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timberfox

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About timberfox

Physics, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy.

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    Comment #36676578

    As an alternative, here's a really minimalist command-line wrapper to run VMs in the macOS Virtualization.framework: https://github.com/evansm7/vftool

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    Comment #34182812

    He was an outstanding player and had an impact in the game like no other player before him. His peak performance coincided with the mass media surge of the late 60's. One nitpick i…

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    Comment #32033565

    What most physicists refer to as "particle" is very different from what lay people understand by that term. If you ask physicists at the LHC about particles, they will explain what…

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    Comment #32033485

    What wave are you referring to?

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    Comment #32033175

    I'm not a fan of the Many-Worlds Interpretation :-) As for the electron, it is an oscillator described by a wave function, quantized, without locality. Here is an image of the wave…

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    Comment #32033108

    Quanta is fundamental to Quantum Field Theory so it can't be the deviding factor. I would say we are biased to think in terms of particles because our brains and senses have evolve…

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    Comment #32032330

    I wouldn't say Einstein was wrong. It is a sad story that he never got to see the work of Nobel laureate Julian Schwinger on Quantum Field Theory, or the contributions of other Nob…

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    Comment #31919250

    My experience is quite different: I feel extremely productive working in the terminal, and what is described in the article as "The frozen world" is for me a virtue of the UNIX phi…