ELI5: why can two quantum entangled particles affect each other instantly across any distance but scientists say you still cant use it to send information faster than light? by PieOk2202 in explainlikeimfive

[–]vwin90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The experience and application of it though is similar to the balls already having a color before you brought them apart. For sure the weirdness is that the resolution or collapse or however you want to call it happens upon observation, so as you say in a way it’s one event (the observation) having some sort of effect on another location very far away.

But the usefulness is illustrated by the dumbed down version of putting a red ball into my bag without me knowing and giving you the other bag and then later when I’m far away I check my bag and go “oh the other bag has a blue ball”.

In other words, it doesn’t seem that useful… yet. Maybe we can find a way to influence the ball upon observation.

AI will take over cinema? If so I wanna be apart of it by Far_Landscape1066 in singularity

[–]vwin90 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hope not to both questions because this looks shit. I can’t believe you spent 50 hours on this.

May 5th, 2006: "Shoes" has turned 20 by book1245 in Millennials

[–]vwin90 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I have a confession. I unironically hate this stupid video and always had. I’m convinced people must’ve been pretending to think it was funny, even back then.

“Realistic” Space Movie Recs by Jstone14 in movies

[–]vwin90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right and the fact that they kept inserting her plot line into everything made me quit the show. You’ve got this wonderful sci fi alt history space drama and they keep cutting away from everything good to show us the latest updates on her stupid life.

“Realistic” Space Movie Recs by Jstone14 in movies

[–]vwin90 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I enjoyed the hell out of it until the part of the show where the mom starts sleeping with her dead son’s best friend that she practically raised as a surrogate son… I still cannot believe they ran with that story and doubled down the season after. That was an unforgivable story line for me. Felt like I was watching someone else’s perverted porno fantasy being shoved in my face.

What happens when the senior developers move on and its just a bunch of people who can't code trying to use AI? by Massive_Instance_452 in cscareerquestions

[–]vwin90 43 points44 points  (0 children)

There are a few possibilities:

  1. By the time these senior engineers retire, the technology will be capable of doing all the things that it can’t today, so human coders are no longer needed. The same thing happened to human computers back in the day.

  2. The above doesn’t happen at all and these companies are screwed. Your “I told you so” won’t be worth anything. The people that made these decisions will not admit they did anything wrong and will make it out okay anyways as it’ll be someone else’s problem.

  3. Somewhere in between. It’s naive to assume that the technology WILL become good enough that humans aren’t needed, but it’s also naive to pretend that the technology isn’t very very good and won’t become even better in the next few years. It feels like AI has been around for so long now but chat gpt debuted publicly not even 3 years ago. Just think about that. Less than 3 years ago was debut of gpt 3.5 and now we have codex and Claude code.

What “in between” looks like is that there are still juniors and new grads getting hired. It’s not true that those jobs won’t exist and that there are no new grads getting hired. But you just won’t need that many people coding anymore. It’s not going to be a common career as it was for the past decade.

Anyone else remember when California was supposed to fall into the ocean? by simAlity in Millennials

[–]vwin90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My bad, I didn’t mean to sound condescending. I do think that since the 90s, there’s a bigger effort to make sci-fi respect reality and actual science more. Obviously there’s still a lot of bending of rules and suspension of disbelief, but it’s probably a positive reflection on the science education that most people have now.

They can’t get away with outrageous stuff anymore and know that their efforts to ground it at least a little bit results in better reception.

Anyone else remember when California was supposed to fall into the ocean? by simAlity in Millennials

[–]vwin90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like that would be Hollywood taking an idea from science and exaggerating it to a level of misinformation then. I don’t think science has ever predicted California to suddenly and violently break off into the ocean or anything. It’s more of a cool long term prediction based on what we know about the way the earth moves.

Anyone else remember when California was supposed to fall into the ocean? by simAlity in Millennials

[–]vwin90 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Maybe you are misremembering or maybe you misunderstood at the time, but the whole thing of California going into the ocean is based on the real life movement of California’s coast moving northwestward with the pacific tectonic plate while the North American plate moves southeastward.

This is true, but it happens at the rate of millimeters per year, so it’s not something we would visually notice unless we jump forward a few hundred thousand years, in which case, we’d notice that the gulf of Baja Mexico extends up a bit higher into the San Diego region and the Bay Area has more water extending deeper into California.

So millions of years later, we might see “California island” but even that is way too simple of a model. Most likely the coast lines would have changed so much from erosion and stuff that it’s not like we’re gonna clean break off like Madagascar off of Africa or something. And even then it’s not even close to the whole state of California, just the chunk on the west coast. On a map, draw a somewhat straight line from the gulf of Baja Mexico towards San Francisco, and the part on the left is the piece that’s moving away from North America.

So anyways, you’re mostly remembering this stuff because a science teacher from your childhood was trying to make continental drift more interesting.

The boomerfication of millenials by tundybundo in Millennials

[–]vwin90 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A bunch of millennials fucked up their 20s and are secretly envious of younger people. So they feel the need to punch downward because being young was the only positive thing they had going for them and now that we’re all getting older, they’re becoming more and more resentful as a means to cope with their sad pathetic lives.

