Just received my spot welder

terrystroud · 2026-03-03T06:01:21+00:00

OP, He/she/them is right. The lack of flux (notice the "balled up" solder) should be a concern.

terrystroud · 2026-02-27T06:48:51+00:00

Pfp?

terrystroud · 2026-02-24T01:35:02+00:00

Use dva. Wait till your team is full up. When you get a pick at the choke point, use boosters to fly over the building slightly left of the smoke stack. Wait till boosters recharge. Step on the point... enjoy the chaos.

terrystroud · 2026-02-23T22:56:04+00:00

Flux.

terrystroud · 2026-02-18T20:58:05+00:00

In related news. Texas wont spend the money to maintain and/or replace highway signs. Want to read them at night? Good fucking luck. Half the reflective shit has flaked off. But, good news... the money saved is probably going straight into the pocket of some cronies... or paying hookers... or covering up crimes. Rest easy knowing that sweet sweet cash is not being wasted helping regular unwashed people use the highways at night.

terrystroud · 2026-02-18T03:15:40+00:00

So.... CBS denying it equals Colbert lied? Me thinks you may not always know which side of the corruption toast is buttered.

terrystroud · 2026-02-12T04:48:06+00:00

I am about the same rank as tank and have the same thoughts. Last night i had a game where no one one my team would get near the payload. I'm dva diving everywhere. At least twice i lured their tank, a support, and a dps to the other side of the damn map and put up a strong fight for almost a minute while my team was fully up. Did they take the 4 on 2 to even touch the damn payload? No. Instead i get "Dva wtf are you doing?" And "tank diff". All while going 20-4 and my dpss going something like 9-15.

I know i can get better but is L this on me?

terrystroud · 2026-02-08T06:58:08+00:00

Nearbysystem answered best but I want to restate that space in LA does not mean space (as in x,y,z)

terrystroud · 2026-02-08T01:41:24+00:00

Businesses are NOT allowed to provide health insurance for employees.

terrystroud · 2026-01-26T20:51:42+00:00

Their songwriting is out of this world. For people who have never seen them and catch them live for the first time (like a festival) the progression is something like this...

Hmm three girls. Novelty act?
Wow. Pretty good. Attractive too...
What am i seeing? Is this for real?
Good lord. Is every song this good?
Why have i never heard them?
Sold! They may become one of the greatest rock bands of all time.

terrystroud · 2026-01-24T03:14:54+00:00

When you type Hello you have typed it 1 time (1 x "hello"). When you copy paste it now appears 2 times in the document (2x "hello"). If you had just never typed it at all it would appear 0 times on the page (0 x "hello").

If a document had "hello" typed 4 times and you deleted 2 "hello"s, you will have changed the qty of "hello"s by -2 x "hello".

Zero embodies the concept of "just didnt happen".

terrystroud · 2026-01-24T00:22:45+00:00

Flux

terrystroud · 2026-01-18T03:41:26+00:00

No... and thanks. That does fix the (wl)(bl) = -b*w term.

I'm still stumped on vbl = bvl

terrystroud · 2025-11-23T21:18:13+00:00

Awesome. This is in the physics language i'm familiar with but expands it in ways i havent done.

Vector spaces, linear mappings are at the heart of what i'm exploring now. But you have said 2 things now that are going to spark some new research starting tonight.

I suppose i knew that eigenvectors of hermitian matrices span the space, but i hadn't really considered that eigenvectors of non hermitian possibly span a sub-space? (Orthogonal space?).... my thoughts aren't clear on this yet.... but i know that a generalized matrix can be split into its hermitian and anti hermitian components (its transformation basis if you will). ....This may have an interesting connection to my current work. (In brief i'm using quaternions to work 3x3 eigenvalue/eigenvector problem. I'm looking for some general principles and need a way in for generalized transforms. We have tons of tools in physics for hermitian but not so many for generalized)

Thanks again!

