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Comment · 3 months ago
First one water is lower. Ball is more dense than water, in boat displaces its weight in water, in water displaces it's volume

Dip for hill roll is faster

Comment · 6 months ago
Java engineers write lots of HTML in java docs:)
Comment · 6 months ago
You can enforce at the org level to only allow actions pinned to hashes. You can also choose a small whitelist of actions to allow.
Comment · 6 months ago
First sentence starts with horrible antisemitism. Can someone fix it? (on my phone with kids so not in a position to)
Comment · 8 months ago
With certain macros disabled like .map the runtime is O(code length)!
Comment · 9 months ago
You can describe spinning particles in flat space and AdS space really nicely with twistors using this
Comment · 1 year ago
Or similarly I flip a coin a thousand times, but only tell you when it's heads and don't tell you how many flips I did.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not sure I completely agree as you often use only a small part of a library
Comment · 1 year ago
This sounds pretty easy to hack together with 10s of lines of python
Comment · 1 year ago
well he certainly mentions a result where if there is an everywhere timelike Killing vector field (+ some other assumptions) you can prove that Hawking radiation doesn't occur and that does not include for example the Schwarzschild solution because the Killing vector field partial/partial t becomes non-timelike on the horizon.

So for example if you take a dead star in a vacuum with nothing else in the universe (and make certain technical assumptions) then you can prove that the star does not emit Hawking radiation. That's quite a strong result, and certainly does make the result seem shocking.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'm not sure what more you want from him, there are many papers and even a textbook linked?

It's bloody John Baez, the man knows his stuff.

On you actual point, it is shocking because its claimed that baryon number is not conserved without black holes getting involved

Comment · 1 year ago
Does this support time travel queries?

Does it support reading everything from one snapshot to another? (This is missing in Athena)

If yes to both, does it respect row level deletes when it does this?

Comment · 1 year ago
Why OrderedDict when dict is already ordered?
Comment · 1 year ago
If anything ICBMs are better at moving fast and breaking things than the tech industry

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