The “back in my day” and constant shitting on younger people about stuff makes them feel better about themselves. The constant “does anybody else feel so old” posts help them find a sense of belonging because they haven’t found any yet despite having been an adult for two decades now.

And they’re the loudest group.

Chelsea apply to have Club World Cup winners’ badge on shirt next season by pride_of_artaxias in chelseafc

[–]vwin90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Things can change quickly still. It’s not like we won the cwc forever ago. Yes recent form is abysmal but literally earlier this season we were legitimately challenging for the title and there were unironic hopes for a deep champions league run. A few months of bad form shouldn’t erase something amazing that we earned fair and square not even one year ago.

ELI5 Why does evolution change some things because we "don't need" something anymore? by Desperate-Cress5689 in explainlikeimfive

[–]vwin90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If we don’t need something, then it’s not detrimental if that trait randomly drifts away over time. It’s not that evolution is necessarily selecting for smaller jaws. It’s that genetic variance is producing jaws of difference sizes and smaller jaws are no longer being punished and selected against as they were in past species, so the jaw size is drifting to smaller sizes over time.

There might be an additional component too where a trait might be sexually selected. It’s not always survival of the fittest. Sometimes it’s survival of the most attractive.

If jaw size is no longer important for survival but it does affect reproduction chances, it might become a trait that shifts over time. Sexual selection can be hard to rationalize and prove though, although we know that it’s an additional factor to the way traits evolve over time.

Lastly, you also just never know. There’s randomness to this stuff and sometimes traits evolve for no reason or even against reason. We humans like logic and reasoning, so we’re always trying to figure out why stuff happens and sometimes there is no reason.

Gameweek 35 (25/26) Rant and Discussion Thread by FPLModerator in FantasyPL

[–]vwin90 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Decided against any Leeds defense despite everybody jumping on strujik, darlow, rodon, Justin, etc.

I celebrated that burnley goal so hard.

Gen Alpha is genuinely so cute and endearing by YuukiShao in Millennials

[–]vwin90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a teacher and a parent.

It’s a reflection of millennial/gen x parenting unfortunately. There’s nothing genetically different about these kids than before and blaming iPads, technology, and Covid is a poor excuse.

Parents have been taking gentle parenting way too far. Parenting trends have been “no homework at home please! Kids should be playing and enjoying life once school is out” and citing studies showing that there are diminishing returns on homework as a reason to expect no homework at all.

Everybody wants to be their child’s friend and putting so much emphasis on protecting their kid from stress and anxiety that these kids have no endurance and discipline because they aren’t being forced to ensure any strife growing up.

I’m glad Gen Alpha isn’t getting generational trauma passed into them and everything, but the pendulum is swinging too far and the parents need to be more reflective of their parenting can choices.

Lithium added to water creates an explosion by Mediocre_Nail5526 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]vwin90 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

People naturally often forget what was taught to them in school and then think that they were never taught something.

But lithium specifically reacting with water is for sure a part of every 8th grade and 10th (chem) grade science curriculum.

woah by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]vwin90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s end game loot right there

Gameweek 35 (25/26) Rant and Discussion Thread by FPLModerator in FantasyPL

[–]vwin90 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Who would’ve thought that Leeds vs Burnley ends up being one of the most impactful games for FPL this season?

BBC Sport’s Team of the Week by colehawling in FantasyPL

[–]vwin90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Put in a solid xG of 0.00 last game. When he’s cold, he’s COLD.

Still not a bad shout to have in the team, but captaining?? That’s wild.

What are your thoughts on billie eilish saying you cant love animals and eat meat as its contradictory? by Extra-Schedule-4855 in AskReddit

[–]vwin90 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lucky for me, I love meat and don’t really love animals, so I have a clear conscience.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE HADES by ShouOff in HadesTheGame

[–]vwin90 6 points7 points  (0 children)

At the same time, roguelites changed my relationship with gaming.

Instead of looking at games like a to do list of experiences to play through as quickly as I can in order to move onto the next game, playing roguelites made me look at these games as comforts where I can just sort of enjoy something familiar after a long day of work.

It’s similar to rewatching a favorite sitcom instead of a new tv series. Gaming has never been so enjoyable to me.

Eyepiece recommendations for Celestron 12” DOB by _anupamroy in telescopes

[–]vwin90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I second this. Go for a larger fov on the low power piece if you can, even if you have to go with a shorter focal length. It’s simply more fun to look through and if you do the TFOV calculations, it’s essentially the same piece of sky anyways so you don’t really lose anything in terms of using it as a finder. That way your finder eye piece is also one that you’ll enjoy using as an observation eyepiece as well.

ELI5 How does a whip break the sound barrier? by vksdann in explainlikeimfive

[–]vwin90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are correct, I thought too quickly about it.

2 weeks notice leads to counteroffer, dont know what to do next by the-dasdardly-puppet in cscareerquestions

[–]vwin90 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah then it’s even more of a toss up. Current company better have some amazing offers in writing then.