Most likely.

    The box tends to sit slightly proud of the wall. When they plaster it in (particularly retroactively) they need to build up the plaster around the socket.

    Thicker plaster means more insulation, and less condensation. Less condensation, less mold.

    The ring around the socket also supports this. The edge where the new plaster gives way to the old. That point tends to be rougher, and so more prone to capturing mold.

    It could also be thicker paint causing the same effect. Most people do the wall with rollers, but sockets with a brush, leading to a thicker coat.

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  • As a parent I fully understand the need to curtail it. I also get how some parents could shake their baby to death. Feeling it and acting on it are totally different things.

    It's ok not to feel it. Our brains are often wired differently. I personally only get cuteness mildly. I mostly notice it by how I'm being biased, rather than a strong, independent emotion. You likely have chunks of it, but mentally bundle them into different emotions.

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  • Cute is part of our "don't kill the screaming baby" programming. Best described as emotionally attractive.

    It makes parents bond with children. As a spill over, it makes other adults not want to drop kick annoying small humans. It also stops older siblings wanting to murder the attention magnet that came into their life.

    The level of activation of this effect varies. It kicks in hard during pregnancy, both for mum, and anyone around them. Not feeling it strong is not a huge issue.

    It also tends to be blended with other emotional responses. You might actually feel it, but not recognise it as a separate emotion. The positive feeling towards cats is partly due to them being small, squishy, and big eyed. We default to them being babies/small children, and give them the leeway we would a child causing minor chaos. Cuteness is part of that effect.

  • Honda President After Visiting Chinese Auto Supplier:'We Have No Chance Against This'

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  • I'd recommend foiling it, rather than clipping. A grounded (0V) metal wrapping will become a Faraday cage. It's a bit more effort, but is reversible, if you so choose. E.g. when selling it. It is also less likely to trigger a fault sensor condition, and doesn't void the warranty if the computer craps out.

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  • Abnormalities from "normal" were a critical self defence feature, for our ancestors. E.g. a lack, or change, of bird song might indicate a predator in ambush. Unusual lighting might indicate a storm coming in.

    Our brains are wired to learn normal patterns. When those patterns change completely, we are fine with it. When they change subtly we don't like it.

    The threshold for this is different for different people. Personally, I'm fine with completely different maps, but off put by modified real maps. I also cannot watch soap operas, they are too close to "real" and trip alarms at their mismatches. Conversely, sci-fi and fantasy are fine, they are different enough to not set off my alarms. I know others who are set off by sci-fi, but soaps are within their norms.

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  • My childhood cat used to catch and eat mice. Unfortunately, it would leave their entrails on the kitchen floor. Listening to my mother curse, when she discovered them with her bare feet, was an interesting way to be woken up.

    I think you got off lightly with the stuffed toy. 🤷‍♂️😅