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- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 2 days ago:
It’s funny because earlobes are, like, all gristle.
- Comment on Darkness Everywhere 6 days ago:
Also going backwards in time compared to everyone else.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 1 week ago:
You are correct. The public only receives written transcripts of the relevant sections of tape only. Off-topic conversations, meaning anything that is not relevant to the air accident, are not released. The audio files are not released to the public.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 1 week ago:
It’s a real geopolitical problem for Russia. Russia got screwed by geography in terms of natural harbors that don’t freeze over in the winter. It’s why they’ve always had a crap navy, going way back into the imperial days.
Right now, the Russian Navy is based in Murmansk (brrrr. limited routes to get out into Atlantic) and the Black Sea. The Black Sea is bad for them because Turkey (a NATO member) makes sure to maintain total control of what passes through the Bosphorous.
Part of what Russia did in Syria during the civil war netted them a lease on a base on the Mediterranean. That could have had some use for power projection, but I think they lost it when a certain opthalmologist was expelled.
Anyhow, it’s hilarious when the trolls posing as MAGA Americans bring this up, because real Americans just take their total abundance of ports that don’t freeze over completely for granted. That’s why I point out secondary, less busy port cities on the Gulf of Mexico, where the water is actually pretty warm (instead of just not freezing over). Just to highlight how good the US has it. Even if we were forced to give up Norfolk and Coronado, there are plenty of other suitable places we could have naval bases.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 1 week ago:
Ah, yes. As a patriotic American I love our warm water ports like Corpus Christi and Tampa. Don’t you love warm water ports as well?
- Comment on Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License 1 week ago:
we have officially submitted upstream pull requests to the historical source repositories of Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III
Zork was originally developed for the PDP-10. It was split into titles I, II, and III for the home microcomputer market. I’d love to learn about just how many revision control systems this code has been through.
- Comment on Navy removes signs claiming a Mexican beach is US territory 2 weeks ago:
I’d like to conclude with a quote from Woody Guthrie:
There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me. Sign was painted, said, “Private Property” But on the back side, it didn’t say nothing. This land was made for you and me.
- Comment on Navy removes signs claiming a Mexican beach is US territory 2 weeks ago:
The gov is doing this thing with the signs because “trespassing” into the 100 ft.-wide “military base” is a much more serious crime than just crossing the border not at a port of entry.
The civilian chucklefucks they hired to put the signs up apparently failed to notice where they crossed the mouth of the river.
- Comment on Hilary can't catch a break 3 weeks ago:
I remember I went to a Mardi Gras parade that year, and every single float was a joke about Bill Clinton’s penis. Very family friendly that was.
- Comment on [Video] Anti-ICE protesters hold a 80’s themed yoga class outside the Portland ICE facility. 3 weeks ago:
This form of exercise is called aerobics. It is not yoga.
- Comment on Aeroplane 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure on newer 737s the autopilot disconnects when it detects a sufficient physical force on the yoke.
On airplanes that don’t do this, the autopilot servos are clutched so that you can still override them by applying a specified amount of force. There are reinforced points on the bottom of the dash panel that you can use with your foot to get leverage to help with this.
(This also applies as a backup on planes that do disconnect)
- Comment on The trauma. The terror. The humanity!!!1!!1! 3 weeks ago:
We might never know. Subway has been accused of bread shenanigans in the past (in addition to short-selling their footlongs).
- Comment on The trauma. The terror. The humanity!!!1!!1! 3 weeks ago:
The FBI crime lab didn’t even do any forensic analysis on whether the sub measured up to the full 12 inches or not.
It was such a shoddy investigation.
- Comment on Aeroplane 3 weeks ago:
Some more practical tips.
- if the autopilot is engaged, you can’t physically move the wheels, because it is moving them for you. Press the red button on the steering wheel to disconnect autopilot.
- That IAS tape on the left of the sky/ground box is the most important thing on the plane. It’s got red bands on the high side and low side that you should stay out of.
- if the plane tells you there’s a “stall, stall” you need to push the wheels forward to make the nose go down. And keep the speed above that lower red band.
- the black button on the wheel is the push-to-talk to talk on the radio, or maybe the internal PA system. Depends how it’s set up.
- most important: the switch for the “fasten seatbelt” sign is usually on the bottom of the top panel. You can flip it on and off as much as you want. (Older planes will also let you do this with the “no smoking” sign).
- Comment on one bright second 1 month ago:
And Hawking radiation. Hawking radiation is pretty “dark” for solar-mass scale black holes and up, but it can become relatively very intense for smaller holes.
For the holes we observe astronomically, the things we can see are the accretion disks and the orbits of stars around the black hole.
- Comment on Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988 — 'The Cube' would be used to develop the WWW, Doom, and Quake 1 month ago:
And the finder window layout with the successive columns of listings. I remember that on NeXT workstations in 1993. That’s around the first time I visited a world wide website.
