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The problem with this approach is that although you reduced procrastination you basically eliminated most useful search results. Searching without adding 'reddit' or 'wikipedia' yields 99% spam

Not to be confused with viXra, which is a sci-fi alternative to arXiv

What scientific research values the most is references and being able to read them.

What tech values the least is the ability to access two years old blogposts

> Once they were told to never under any circumstances share their password with anyone else.

That ship has sailed a long time ago, I vividly remember in around 2010/2011 my friend was opening a Facebook account in front of me and it asked for his e-mail and his e-mail's password which he gave without blinking.

I was stunned, couldn't believe my eyes

If you're looking for other similar gems I also highly recommend Huygens Optics [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/HuygensOptics

I wonder if the ad bombardment we are suffering for some years now will eventually reach a critical point to trigger mass exodus or protests.

TV got annoying with ads and viewership greatly decreased but that was caused by the emergence of the internet I think, what new technology options we have to escape the current ads to? The only other hope is that the massive amount of money in ads and data collection is actually a bubble that will collapse

btw. Ben Krasnow is the guy behind Applied Science youtube channel[0], I highly recommend checking it out

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/AppliedScience

True, my comment was a bit loaded but 'shit' in my comment was not really mean excrements... I used it to mean 'problems' in a hard, loaded way like 'This is the shit I have to deal with' with some parallels to homelessness but if you read my comment again, it doesn't really say what you think it does

People are willing to put up with a lot if it means they don't give anything to someone that doesn't deserve it.

'I will walk through a pile of shit before my money is used for you to shit somewhere else you lazy fuck'

It's not a slight distinction, the smirk is missing and is replaced by the '/s'

It awfully similar to humming or 'pretend percussion with your fingers' of the song you're hearing in your head. It's basically spot on for you but most of the time no one else has a clue what the hell are you trying to pretend to play

>because there is a very real difference from a photon going from the Sun to the Earth, to a photon going from the Sun to Jupiter.

Not from the photon's point of view. This is very crucial and it is not because of notation or maths. The real difference is from your point of view. I know it's counter-intuitive but that's different from being useless.

Sun->Earth or Sun->Jupiter is a small beer. It is the same for photons from the CMB being recorded. For them, they have been emitted and absorbed at the same instant and experienced no passage of time or distance traveled

Not from the photon's point of view. It is emitted and absorbed immediately. The distance traveled (in 4d spacetime) of a photon is always 0, no matter (pun intended) what's in between or what you observe.

Emergence of chaos in differential equations is pretty much one of the frontiers of pure mathematics

I fully agree, I'm not blaming him.

It is interesting though that maths was taught for a 1000 years from Euclid's Elements, Euclid living approximately at the same time as Aristotle, and it is still as valid today as it was 2000 years ago but physics was taught from Aristotle's teaching and it was just bonkers. Took 1000 years for someone to finally say 'wait, something's not right'

This is survivorship bias. They 'knew' it only retrospectively, they also 'knew' a lot of different incorrect theories. In some sense one could argue that Aristotle halted the progress of physics for about a thousand years (not related to atoms, but a general comment of what the Ancient Greek 'knew')

'This video was sponsored by X' is ok.

And that is ho... 'HEY! Don't forget to check out X!' is not

I browse pics at r/WeWantPlates. Reddit is great for that as long as old.reddit.com works, NSFW subreddits are also great link aggregators for specific niches. Other than that I don't know why would anyone want to be there

Also success means something different here for the most part, maybe as a result of what you said above. It's more of a 'business' than 'startup' and if you're profitable that means you have a successful business. I think that big acquisition exit/IPO is a more of a wish/dream rather than a goal here

If anyone is interested, [0] is what OP is talking about I think

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URgdIAz4QNg

That's UK thing, maybe Commonwealth. I think virtually non-existing in rest of Europe

There is also a Beal Conjecture[0] worth a million

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beal_conjecture

As others pointed out, it depends on your energy needs. You need matter for fusion and almost all of the matter of the solar system is in the sun so you can either extract mass from the sun and do the fusion yourself or... let the sun do the fusion, as it already does, and just harness that

Who decides what's obscene?

A society. Gov't doesn't beam down to Earth from space but is elected. Overstep and you won't be voted on again and the bullshit will be reversed

There is a skin and a skull in front of it. Of course you can fry someone with microwaves, magnetrons are all sort of dangerous at high enough power (lasers are too) but what they are not is selective and a cause of weird brain effects

And also, the only thing you need to detect it is a very simple antenna, you can't hide radiation

What I don't understand about discussions in this thread is that RF is treated as almost magic and 'new technology' can make it do anything. Electromagnetism is virtually perfectly understood and there is nothing more it can do, definitely not responsible for nausea ffs without burning you from the outside... (unless it's ionizing radiation at the other side o the spectrum from RF but radiation sickness is also well understood and would be super hard to miss). Not to mention sound that apparently is being heard...

If someone really is targeting US diplomats worldwide, with those sets of symptoms, why does it have to be a sci-fi tech instead of, old as time itself, plain poisoning

It's the same malware behaviour as 'Yes / Remind me later'

> It doesn’t pay to be the angry, unapproachable person in life.

Besides the ageism thing (because I'm still relatively young so it doesn't, admittedly, affect me) I've noticed the same exact thing about cynicism. If you're always angry you will eventually only see reasons to be angry because no one else will keep interacting with you. Similarly, if you're a cynic about everything you will soon find yourself in an environment that only reinforces your believes because everyone else gets tired of it

> Excuse me but WTF is the problem with an elderly man having a tank? He can probably barely even climb into it let alone drive it

Besides the fact that the law doesn't stop applying to you when you're old enough, maybe the more convincing argument would be that it's easier to steal it from an elderly man than from the army or museum

> I can tell you that the way I think about memory and memory access in this world is very different than my thinking about it in python for over a decade

Would you be able to shed some more light on this in the opposite direction? I would appreciate it because I'm moving to a higher role and I would like to develop tools my team can use to streamline development but I can't implement them myself and I'm very anxious to take over the tools team because my brain is wired in a very different way (I know what they need but not how it should be written) and what I think is important is probably last year's snow there so I'll be slowing down things unnecessarily. Any advice?

I've been thinking about it a bit more and I think I've gotten to the bottom of the point I'm trying to make. But again, it's very subtle and unimportant 99% of time but it's the way I tend to think about code

First example (C):

for(i=0; i<N ;i++) { t = data[i]; ... }

Second example (python):

for t in data: ...

The difference is that in the second example I'm telling the compiler what I want to *have*. It will give me exactly that ('t' will contain consecutive values from 'data') and it will do it's best automagically. In the first example however, I'm telling the compiler what to *do* and it will just and only follow orders (iterate 'i', copy the value from data+i to 't').

Insignificant difference most of the time but an important one to me. And sugar makes it more complicated to distinguish what I told the compiler to do vs. what I wanted to have. Helps me with debugging and getting cycle count under control

> a lot of it is context dependent

I think you nailed it here what I couldn't put in words. I don't mind context-dependency when it's in the code I'm writing (calltree, variables, flags etc.) but for some reason if it's context-dependent in the language itself, hidden from me, it feels uncomfortable because I cannot change it, have to learn it and then have to debug it.