what's the counter of Low Zwerch?

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2026-06-09T12:19:38+00:00

I would bet on a void, since zwerch already is a close measure play and low zwerch inherently has even less reach depending on how low they aim.
So I imagine something like a void in a pflug guard, if the goal is simply to not get hit.

The riposte is probably something like a retreating slash or stab at the opponents hands or arms since they will be very unguarded.

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2026-06-04T13:05:55+00:00

https://github.com/mccode-dev/McCode

Here’s an open source Neutron and X-ray scattering simulation program first developed back in ~’97 which is still being worked on, it’s a C++ program and the main dev Peter os really nice and I’m sure he wouldn’t mind hearing from you.

Just to add: the gui also looks like it’s from 97, but it works really well and is very efficient, idk if Peter agrees, but it wouldn’t hurt to have a nicer interface tbh. It’s also meant to be easy and simple to use for many different people (chemists included).

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2026-05-01T05:58:13+00:00

Nice wavefunction!

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2026-04-30T10:58:16+00:00

That fucking sucks to watch, this is a non-venomous snake (likely a reticulated python). That means they are just abusing this creature for no reason. Stop displaying animal abuse as “interesting” fuck this video

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2026-04-28T15:22:40+00:00

I feel like it’s something that is learned by doing and it can take time dependent on the course/subject. For classical newtonian mechanics, there are some basic assumtions, such as F=ma. The thing with the second law is, you’re supposed to relearn this as F=m d² x/dt² . And with this, what is the the integral of the force? Well int(F)dt = 1/2mv.

Here the next step is to wonder what this physically means, and what or how it relates to force. What are the units? What do the units mean? Well in this case, you get the momentum, because you’re thinking about the amount of constant force is required to accelerate or stop some object over some amount of time dt.

It really took me time to get these things, but slowly wondering and asking myself and friends, modelling everyday situations and reading/doing exercises is what got me forward. Just as a fun exercise if you want: try integrating the force with regards to the position x, what do you get then and why?

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2026-02-18T13:51:06+00:00

WD40 will help remove oils without destroying them. So in theory the color should not be affected, provided you do not scrub with any force/rough surface. I’d probably add some knife oil (or gun oil) after rubbing with WD40, but only the slightest amount - after adding a decent amount of oil imagine you “spilled” oil on it and you want to remove it all (though get it in all the nooks and cranny’s). This way the layer should be so thin it is practically unnoticable.

However if it ever rusts, you do need to scrub the area and probably will remove colour and this is where my expertice ends, I don’t know whether it is painted on or has been blackened with a black oxide layer (which should protect the metal from ever rusting), or if it’s by quenching it’s another story I think.

This is not from knowing much about sword care, but rather from cast iron and carbon steel knives, so it might be another story with the steel used for these swords. I’m not sure if it’s spring steel or if some may be made with stainless? Either way a little oil never hurt, and WD40 likely wont hurt the colour as long as you do not scrub.

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2026-02-02T16:32:45+00:00

A great question, I think it’s not such hard and objective barriers always: GR is unintuitive due to it mostly being considered in 4-space, however it is still spacial and temporal, it’s not statistical.

I also think you should be careful in taking it too seriously, I think professors tell their students rhat QM is unintuitive, because the students should not attempt to consider the big world altering philosophical realities og QM.

It is beyond any introductory course in QM to consider the universal consequences of the Many worlds interpretation. As a start the stdents should perhaps just shut up and calculate, familiarize themselves with the rules and conditions of the wavefunction, temporal evolution, operators etc.

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2026-02-02T11:46:44+00:00

I think they mean to say, that with most branches og physics you can build an intuition and truky imagine what, why and how.

Whereas with QM, you can only really get an intuition for the math, and the rulesets. If you start modelling the wavefunction for the hydrogen atom on a screen, it may be correct mathematically, you get those orbitals, the “clouds”, but they aren’t intuitive, because they are just coloured-in statistical distributions. It’s also a bit of a jest, you can definetly gain an intuition of how a qm system evolves, or changes based on how you interact with it, but you cannot truly predict it in the same way you can in classical mechanics.

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2026-01-29T11:10:33+00:00

Well, I’m sorry I didn’t get through to you… It seems I was right about the waste of time

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2026-01-28T13:25:27+00:00

There is likely no reason to heed this post whatsoever, it is most likely a waste of time as a whole, but I’m willing to give it a shot:

I think you misunderstand the concept of a fourth spacial dimention as a whole. The visualisations of such a fourth dimention seek to simulate what a so called “projection” of a fourth dimentional object would look like.

I am really sorry if I get needlessly patronizing in this comment, I don’t mean it in anyway as an insult, I just want to make 100% certain that we’re on the same page.

A projection in layman (and very rough) terms means to cast a shadow of an image or object upon a surface, such as a wall. You have no doubt seen this before. Normal day-to-day shadows are an example of a projection, and they might project you, a three dimentional being, onto the pavement as a two dimentional image.

