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  • cynarOPto3DPrintingPrinter recommendations
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    3 hours ago

    Not even playing lip service to supporting the open source stuff they built upon. They’ve also recently been trying to lockdown and paywall (or just drop) features. Including legal action against people trying to undo the damage.

    The general sniff test is they are trying to lock people in before milking them for all they can.





  • cynartoxkcdxkcd #3238: Soniferous Aether
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    2 days ago

    QM isn’t insane to understand. It’s main issue is that it doesn’t map well/at all to our normal experience. You need to dive into the maths, and accept what falls out.

    The main deeper level here is how the blurring happens. The photons explore all possible paths. The result is an integral of them all. In general, vast areas cancel out, leaving classical (ish) behaviour. This makes sense mathematically, but has no classical analogy to compare to.


  • cynartoxkcdxkcd #3238: Soniferous Aether
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    It’s quantum mechanical, so the maths gets complex. It can be simplified in a useful way however.

    Basically, atoms can absorb photons and then re-emit them. You can think of the photon flying past at C, but getting absorbed and emitted along the way, adding delays. In QM however, neat particles don’t exist, it deals with quantised, probabilistic waves. The above effect gets blurred over the waveform. No one atom definitely absorbs it or doesn’t, it gets blurred together into a general slowing of the wavefront.









  • It’s a universal problem. Good men/women/other spend far less time “available” than their fellows. A (straight) man like that would likely be snatched up and hung onto by the first woman smart enough to realise what she’s got. If she’s also a good option for him, then both are off the market permanently.

    It’s like a box of chocolates. It’s not that the good ones don’t exist. The box just gets picked clean, and you’re left with the weird nuts to choose from.

    (P.s. I stumbled in here from /all, so only have experience with how it plays out for straight foke. I presume it likely plays out similarly for queer etc too)







  • If it’s something new, stolen food is best food. Have something different yourself and let them try some from your plate. There’s no expectation that they have to eat more, if they don’t like it.

    If it’s something they chose then they have a choice to eat it or not. It doesn’t get replaced however.

    If it’s something you chose, then that’s more on you. As soon as my minion was talking, she started getting a say in what she wanted. Even if it did mean a mixed bowl of peas and sweetcorn became a staple for a while.















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