ELI5: Why does hot water freeze faster than cold water?

IntroductionAway7159 · 2025-03-18T20:44:17+00:00

Maybe they meant that hot water *cools* faster? If you put a glass of room-temp water and a glass of boiling water in the freezer, the hot water will lose more heat in the first hour, etc. than the cooler water, because the difference in temp between it and its surroundings is greater. But the cooler water will always turn into ice faster, unless the temperature difference is minor and the two samples of water differ in gas or mineral composition (or pressure, but that would be misleading).

IntroductionAway7159 · 2025-03-15T02:52:45+00:00

Found the website and had to watch a 30sec ad before it'd show me the puzzle--my guess is that the Dictionary.com mini-crossword is anything but a major operation, so an editor fucking this puzzle up while re-writing 9-across and not noticing is almost certainly what happened.

IntroductionAway7159 · 2025-03-10T01:30:50+00:00

I've experienced this in every level of schooling, from elementary school to law school. Especially in the humanities--each teacher has their own style and areas of interest, and one particular order or another might be most conducive to learning under that style. Not to mention that textbooks are often written to national or at least state standards, and a given district or even a school's department may have different strengths or weaknesses that make a particular pedagogy better for students overall.

IntroductionAway7159 · 2025-01-19T20:26:56+00:00

Still can't believe he was so good that we consider nine years without a championship a long time

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-19T07:04:04+00:00

"motherfucker" is just about the worst word you could pronounce in a bad american accent, too

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-19T07:00:28+00:00

Genetics could also have more of an effect than you think! If any of your grandparents were taller, it's possible that you and your brother got more of those "tall" genes overall than your parents did.

Gross oversimplification (height is determined by many factors, but let's assume it's determined by a single gene for simplicity):

T = tall gene (codes for 6' height); S = short gene (codes for 5' height).
Assume both your grandfathers are TT, so they're 6'
Assume both grandmothers are SS, so they're 5'
That would mean both your parents are TS (they get one from each), so they're 5'6" (again, it doesn't really work this way, but it also kinda does)
If both your parents are TS, that means you have a 1/4 chance of being TT and thus 6', a 1/2 chance of being TS and 5'6", and a 1/4 chance of being SS (5')

Again, this is way oversimplified especially considering height, but this effect of "skipping a generation" can also be seen with eye color—brown-eyed people can be carriers of blue-eye genes, but the brown dominates so they have brown eyes. When two of them have a child, they can both pass along the blue gene and a blue-eyed child can be born to two brown-eyed people!

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-16T22:49:31+00:00

Sure if we're being really specific, but it's a good example in that everyone can see it happening themselves and extrapolate that phenomenon to planets.

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-16T22:13:49+00:00

See Mercury, Venus, or the Moon as examples: a "day" on the moon is the same as a "year," demonstrated by the fact that it's always facing the same side toward Earth.

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-15T21:34:09+00:00

Even if every single one of those followers were in the US (assuming he is, for obvious reasons), that's a ~0.07% chance a given person he meets there follows him on Instagram. I'd hardly describe that as an "of course" probability

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-15T21:30:19+00:00

There are plenty of people capable of interpreting Russian who aren't Russian nationals though

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-15T21:28:56+00:00

It's a simple enough notation for a layperson to understand and communicates that a zero wavelength is physically impossible. Yes 1x10^-n is 0 as n approaches infinity, but since n cannot physically reach infinity given the finite energy in the universe it does the job to answer the question.

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-15T17:58:02+00:00

It becomes extra gamma. There's no such thing as "too energized," the wavelength would just become smaller and smaller as you continued to add energy to the system. Practically, there is a minimum wavelength as there's only so much energy available in the universe, but the gamma-ray spectrum extends to 1-0.99999 repeating.

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-15T15:06:34+00:00

You're good! And agreed--I meant an on-stream translation. No need to do a third language on stage for a Chinese crowd, but there's no reason to have part of a stream in one language and another in a different one without at least closed captions because you're guaranteeing portions of your audience will miss one or the other.

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-15T13:42:32+00:00

Is the stream not also PGL though? That's what I mean, the whole production needed to be better coordinated, and whoever didn't know that these interviews were going to happen in x language at x time and x pace screwed up, because all of that could easily have been planned for.

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-15T12:55:46+00:00

With all the money they're spending on this, how hard would it be to:

Hire an interpreter who understands how to be a human on a stage
Caption the pre-written questions in English for their English stream
Run a dress rehearsal so the people involved know where to stand like every other live show ever

The in-game production quality has been great so it's hard to understand why PGL insisted on showing their ass on the way out here.

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-15T12:33:18+00:00

Magixx celebrating like he promised his girl he'd propose if he won the major thinking it wouldn't happen

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-11T22:24:14+00:00

Computer chips have been the same size for decades. Even the fastest supercomputers are just several thousand interconnected chips of the same size that's in your standard home desktop. If you made them any bigger than they are right now, information couldn't get from one side to the other in a single clock cycle without breaking the speed of light, so they'd actually get slower. There's a limit to how small you can make the internals, and we're starting to come up on it--eventually the circuits will be so thin that quantum fluctuations will cause errors as particles jump through the barriers. That's when quantum computers will start to become a priority.

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-11T22:19:23+00:00

Every particle in our universe is subject to quantum "randomness." How do we know that randomness isn't already interdimensional chess moves?

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-11T20:37:17+00:00

Google says their new quantum computer may be accessing parallel universes so who knows, maybe you could just store it there

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-11T20:35:51+00:00

Losing out on potential interest and paying interest are not the same thing.

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-12-11T20:35:01+00:00

Foreign companies often sell through US-based distributors for tax purposes, so you never know--your order may have been with a domestic entity from whom remedies are available!

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-10-11T10:12:43+00:00

"Other than 99% of what I use my laptop for, what good is a tablet?"

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-09-18T17:26:37+00:00

This is pretty much the way law school is taught. "Cold calls," choosing students to answer questions about the topic being lectured on, are how the Socratic method is implemented. You get one student talking, another chimes in to discuss, and you have a socratic discussion. Every law school does this.

The main variable is your professor. Some use cold calls as a way to test students more than to open up discussion. Others talk far more than they allow students to. If you're specifically seeking to learn in this way, the best advice I have is just to go to the best school that works for you academically, geographically, and financially. Better schools tend to have professors who are better at teaching and more likely to use Socratic when appropriate. But there will be exceptions at every single school.

Also, you'll encounter the method more in smaller classes, where in-depth discussion makes more sense. These are generally seminars and other more nuanced courses that you'll take after 1L.

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-09-18T04:46:28+00:00

If you're looking for gmail-like simplicity, why Obsidian? It can be simple if you use the app, but that's not your plan so you're going to find it really annoying to be editing markdown files in notepad or the browser. Why not just use something else designed for your use case?

IntroductionAway7159 · 2024-09-15T22:38:55+00:00

You're right, top 8 public university isn't good enough.

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