rescue_toaster

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[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

From your first 3 points:

  1. Spacetime is not a fixed grid. Einstein's theory of curved spacetime has been supported by numerous experiments: mercury precession, observations of stars near the sun during a solar eclipse, gravitational waves, etc.
  2. Planck time is defined from the Planck length and the speed of light, so yes, this is by definition true.
  3. Define evolve and self-propagate. Protons or electrons certainly do not produce copies of themselves, at least to my knowledge, as this would violate conservation of energy, momentum, spin, lepton number, etc. Show me a proposed process where an electron creates two electrons that does not violate conservation laws.

Big bang theory makes a hell of a lot of sense, and currently explains CMBR extremely well. The cause of the big bang is obviously still unknown (if that is even a reasonable question.) Not liking, or understanding, the theory is not reason to dismiss it. "Spewing information from digits of pi?" This is pure stoner talk. Digit of pi are arbitrary, and are different in different number bases: decimal, binary, hexadecimal, etc. Numbers are also not things in physical reality, only conceptual concepts.

From your properties of a graviton:

  1. Size is unrelated to being detectable. In addition, in particle physics, size is a bit fuzzy, since all particles are waves, and "size" might be defined by the wavelength of the particle.
  2. Gravitons are proposed as the force carrier for the gravitational force. But possibly don't exist since Einstein's theory demonstrates that mass curves spacetime instead, and gravity is not an actual force, and thus no force carrier required. This contradiction is one problem with merging quantum theory and general relativity.
  3. Sure, if a graviton was emitted, dynamics could be worked out to determine where the emitting mass is, similar to emitted photons indicating where the object that emitted the photon is.
  4. Vector directions are arbitrary. A vector is not a thing, but a mathematical construct used to define magnitudes and directions. Negative vector is only an instruction to reverse the direction of that vector.

Particles exhibiting intelligence? Define what you mean by intelligence. How does a photon "try to survive"? Current understanding of particles is that they obey very predictable rules governed by quantum theory, which doesn't indicate any intelligence or decision making from the particle.

Finally, for your use of gravitons:

  1. This could be measured in a lab. One could measure a particle decay through an unknown mechanism. As far as I'm aware, this has not been observed.
  2. Mass is gravitationally attracted to mass. Sure. Gravitons are the proposed force carrier for gravitational force. If they existed, this is how they might work.

You have an interest in physics, which I applaud, but you should read some introductory physics textbooks, or enroll in undergraduate introductory physics classes, and master the fundamentals (Newtonian mechanics, classical electrodynamics, quantum, stat/mech).

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I would argue yes. There's definitely some high points of the new expansion. Though might depend specifically what you enjoy about wow. In general, quality of life in the game is much better with the warband feature. I enjoy the storyline. The raid is good. Delves are great for solo progression. But Mythic+ is in the worst state it's been in for years.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

I zoomed in looking for tex code. Was disappointed.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it's a cucumber plant. I planted them for the first time this year and they grow those little things to grab onto stuff for support. It's really neat!

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My opinion here, so obvious caveat.

Burning Wheel has one good system in it: the beliefs, instincts, and traits are awesome. This could compliment or replace bonds. Otherwise though Burning Wheel is a giant complicated mess of rules that are completely opposite of the rules-light point of dungeon world.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

How get foodgiver pet me?

How get foodgiver not pet me?

How to best stare at foodgiver to give me better food?

Why does foodgiver sleep when its playtime?

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

I've been running wow on linux via lutris since BFA.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

His Misquoting Jesus podcast is fantastic. Definitely listen if you enjoy Ehrman.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 35 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I was employed at this awesome little school but left before Desantis's stupid anti-woke and DEI crusade. I hope it and the current students/employees don't suffer too much. I doubt Desantis gets voted out...

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

Yup, Google Now was actually useful and helpful, so of course they had to get rid of it.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

That looks like ranch dressing.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by rescue_toaster@lemm.ee to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca
 

So our neighbor's cat has been visiting us for a while, so I decided to build this ramp so that she could more easily get into and out of our yard. I'm not much of a woodworker, but was happy with how this turned out.

It's made almost entirely from cedar fence posts. Nearly 18 feet long (3 fence posts end to end with the dog ear tip cut off). Ripped cedar planks into 3 for a frame/support to prevent flexing. Posts are pine 2x4, and go 18 inches into the ground, which was the majority of the effort, since our ground is like cement...

 

My starting evac shelter was close to a small pond that had fish in it. I early on created some fish traps from gallon jugs and have been successfully fishing it. It is now summer day 66 and when I activated my reloaded fish trap as I had been doing regularly I received the message "You doubt you'll have much luck catching fish here."

What would be the explanation for why I received the message? Did I fish out all the fish? Do the ponds dry up? I looked at the water and it says "shallow water" though I have no idea if it was shallow water when I was successfully fishing as I never looked at the water tiles.

 

Holy cow building a car from scratch takes a lot of this stuff. This is the first game i've ever tried to build a car. I'm scrounging every house for light disposable batteries to craft the rods. Fortunately most houses have at least one in a flashlight. Is there another good reliable source for welding rods or wire?

 

How does one change the terminal that Gnome Files uses when opening a directory in terminal using "Open in Terminal"? I'm trying to change the default to foot.

All my searching has led to

sudo update-alternatives --config x-terminal-emulator

  Selection    Path                             Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper   40        auto mode
* 1            /usr/bin/foot                     20        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/footclient               10        manual mode
  3            /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper   40        manual mode
  4            /usr/bin/koi8rxterm               20        manual mode
  5            /usr/bin/lxterm                   30        manual mode
  6            /usr/bin/uxterm                   20        manual mode
  7            /usr/bin/xterm                    20        manual mode

which I can select foot. But Gnome Files does not seem to respect this.

I've also tried directly editing

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec foot

where the default exec option is x-terminal-emulator. This also does not work.

 

New debian user here. I'm using sway and have a script in my waybar config to look for upgrades and indicate if any are available. However, it typically doesn't find anything because I first need to run a sudo apt update first.

I don't really want to figure out someway to do a sudo through this script and was curious how gnome finds updates without me needing to enter a password.

It looks like I can use unattended upgrades to do the apt update.

https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

though I don't want it to do upgrades until I do a sudo apt upgrade after being notified of upgrades. I created a 02periodic file in /etc/apt/apt.config.d as indicated, but I only included the lines

APT::Periodic::Enable "1";

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";

Will this run an apt update every day for me? Is there any issue I'm unaware of in doing this? Thanks for any help!

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