Contravariant

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[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Well, who did you trust to build your hardware?

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Well at some point you encounter a phase change, which complicates things, but mostly the heat capacity (how much energy it takes to raise the temperature) is fairly constant. In an ideal gas it is exactly constant, but that is a bit of an approximation, even if it works quite well for most gases.

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Depriving Russia of nuclear scientists, or capable people in general, might well be worth whatever wages they brought home.

If you want to bring the inter-european war into it I'm not sure if we can afford to be unpragmatic about this. By all accounts letting Russia bleed manpower in exchange for some small wages is well worth it. If you want to deprive them of money you really need to strike at their ability to export gas and oil at inflated prices. Advancing knowledge about fusion aids that goal, though the effects are likely (hopefully?) too late to matter.

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lenovo definitely deserves to be banned after that shit they pulled with the malicious root certificates.

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

So none of the attackers managed to leave the scene after the police arrived?

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That same description applies to downloading a zipped file.

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

For a revolution to succeed you need the power to remove any people in power that oppose you, doesn't get more authoritarian than that.

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

And at this point it's also code for 'machine learning'.

Which really is just fancy statistics. Sometimes it's barely more advanced than plain regression.

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of the time I did roughly the same thing trying to get people to move away from internet explorer.

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Heck if accelerating to Mach 19 in about 2 meters is acceptable you could just disable the rotors and only experience an acceleration of less than Mach 1 in just a few meters.

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

I won't pretend that its popularity is in any way proportional to its quality, but I enjoyed it and so did many others so she must have done something right. Calling a work that many people enjoy trash just sounds a bit elitist to me.

Feel free to call the author whatever you want though, at this point I've no respect left for her.

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