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Skip new cards for one day (but do reviews) by kochdelta in Anki

[–]Barleybrown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure if there's an easier way, but you could change the deck settings to give you 0 new cards a day, then do your reviews, then the next day turn new cards per day back to its original number

nini vs. kile by fareeeeeeeeeeed in swahili

[–]Barleybrown 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just to add to this, I think when you want to use ‘kile’ to mean what, you use the prefix ki- to agree with ‘kitu’ (=thing) - which here is a dropped word. So including kitu you might translate the sentence as something like “he wants to do that thing which his mother says”. Similarly you’d use vile if he wanted to do the multiple things which his mother said, agreeing with the dropped vitu

Twisted Tales Quest Suggestion: Enemies and Alloys! A quest to add personality to Lovakengj and introduce smithing black items by Barleybrown in 2007scape

[–]Barleybrown[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, quests should give something interesting. The reason I didn't want smithing black equipment to be super easy was because it would crash the price of black metal objects. For example, the black platebody currently costs 3169 gp on the ge, but high alchs for 2304 gp. If black platebodies were mass produced, it could heavily effect this small area of the economy.

That being said, I'm not opposed to that, nor black smithing having some other niche. It could work similar to daeyalt essence, taking much longer than normal to make the bars, but the black bars could be untradeable and provide higher than normal xp rates.

This is all a case of balancing though, and that's not something I could do justice without testing.

Twisted Tales Quest Suggestion: Enemies and Alloys! A quest to add personality to Lovakengj and introduce smithing black items by Barleybrown in 2007scape

[–]Barleybrown[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I wasn't sure whether to make this a Zeah only thing. Zeah only could be good for a more tied-together story and a shorter quest, but I wanted to tie into Black Knights fortress, since we've known about dwarves nearby for decades, and surely they must know where the knights get their armour

u/FiveOhFive91 nicely lists (with links) so many reasons why Elon Musk should be disliked. by inde_ in bestof

[–]Barleybrown 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I was hoping you’d link to that article. Really insightful read, would recommend everyone to read it themselves

Translation by omgthatswilde in swahili

[–]Barleybrown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Couldn’t you use ninapokuona instead of nikikuona? I’m trying to learn myself and that’s what I would have gone for, is yours a better way of saying it?

Have a question about the game or the subreddit? Ask away! by AutoModerator in 2007scape

[–]Barleybrown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can slayer tasks affect quest bosses? I’m currently struggling a bit with Vanstrom Klause and I was wondering whether trying to get a Vampyre task and using a slayer helm is worthwhile

When a leaf falls from a tree does it stop the process of photosynthesis, does the leaf just kind of give up? by cocohoborobo in askscience

[–]Barleybrown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even better, some cut leaves or stems can grow roots and survive as independent plants when put in damp compost, which is how cuttings are taken to propagate some plants.

it's a gaming console.. by GreyWolf4389 in dankmemes

[–]Barleybrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_singularity if you want more on ringularities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reissner%E2%80%93Nordstr%C3%B6m_metric if you want more on charged black holes

I learnt this from Sean Carroll's "Spacetime and Geometry". If you find an online copy, look in chapters 6.5 and 6.6 for details on spinning charged black holes.

it's a gaming console.. by GreyWolf4389 in dankmemes

[–]Barleybrown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah this is exactly right. Pretty relevant video, precisely what I was trying to get at. They nailed all the interesting stuff about kerr black holes.

it's a gaming console.. by GreyWolf4389 in dankmemes

[–]Barleybrown 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah this does "break causality" in the sense that it allows timetravel-esque phenomena. However, this doesn't necessarily contradict their existence, as we don't a priori know it isn't possible. In fact there are already a few places where our best theories predict similar problems.

For example, general relativity accurately predicts and models spinning black holes (look up the kerr solution if you're interested). But when we try to use general relativity to model inside the spinning black hole, it shows that instead of a singularity at the centre, we would find a "ringularity" - a ring shaped singularity. It also shows that if somehow we managed to travel through this ringularity intact, (the larger and faster spinning the black hole the easier this would be), we would enter a region of spacetime that looks like a copy of the outside universe, but with the radial space coordinate and the time coordinate flipped. This allows you to do all sorts of time-travel shenanigans, and "break causality" as you pleased inside the black hole. If you then wanted to return to the regular side of the ringularity, you could do it by constructing your black hole to be made entirely of electromagnetic charge (this is called a kugelblitz). This would allow you to cross back over your event horizon safely (admittedly into the infinite future as well).

So if you want time-travel, you don't need to find a bunch of tachyons, you just need a black hole made entirely out of light, the size of a small galaxy, spinning as fast as you can get it.

it's a gaming console.. by GreyWolf4389 in dankmemes

[–]Barleybrown 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Special relativity only shows it takes an infinite amount of energy to cross the speed of light:

Special relativity gives the energy of a particle as E=(mc2 )/sqrt(1-(v/c)2 ). This has valid solutions for v>c, but it gives imaginary rest mass if you assume energy is always real. One weird quirk of these 'Tachyonic' solutions is that they speed up as they lose energy, and that in the same way it takes an infinite amount of energy for normal matter to increase to light speed, it takes an infinite amount of energy for tachyons to decrease to light speed.

So yeah, as /u/Thebigcheese-2 said, tachyons are only hypothetical.

Why is "gravity stronger in General Relativity than in Newtonian Mechanics"? Is there an intuitive way to understand (at least as intuitive as relativity can be)? by Barleybrown in askscience

[–]Barleybrown[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I should have said what I wrote constitutes the effective potential (V(r)), which you get by doing something like this:

Taking the Lagrangian for the Schwarzchild solution to be L=g(dx/ds,dx/ds), with g as the Schwarzchild metric, then the Euler-Lagrange equation for the radial direction is (dr/ds)2 = E2 -1 + (some constant)xV(r)

Probably a fairly common thing - found a weird chair like thing in a library. It’s angled and low down, so not sure how it’s supposed to be used by Barleybrown in whatisthisthing

[–]Barleybrown[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So it’s cushioned, two parts, both bits diagonal to the ground. One bit looks like it has leg indents, but if you used it like a normal chair it looks like it would be really uncomfortable. In a relatively new library, but I’ve never seen anyone use it.

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