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- Comment on xkcd #3174: Bridge Clearance 3 days ago:
Unless the lorry was driving over the exact geographic north or south pole.
Side note: the tallest lorry where the top doesn’t move faster than the speed of light at the equator is 3.8 light hours tall, which is weird to think about because the top doesn’t start moving until well after the bottom has reached it’s destination.
- Comment on True staple of the format 1 month ago:
Obviously context matters here. I’m usually happy to answer most questions. I reserve those types of ‘just google it’ responses for the people who skip FAQs, ping me when they know I’m focused/busy and generally don’t respect my time.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 2 months ago:
New conspiracy: The government planned this decades ago and had the video ready in advance.
- Comment on How about I just find a bush outside? 2 months ago:
The duality of man
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 5 months ago:
I tried Minetest a while ago and was never really able to get into it. The new player experience was rough, a lot of decision paralysis. The texture style can vary between mods and servers. It didn’t feel very cohesive. I don’t know if that has changed since I last played, but to me it didn’t feel like a minecraft killer then.
From what I can tell, Hytale was supposed to be a bit like Terreria in 3D, as well as a platform for minigames. The gameplay and graphics from the trailers looked really good. I’m sure it would have been a Minecraft killer for some. (Ex. players who primarily play for the minigames like bedwars)
- Comment on AI boomer trait 5 months ago:
“boomer” in this is just being used as slang for “old people”.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 6 months ago:
I feel like that might have been the point. Rather than “using a car to go from A to B” they walked.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 6 months ago:
It may be worth it to decide how we define ‘unstoppable force’ and ‘immovable object’.
An Immovable Object has 0 velocity:
v = 0
Acceleration is the time derivative of velocity:
a = d/dt(v(t))
a = d/dt(0)
a = 0
And we know that
a = F~net~ / m
An object with infinite mass would satisfy this equation, but an object with no net force would too. We could add a correction force that will satisfy the constraint of 0 net force.
|F~net~| = 0
∑F~i~ = 0
F~correction~ + … = 0
To satisfy Newton’s 3rd law, we would need a reaction force to our correction force somewhere, but let’s not worry about that for now.
A physics definition of ‘Unstoppable Force’ is:
|F~unstoppable~| =/= 0
In this case the gravitational force fits this description, given a few constraints
F~g~ = Gm∑ M~i~ / x~i~^2^
As long as the gravitational constant G is not 0, our object has mass, and
∑ M~i~ / x~i~^2^ =/= 0, then
|F~g~| > 0
But this does feel kinda like cheating because it’s not really what people mean by ‘unstoppable force’. the other way to define it is just immovable object in a different reference frame.
a = 0, |v| > 0
I’m gonna stop here because this is annoying to type out on mobile
- Comment on Some local LLMs tested on an average gaming PC 7 months ago:
Nuh-uh! You can configure Minecraft to use all that memory to run buttery smooth. Just make sure to not play longer than 15 minutes so you don’t get the mother-of-god lagspike when the garbage collector finally runs.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 8 months ago:
Show me the fucking feather
- Comment on Didn't believe what I was seeing 9 months ago:
Every turn of the wheel would still twist the strap, pulling it tighter