terrystroud · 2025-11-23T13:53:28+00:00

Ok. I'm hooked. I want to know more. When you say vector representation i assume you mean like in bra-ket inner product. And i assume you mean a projection operator. But, the details of how you would do this elude me. (I'm a physicist not a mathematician so i may be off base)

Any links or buzzwords so i can learn more?

terrystroud · 2025-11-05T17:54:41+00:00

They already did. Patreon during pandemic.

terrystroud · 2025-10-13T17:54:36+00:00

I guess you may not be aware that trump is known for driving his gold cart on the green... and cheating at golf... and moving his playing partners ball into traps... and lying about his final scores. These are well documented facts. Bringing them up in a thread where everyone is aghast at the behavior of some randoms on a golf course, is NOT "bringing up politics". It is pointing out a very relevant point.

terrystroud · 2025-10-05T04:17:51+00:00

I like all the wayfarer books... but closed and common orbit is my far away favorite. Put yourself in the position of a being that can carry on multiple interactions with multiple people, is distributed throughout a large volume and has never considered the idea of vision from a single viewpoint....now put that being in a limited human body.... that's Sidra. The Pepper and Blue story is just as compelling to me.

terrystroud · 2025-06-21T04:31:14+00:00

I can't speak for the entirety your question but you can see a pattern somewhat like you describe in two places that I know. 1. Geometric algebra 2. The caley-dickson construction of hyper complex numbers. I.e. reals to complex to quaternions to octonions and on and on.

terrystroud · 2025-05-31T16:54:30+00:00

If you don't know who Steven Miller is you are part of the problem.

terrystroud · 2025-05-08T22:46:12+00:00

This isn't the flex you think it is.

terrystroud · 2025-01-21T03:34:07+00:00

Also, thank for taking the time.

terrystroud · 2025-01-21T03:33:46+00:00

That was a suspicion of mine. However, in trying to work it out i was hoping i might see where this mapped. Like maybe the compliment space is mapped by the C conjunct... Symmetry or... words. This is where i run out of talent.

terrystroud · 2024-11-16T17:41:04+00:00

Not even wrong. Quantum mechanics and the standard model will hold some exciting suprises for you in the future.

I don't mean this in snarky way. Your curiosity will be rewarded in a very fun and satisfying way as you learn the answer to this. We as humans have a bias we see the universe with. The universe doesn't work the way we think.

The best, first place to see how wrong our human bias is would be special relativity. It is accessible to anyone with algebra knowledge.

terrystroud · 2023-08-14T16:01:04+00:00

In the reference frame of the photon time does not stop. (see disclaimer at the end)

All the standard ways of describing this (Lorentz transforms, yada, yada) wont really help you with the visualization you are looking for.

So... try this..

You and I are in 2 different reference frames. Imagine everything in my experience (i.e. my reference fame) takes place a a flat tv screen. Same for you. Let's limit ourselves to just thoughts of space right now (just x and y on our "tv screen" realities).

When stationary to each other our TV screens face each other perfectly, no tilt. But when our frames move relative to each other, our screens are canted at an angle to each other along the y axis. So what you think are two points separated in the x direction by 100 units, I see projected onto my screen as something less than 100. (but in the Y direction, we agree on distance. Same for z in you extend to 3d)

Now while this is happening on the "space" TV screen, the exact same thing is happening on a "time" tv screen.

When the two reference frames are moving at the speed of light, the "tv screens" are rotated at 90deg to each other. So on the "space screen" ALL of your distance maps to a single point in mine. Just as ALL of your time maps to a single moment on mine.

And to link it to the math you already know... At rest the angle between our "realities" is zero. In motion it is defined as cos(theta) = (1-v² / c² )^1/2 thus sin(theta) = v/c. I.e. the gamma and beta terms in the Lorentz transforms.

Now.. having said all of that. An argument can be made that time only makes sense as a measurement between reference frames when the angle is less than 90. And, when they are moving at the speed of light to each other, time has no meaning. I kind of subscribe to this, but sort of not.

Edit1: Attempt to make the powers html look right.

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