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Atomic Nucleus Excited with Laser: A Breakthrough after Decades
The "thorium transition", which physicists have been looking for for decades, has now been excited for the first time with lasers. This paves the way for revolutionary high precision technologies, including nuclear clocks.
Exciting news!
Your accusations that I only posted this for the pun are completely founded.
Created after the Coding Help category, this is for other serious requests for help that don't fit in there (or any other subcategories that may be created.)
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@remi said in Help Bites:
this is becoming a stream of consciousness post...
Duck programming at its best!
@stillwater said in Where stillwater shoves Indian music down your throat:
Let's see if this song appeals to the western ear.
At the moment, facing my monitor, my ears are oriented north-south.
@Kamil-Podlesak said in Metric units in stores:
We cannot fulfill your order of 12 9mm bullets (out of stock). Would you like to buy 24 0.45mm instead?"
Something like this (presenting a wholly unworkable solution in such a way as to make me doubt my own sanity) has happened to me with a human on the other side, so it wouldn't come as a surprise.
"We cannot offer you 70x70 enclosures, but here's 80x50. And they're cheaper, too, if you order x."
Bitch, I asked for specific dimensions, because that's where the screw holes are. How am I supposed to fit the 70mm thing there, cut it in twain and hold it in place with a piece of bubblegum? Not only it won't work, but I'm all out of gum.
@PleegWat said in I think I'm creating an WTF of my own:
budweiser, which by all accounts is worse
May I assume that you think of some crappy American (? / Dutch?) beer which goes by that name, instead of high quality beer from the town of Ceske Budejovice which is called Budweis in German?
@Watson said in Functional programming rah! OOP nah! Or how to know you're a zealot:
@PotatoEngineer said in Functional programming rah! OOP nah! Or how to know you're a zealot:
I read that series (up to Second Foundation, I'm not sure if there's more),
Much more. Up to and including deconstructing its own premise. And that's before you get on to the second trilogy written, by three writers all with names starting with 'B', after Asimov's death.
Well, it's all that was on my parents' bookshelves, so surely that's enough!?
(Okay, I should hunt down some more books. But since I haven't read an actual book in about four years, it could be a while. Been doing a lot of podcasts after I had the first kid, because there just wasn't much time any more, and I'd usually rather play video games with my wife as audience than read a book.)
@Rhywden said in Spin Con:
@PleegWat said in Spin Con:
@Rhywden I doubt anyone's suggesting manned bullets though.
At 30,000 g? I certainly hope not.
Now, where's my can of tomato soup?
I hear the Hyperloop guys have this shit all figured out.
@dkf said in Agile Crisis:
@Dragoon said in Agile Crisis:
If you are being exploited by your boss the problem is you.
Sometimes it is your boss that you really should blame. And sometimes it is yourself.
Bosses are innocent, holy creatures.
@Mason_Wheeler said in Scarlet Witch and the Multiverse gets Mentioned (minor spoilers):
trying to cross the street at a green light, because green means stop in this world, red is go!
Efficient, and either can be easily adapted for China or will just play really well there...
But, to the point, this is significant shared trauma, and your implicit question, "should we seek counseling?" A resounding yes.
To clarify this thread's stance on the political status of various disputed islands, glaciers, cultural touchstones, and seaports: Rye? Whiskey?
This excludes specifically any Serbo-Croatian conflicts, upon which no modification of stance is made.
@Carnage said in OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin:
@Zecc said in OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since bitcoin:
It's trying to sell itself as a good idea, I see.
Edit: and it knows how to type "intelligence" better than I.
This looks very familiar. I think I've read a very similar text in some sci fi.
Yeah it's one of the more self-indulgent items in Isaac Asimov's Gold collection, not aware of OP, don't want to find out. Book is in room, still too annoyed at writer to open for a few months.
@dkf Yup, and that's the key point here. You can still switch out or replace the implementations of the loggers here at any point because the methods just know they have dependencies of a type to be satisfied, and it's the DI's problem how to satisfy them.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in “One of the greatest miscarriages in British judicial history”:
@cvi Some people haven't quite figured it w.r.t. humans, too
Tbf we're mostly working on the error bars now.
@BernieTheBernie nice find! I'm on the lookout for a microbe that eats PVC, here, I like the infrastructure angle, but direct wasting plagues never get old.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Command Line vs. GUI on Linux:
@Gribnit said in Command Line vs. GUI on Linux:
Looks like a charset issue. HTH!!!
