[-] Entropius@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Shouldn’t Zek be lawful neutral? I mean, wasn’t he was a political authority figure establishing law?

[-] Entropius@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Why are you misquoting the article that is not what it says

Why are you accusing me of something I didn’t do?

From the bottom of the article:

Updated to correct an error in describing how radar works.

I quoted it correctly at the time. They just edited it after I commented.

[-] Entropius@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_White_Duke

The Thin White Duke was the persona and character adopted by the English musician David Bowie for public appearances in the mid-1970s.

[…]

The Thin White Duke became a controversial figure due to ostensibly pro-fascist statements made by Bowie in press interviews during this period. Soon after making the comments, Bowie claimed that they were "theatrical" remarks made in character and did not reflect his actual views.

[-] Entropius@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

“Environmental damage” isn’t something that’s reducible to a single number on a graph. There’s no way to convert cancer incidents into carbon emissions or increased soil nutrient mobility, etc.

And reserves aren’t necessarily a fixed number. What exists underground isn’t the same as what’s economically recoverable. And as the price of a mineral goes up, it may become more economically recoverable and worthwhile to dig up more.

[-] Entropius@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Space bending is a general relativity thing, which isn’t really related much to how mirrors work.

Regarding the medium bit, photons being absorbed and remitted can’t explain how light moves slower in glass. This is just an extremely popular myth. Photons are only absorbed by atoms at very specific frequencies. Also, the entire reason glass is transparent to begin with is that it’s not absorbing the photons (requires too much energy to bump the electron’s energy level so the photon isn’t absorbed and it keeps on trucking). Also photon absorption and remission is stochastic so there’s no way to control the direction it happens in or how quickly it happens. Random directions of remitted light would make glass translucent, not transparent. So for a few reasons, that’s not how it works.

[-] Entropius@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

As a rule, it’s probably best to avoid “random” internet sources on matters of how light works because there’s so much confidently parroted misinformation out there. For example, this is completely wrong: https://youtu.be/FAivtXJOsiI See here for correct answers to that issue: https://youtu.be/CiHN0ZWE5bk

For how mirrors work see this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-physical-proc/ https://youtu.be/rYLzxcU6ROM

[-] Entropius@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Acceleration and Velocity are vectors. Changes in a velocity vector are an acceleration. Therefore when photons change direction technically it’s a form of acceleration.

[-] Entropius@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago

When Mariner and Tendi try to enlist the help of Tendi’s cousin to repair a damaged totem for the doctor, Mariner remarks about how attractive Tendi’s cousin is, and says she has a thing for bad boys, bad girls, and bad non-binary’s.

[-] Entropius@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I’ve never used it on Linux but Rider seems fast to me on Windows. It’s snappier than Visual Studio + Resharper at least.

[-] Entropius@lemmy.world 470 points 11 months ago

LiDAR is essentially radar that uses light instead of sound

Radar doesn’t use sound. It sounds like the author doesn’t know the difference between sonar and radar.

[-] Entropius@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh I was just making a blind guess about that. I don’t actually know that to be the case.

(Posted from Memmy, seems nice so far…)

[-] Entropius@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Imagine if Reddit, after cutting off so many 3rd party apps got their own app banned. Even if only temporarily.

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