turboSnail

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Based on the phase interaction part of the article, there’s constructive and reconstructive phase interaction going on. That chapter has some nice diagrams about it.

That’s what produces the different colors. The thickness of the layer determines which wavelengths are lucky enough to reflect this way.

Also, here’s what happens with iron oxide.

I recall reading something about titanium and its color. The thickness of the surface layer determines the color. It’s just nanometers thick, but that means light begins to do weird stuff at that scale. I suspect the same applies to the silver oxide/sulfide/whatever layer on the spoon. If that’s the case, you’re not actually seeing the color of the surface layer. The layer is exactly the right thickness that specific wavelengths of light get reflected back while others don’t.

Proper physicists can add more details.

Here’s an idea. Instead of having artificial scarcity, they could have actual scarcity. Don’t manufacture 10 000 super fancy shirts. Make only 500. They will run out sooner than anyone wants, you’ll still make absurd profits and customers are left wanting more. When the next season rolls around, you make 500 of the same shirt, but in a different color. Charge 2x more than last time, but you’ll be able to sell them anyway now that people know how fast they disappeared last time.

Side note: Making stuff to feed the vanity of millionaires is revolting, but at least this way it doesn’t have to be so wasteful.

You can try to help your friends who have mental issues, but it comes with risks.You should know when to stop. I’m not telling you to abandon your friends who need help. Try to support them, but only within your limits.

You’re (probably) not a professional therapist, so you don’t really have the means to make the kind of impact you’re hoping to make. Try to pay attention to the signs when the relationship is beginning to harm your well being. When you notice that, it’s time to step back.

If you know someone who clearly needs help but refuses to seek it, you’re in a tough spot. Realistically, there might not be much you can do to help. Coming to terms with that that is painful, but watching someone collapse and implode is even more agonizing.

Positive side: You’ve done what you can, but sometimes that just isn’t enough. It’s not your fault if someone gravitates towards an otherwise avoidable disaster, so don’t blame yourself.

I Just put a question mark at the end of this sentence, so therefore it’s a question now?

I guess I’ll have to buy one of those racks when the bubble pops. Just add an LED strip on the outside and a gaming GPU on the inside. Surely they support PCIe?

The website uses pages instead of infinite scrolling. I guess that’s compliant then.

People who use Visio, probably wont even have (the wrong) Visio installed. There shouldn’t be any confusion.

What about the idea of burning oil products in general? Sure, that made powerful and light engines possible, and they have transformed economies, logistics, trade, and entire countries. However, if we hadn’t invented that, progress would have been a lot slower.

Nevertheless, I would argue that the past 200 years of industrial progress weren’t worth the climate crisis.

People still love Chrome, even though tech reviewers told us exactly how creepy that browser is. That info has been publicly available since day one.

Same story with Facebook, but somehow that syphilis of the web is still alive. I have no idea what these people are thinking.

That was the longest movie experience I’ve ever had. I started watching it on Saturday, finished on Sunday. For every 1 minute of going forward in the movie, I must have spent more than 2 minutes writing notes, watching YT explanations. I also had to jump back and re-watch older parts to understand the 1 minute I’ve just gone forward in the plot. Maybe all of that jumping around adds up to watching the whole thing 3 times. 😅

I guess I’ll need to put Coherence and Primer on my watch list then.

While watching Tenet, I quickly realized I can’t watch this movie in the normal way. Subtitles were obligatory, but the plot is such a labyrinth that you’ll get lost in no time. I ended up taking notes and referring to some videos that explain what’s actually going on. I also had to jump around the timeline many times. While “watching” the movie that way, I ended up spending several hours. A simple two hour movie became a two day project.

Yes, I know I’m doing it wrong. You’re supposed to just watch it the usual way, be super confused, watch it again, be a little less confused etc. After watching it about 10 times you’ll probably understand what’s going on. If you don’t use subtitles, even 20 times won’t be enough.

Yep. Dialogue should be loud enough that you can comfortably follow the plot without making your ears bleed. Gunfire and music makes that a bit tricky though. Those should be toned down, but I can see why they’re so loud all the time. Most likely many directors want to make the movie feel more impactful and intense, so they just do it by cranking up the volume those other things.

Can confirm. A tablet can do about 99% of what people usually expect from a computer. Gamers and professionals are an exception to this rule.

Usually people just want to check their email, browse news and watch YouTube. Any tablet these days is good enough for that kind of basic use. However, OP specifically asked about desktops, so I guess we are talking about someone who does have particular requirements after all.

If you grew up with Windows, it’s intuitive and easy to you. That Doesn’t mean it’s intuitive for anyone else. Kids are super confused about Windows these days.

Anyway, I would still recommend Windows because everything is designed to work with it. Normies don’t troubleshoot. They just give up and move on. In this regard, you would want something that requires the least amount of troubleshooting. Every OS sucks in this regard, so I just don’t have a clear winner here. Windows might still be the least infuriating one though.

However, if they did troubleshoot, they would probably enjoy Linux. Those error messages actually tell you what’s wrong and how to fix it. Meanwhile in Windows, the errors are pretty much useless. You’ll end up reading a bunch of forum posts where nobody knows what’s causing the problem, let alone how to fix it. The best you’ll get is a list of 15 things to try. Just hope that at least one of them works. If you have a problem in Linux, you’ll usually find a forum post where someone tells you exactly what’s causing it and how to fix it.

Normies haven’t heard of privacy, and they also watch TV ads. Windows will be fine. They just won’t see any reason to switch to Linux.

Obligatory Xkcd

I recall seeing a setting in VLC that adjusts volume automatically. Can’t remember wat it was called though.

Set the volume to 100 when people are talking. Quickly set it to 5 when there’s a anything else. You need to bounce between 5 and 100 all the time to make the movie tolerable.

What’s the deal with this sound design? If I keep the volume at 5, I’ll miss 90% of the dialogue. If I keep it at 100, the movie will shatter my ears, and then I’m permanently done with movies. What exactly are the sound engineers trying to achieve here? Why are movies designed to be so unwatchable?

That would be pretty spicy.

Star Wars sequel trilogy. Hollywood really needs to remake all of them. Interestingly, there are two viable options:

1. Actually make them good this time. Hire the Andor team to get it right.
2. Modernize them even further, so much so that the entire franchise finally dies for good. Make GPT write the script if you want to go all the way. Sink then billion dollars into this train wreck. When you run out of money, sell the Star Wars IP to Netflix or whatever. Then Netflix will bury it for good.