wolframhydroxide

@wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kansas attorney general site hosts illicit content in apparent national scam campaign⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the exact plot of the movie “The Net”, starring Sandra Bullock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Euler's Meme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I could me wrong, but I’m fairly sure that, while ‘f’ is a function, ‘f(x)’ is the function’s output, not the function itself. So f(x) is a meme, because function f’s output is a meme. The function itself is a mathematical operation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spongebob big guy pants okay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Without a nervous system, the only thing it can feel is ANGER.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Euler's Meme⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of your precepts is flawed. f is not a meme any more than the word “all” is in “all your base are belong to us”. f is defined by text within the overall meme, but while it is part of the meme, it is not the meme itself, as it lacks the content of the remainder of the meme. Your precept is like saying “9 is prime, because it is the prime number ‘19’”. 9 is not prime. It is part of the representation of the number 19. f is not the meme. It is part of the context which defines the meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism restaurant ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For those who are not aware, ^^this^^ is how you turn cheese into american cheese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it were possible to travel back in time and manipulate events, we could take a book back in time and publish it before the author historicallt does... as a prank...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was looking for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just seen the latest American Opinion polls.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is nothing more damaging to the narcissistic dictator’s fragile ego than emasculation. Let us merely hope that the hits keep coming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can do anything at Zombocom⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It may get lost, but does it go to eleven?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3163: Repair Video⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Inb4 the next Ramanujan sidles up onto YouTube and breaks the entire concept of mathematics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smells Great⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, when you get to the scale of “a laser that can destroy objects”, it turns out that the reflectance of natural materials is just utterly insufficient. Consider the following: suppose that a mirror finish reflects 90% of the light from a laser in the range you’re looking at (a fair assumption, from what I’ve read). Now, let’s do some basic back-of-the-napkin math: we’ll use a 30 kW laser, which is apparently standard for current destructive laser weapons. Let’s further assume that the laser light is spread over a surface area of 0.04 m^2 (because a spot 20 cm on a side seems to me a fairly high estimate for the spread on a precision laser, even on a moving target, if it’s motion-tracked, I should think). Let us be generous and assume that this reflective paint coating is 0.5mm (0.0005m) thick. Given the paint’s approximate specific heat of 2.302 J/gK (polyethylene) and density of 1400000 g/m^3 (PVC), and let’s also assume the breakdown temp of the reflectance is near the boiling point of PVA (spray paint), which is 112C.

  So, the mass of paint absorbing the energy is 0.04*0.0005*1400000=28 g.

  To heat the entirety of these 28 g of this material by about 90C (from 22 to 112), completely destroying the protective layer, we would need 2.302*28*90 = 5801J

  Now we know that we have 30000*0.93= 3000J/s, so it would take about 2 seconds of lancing to completely destroy the protection. Given that it already takes 2-5 seconds to destroy things with the laser, and it doesn’t actually have to destroy the entire area for the reflectance to deteriorate and let the laser through, this would only be adding another second of work. I think that, no matter what you do, the laser’s gonna win.

  I can give sources for any of these estimates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smells Great⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I memorised the band once in orgo, and never looked at them again, so you’re more likely to know than I.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smells Great⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that wouldn’t necessarily work once you get to the right wavelengths for it to start interacting with the organic bases of the paints. There’s only so much you can do when someone shoots an infrared laser at the resonant frequency of a C=C double bond.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨egg time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe that, nowadays, it is generally accepted that dinosaurs, crocodilians and birds are all “archosaurs”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Load bearing Tupperware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is not that any outage occurred. This still happens often. Things just refuse to work sometimes. The issue is that SO MANY eggs were in ONE basket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wax on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They do, but in order for them to _re_gurgitate, they first must gorge upon it. They eat it, chew it up and spit it out in the shapes necessary (planar, cylindrical, or otherwise).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Until a Cartesian Solipsist points out that your senses are inherently fallible, it is impossible to prove that you are not a Boltzmann Brain, and the only thing it is possible to know with certainty is that you exist, in your present moment of experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cox-zucker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, pre-FNAF? Thats the deep magic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PRAISE HIM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, there’s gas, liquid, bose-einstein condensate, and plasma at the least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case, I believe this article was written for those of us who are smart enough to realise that AI is all bullshit, and who understand that most people aren’t smart enough to figure out that first bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like more of an ESA/JAXA joint venture. The only stuff NASA is going to be doing for the foreseeable future is ensuring the rapid exhort of Space Fascism™

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, we can’t call them atoms, which are defined by the presence of an electron cloud surrounding a nucleus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue that, since they lack an electron cloud and are comprised of a collection of free-floating nuclei, they are actually a plasma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a classroom teacher for students who are >80% immigrants from non-anglophone countries, I can actually speak with some authority on the subject. I have many students who have traditional names in other languages, as well as students whose parents 100% just made up something they thought sounded nice. I am one of the few teachers who emphasises correctly pronouncing students’ names. If they put stress on the second syllable, I put stress on the second syllable. I work very hard to make sure I’m pronouncing their names exactly how they do.

  I have had three students in the last month alone remark on how I am the only teacher they’ve ever had who pronounced their name “right”. I have a student named Djibril who had extremely poor relationships with most of the teachers in the building, but who always does my work, and he straight up told me last year that it was because I am the only person in the entire school who actually pronounces his name correctly. Everyone else just calls him “juh-BRILL”, when he says it should be pronounced closer to “JEE-breel” (with a lilted r).

  Making sure you pronounce someone’s name how they pronounce their name can be extremely important to social relationships, and having an anglicised name attached to them against their will is often mentioned among memoirs of immigrants as one of the first and most alienating things to happen to them when they enter an anglophone country. It’s not about expecting others to cater to your weird name. It’s about people having a basic modicum of respect for the humanity of non-dominant cultures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll take “Risky Clicks” for 800, Alex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good for him?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Colours are a spectrum. That doesn’t stop two things from being the same hue/wavelength

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Grant is bi…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse, they bundled it with the worse half of the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This gate keeping of cuisine is ridiculous. It would logically follow that you have to throw out anything that’s made with something originally from a different zone. So no potatoes, tomatoes, corn or other new world crops… Well, anywhere but one of these sections. Anything that comes from cultural exchange is, apparently, right out. So good luck with whatever the fuck they were eating in mesopotamia and the India river valley civilisation. I hope you like your beer to be bread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, D even gets the entire bay of Naples.