I ??? your judgement.
It's not a judgement.
@Zecc said in Google Analytics... wait that's illegal:
Ok, now, about that Gmail account / Facebook account / Office365 account / Twitter account / Discord account / ...
You're saying it like it's a bad thing...
@boomzilla said in Continuous (smoke) delivery?:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Continuous (smoke) delivery?:
@boomzilla said in Continuous (smoke) delivery?:
@Unperverted-Vixen said in Continuous (smoke) delivery?:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Continuous (smoke) delivery?:
And there are a lot of things that bug me about this whole MVP thing--every time we (as in our team) has done that, we've pivoted to something else...and ended up with this half-done MVP that we'd intended to come back to once we got feedback...but we haven't gotten feedback.
That's a problem specific to your environment. We've been taking that MVP approach on some stuff I've worked on, and the feedback has helped shape where we go from there.
Our audience has also been internal users instead of external, which probably helps.
#MeToo. Often it's nearly impossible to get people to tell you what they want without having something tangible in front of them. The MVP thing works well when you really do deploy something to where users can get their hands on it and give you course corrections.
Sure. But we've done that (gotten it in front of people) and gotten little or no feedback. Which says (to me) that getting things in front of people isn't the bottleneck. It's the getting feedback part.
Oh, I get that, too. We had a customer project manager who was a control freak and was really careful about giving people permission to use certain new features. Probably a result of politics, but the bottom line was that we'd have stuff sitting around collecting dust for years and then they'd us use it incidentally when we'd do a demo of something else.
We still hear "oh, you've got an app?" or "Oh, you can do <thing>?" pretty frequently. From CSRs and Marketing even!
@Rhywden said in Debate: cross-platform design consistency vs being "platform native" in design:
@Benjamin-Hall I'm strongly against 2 because the less I have to touch XCode directly the better.
In that case, I'd say use something like Xamarin. Which is decidedly out of scope for us, but not a bad solution.
Because both 1 and 2 require mucking around in XCode a lot when you've got a native-language client for iOS.
Lessee, without reading the articles, things that will be different about the reboot:
No Shepherd Book (or some arbitrary replacement actor in the role)
Actual Chinese people in a universe where the Chinese are supposed to be a major force
At least one actual Reaver apparent in every episode. Maybe even a single "good" Reaver who joins the main cast.
Long before widespread online shopping, I thought about shopping on Black Friday for the deals. Then I remember I like sleep too much and hate crowds.
OTOH, when I online shop I also struggle to get the best value product, so I go back and forth.
I started shopping for a new winter coat and a lined wind-breaker some time last weekend. I hadn't made up my mind but left a few things in my cart. Did some occasional comparison during the week.
Then when I came home on Thanksgiving, I went to do more comparisons. I come home early while my husband and the rest of the kids stay at my in-laws. They know I can only people so much.
To my surprise each of the items in my cart were lower by $10 - $20. Since I am cheapfrugal I wasn't looking at any top of the line or name brand products. So at that price point, $10 - $20 makes a difference.
Maybe the price I was willing to pay last weekend was inflated but it seemed fair to me and I am pretty cheapfrugal. So the lower price got to me to finally order the items.
@Arantor said in Öppna Skolplattformen:
you can write stuff for GTK with it
There's no language where that's a good thing. Not for the developer, and certainly not for the user.
Just started One Of Us Is Lying, which is on Peacock.
Basically the premise is it essentially stars The Breakfast Club - there's four high schoolers and one of them is a jock, one of them's a cheerleader, one of them's a brainy, preppy chick, and one of them's a drug guy. They all get sent to detention with a fifth guy who they all sort of know and sort of dislike.
And then one of them murders him at the beginning of the first episode.
And so now the whole Breakfast Club is acting suspicious and that's the premise of the show.
Through one episode, the execution, of the murder part and the concealing which one did it from the audience is very good.
The high school drama is dumb, although I suppose that has to come with the territory and I wouldn't like The Breakfast Club if they made it in 2021 about 2021 concerns either. It kind of reminds me about the dumb parts of the beginning of Arrow or Flash that they had to have because it aired on CW.
As I alluded to earlier in the topic, my wife and I have very different tastes in television. I suggested the show because I thought she would like it, but at least through one episode I've been pleasantly surprised.
