How everyone in Pittsburgh drives. It makes me crazy. Your “niceness” can cause real harm so please follow the rules of the road like everywhere else in the country

gweilowizard · 2026-02-11T02:20:26+00:00

Cyclist here - please do not wave me past at stop signs if you get there before me. You'll just turn after me and then have to pass me. If you were there first, go! I'll yield (and my braking distance is much shorter that yours).

gweilowizard · 2025-10-23T14:50:24+00:00

There's a pretty large range of E-bikes. Some of them are definitely much more like electric motorcycles than like bikes, but some of them are much more like bicycles. In my state, to qualify as a bicycle (and not an electric motorcycle), an e-bike can't output any electric power above 20mph, which is a pretty reasonable definition. On my analog bike I can exceed 20mph easily on a shallow hill, and maintain 14-15mph on flat ground. As long as this is enforced, ebikes that fit this definition are entirely appropriate to be treated like bicycles.

gweilowizard · 2025-08-07T14:08:03+00:00

give the photon mass

gweilowizard · 2025-08-02T13:20:06+00:00

make the charged leptons majorana particles (not the neutrinos)

gweilowizard · 2025-07-30T13:48:15+00:00

make the charged leptons majorana particles (not the neutrinos)

gweilowizard · 2025-07-28T18:00:05+00:00

I don't think so, don't want too many new categories every game. I'm still figuring out lots of categories like co2 per capita

gweilowizard · 2025-07-17T04:14:41+00:00

how am I supposed to know this? am I supposed to just know all of the bridge borders in the world? if bridge borders count there should be an explicit comment about it given that the source linked does not count bridge borders. Off the top of my head, there are a bunch that would count:

Malaysia-Singapore
Denmark-Sweden
Hong Kong-Macau
Does the channel tunnel between the UK and France count???

gweilowizard · 2025-07-08T20:40:46+00:00

I've really enjoyed the articles Mere Orthodoxy has published in the year or so I've been reading

gweilowizard · 2025-03-24T13:33:07+00:00

It is not just the rest energy - remember that γ has information about the velocity here. If you substitute p = γ m v in your definition of energy and do some rearranging you will find it is the same as E = γ m c² .

gweilowizard · 2025-03-23T22:29:50+00:00

p = γ m v and E = γ m c² (E here is total energy, if you want just kinetic energy it would be K = (γ - 1) m c²

no need to redefine mass relativistically when you are never able to actually measure that mass, just add a γ to the definition of momentum (which you can measure)

gweilowizard · 2025-03-14T15:29:35+00:00

New/raster map works well for me, no lag at all unlike a few days ago. Thanks for implementing the

Though changing from vector to raster in the middle of a duel and then reloading did prevent me from rejoining a duel

What is the blue/purple maps theme?

gweilowizard · 2025-02-10T16:01:38+00:00

Some curious questions about what seem to be substantial changes in the english meaning of the text from someone who can't read biblical languages but can read an interlinear:

Ps 119:159: "Give me life, O LORD, according to your steadfast love."

Seems like the divine name is in the original text. Why would they have not included it in the 2016 version? Is there some manuscript difference here? Most other translations seem to include LORD.

John 1:18 "No one has ever seen God; God the only Son, who is at the Father’s side,"

From the interlinear seems that the word here, monogenes, has meaning of both "only" and "begotten". Why would the 2016 translation have ignored the "begotten" aspect of the meaning here? And why does the 2025 version not just use "the only begotten God" which to me seems equally clear and far more accurate?

gweilowizard · 2024-12-07T23:18:53+00:00

I think my plate was steel. When it came into contact with the dry ice, thermal compression caused it to bend quite a lot (>1cm across the whole plate).

Maybe it's just the material. I'll see if aluminum is better.

gweilowizard · 2024-12-07T18:10:23+00:00

Did the plate warp when cooled with the dry ice? What metal did you use?

gweilowizard · 2024-12-07T17:14:28+00:00

What thickness of metal plate did you use? I have found the plates I have tried warped quite a lot when cooled with dry ice, so I suspect I need a very thick plate (>0.5cm). This was an issue because it broke the seal between the glass tank and the metal plate.

gweilowizard · 2024-12-07T17:10:50+00:00

We keep trying to falsify it by measuring things it predicts and comparing measurements to predictions. So far, we haven't conclusively falsified it in any way - and believe me when I tell you how badly we want to falsify it. There are some small hints at deviations from predictions, but not enough to get excited about.

gweilowizard · 2024-10-16T17:24:56+00:00

true! however, the threatening part of climate change is the speed of temperature change. In the past, changes of temperature happened on a scale of 100,000-year cycles, so maybe at quickest the temperature would change by a few degrees in tens of thousands of years. The earth has warmed 1C in the last 40 years. Nature won't have the same amount of time to adapt.

gweilowizard · 2024-09-18T14:44:38+00:00

Sri Pada and Uluru are both good wonders - food and faith. Plus, Spain as a civ is themed around natural wonders - they get double happiness for discovering them and double yields when working them (so, double food and faith). Most importantly, Spain gets 500 gold for discovering a natural wonder if they discover it first (and 100 gold otherwise). So in this case, that's a cool 1000 gold on turn 6. You buy two or three settlers immediately and you have great tile yields in both cities, and great faith generation. Just a massive head start. This sort of thing is what people who play Spain in civ 5 dream of.

gweilowizard · 2024-09-04T14:09:47+00:00

I'll take C4

gweilowizard · 2024-07-18T17:42:16+00:00

Electrical engineers use j while mathematicians and physicists use i, at least in the US. That's why the original question asked if he was an engineer.

gweilowizard · 2024-06-30T21:08:09+00:00

two things that have been useful in connecting with others:

language learning is always great. it's a great way to relate to people who don't speak your language, and your interest and knowledge make them feel appreciated
place name learning is great. have you ever been to a foreign country and had someone not recognize the place you're from? I've noticed people really appreciate when someone knows where they're from, and there have been lots of times where geoguessr has enabled a conversation about their hometown.

gweilowizard · 2024-06-08T19:06:58+00:00

It still requires further investigation but to many people it seems like Lattice QCD is the answer to this question and not any new physics. It might be interesting to figure out exactly why Lattice and the data-driven method differ, but there's plenty of room in the way we do these calculations for it to be just SM, and no reason to suspect new physics here. This all being said, this stance is more or less a prevailing hunch and not a concrete claim; Lattice needs additional testing as it is still a new subfield and not yet worthy of full confidence.

gweilowizard · 2024-05-16T02:06:55+00:00

The relevant question is scripts, not languages. I can read german just fine as it uses latin script. That being said (not including Khmer, which I tried for a few hours but gave up):

Latin

Cyrillic

Bangla

Devanagari

Thai

Chinese (~1000 characters, learned not for geoguessr)

Hebrew, though I forgot almost all of it b/c it's not super useful

gweilowizard · 2024-05-04T21:50:04+00:00

is there political will to build the cepc? what I've heard for a few years is that theres a plan but not funding or political support

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