aberrate_junior_beatnik
@aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social
- Comment on Irrational 1 week ago:
No, by our current understanding there is no length smaller than a Planck length, and any distance must therefore be divisible by an integer. That is, the length is made up of discrete quanta. Pi, or any other irrational number, is by definition not divisible by an integer, or it would be a ratio, making it rational. This has nothing to do with the accuracy or precision of our measures.
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
Plus, if you have two people with legit access, you can pretty easily figure out what’s going on and defeat it.
- Comment on Irrational 1 week ago:
My only guess as to what this could mean is that since quantum mechanics is quantum, i.e. discrete, the universe therefore cannot be continuous as the reals are. But this is a category error. Just because you could never find an object that is, say, exactly pi meters long, does not mean that the definition of pi is threatened. There’s nothing infinite that we can observe, but infinity is still a useful concept. And it works both ways; just because quantum mechanics is our best model of the universe doesn’t mean the universe is therefore quantum. 150 years ago everyone believed the universe was like a big clockwork mechanism, perfectly deterministic, because Newtonian physics are deterministic. And who knows, maybe they were right, and we just don’t have the framework to understand it so we have a nondeterministic approximation!
- Comment on Irrational 1 week ago:
So because quantum mechanics is well modeled by imaginary numbers, the existence of quantum particles threatens the definition of irrational numbers? That doesn’t make any sense.
- Comment on Nato is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons in the face of a growing threat from Russia and China, the head of the alliance says 2 weeks ago:
Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 1 month ago:
Yeah, I sometimes forget that the law isn’t a code to be broken with this One Neat Trick. That goes double when you are going up against power.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 1 month ago:
The ToS forbids satirical reviews. I’d start a review by reading out this portion of the ToS and then make a list of things I hate, just saying I’m not allowed to talk about this aspect of the game.
- Comment on Blast! 1 month ago:
Also MFW my desire to be loved and understood is thwarted by my fear of loss and the existential horror of being known
- Comment on Justice system in America 1 month ago:
Aaron Swartz was never convicted for these crime, much less sentenced to 35 years. According to wikipedia, his maximum exposure was 50 years and $1 million in fines; he almost certainly would not have faced those in sentencing.
This is not to diminish the terrorist tactics of the prosecutors that lead to his death. ACAB
- Comment on "Yeah, yeah, I totally know what a lion looks like, just give me the brush" 1 month ago:
boomer-ass joke
- Comment on Western media launders israeli lies to manufacture more consent for Genocide 1 month ago:
I don’t think there’s a claim that the base itself was attacked, but instead that soldiers that were stationed at that base (which was a staging area for an invasion of Rafah) were attacked. The original Israeli source says that the soldiers were “near” the crossing. This seems like a far cry from the crossing itself being attacked, which is what the US articles claim or at least imply.
- Comment on evangelism 1 month ago:
I don’t want to be on this planet anymore
- Comment on why did the eclipse not darken proportionally? 2 months ago:
My guess is that it’s related to the Weber-Fechner laws of perception. This is the same principle that explains why turning a second light on doesn’t make a room seem twice as bright.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow on Search Engine Enshittification 2 months ago:
I completely agree with his points but enshittification is such a cringey word
- Comment on Sulfur Better than Hydrogen for Energy Storage, Engineers Find 2 months ago:
I just don’t trust Dr. Hossenfelder after her horrendous trans critical and pro capitalism videos.
- Comment on Biden 'outraged' over Israel strike on World Central Kitchen staff in Gaza 2 months ago:
Irrelevant. Someone who is outraged shouldn’t be offering to help in the future, either.
- Comment on Biden 'outraged' over Israel strike on World Central Kitchen staff in Gaza 2 months ago:
Amazing to be throwing around the word misogynist while unironically using misogynist insults
- Comment on Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media 3 months ago:
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to watch as those who didn’t repeat it.
- Comment on Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media 3 months ago:
Technology and policy matter. nytimes.com/…/facebook-refugee-attacks-germany.ht…
- Comment on Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business 3 months ago:
As someone from the US, a hearty thank you to Europeans. Not all of these will directly benefit me, but some of it will. Also, Apple has to be so fucking mad that they can’t keep their app store monopoly, even if just in Europe.
- Comment on Love to do this 3 months ago:
So satisfying
- Comment on This Windows tool makes it super easy to debloat and cut down ads on your Android TV 4 months ago:
Here, I drew the word “Just” in this post
[Caption for the visually impaired: “Atlas holding up the celestial globe” by Guercino]
- Comment on dotnet developer 4 months ago:
Ok, but we all should admit: .net is a terrible name.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
IMO the best way to ensure that traffic always goes through a VPN is to use network namespaces. The wireguard website has an article describing the process. In a nutshell, you create a dedicated namespace to put the physical interface in, create the wireguard interface in that namespace, then move the wireguard interface to the root (“normal”) namespace. That way the only way to get traffic out without the VPN is to run a program in that dedicated namespace.
- Comment on Do Huawei phones have a secret backdoor that the Chinese government can access? 5 months ago:
The US is often used as a synecdoche for the five eyes, the “western world”, nato, etc. Stop being so obtuse.
- Comment on Do Huawei phones have a secret backdoor that the Chinese government can access? 5 months ago:
Because asking whether a chinese phone is spying on you is a loaded question.
- Comment on Photo of the Year 7 months ago:
I’ll never be this cool, and I just have to be OK with it
- Comment on again and again and again... 7 months ago:
No but see now you get to pee, which feels good. It’s just a bonus!
- Comment on LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand 8 months ago:
I will likely never get a tattoo. But I know there are lots of reasons to get tattoos, and it seems to me that the vast majority of people not only don’t regret but feel good about the tattoos they get. So I dunno, sleep on it, but go ahead and get a tattoo if you really want.
- Comment on The Most Streamed Movies in 2022 9 months ago:
Hard to believe people spent almost 30 quadrillion minutes watching Encanto, but there it is.
