MuThyme

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Physics nerd. Currently studying some quantum gravity adjacent stuff in QFT

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MuThyme,

I could say the same thing about people calling all soft drinks “soda”

MuThyme,

I’M SHOOK

You’ve changed my whole world

MuThyme, (edited )

The only time people say “soda” where I am, is when referring to soda water, which is a specific drink. (And imo a terrible one)

Edit: It’s just an interesting difference in language, I’m not making an argument about what’s right…

MuThyme,

open.spotify.com/playlist/3bXwIukldsnITg1IPMw6eC?…

MuThyme,

If you’re in a currently cold place, then it’s a reasonably good way to heat a room and make the energy do something useful along the way, instead of just running a space heater.

MuThyme,

So is a mug, you can drink from your doughnut using a doughnut.

MuThyme,

Also every circle we draw has some thickness so we’re actually drawing annuli

What modes of transport do you really like?

For me personally, trams are right up there. Aside from the main issue of sharing the roads instead of having a dedicated line, they really make it easy to get from one part of a city to another, especially for wheelchair users. They’re usually as frequent as buses, but much faster. The stations are much more attractive...

MuThyme,

I love trams, but in my city they’re often slower than busses. And we still have a ton of old rolling stock with no wheelchair access.

I always prefer trains, but I no longer live near trams or trains. Instead I’ve got four bus routes, two of which go on the freeway just after the stop near my place. I’ve made it to my destination in under 10 minutes on that bus, it would normally be 20-30 minutes on a good day though.

MuThyme,

Yeah but I can’t lug my tower around on a train, now can I?

MuThyme,

I’m so happy that someone else read it like that

MuThyme,

I get a similar feeling, but to me I think it’s because this is very similar to a right wing debate strategy, which is making the audience think you’re cooler than your opponent and not worrying about being right.

It’s a very similar vibe

MuThyme,

I have a personal server, mostly acting as a NAS but with some web hosting as well. For whatever reason, it randomly freezes until you manually power cycle it, it happens really often, like every 20 minutes.

Turns out it’s due to some weird interaction between debian and older ryzen CPUs, if the CPU isn’t busy it just dies. Solution? A Minecraft server, with no one on it, it keeps the CPU just busy enough to keep it alive. I’ve had it running for months at a time with no issues.

MuThyme,

Cheers, I’ll give it a go, though I suspect I’ve already done it. I believe I’ve read the rant you’re talking about too

MuThyme,

I have the second one on that list, and while I’ve got an ROG ally rather than a steam deck, I can tell you it performs quite well. I’m pretty sure these are often recommended for the deck for all the same reasons.

Load times are a little slower for bigger games, but that’s usually just when starting the game up.

MuThyme,

I don’t think that would happen (very much depends on the set up), but either way it’ll just naturally resolve itself. Even in high orbits, there’s plenty of gas molecules bumping around, charged things will preferentially bump into things with the opposing charge, so the residual atmosphere can probably carry most of that charge away. It all depends on the relative rates though.

MuThyme,

It’s from Full Metal Alchemist. Idk how to mark things as a spoiler, so if you want to know exactly what this is, then just search for FMA Nina

Looking for the simplest means of playing videos from a USB storage device on a non-smart TV

Having already configured a VLC-powered Google TV configuration with USB hard drives for a relative without the router or download speed needed for reliable streaming, I’m now trying to configure a similar setup for another relative with a non-smart TV and an even slower download speed....

MuThyme,

Generic “USB media players” used to be a big thing back before they were integrated into every TV, I’m fairly sure you can easily find one with a remote still.

It seems like a lot of DVD/bluray players still take USB too, we used to play off of an external HDD and USB thumb drives using our Blu-ray player when I was a kid. You can probably get something really good second hand too.

MuThyme,

I have a disability that would benefit from a car, in the immediate short term. Sure I’d be more able to get around on bad days, but being less active makes everything significantly worse. I’d likely end up bed bound again.

Cycling and walking, even when I’m barely able to, dramatically increases my quality of life. It’s one of the reasons I chose an area with a lot of isolated walking/cycling trails

MuThyme,

I’m pretty sure google drive just acts like a syncing tool in the same way as dropbox, so this would still act like a normal swap drive, presumably.

That said, I’ve only used swap partitions so I’m not sure how it works when you point it at a directory, but I guess it depends how this person set it up.

MuThyme,

Oh cool

MuThyme,

I speak an extremely small amount and I have absolutely no clue what’s going on, I love it.

MuThyme,

I just thought it was a neat fact. Don’t go assuming things like that

MuThyme,

I’d assumed this was about steganography at first, which is just the idea of hiding information in an image in an imperceptible way

Why are there so many conspiracy theories regarding soy beans?

Dear lemmy, someone very close to my heart is starting to fall into conspiracy theories. It’s heartbreaking. Among other things, he has now told me that soy beans are not supposed to be consumed by human beings and is convinced that despite the literal centuries of human soy bean cultivation and consumption, we shouldn’t eat...

MuThyme,

The best part is that phytoestrogen does next to nothing to humans, you need mammalian estrogen instead. You know where you find lots of that? Cows milk

MuThyme,

They aren’t only hair, there’s a regular tail in there. If not, they wouldn’t be able to use it to swat flies away

MuThyme,

It’s a catalogue of knots

MuThyme,

It is in hot climates, my parents lived in the northern part of Australia and I don’t remember there being anything but tiles in that house.

