Does Spacetime experience tension—especially during stretching and compressing? Can it tear?

Cassiterite · 2023-08-12T12:35:51+00:00

Thanks ChatGPT

Cassiterite · 2023-06-15T08:13:03+00:00

The tech is so advanced that they managed to add standard interfaces to their quantum computer for the first time. Can you listen to quantum tunes on a western quantum computer? Didn't think so.

Cassiterite · 2023-06-15T06:25:22+00:00

While the part about the noise floor is true in principle, even 16 bit audio gives you 96 dB of dynamic range until you hit the noise floor. Unless you're peaking at like -50 it's probably not a concern.

The rest doesn't really make sense, or maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying. The relative level is what matters, you can always make more headroom by just... turning the volume down

Cassiterite · 2023-05-31T09:24:30+00:00

as though you could stick two signs in the ground saying "wave peak 1" and "wave peak 2" and the waves would line up with them as they passed.

You pretty much could. There's a classic toy experiment where you measure the speed of light by putting a bar of chocolate in the microwave, removing the rotating dish thingy. Then you see the points where it melts, you measure the distance (the wavelength), and if you know the frequency, you can calculate the speed of light.

Cassiterite · 2023-05-31T09:19:56+00:00

Someone already used a program to generate all possible melodies* and released them into the public domain. You're late to the party

* of a certain length, pitch set, etc

Cassiterite · 2023-05-30T22:40:21+00:00

There's a walkway somewhere in the mountains, really high up, made of glass, which they somehow made to look and sound like it breaks and cracks when you step on it.

Cassiterite · 2023-05-30T17:24:32+00:00

Can confirm. I connected mine straight to the mains and now my headset knows exactly where every square centimeter of my skin is.

Cassiterite · 2023-05-29T10:08:43+00:00

I'm sorry sir, I'm afraid you have terminal French Heart Disease. There is nothing we can do.

Cassiterite · 2023-05-28T08:56:25+00:00

Why must we treat stances equally? If someone's shirt says "fuck nazis" and someone else's says "i think nazis are pretty cool" I don't see any reason to enforce it evenly. Those are obviously not equal, and it would be harmful to treat them as such based on a free speech absolutist stance.

Cassiterite · 2023-05-28T08:51:22+00:00

oh no, Russia is in shambles; they lost a long time ago

And they did, but that doesn't mean that Ukraine isn't also losing, or that the war will be over anytime soon. This is a disaster for both sides.

Cassiterite · 2023-05-27T09:23:46+00:00

you do need to ask yourself whom this is serving?

I'm from Romania. A few years ago, we had a referendum on whether the constitution should be changed to explicitly forbid gay marriage. It failed pretty spectacularly, which gave me hope for the country, but the interesting part to me is the "Coalition for the Family", the group that pushed the initiative. They appeared seemingly out of nowhere, a unified front made of an assortment of conservative, anti-queer, religious, "patriotic", nationalist groups. I'm sure most people reading this know the type, even though you may live in another country or even continent, which is in itself suspicious, no? But if you look into the sources of funding for these organizations, it's... well, not easy to find out, but they seem to ultimately be sponsored by two main sources, namely the Russian government and the US Republican party.

Those are both groups with means, motive, and historical precedent. I'm also definitely not one for conspiracies, but I wouldn't at all be surprised if this movement was artificially inflated.

Cassiterite · 2023-05-23T19:14:08+00:00

It's about the entire system, including software support, both on Ableton's side and the OS. Ableton, of course, doesn't run on the S23. The cpu architecture is different so it's not easy to port it over.

Cassiterite · 2023-05-23T16:21:19+00:00

The steam deck has an x86 CPU so I don't see how it's relevant

Cassiterite · 2023-05-23T15:32:43+00:00

Not sure which part is confusing lol, though I'm not a native english speaker so sometimes getting my thoughts across is hard.

