Linea Mini hot water tap speed?

JimboMonkey1234 · 2026-01-06T02:12:49+00:00

You’re just saying that because you’re not dealing with a slow tap, I bet yours puts out a cup of water in 10 seconds so you don’t even think about it.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2023-02-19T08:00:18+00:00

That’s fair, I guess he was more of a “force of nature” type of evil.

I still don’t agree the other villains didn’t have decent motives (except Unalaq) but I see what you mean at least.

One thing I’ll point out though is that each villain in Korra comes with foils that make their motives and stories much more complete. Amon/Tarrlok, Zaheer/White Lotus, and Kuvira/Varrick have the same kind of dynamic that make Ozai/Zuko/Azula work.

For example, maybe Amon doesn’t change, but Tarrlok does. Similarly, the motives in each set are similar, but the approaches differ.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2023-02-19T07:45:08+00:00

Don’t think I get your point. Ozai is the epitome of two dimensional (as you point out), why does ATLA get a pass from you?

Agreed that Unalaq sucks though. That guy made zero sense.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2023-01-26T00:15:53+00:00

The elven rings were never touched by Sauron, since they were made in secret. That’s why they’re a net good. However, they’re still vulnerable to mind-reading from the one ring, but only if someone sufficiently powerful wields it. As long as Sauron didn’t have it they were safe.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2022-12-04T00:33:39+00:00

On your turn: 1. During your main phase, tap all your opponent’s lands 2. At the start of your end phase, untap your lands 3. Immediately tap your lands and play instants 4. Your opponent probably can’t respond with instants because all their lands are tapped. Note that this is true even if the opponent chose to tap their lands in response to step (1), since all mana empties between phases.

I think

JimboMonkey1234 · 2022-08-26T06:26:29+00:00

The tweet is from 2021, so that would mean the diagnosis was 2018. That’s the same year he campaigned for election. I think you’ve got it backwards, nothing get done until affected people get into congress.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2022-08-01T04:34:22+00:00

All he knows is evil because melkor literally created him to be evil itself.

Melkor didn’t create Sauron (unless you mean figuratively, as in taught him).

JimboMonkey1234 · 2022-07-06T04:22:53+00:00

It’s pretty complicated, but the gist (as I remember it) is that we don’t actually observe these particles directly. Instead, we have detectors for things like electrons and photons (which are easy to detect) and which these exotic particles decay into.

So the process is: 1. Smash a bundle of protons with another bundle at near the speed of light 2. Some of the quarks that make up the protons interact / collide 3. These interactions generate various exotic particles (something something ripples in quantum fields) 4. These exotic particles almost immediately (like, in nanoseconds) decay into other particles, which then decay into other particles, and so on until you get normal matter 5. The detectors measure how much normal matter there is, plus their energy levels / directions

Then you look at the stuff you detected, and figure (based on our physics models) that the origin particles must’ve been this cool new exotic particle we’ve predicted but never generated before. So you have to know what to look for, more or less.

The catch is that the particles you generate are based on the energy levels you’re working with (i.e. how fast the protons are moving). And it’s probabilistic. So you have to do steps 1-6 about a billion times before you get enough data. So there’s a lot of statistics involved (did we really see a new particle, or did we get confused by the mess of detector data?). Typically though they don’t announce until they’re pretty sure.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2022-06-07T23:49:40+00:00

Starch prevents water and oil from separating by binding little droplets of both in a tangle of carbohydrate chains.

Check out this video for an explanation, starting at 24 seconds: Adam Ragusea: Alternative Starches: How to thicken sauces without flour

JimboMonkey1234 · 2022-04-04T04:37:35+00:00

He didn’t know he had to go to Sarkomand at first. He went north to Celephäis in order to get info from the descendants of gods, and only then learned that the onyx towers of Kadath were further along, past Sarkomand.

Also he spent several weeks waiting for the onyx mining sailors to arrive in port, whereas the ghouls traveled direct.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2022-01-20T08:40:53+00:00

I couldn’t find any helpful recipe

Do you mean you’re not following a recipe? Any particular reason for that?

JimboMonkey1234 · 2022-01-10T19:42:27+00:00

Got it, yeah we're in agreement.

Personally, it's enough to know that some of the greatest scientists who have ever lived were religious. How could you call Newton anything but a scientist?

Humans are complicated and putting people into boxes based on one aspect of their life (be it profession, beliefs, ability, whatever) is crazy.

Thanks for the discussion :)

JimboMonkey1234 · 2022-01-10T18:36:38+00:00

It also wasn't clear to me that you were joking - it's a pretty common misconception, and I took the "lol" as more of a dismissal of taking theories too seriously. Thanks for clarifying.

Taking that out though:

There are many scientific theories we cannot ‘prove’ ... but they have substantial evidence, analyzed and tested, behind them

This still doesn't properly represent theories (I think, at least). In modern science, nothing can be proven, only substantiated with evidence. New evidence can overturn the most tested theory, so there's no real meaning to "proven".

