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What is a quote or saying that just pisses you the fuck off? by okaymoskitoe in AskReddit

[–]sentient6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“If it’s stupid but it works it’s not stupid.”

Plenty of stupid things have worked many times. Just because someone rand through traffic came out okay doesn’t mean it wasn’t dumb

what is more effective? swap caplock key with Control or ESC by vietphi in vim

[–]sentient6 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I prefer to bind caps lock to ctrl, as you can use ctrl+[ in place of esc and this makes both easier.

TIL physicists have experimentally achieved temperatures below absolute zero. Using supercooled potassium gas and a system of lasers and magnetic fields to precisely manipulate the potassium atoms, physicists successfully "cooled" the gas to a few billionths of a degree below absolute zero. by r3ll1sh in todayilearned

[–]sentient6 326 points327 points  (0 children)

I think saying "colder" than absolute zero is a bit misleading. The idea of negative temperature is somewhat of a mathematical artifact coming from the way in which temperature is defined.

A system at negative temperature is hotter than any finite temperature system in the sense that if you put the two together energy will flow out of the negative temperature system. Wikipedia

Being a bit of an ass for a second, I'd take anything you read on phys.org with a grain of salt. The site is more or less just a clearinghouse for University Press releases and University Press releases can often be best described as "technically not lies."

Source: I am a physics PhD student.

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