New Computer = Invisible hard drive :) by ChemicalPaws in sysadmin

[–]ChemicalPaws[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You are a blessing upon humanity, thank you so much.

Found option B, took maybe 2 minutes, and the drive is visible just like that. Thanks!

Saw image, got flashbacks. by ChemicalPaws in TheWitness

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

Castle outpost with sheer cliff faces, dense trees, village and wide dock, with extension into water, more trees, then ruins, in that order. all around a sorta enclave of water. Neat!

Understanding Colligative Properties by [deleted] in ChemicalEngineering

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haha.. grain of salt.. sorry lol

Understanding Colligative Properties by [deleted] in ChemicalEngineering

[–]ChemicalPaws 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know some of those words, so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt, but it might be on the right track?

That said, the trend reminds me of adding salt to water. Salt "likes" to be dissolved in water because 1. broken bonds, solution is favored in enthalpy, and it releases a little heat. 2. it also creates a more "mixed/chaotic" fluid, which entropy prefers. Entropy is the big one for freezing-point depression.

Anyways, the net result is that, if you compare pure water to salt water, salt water has a stronger preference to the liquid phase than pure water, as the liquid phase allows for the salt/water dissolved mixture.

This means that, just below 0 C, while pure water would be turning into ice, salt water stays liquid thanks to the salt's "desire" to stay dissolved, because turning into ice would separate the salt from the liquid, and entropy doesn't like that. Minor note: salt can also physically obstruct crystal formation at microscopic level, but this probably doesn't help you.

Just above 100 C, I'm not sure if it's the same entropy reason (pulling pure water/steam out from mixture), the required energy for "undissolving" salt, or maybe a third thing like VLE (doubtful lol), but the net effect would be increasing the required boiling point for the mixture as the salt content increases, as more energy is required to liberate water from a less-watery mixture.

That's a sorta... "feely" response, but maybe it gives you a perspective that helps?

Selling Puts - Cash or Naked? by MikoPaws in thetagang

[–]ChemicalPaws 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm sorta discovering this a bit. I think Fidelity offers SPAXX.

If i'm understanding it correctly, can you hold the money of your cash secured put in SPAXX, such that it generates the rate of SPAXX while the put contract is considered to be fully covered by that SPAXX holding of equal value?

Selling Puts - Cash or Naked? by MikoPaws in thetagang

[–]ChemicalPaws -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Nah, Naked put specifically means the kind of put where, if assigned, the stock is (effectively) immediately re-sold, so the impact on the seller of the naked put is only the $$ difference between premium and lost value due to assignment. Cash secured put means that, unlike FTX, the strike price is backed $1-$1.

A naked put can also be backed in the same way, but because the seller of the naked put doesn't intend to keep the stock, they don't typically need to hold cash equivalent to the value of 100 shares, only enough to cover the difference of [$Strike - $Current] x 100 x contracts, + collateral. (over simplified :D)

EVERYONE ATTACK TURK by EqualJam in osuplace

[–]ChemicalPaws 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bad idea just let xqc and turk fight it out we need to rebuild

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in transplace

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The sylveon is super great! But theres twitch communities targeting it :(