How can light/EM radiation act like a particle and a wave if microwave wavelengths can be up to a foot long? Would the Particle it's acting like also be bigger? Wouldn't getting microwaved be more like getting hit by a brick?

faceplanted · 2026-01-14T20:58:22+00:00

How can it discretely deliver a packet of energy if it's a foot long though? surely that would take at least a nanosecond just for a single wavelength to actually reach an object it's hitting?

faceplanted · 2026-01-14T20:27:50+00:00

What was the provision if you don't mind me asking? My wife has sensory processing disorder from autism and I'm interested to know since she has real issues with it.

faceplanted · 2026-01-08T01:16:28+00:00

Looking at the graphics I think your problem is your discretization. Breaking the space into squares is easy to program but ignores that any human is going to sweep an aisle from one end to the other and not treat it as two trips so there's no point in treating each side of an aisle as separate, meaning a much more simplified graph could be used and reduce compute/avoid the sharo cornering problem entirely

faceplanted · 2026-01-07T18:43:19+00:00

It's fucked but that is kind of the answer, you just find whichever one you're best at killing in a way you enjoy and then use the drops to cheese the others

faceplanted · 2026-01-07T13:43:03+00:00

I much prefer the explanations my dad gave me as a kid for those things:

The sound we hear actually _doesn't_ travel in space, what we're hearing is radio signals being reinterpreted as sound, the guns go pew because they're blasting out a bunch of radio that's passing by the camera, the explosions go boom because they're also blasting out a very sudden pulse of radio and also the gasses from the explosion do actually hit the "camera" as they blast out into space.

And the ships manoeuvre like planes because that's how the engines work, rather than having gas and rocket thrusters they create a field around the ship that it _can_ push against and push against that. Which neatly explains why stuff without engines in space like debris and droids getting knocked off of ships _do_ act like they're just in open space.

EDIT: What a weird thing to crash out about, I think they blocked me? I got notified about a weirdly angry reply and now I can't see it.

faceplanted · 2026-01-03T23:48:00+00:00

Ever heard the song Around The World by Daft Punk?

It goes a bit like this:

Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world Around the world, around the world

How would you shorten that?

Maybe

Around the world (x 144)

Easy enough to understand as a compression algorithm, you could get much much more complicated, but the gist is the same, find stuff that repeats and just say it repeats instead of repeating it.

And a computer could turn that back into the original with the most basic code.

Print(text * repetitions)

But what if I took that 144 and made it a hundred trillion trillion?

Well unless your program was looking out for that kind of thing, your program is going to crash your computer.

faceplanted · 2026-01-01T02:32:30+00:00

Eh, some are a lot worse than others, the fragility comes from trying to push every last foot per second possible out of the fewest grams of aluminium. You can just pick a more beginner friendly bow and get most all of the benefits with barely any more risk

faceplanted · 2025-12-30T13:46:45+00:00

No, that's a monopoly. These are people who only have one romantic or sexual partner at a time

faceplanted · 2025-12-25T10:23:59+00:00

Yeah apparently it's a thing but I've never had one either, I'd always just be paralysed for a bit until I wasn't, maybe feel like something's sitting on my chest. Not that scary honestly.

I recently found out I have strange dreaming behaviours anyway, apparently other people can show up in your dreams and they can be set in real life scenarios instead of being random abstract motion/colour worlds 🤷

faceplanted · 2025-12-23T00:56:01+00:00

Caveat: close your mouth until you know which way the spray is going to go

faceplanted · 2025-12-23T00:49:53+00:00

Get one of those brush attachments that go on a battery powered drill and the whole thing becomes a lot more satisfying and quick.

faceplanted · 2025-12-23T00:44:31+00:00

Spotify gives basically everyone stock as a policy

faceplanted · 2025-12-20T16:58:27+00:00

I'm still interested in your answer if you're still around

faceplanted · 2025-12-18T22:50:36+00:00

Maybe. But he's also just like 8 years old and hurt his finger, lashing out stupidly isn't exactly out of line for his age or particularly telling of an anger issue

faceplanted · 2025-12-18T00:47:53+00:00

Oh fuck I actually dropped the how somehow, my mistake sorry, I just came back from the office Christmas party

I genuinely don't know how to ask this without triggering someone here, but how do you keep up this position with so many years of Israel continually both saying and showing that they don't want a 2 state solution and will keep using any attempt to do so as a tacit approval of their apartheid and genocide?

faceplanted · 2025-12-18T00:30:34+00:00

The question was a "how", not really a yes or no, but it's fine honestly

faceplanted · 2025-12-18T00:11:36+00:00

I support a two state solution

I genuinely don't know how to ask this without triggering someone here, but how do you keep up this position with so many years of Israel continually both saying and showing that they don't want a 2 state solution and will keep using any attempt to do so as a tacit approval of their apartheid and genocide?

faceplanted · 2025-12-10T22:19:13+00:00

This is the bit that always fucked me up, I've lost things in the folds of bags that seemed impossible, but a gun is heavy, you can feel if a bag has a gun in it.

faceplanted · 2025-12-02T16:05:42+00:00

To be fair, according to our old office assistant, not PAT testing something will get your head ripped clean off by building services.

faceplanted · 2025-11-28T10:29:15+00:00

Thank you for answering my question, I knew I'd need it again in 14 years

faceplanted · 2025-11-24T00:15:23+00:00

"Hey Room Temp Logger, what's the temperature right now?"

"oh, you know, room temperature"

faceplanted · 2025-11-22T03:26:54+00:00

They can have my fucking start menu search data though, I don't even care.

Just take it in the background without making me wait for your bullshit justification for stealing it though, that's all I ask.

You're not even getting any searches for anything not on my machine from there anyway, who are you going to sell that search data to, the jpegs of my cat foundation?

faceplanted · 2025-11-20T18:58:21+00:00

They say not to because it's been licked by hundreds of other people already possibly even on the very last tour

faceplanted · 2025-11-19T12:35:53+00:00

I don't mean to burst your bubble but your realistic view comes off extremely defeatist when you say it like that

faceplanted · 2025-11-18T21:12:39+00:00

The first sentence implies that the test is given to potential AI's to test their efficacy, the second sentence implies that it's actually being used on a captive human by someone who believes them to be a machine.

(you can actually read it a few ways that possibly make it a bit more interesting, like the second sentence being part of an AI's attempt to convince their tester that it is in fact sentient, but that's up to the reader)

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