- Comment on Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state? 1 month ago:
Just for context, almost every federal court is a branch of a state court.
This is not true at all.
Federal courts are part of the judicial branch, not the executive branch. So they don’t shut down when the executive branch “shuts down”, because the shutdown laws don’t apply to them. As a practical matter federal courts can keep running for a while using saved up court fee revenue. They will eventually run out of that money and gave some tough choices about what to do.
- Comment on Open journal question regarding Cosmology paper 1 month ago:
A prestigious college downloads the paper. What are the possible reasons?
Same reasons anyone else would want to read the paper? Abstract looks germane to someone’s research topic there?
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 2 months ago:
It’s pretty well settled mathematics that infinities are “the same size” if you can draw any kind of 1-to-1 mapping function between the two sets. If it’s 1-to-1, then every member of set A is paired off with a member of B, and there are no elements left over on either side.
In the example with even integers y versus all integers x, you can define the relation x <–> y = 2*x. So the two sets “have the same size”.
But the real numbers are provably larger than any of the integer sets. Meaning every possible mapping function leaves some reals leftover.
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 2 months ago:
There’s a rule that the flight has to be within so many minutes of a diversion airport at all times, and this is hard to do in Antarctica.
Nowadays, 180 minutes is fairly common, and there are some planes and airlines that can go to 240 or even as high as 370.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
they were going on about how AI would route all the trucks and decide which order the deliveries would be done.
Yeah, NP hard problems don’t get easier just because the AI is doing the “thinking.”
- Comment on US presidents are getting younger over time 2 months ago:
That’s about the same time as the Know-Nothing party was pushing nativism and anti-immigrant sentiment.
- Comment on be gay, do crimes (in space) 2 months ago:
It’s probably fully recorded. Everything in and out.
That way if there’s a mishap it’s possible to go back and reconstruct the entire sequence or to replay high fidelity simulations of the network traffic at the equipment to reproduce problems.
- Comment on Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation? 2 months ago:
The deal with Utah is it’s actually only 40% Mormon. And when you have a bunch a kids growing up in the Mormon church, a decently large number of them will crash out. And when they crash out, they tend to crash out pretty hard.
So Utah has large communities for various countercultures and alternative lifestyles. You can visit a random business, and often find both types working together side by side. And it is usually quite obvious which is which from external signs.
- Comment on would you visit an authoritarian country if you had the chance to live there up to 4 weeks for free even if you believe multiparty democracy to be something non negotiable? 2 months ago:
You don’t wanna risk getting detained re-entering the US and this racist ass administration denying your citizenship.
Since OP stated they are a natural-born US citizen, this scenario would be a significant escalation towards authoritarianism if it does happen.
Even doing this to a naturalized citizen would be an escalation.
Right now, most “border surprise” cases involve green card holders, not citizens, who have old criminal charges that rendered them deportable a long time ago. Just no previous federal government has cared enough to go find them and put them into removal proceedings.
- Comment on 4th dimension doesn't exist because even 1D or 2D themselves are not real. 2 months ago:
I gave you the downvote because I once attended a public lecture by Stephen Hawking, near the very end of his lifetime. It had to be one of the few, very last, public lectures that Dr. Hawking had in him. And the topic of that lecture was the nature of time, and how all of the equations of motion are fully reversible, etc, etc etc.
Out of all of the topics Dr. Hawking could have discussed, that one is the one he chose. And to me, that means that the nature of time was interesting enough to him to spread around to the public. That there are live issues that are not well settled. And so on.
Since that time, I’ve not seen any major developments in theoretical physics or philosophy to shift the status quo to an appreciable degree.
This leads me to the final judgement on your comment: You are wrong. There are live issues to discuss here, and OP deserves to further explain, defend, and debate their philosophy.
- Comment on 4th dimension doesn't exist because even 1D or 2D themselves are not real. 2 months ago:
I need to get you to sit down for a philosophical discourse with the Time Cube guy.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 3 months ago:
To condemn NASA a little bit further: NASA engineering also insisted that Sally Ride absolutely had to have a flight makeup kit. They went to the trouble to design one and make sure everything would work in zero-g. It went up and came back down completely unopened.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 3 months ago:
If I recall correctly, the photon sphere orbit is unstable, so there may not be a ton of photons there. “Unstable” in this sense means that photons in adjacent orbits tend to diverge away from the photon sphere orbit rather than toward it.
For Schwarzchild holes, the lowest circular orbit for massive objects is at 3 event horizons, which is above the photon sphere. There are unstable circular orbits down to 2 horizons. Black home rotation reduces this altitude for prograde orbits asymptotically down to 1 horizon.
- Comment on I'm glad I got a glass dinner table: otherwise I'd never know how much gunk my young child smears in the underside of the table 3 months ago:
My aunt did not like eating peas. And she hid them behind the refrigerator for more than a year.
Moral of the story: be glad it’s the underside of the table and not behind the refrigerator.