

It’s amazing what people will put up with if you promise them a light saber.
It’s amazing what people will put up with if you promise them a light saber.
LOL yeah that’s about right.
Not to mention common sense, practicality, cost and long-term consequences.
You’re coming to grips with history. People with means and influence make it happen while the rest of us just watch and hang on.
In other news, Trump puffs out his chest and waves his little dick around some more.
The punching-through should start at the point of impact, since that end of the pole and that spot on the wall pole both know about the collision at that moment, and then the information travels back through the pole. So I think the front end of the pole would start breaking through the wall immediately, while the information about the impact is still traveling back through the pole. For that reason I think the front end of the pole might end up sticking farther out of the barn than the back end, because it has more time to so it. Would be interesting math, which I’ve never tried to figure out.
There can’t be infinite deceleration, for the same reason that the back end of the pole can’t instantly know the front end has run into the wall. Deceleration travels back through the length of the pole as its atoms squish up against the atoms in front of them and slow down.
Interesting for sure!
There’s a thought experiment about this in most intro classes on relativity, talking about “length compression”. To a stationary observer a fast-moving object appears shorter in its direction of travel. For example, at about 87% of the speed of light, length compression is about 50%. If you are interested in the formula look up Relativistic Length Compression. Anyway, if you are carrying a pole 20 meters long and you run past someone at that speed, to them the pole will only look 10 meters long.
In the thought experiment you run with this pole into a barn that’s only 10 meters long. What happens?
The observer, seeing you bringing a 10-meter pole into a 10-meter barn, shuts the door behind you, closing it exactly at the point where you’re entirely in the barn. What happens when you stop, and how does a 20-meter pole fit in a 10-meter barn in the first place?
First, when the pole gets in the barn and the door closes, the pole is no longer moving, so now to the observer it looks 20 meters long. As its speed drops to zero the pole appears to get longer, becoming 20 meters again. It either punches holes in the barn and sticks out, or it shatters if the barn is stronger.
Looking at the situation from the runner’s point of view, since motion is relative you could say you’re stationary and the barn is moving toward you at 87% of the speed of light. So to you the 10-meter barn only looks 5 meters long. So how does a 20-meter pole fit in?
The answer to both questions is compression - or saying it another way, information doesn’t travel instantly. When the front end of the pole hits the inside of the barn and stops, it takes some time for that information to travel through the pole to the other end. Meanwhile, the rest of the pole keeps moving. By the time the back end knows it’s supposed to stop, from the runner’s point of view the 20-ft pole has been compressed down to 5 meters. From the runner’s point of view the barn then stops moving, so it’s length returns to 10 meters, but since the pole still won’t fit it either punches holes in the barn or shatters.
One of my physics profs had double-majored in theatre, and loved to perform this demo with a telescoping pole and a cardboard barn.
LOL yeah, like that toddler wants anything but money and attention.
A cure for all diseases? Nooooo, we don’t do cures we do maintenance! The money’s in maintenance!!!
Feeling like Sheldon when you’re not Sheldon.
public service: B-Dubs = Buffalo Wild Wings
For me this is clam chowder and a tuna sandwich. Heartburn in a few hours for sure, but nothing a Tums won’t handle, and totally worth it now and then.
In the excellent book, Your Money or Your Life the authors define wealthy as, “having what you need plus a little more.”
That’s all most people want. Since inheriting enough from my parents a few years ago to retire, the relief I constantly feel from not worrying about money is a treasure beyond value. Through my whole career I always looked forward to retirement simply for the free time it would give me. But the major effect has been freedom from thinking about money. It’s like going from treading water to sitting in a lawn chair. I’ve always been a fan of things like universal healthcare and UBI, but this experience has solidified that. Everyone should have this level of peace and security, not just those of us who are lucky enough.
Somewhat, but I’m thinking of the future of federation as a torrenty mesh of peers with no actual hosting “service” that can be turned off. That’s how I picture the Cortex in the Firefly universe. When Simon as a boy is excited about getting a “source box” I imagine it’s a participant as opposed to just an endpoint.
Dude I’m a lot older than 18, I’ve asked you several times what you meant about “fixing” things. Apparently that was just BS, so whatever.
Addendum: one that stands out was an in-house survey app that allowed you to create questionnaires and email them to people in the company. Responses were saved in a database and you could make complicated statistical inquiries like, show me how people answered questions 7 and 8 who said Yes to question 12, No to 13, and filled in the “Other” blank for 19.
My job was to speed up the SQL queries, which were so complex and slow the max runtime had to be increased to like an hour to let them finish. This was because the original database of questions and multiple-choice answers had been modified in several stages, which ended up with response details in multiple fields in multiple tables depending on the type of question. After about a month I managed to streamline the queries so the longest one took less than 10 minutes, but this was still enormously slow because questionnaires had maybe 2000 responses max. The problem was the database structure relationships was too complex because things had been scabbed onto it.
One day at lunch I spent about 20 minutes noodling a redesign with fewer tables. All user responses would be in one place, and the longest queries probably would have run in a second or two, plus maintenance and enhancements would be WAY easier. When I proposed actually doing this, management said they would think about it if they ever did a new version.
At least I tried.
Federated as opposed to using a Wordpress hosting service etc that can be turned off by someone’s business decision.
I signed up for early access, but tbh based on the signup page it’s hard to have a lot of confidence in anyone who thinks really light gray text on a white background is a sensible idea.
The era of thinking skills and objective reasoning is over. The battle for the future is a battle of simplistic memes for simpleminded people to absorb as they scroll through their misinformation feeds as effortlessly as possible.
I think you pretty much just now wrote a landing page, you just need to turn those into links and host that page somewhere.
Sure, you could create a database or JSON file with attributes of each thing and use React or Node.js to generate the UI, but that doesn’t seem necessary for a need on this scale - when things change just edit the landing page. I’ve been keeping links to my soft copies of D&D books and stuff with a simple HTML page for years, and I’m a web dev. No need to do work the requirements don’t demand.