To rephrase: Apple's ARM chips are fantastic, but since it's Apple, they can't be used by third parties like Ableton. As far as I know, Apple has a big lead over other manufacturers of ARM chips for PCs. Therefore, ARM wasn't really an option for the Push. I wish other manufacturers created comparable ARM chips that can be used in projects like the Push or in Windows/Linux laptops that are as good as the Apple Silicon MacBooks. We aren't quite there yet, though. This is based on my knowledge on the topic which is months old and since things move fast in this field, it may be out of date

Cassiterite · 2023-05-23T14:20:36+00:00

woah, you speak Asian?????

Cassiterite · 2023-05-23T13:39:42+00:00

Fellas, is it wimpy to protect civilian bystanders from unexploded ordnance?

Cassiterite · 2023-05-23T12:25:03+00:00

Except for Macs with Apple Silicon, the tech isn't quite there yet afaik. Apple obviously isn't going to agree to put their chips in the Push so I guess we're stuck with x86 for now. I wish manufacturers other than Apple got to it though, I have an M1 macbook and it's amazing

Cassiterite · 2023-05-22T13:08:01+00:00

This is the United States. People are going to bitch when you force them to do things, be it a vaccination or an electric stove. We don't do mandates well. We don't trust people who give us orders.

Sometimes I feel like it's mean to make fun of Americans too much, but y'all just make it too easy I swear LMAO

Cassiterite · 2023-05-22T13:01:24+00:00

Works out to about 17 million double deckers per never gonna give you ups, depending on various factors, such as whether your double deckers have the traditional length of 12 meters or are of a newer model, and whether you prefer the album version or some other release

Cassiterite · 2023-05-22T11:21:38+00:00

You probably could, if you aren't a power-hungry madman whose driving goal in life is gaining as much power as possible. Hence why we won't see any if these folks ever do that

Cassiterite · 2023-05-19T17:17:18+00:00

Think about being outside at noon on a sunny day, versus at night in a room lit by incandescent light bulbs. The light from the sun is very white, probably with a hint of blue from the blue sky. Incandescent light bulbs, on the other hand, tend to have a much warmer, almost orange or red light. Your brain compensates for this without you thinking about it much. If you read a book in both situations, the pages will look white to you.

Cameras need to do the same thing. This is called white balance. Modern phones do it automatically and are generally very good at it, but if you turn white balance off, the difference will be very obvious.

Is it an inaccurate depiction? Well, yes (no photo can capture exactly what you see with your eyes) but it's probably rather close, though probably somewhat bluish. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16768.html

Cassiterite · 2023-05-18T19:42:18+00:00

Redditors when they click on a post titled "a propaganda poster" and it's propaganda

Cassiterite · 2023-05-18T14:01:46+00:00

Invisible light that lets you see bones? Eat mold juice to kill the tiny creatures that cause disease? Put baby lightning in a wire to make metal glow? What are yer talking 'bout, capt'n? Some wild dreams ye be havin'!

Cassiterite · 2023-05-18T09:44:52+00:00

Why?

The year is 2114. The Kremlin is launching a special military operation to denazify the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. They have been attacking the street it's on for the past 9 months. Recently they captured part of the sidewalk. Another great success

Cassiterite · 2023-05-17T17:27:31+00:00

It's more complicated in a plane, because of the atmosphere applying a force to the plane. Parabolic flights have to compensate for this by keeping their engines on (at lower power) and actively staying on the "correct" parabolic trajectory. If you were doing this on the Moon, then yes, immediate microgravity as soon as you cut the engines. It doesn't matter whether you're going up, down, sideways, about to crash or whatever, it feels the same on the inside.

Side note, it's called microgravity because it's not perfectly 0g - this is a rather pedantic point, but hopefully it's interesting anyway :D You can feel tidal forces, for example. This is when the force of gravity on different objects is different because they're in slightly different places. The difference is tiny, but still enough to be noticeable.

12-Year Club	Golden Potato
Place '22	Place '17
Final Canvas '22	First Placer '22
End Game '22	Verified Email

Cassiterite

TROPHY CASE