MuThyme,

When I was 21, and I got the first of my “arthritis.”

It’s in quotes because years later it was diagnosed as an entirely different (and even more debilitating) disease, but I still effectively have arthritis a lot of the time, I just now also have constant insomnia and fatigue.

MuThyme,

Maybe they’re American too

MuThyme,

To oppress the some of the most vulnerable people in the world who desperately need help, of course.

MuThyme,

Holy shit

This is Billet labs all over again, they’ll literally only do something if they’re publicly called out

MuThyme, (edited )

After reading that, I fully expect their plans “to improve” will involve abusing and blaming staff unfairly. Seems like they’re already doing that when they blame “human error” for the videos being bad rather than taking personal responsibility, as management should.

MuThyme,

I don’t suppose you know the exact application in QFT? I assume it’s used for some renormalization scheme?

MuThyme,

There is still heat generated by the act of computation itself, unless you use something like reversible computing but I don’t believe there’s any current way to do that.

And even then, superconducting semiconductors are still going to be some ways off. We could have superconductors for the next decade in power transmission and still have virtually no changes to processesors. I don’t doubt that we will eventually do something close to what you describe, but I’d say it’s easily a long way off still. We’ll probably only be seeing cheaper versions of things that already use superconductors, like MRI machines.

MuThyme,

I appreciate you revising your reply to be less harsh, I wasn’t aiming to correct you on anything I was just offering some thoughts, I find this stuff interesting and like to chat about it. I’m sorry if I made your day worse, I hope things improve.

I said superconducting semiconductors as just a handy wavy way to refer to logic gates/transistors in general. I’m aware that those terms are mutually exclusive, but thats on me, I should have quoted to indicate it as a loose analogy or something.

The only thing I disagree with is your assessment that computation doesn’t create heat, it does. Albeit an entirely negligble amount, due to the fact that traditional computation involves deleting information, which necessarily causes an increase in entropy, heat is created. It’s called Landauer’s principle. It’s an extremely small proportion compared to resistive loss and the like, but it’s there none the less. You could pretty much deal with it by just absorbing the heat into a housing or something. We can of course, design architectures that don’t delete information but I’m reasonably confident we don’t have anything ready to go.

All I really meant to say is that while we can theoretically create superconducting classical computers, a room temperature superconductor would mostly still be used to replace current superconductors, removing the need for liquid helium or nitrogen cooling. Computing will take a long time to sort out, there’s a fair bit of ground to make up yet.

MuThyme, (edited )

I think “rounding error” is probably the closest term I can think of. A quick back of the envelope estimation says erasing 1 byte at 1GHz will increase an average silicon wafer 1K° in ~10 years, that’s hilariously lower than I’m used to these things turning out to be, but I’m normally doing relativistic stuff so it’s not really fair to assume they’ll be even remotely similar.

MuThyme,

A girl I had been seeing for years, and thought I loved more than anything. After a lot of really intense drama that I honestly didn’t think I’d survive, and the following analysis with a psychologist, I realised she’d been emotional manipulating me for a very long time.

When I finally cut her out, things just became so much better. I’ve learnt what a truely kind and loving person can be like, and what it’s like to not walk on eggshells or have constant anxiety. So many seemingly innocent comments that in hindsight were insanely toxic controlling statements. It’s been incredible to feel free.

MuThyme,

It’s honestly one of those things I’ll never stop doubting, there’s a strong voice somewhere in my head telling me I’m wrong and being selfish.

Thankfully I’ve had enough therapy to know better, but that kind of manipulation really does have a good way of convincing you it’s not there.

MuThyme,

I’m so damn happy to hear it worked out for you, that really gives me hope

MuThyme,

It ultimately depends on what particle the dark matter is made of. It’s been a long time since I did any dark matter work, but from memory heavier candidate particles are more capable of forming structure because they move more slowly.

I never ended up pursuing that as a research area, so I’d take what I’m saying with a grain of salt, I just did a small project for a professor once.

MuThyme,

Not a single other person who’s obsessed with AJJ?

MuThyme,

10TB of RAM? Surely that’s a typo?

MuThyme,

Bruh

Data centres are wild

If you have really bad tinnitus, you can use your iPhone and Airpods Pro to get some relief. (lemmy.ninja)

As many tinnitus sufferers like myself know, the never-ending ringing in your ears can become unbearable at times. Sometimes white noise can help by making it harder to distinguish the ringing from other sounds. I know I’ve run fans in my bedroom while falling asleep to help distract me, for example....

MuThyme,

I don’t have tinnitus, but I do this exact thing using the Sennheiser true wireless 3. You just have to set them to not pause music when the pass through is on, it works really well.

TIL an object's angular momentum is affected very slightly by the spin of its electrons (demonstrations.wolfram.com)

Until now I only learned an electron cannot be spinning in the classical sense, because it would have to be spinning faster than the speed of light (plus ‘spin 1/2’ has no classical sense.) This made me assume quantum ‘angular momentum’ sums to magnetism instead-of and without classical angular momentum.

MuThyme,

We often describe that as “intrinsic angular momentum” it’s not spinning, but it kind of is

MuThyme,

We also lost at biological warfare against rabbits, we aren’t good at this stuff

MuThyme,

Yeah, we spent ages getting a rabbit only virus ready, and accidentally released it way too early. So a bunch of rabbits died, and the ones that lived had children that were immune enough to live.

Or something like that, it’s been a while since I’ve read about it.

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