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Ummmm... Ashli Babbit was a QAnon conspiracy theorist who broke into the capital during the Jan. 6 insurrection. She was at the front of a mob trying to get into the Speaker's Lobb…

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Rush Limbaugh hosted a regular segment on his show where he would read off the names of gay men that died of AIDS and celebrate it with bells and horns in the background. I'm not o…

I too dream of a day that even a group as oppressed as Christians are in the US will be able to hold the presidency, the highest office in the land. Who knows, maybe one of these d…

Anyone else think this is a pretty bad time all things considered?

Hot take: the fact that HN comments have an academic/professional tone doesn't make the noise go away. It just makes it easier to pass for useful comments. On huge threads with lik…

Also certainly not an expert here, but here is a good definition I found: > Toxic masculinity is a narrow and repressive description of manhood, designating manhood as defined by v…

I remember watching some sort of British documentary on Alan Turing on youtube when I was in high school. It had interviews from all of the people that knew him during his lifetime…

Having taught undergraduate physics (at one of the ivy leagues), that echos my experience. The math and memorization are quite simple. But, it is the exposure to the concepts that …

I will also recommend reading "Spacetime Physics" by Taylor and Wheeler (Feynman's PhD advisor). Excellent discussion in a kind of old school style (which is how I like it).

Off the top of my head, that sounds like you're off in the pressure requirement by multiple orders of magnitude. The pressure used for the superconductor is enough to shatter diamo…

Does HN auto-captilize GaN to GAN? I was super confused for a second about that title.

Handwavey explaination: the particles pair up because of vibrations in the crystal. It's modeled like a bunch of metal balls on with springs between them and you can imagine tappin…

In a related note: I've seen a huge surge in good quality original products that were engineered in China, manufactured in China, and then sold by China. Take Rigol and Miniware fo…

This is some nice work, but doesn't really pave the way to what I'd call "practical superconductors". Of course, the material studied here requires some of the highest pressures we…

The biggest argument to use a CRT to me is interfacing to a computer using a literal particle accelerator pointed at your face. How metal is that?

> There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the ene…

Not at a week yet, but all of my time is spent on derivations and then translating them to code too.

It isn't a problem in Julia editors. You input characters using the same notation as latex (IE \mu or \hbar) and then tab autocomplete to unicode. Even jupyter notebooks support th…

It 504s for me.

I think this gets at the discussion of whether education should provide you with a broad base of knowledge to appreciate a subject as well as use it or whether it should just, in a…

> here’s the paper, which is published in Nature, that famous scientific tabloid Then they can say that themselves.

It's not nitpicking even though it might seem that way to someone who doesn't deal with these journals regularly. The two are so wildly different that making sure you are clear abo…