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by djaque 5y ago
Ummmm... Ashli Babbit was a QAnon conspiracy theorist who broke into the capital during the Jan. 6 insurrection. She was at the front of a mob trying to get into the Speaker's Lobby containing representatives sheltering in place. The
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by djaque 6y ago
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by djaque 6y ago
Rush Limbaugh hosted a regular segment on his show where he would read off the names of gay men that died of AIDS and celebrate it with bells and horns in the background. I'm not one to celebrate people's death, but I will sleep a
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by djaque 6y ago
I too dream of a day that even a group as oppressed as Christians are in the US will be able to hold the presidency, the highest office in the land. Who knows, maybe one of these days they'll even manage it 46 times in a row. /s
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by djaque 6y ago
Anyone else think this is a pretty bad time all things considered?
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by djaque 6y ago
Hot take: the fact that HN comments have an academic/professional tone doesn't make the noise go away. It just makes it easier to pass for useful comments. On huge threads with like 1k comments, I do find that the high quality on
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by djaque 6y ago
Also certainly not an expert here, but here is a good definition I found: > Toxic masculinity is a narrow and repressive description of manhood, designating manhood as defined by violence, sex, status and aggression. It’s the cultural id
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by djaque 6y ago
I remember watching some sort of British documentary on Alan Turing on youtube when I was in high school. It had interviews from all of the people that knew him during his lifetime. This was long before his story was popularized by "
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by djaque 6y ago
Having taught undergraduate physics (at one of the ivy leagues), that echos my experience. The math and memorization are quite simple. But, it is the exposure to the concepts that takes time and seeing them a year or two prior makes a big
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by djaque 6y ago
I will also recommend reading "Spacetime Physics" by Taylor and Wheeler (Feynman's PhD advisor). Excellent discussion in a kind of old school style (which is how I like it).
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by djaque 6y ago
Off the top of my head, that sounds like you're off in the pressure requirement by multiple orders of magnitude. The pressure used for the superconductor is enough to shatter diamond. Creating strain in a lattice like that would just
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by djaque 6y ago
Does HN auto-captilize GaN to GAN? I was super confused for a second about that title.
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by djaque 6y ago
Handwavey explaination: the particles pair up because of vibrations in the crystal. It's modeled like a bunch of metal balls on with springs between them and you can imagine tapping one end and sending a wave of vibrations through. H
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by djaque 6y ago
In a related note: I've seen a huge surge in good quality original products that were engineered in China, manufactured in China, and then sold by China. Take Rigol and Miniware for instance. They have the hobbyist electronic market
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by djaque 6y ago
This is some nice work, but doesn't really pave the way to what I'd call "practical superconductors". Of course, the material studied here requires some of the highest pressures we can produce and so we can't deploy
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by djaque 6y ago
The biggest argument to use a CRT to me is interfacing to a computer using a literal particle accelerator pointed at your face. How metal is that?
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by djaque 6y ago
> There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people. - Comma
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by djaque 6y ago
Not at a week yet, but all of my time is spent on derivations and then translating them to code too.
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by djaque 6y ago
It isn't a problem in Julia editors. You input characters using the same notation as latex (IE \mu or \hbar) and then tab autocomplete to unicode. Even jupyter notebooks support that convention. Most people in Julia's target aud
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by djaque 6y ago
It 504s for me.
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by djaque 6y ago
I think this gets at the discussion of whether education should provide you with a broad base of knowledge to appreciate a subject as well as use it or whether it should just, in a sense, add to your toolbox the minimum required methods to
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by djaque 6y ago
> here’s the paper, which is published in Nature, that famous scientific tabloid Then they can say that themselves.
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by djaque 6y ago
It's not nitpicking even though it might seem that way to someone who doesn't deal with these journals regularly. The two are so wildly different that making sure you are clear about the difference is quite important. I've p
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by djaque 6y ago
There's still two separate journals: "Nature" and "Nature Communications". The paper was published in "Nature Communications" and saying that it that it was published in "Nature" as the article
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by djaque 6y ago
Alternatively, I'm gay and even though I grew up in an area of the US which wasn't that homophoboic. I still hated myself for being gay enough that if I had an even slight attraction to women then I would have just killed off the
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by djaque 6y ago
> here’s the paper, which is published in Nature, that famous scientific tabloid. One annoyance I've had with this whole discussion are all of the people saying it was published in Nature. This article even makes that mistake which
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by djaque 6y ago
> hasn't produced a single testable prediction after 30+ years Not completely true. It is able model some aspects of quark gluon plasma. [1] Not a high energy theorist myself, but this is the retort some of my friends would give.
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by djaque 6y ago
"It's friday and I want to go home" :) But seriously, I'm sure it was made by people that just didn't stop to think about security and "it works, so we're done here" Then, as a business you're n
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by djaque 6y ago
Good point, even just being able to use it as a tool to play "gay or not" has some pretty aweful implications for people who aren't openly gay.
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by djaque 6y ago
I guess the good news is that it requires knowledge of the user's email address to execute. You can't just run it on random people (emails aren't disclosed) and even if you know someone on the app in real life, chances are g

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