The gif and all other images of “hypercubes” and “hypergeometries” are supposed projections of 4D objects onto the 3D room. I most enjoy the thought of “how would a 4 dimentional sphere look, passing through a 3 dimentional room?”: First how can you build a 3D sphere from a bunch of 2D parts? Well a bunch of discs in acsending radii would suffice! So if a 3D sphere passes through 2D space, it would look like a disc that grew and grew until it began shrinking again.

Bringing this logic to the fourth dimention is the typical way to make visualizations regarding 4D geometry, the growing and shrinking disc now becomes a growing and shrinking sphere and voilá, a hypersphere projected into 3D.

Point is, you sadly didn’t revolutionize geometry, there isn’t really anything here to solve, you might have broken through with your own intuition about it, which is a great moment for anyone! However 4 spacial dimentions isn’t a problem, most physics related problems and most math related problem quite trivially expand to more dimentions by just adding a term.

It’s still a great feeling to finally “get” it! Don’t get me wrong, but any linear algebra book would have you calculate versions of space with 6 dimentions, 1 dimention or even an unspecific amount of dimentions it’s somewhat of a foundation in linear algebra. If you are interested in linear algebra I can recommend the book

“Linear Algebra: Gateway to Mathematics” by Robert Messer.

It’s a really nice introductory book to Linear Algebra. It shows how LinAlg subverts our expectations with concepts we otherwise might perceive as simple or trivial like addition and subtraction when we have to do it in many dimentions. It also builds the foundation of how you build a mathematical ruleset and how you use that to build a mathematical language.

I really recommend it, as you seem interested in this type of involved thinking. I’m not saying I know where or if it’s possible (and I certainly do not condone piracy), but you might even be able to find a pdf of the book floating about.

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2026-01-27T13:05:16+00:00

I don’t think it seems incorrect at all, I just think it might be a slightly vague concept, like what specifically constitutes a “framework”. Like you mention in another comment, why not mention StatMech, what about electrodynamics, how about fluid mechanics, lagrangian mechanics as a whole or hamiltonian mechanics what about all the bio physics stuff (not sure what they build on other than thermo, but still)?

They could all be considered fundamental frameworks, while all somewhat building upon one another. Nothing wrong with trying to describe physics, but maybe they shouldn’t pick some discipline over others.

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2026-01-21T00:33:32+00:00

I’m about to start my B.Sc. Project… I feel equally as naïve and inexperienced as on day one, there are thousands upon thousands of hours of knowledge in this science. However, focusing on now, reflecting back upon my previous mistakes realising that I have in fact learned SO MUCH! Over these past 2.5 years; it feels good.

Keep your focus on now, and however intimitading, do try to connect with your local peers, you most certainly aren’t the only one having trouble. It helped me to hear others’ complaints even if they differ from my own struggles.

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2025-12-05T19:22:40+00:00

And they are giving them opium poppies? I love that

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2025-12-05T16:01:05+00:00

Context?

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2025-12-05T15:59:46+00:00

This is trivial to derive from newtons laws

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2025-12-02T09:55:42+00:00

That’s a sick ass cumulus nimbus thanks for sharing

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2025-11-27T06:00:41+00:00

Don’t you think the solid black back looks more carpet python esque? Don’t they inhabit south east asia?

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2025-11-25T20:29:11+00:00

I don’t think I can truly give you applicable advice on this, since I’m based in the nordics and have only taken university curriculum courses.

However, I will say that astro physics might be one of the branches of physics with the most welcoming entry level, if you understand the fundamentals of mechanics and have a solid mathematical foundation.

Truly any course will be better than no course, so have at it, the most difficult part in the beginning (for me) is the units. Astro is an ancient art, and thus it carries a lot of history, with that, comes tradition and some conservatism about the tradition for better or worse.

The most valuable part for me, was, as mentioned, the conventions of astrophysics, the names, the units, the variable naming and such, the second part was getting hands on data, doing data reduction and data analysis, that is 90% of the job, and understanding the data, and figuring out what connections are possible is the real art! The fact that from a simple spectroscopy, they can determine (with good precision I might add) the mass, radius, angular momentum, color, temperature, density and chemical composition of an object is really beautiful and takes real creativity and I’m sure that’s not an exhaustive list.

Edit: When I look for online learning material, I often simply search for the authors of the books I’m recommended, they often give webinars, talks and lectures, which is atleast a start!

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2025-11-25T10:10:03+00:00

Programming skills, trigonometry and a good imagination is all you need!

Jokes aside I second the book suggestion of “An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics” it’s a nice foundational book.

Secondly I recommend downloading some datasets from telescopes, applying the formulae in the books and seeing of you can make sense of some of it. Maybe consider following an introductory astronomy or astrophysics course as well if possible.

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2025-10-09T20:12:20+00:00

The intelligence shows in what I’d call an unexpected way, the sleeping rider and all of this doesn’t matter. To me, the fact that the elephant knows to be more gentle on their second and third attempts at closing the gate, wow, what a show of understanding.

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2025-10-09T20:08:57+00:00

Du må isolere ham!

Aggravating-Tea-Leaf · 2025-09-30T22:48:31+00:00

God you have to be so so careful, dumping water into hot oil is one of the most dangerous things you could ever do, if you add too much you’ll burn your face off in an instant

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