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I've used both, though I'm not sure I can compare them directly, since it has been a year or more since I switched from Hacker's Keyboard. Unexpected Keyboard works well for me whe…

If you want to be specific, specify the solid angle [0] captured, in your prefered units, e.g 4π steradians = 41253 square degrees = 1 spat. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid…

I'm not sure if eddyg had a different idea, but I think the following sums it up: - base16 is a specification of how different UI elements map to colors [1], and also some tooling,…

> the texture of the rice will come out quite wrong. Out of curiosity, in what sense can the texture be wrong? I never wash my rice, and I like the texture.

Are you perhaps referring to the latest release (which was 1.4 years ago) rather than the latest commit on main (which was 41 days ago)?

Not to nitpick (I only stumbled upon this recently myself), but the mechanism driving a Crookes radiometer (which I presume is the type you're talking about) is not photon pressure…

That was sort of my point. If we use a definition of "touching" that is relevant to the atomic scale, whatever that definition is, we can reasonably talk about what "touching" mean…

To be somewhat pedantic: "touching" is a word. The extent to which it is or is not an "exact science" depends on what is meant by "touching", and by "exact science". The definition…

I disagree, as long as we're talking in ratios instead of absolute amounts. The difference between "a pinch of baking powder" vs "5 grams of baking powder" is about a factor of 20.…

How about this: two objects are touching when the interaction forces between the objects are of similar magnitude to the interatomic forces within the objects. Very generally speak…

disclaimer: I'm not an expert, but I've been watching some geology lectures focused on the pacific northwest [1] for fun recently. This is on the Jaun de Fuca Ridge, on the other e…

That is the common interpretation in the field, and in fact the phrases "strange metal" and "non-Fermi-liquid" are used somewhat interchangeably. I'd point out that there is anothe…

The understanding of strange metals, and more broadly, systems (i.e. materials) where strong (often quantum) interactions are important is one of the main general research areas of…

Minor but perhaps significant nitpick: the title of the article is "Quantum Weirdness in New Strange Metals Bends the Rules of Physics", and in this case "Strange Metal" is a techn…

4ad's comment has the right general idea. To explain in more detail: They compared pulsed light to continuous light with the same average power [1]. This means that the light inten…

It's not discussed in the linked article, but the paper it's based on argues against second harmonic generation and in favor of a two photon absorbtion process [1]. I'm not enough …

As a condensed matter physicist (working in the same field but not on altermagnetism specifically), I would say this is being much more picky about the language than most people in…

I usually just use flour and water. Sometimes I add some salt. As far as I understand, this is very common, though perhaps less common for homemade styles of pasta.

My 2 cents: > 4. The secret is to weigh the eggs and adjust everything using that measurement. This implies that only egg-based pasta can be made at home, which is not the case. > …

> fresh made pasta has eggs Only if you add eggs, and you don't have to add eggs. > You can’t make homemade pasta that will come out al dente. Of course you can, but you have to dr…

To be fair to jaquesm, it looks like nanna's comment used to say '80 years ago' and was edited, so the correction was more significant. See comment by kitd.

It has been a while since I read it, but I recall Cryptonomicon taking place mostly in south-east Asia. Are you thinking of Snow Crash? It's set on the west coast of the US (if I r…

> i guess the "1D" short hand is well understood within the community. Yes, this refers to systems where only one dimension is important for the physics of the system.

In the jargon (at least in "low energy" physics and related fields), 'one-dimensional' often means that only one spatial dimension is relevant to the behavior of the system rather …

I think then arXiv would have to deal with mantaining the tech stack and providing the presumably much higher server capacity to serve the more varied web pages that would result, …