chaosCruiser

I thought it was genuine. What did I miss?

Check this new 0 W setup! It’s running pretty smoothly as long as you remember to add some oil between the beads from time to time.

Thanks. I’ll keep an eye on that later today.

Glad I could help! This command is just so much nicer.

Now you know why it’s called the Disk Destroyer.

Before using dd, I prefer to run lsblk first so that I can see what each disk is called. Before pressing enter, I also double check the names with the lsblk output.

I was just thinking about that post.

What a legend. So, it’s technically possible, but not recommended.

Switched from Fedora to Debian. Here are my reasons:

1. That computer doesn’t need the latest versions. Debian is new enough for me.
2. The update GUI has been broken for years. I fixed it once, but then it broke again after a year. I’ve been installing updates from the terminal, because I can’t trust the GUI. I realized I appreciate reliability, and that’s exactly what Debian is all about.
3. Can’t be bothered to do much admin work like that.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url

Food science is truly complex, so in order to accurately replicate a recipe, you need to standardize pretty much everything. Currently, there’s plenty of variation and you just compensate by winging it and keeping an eye on the pot a little longer.

In order to reduce variation, we need to standardize the following:

• ingredients: The composition of meat and carrots varies a lot.
• heating methods: An oven set to 200 °C is not exactly 200 ° at every location and all the time.
• weigh everything: Volumes are complicated and messy.
• use a timer: This applies to all actions like stirring, heating etc.

All materials and methods should be accurately documented, because things like the coating or weight of your pan can introduce unwanted variability.

True, but square and cubic units are inconvenient due to the way prefixes work. Use liters to solve that problem.

Thanks for the in-depth explanation.

The way I see it, MWI is more of a philosophical idea. As far as I know, it’s impossible to test it, so currently it’s still firmly outside the sphere of science.

You pointed out some valid reasons why the future of MWI looks shaky, and I’m fine with that. If MWI falls apart, I’ll just move on to the next best thing. I just find MWI intuitively appealing, but I don’t have any strong reasons to believe it or reject it. As you mentioned, MWI doesn’t change the way you would carry out quantum mechanics, so currently it has no practical impact.

Bring some ice cream too. Those kids will never be the same after that.

Exactly! That’s the sort of time travel I’m talking about!

Next stop: 1095, the office of Alexios I Komnenos. Who wants to see what the world looks like without the crusades?

I’ll visit past me and leave some letters that contain useful information. You know, don’t trust those people, avoid doing this mistake, know yourself etc. would be interesting to see how that timeline diverges from my own.

Actually. now that I’ve opened this door, might as well try influencing world history on a larger scale. How about I visit certain key moments where a dangerous person almost died, but survived to cause massive harm later down the line. Would be really interesting to see how history plays out after nudging Hitler a little bit closer than to that suitcase. History is just full of special moments like that.

I wouldn’t be a passive observer. I would actively change things to see what happens.

BTW, I believe in the many words interpretation of quantum physics, so all possibilities are equally real and they all exist simultaneously. No matter how hard you try to fix things or how badly you mess things up, that disaster branch was already there, always will be.

Using seconds as the base unit of time would work in various situations, but not all. For example, kiloseconds (ks) would be handy for measuring the runtime of a movie or the length of a workday. In that regard, it’s just a matter of getting used to it. However the length of a solar day is about 86.4 ks and a year is about 31.54 Ms, which would be annoying numbers to memorize. Then again, remembering numbers like 60, 24, 52, 365 is about as annoying too, so that’s a problem for another day.

Also known as a sidereal day. Check the animation. It’s pretty cool.

This topic also touches upon the concept of reference frames. When people say that the earth takes 24 h to make a full revolution, it’s in relation to the sun. From a universal perspective, the heliocentric reference frame moves and rotates. From the heliocentric perspective, the usual earth based reference frame also moves and rotates. Nothing is truly stationary, and measuring revolutions is impossible unless you define your frame of reference.

If you say a full revolution takes 24 h, it’s not wrong, but it’s only true in one reference frame.

Ethiopians are clearly very smart people. Take that white supremacists!

Ancient Romans just loved convoluted systems, which were later inherited by the rest of Europe. The French revolution fixed most of that mess by simplifying it and getting rid of the quirky designs. They also tried to fix time units and the calendar, but that just didn’t stick for some reason. Meanwhile, Ethiopians were already using a sensible calendar that has a good way to mitigate the messy properties of Earth.

I approve of this system. It should make calendars nice and simple for the most part. For example, salaries would be pretty simple since the period wouldn’t fluctuate wildly.

It’s just that not all things respect global holidays, so calculating energy production, water consumption and other things like that would still have to deal with weird inconsistencies. Regardless, this would still be far superior to our current train wreck of a calendar.

Now that’s the kind of thinking we need more of! Mathematical precision is the way we run things around here. Screw whatever nature had intended for orbits and such. It’s our planet.

Best of all, that funny fraction isn’t even constant. The earth is a bit wonky.