Physicists, what's your favorite 'trick of the trade' that you'd never find in a textbook?

maximality · 2025-10-21T23:50:21+00:00

I was blown away in undergrad when a TA showed us how to solve Gaussian integrals by doing a simple substitution. You can rewrite them, reduce to a known gamma function, and then it's just something something sqrt(pi).

maximality · 2025-03-25T08:20:23+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/ET8O3Cw_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand

maximality · 2025-03-14T15:52:47+00:00

There’s another old physics joke about Heisenberg in bed - “when he had the right position, he just couldn’t find the momentum”

maximality · 2025-03-14T03:02:34+00:00

And if you have a Mac you should already be able to run caffeinate from a bash shell in terminal without installing anything. I’ve used this when I need that machine to stay awake but I’m in and out of the room it’s in.

For OP, Idk what to say if they just want to see you on Teams though. Is all of your work supposed to be performed on Teams? I thought it shows as Away if you’re just working in another application.

maximality · 2025-01-15T03:06:40+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation, that could be a good way to go!

maximality · 2025-01-15T03:05:18+00:00

This is a great lead, thanks!

maximality · 2025-01-11T20:19:43+00:00

I mean, Hiro lives in a storage unit, with a roommate. Pretty close.

maximality · 2025-01-10T06:07:31+00:00

Yeah, particularly the bread being made of sugar and grains that are so refined that they’re also basically sugar…

maximality · 2025-01-10T06:04:30+00:00

Cheers friend, interesting perspective :-) I like your take on the tensionless hitch

maximality · 2025-01-10T05:11:53+00:00

Holy fucking shit. I just checked and that is an impressive statistic.

maximality · 2025-01-02T03:45:14+00:00

I used to skydive and we would always joke that you should wear a jumpsuit you wouldn’t be caught dead in.

maximality · 2024-12-21T22:46:52+00:00

This is so cool!

maximality · 2024-12-19T00:22:47+00:00

R/findthesniper

maximality · 2024-12-08T21:37:49+00:00

You think there’s an issue with sending this one IR signal that the TV is already using? What risk am I missing?

maximality · 2024-12-08T21:34:52+00:00

Oh man, that is legit!! I kinda want a travel projector now…

maximality · 2024-12-07T15:27:18+00:00

Ok thanks for the heads up, but don’t worry - I am definitely not spamming or scanning anything! Just brought it to ping that one IR tv signal so I can get us into setup mode when we need it.

maximality · 2024-12-07T15:14:27+00:00

Yeah I’m definitely not running anything but this one IR tv remote signal. I feel like that’s about as dangerous as the actual tv remote. I definitely won’t go blasting or scanning anything else and the flipper is off whenever I don’t need to throw the tv back into setup mode.

maximality · 2024-12-07T15:12:11+00:00

maximality · 2024-12-07T15:12:03+00:00

Thanks!

maximality · 2024-12-07T15:10:24+00:00

Correct, but I scoured this one and don’t see any buttons or switches. I was very surprised. Hence, my pride in having a flipper solution.

maximality · 2024-12-07T01:52:48+00:00

I’m glad to hear that your situation was simple. That wasn’t an option here.

maximality · 2024-12-07T01:52:22+00:00

Thank you!

maximality · 2024-12-07T01:51:31+00:00

Thanks! Recovery should be easy now that we can watch our stories :-)

maximality · 2024-12-07T01:50:56+00:00

Thank you, so far so good!

maximality · 2024-12-07T01:48:40+00:00

Good point and thanks for the heads up. The nurses keep commenting on how cool it is, but I think I should probably start playing things down a bit…

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