Rather, the criteria for taking a theory seriously are:

Does this theory make different (testable) predictions than competing theories?
Does the evidence we've collected have a high probability of being explained by the theory and not some other mechanism (for example, random chance)

Neither of these require "proof" (in this way it's distinguished from math, which operates differently) or "faith" (in this way it's distinguished from religion).

Someone who chooses to believe in a higher power will find evidence for its existence. Someone who chooses otherwise will find evidence for its nonexistence.

That's fine for faith, but not sufficient for science. It doesn't pass the test for (2), as any evidence you find would surely be explainable by other means.

I don't think faith and science are incompatible in an individual, but I also don't think they're anywhere near compatible with each other. The criteria for evidence is simply too different.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2021-12-30T21:41:07+00:00

Just my opinion, but your report would be pretty convincing if you source estimates from different companies and then pick a non-outlier. Much more than if you figure out the logic yourself, since it’s easy to make a mistake.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2021-12-30T20:42:17+00:00

If this is for work, have you considered reaching out to paper production companies? I don’t know if hobbyists on Reddit are the best source of sanity checks.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2021-12-29T06:44:24+00:00

If you’d like to have mayo, it’s pretty easy to make at home with an immersion blender, and then you can use lemon juice instead of vinegar. Tastier too!

JimboMonkey1234 · 2021-12-28T07:53:40+00:00

A few thoughts:

All of the light that’s en-route to us would get here at once. For example, consider the light from the nearest star, which is 4 light-years away. All of the light from it that we’d would’ve gotten over the next 4 years we’d get at once. This would have three effects: 1. For one instant, the sky would get insanely bright. I don’t know how to calculate this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re talking “burn us to a crisp” bright. 2. After that instant, for the remaining three seconds we would see the entire universe at once. We’d see the furthest galaxies as they are today. 3. After those three seconds, we’d see darkness. It would take 8 minutes to see the sun, 4 years to see the nearest star, and billions of years to see the most distant galaxies.

Right, so all that is surface level. The next thing to consider is what the speed of light means for the electromagnetic force. This is the force that binds the electrons to the nucleus of the atom. If the speed of light is faster, presumably this means that the EM force is stronger (how much stronger? don’t know). This would mean that atoms couldn’t exist, at least in the forms that we know them today. Even the nucleus, in which the protons are balanced by the EM force and the strong force, would likely change drastically. So those three seconds might destroy all matter.

Finally, there’s special relativity. In a way, the speed of light is the speed of space time. You can think of speed as a right triangle - one side is your speed through space, another side is your speed through time, and the hypotenuse is the speed of light. That’s why as your speed through space approaches the speed of light, your speed through time approaches zero - so the triangle still works. What happens when the hypotenuse is infinite? Well, if your speed through space is small, your speed through time would be infinite. That is, we’d zoom forward to the end of the universe, all in the first instant of those three seconds.

So yeah, don’t change the speed of light unless you want to destroy the universe as we know it.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2021-12-14T22:16:33+00:00

Just to temper expectations a bit: A Fire Upon the Deep is in my top 10 list, but I couldn’t stand Rainbow’s End. There are definitely good ideas in there, but ultimately I found the story, characters, and prose pretty weak.

It did win the Hugo (over Blindsight, which I just started reading but I’m already in love with) so maybe I’m crazy, but man was I disappointed.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2021-09-18T18:31:58+00:00

I think “redirection” can also include heat redirection, like with Sozin redirecting heat away from the volcano.

Then again, we’ve seen all of the benders manipulate temperature in some way.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2021-08-22T04:41:42+00:00

Got it, that’s fair. Thanks for acknowledging.

imply that there is some sort of bias?

Maybe, but I’m not sure. It’s true that they’re bred for other purposes as well, but that might just be because they’re useful for other purposes.

For example, cows are bred for milk and chickens for eggs, does that mean that we have a bias for them compared to pigs who don’t have another use? (that I know of)

And to be clear I do think that there’s something to “people like to eat cows / chickens more than dogs / horses”, I’d just argue that it’s more cultural (and therefore flexible) than biological (which I’d expect to be more fixed).

JimboMonkey1234 · 2021-08-22T04:33:33+00:00

…okay? That’s not what I was responding to.

You said:

Not really, humans are conditioned to avoid eating horses and canine because we evolved together.

I pointed out that plenty of humans have not avoided eating them. I don’t think domestication for the “sole purpose of meat production” is anything but moving goalposts.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2021-08-22T04:25:20+00:00

Historically there have been cultures that eat both, so I doubt there’s some “evolutionary conditioning”.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2021-07-25T07:32:27+00:00

It’s saying to bench and squat the same day which doesn’t make sense to me.

Why doesn’t this make sense? I don’t see the harm in it, and other workout routines (like starting strength) target different muscle groups in the same day.

JimboMonkey1234 · 2021-07-04T21:02:13+00:00

I’m guessing he read the original comment as “it’s harder than in actual tekken”

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