links to 11 year old thread for tangentially related Windows Vista problem, locks current thread

I just don’t see that.

If somebody doesn’t have an idea of what they’re talking about (allegedly) then it would be far more productive to explain it than to keep arguing about it without actually solving anything.

Plenty of developers also use GitHub for software distribution for end users, so that’s where the problems lie. I’m not saying GitHub should change their UI to match something the site wasn’t made for, but it’s still an issue for people who choose to use it that way.

Cautiously

It belonged to a pliosaur, an extinct marine reptile that terrorized the oceans from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous periods, approximately 150 million years ago.

Considering the pliosaur was alive from ~200 Ma to 66 Ma, 150 Ma is one hell of an approximation lol

In the end, we asked “When you think about chemistry or listen to words like ‘chemistry’ or ‘chemicals’, is usually a good or a bad thought?”, and 87,3% of the respondents answered “Good”.

NGL I feel like this could be taken a number of ways. IDK if that was the intent of the paper or just a side effect of poor wording. Personally I think “bad thoughts” because I’m in a chemistry class but I also like the idea of chemistry so I don’t know what I’d put.

It may sound like a crazy discovery but do remember that the earth itself is around 4.5 billion years old. 40 million years is nothing. The rocky mountains in the US are upwards of 80 million years old and that’s considered “young”

Interesting. And so what does the author mean by “event” then? Just literally anything happening? Does their “law” track with events happening?

First half felt like something you cram into your college essay to fill up the word minimum. I think the lemmy article summarizer also got confused by it.

In my recent research, published in AIP Advances, I used information theory to propose a new law of physics, which I call the second law of infodynamics. And importantly, it appears to support the simulated universe theory.

At the heart of the second law of infodynamics is the concept of entropy—a measure of disorder, which always rises over time in an isolated system. When a hot cup of coffee is left on the table, after a while it will achieve equilibrium, having the same temperature with the environment. The entropy of the system is at maximum at this point, and its energy is minimum.

The second law of infodynamics states that the “information entropy” (the average amount of information conveyed by an event), must remain constant or decrease over time—up to a minimum value at equilibrium.

Okay maybe I’m just not smart enough to get this, and I think that’s probably the case, but isn’t this more in the realm of social science? Is information quantifiable in physics? I know you can quantify data, but information?

I’m not doubting it but I’m just… confused. I don’t feel like article really explained what “information” means in this instance. They said “genetic information,” but that’s also not measured by the term information. I just need like a really dumbed down guide for this…

Also this article just feels like an ad for the author’s study :/

Interesting, most I buy or see in stores are just regular containers

I wonder if there’s been any research on introducing child-safe locks to household chemicals like we have on laundry detergent and on medications…

I remember I did that the first day I got a switch, just to see what the hype was all about. Tasted pretty damn awful but I think if you were really committed to it and drank a lot of water you could probably swallow one.

I’ve only heard of that if you don’t have something below the mattress

“Prada has considerable experience with various types of composite fabrics and may actually be able to make some real technical contributions to the outer layers of the new space suit,” according to Professor Jeffrey Hoffman, who flew five Nasa missions and has carried out four spacewalks.

probably the key paragraph

Thanks for the correction about ethanol, I’m not big into alcohol so I didn’t know what to write lol

Leaded gasoline has a really crazy story. People have known that lead is highly toxic since the mid 1800s, and when tetraethyl lead was invented by Thomas midgley Jr in the 1910s, pretty much everybody at GM knew how toxic it was. Dozens of workers died from exposure, and Thomas himself was sick with lead poisoning when it was unveiled to the public. GM even went as far as naming it “ethyl” to avoid public backlash.

The reason it wasn’t banned until the 90s was because health officials in the 20s thought that exposure to drivers was so low that it wouldn’t reach toxic levels until decades down the line. Like, the 1970s. This wasn’t reviewed until the mid 70s and by that point the consequences were disastrous.There were some studies between the 20s and 70s, but most didn’t gain much traction. Many adults and children had increased levels of lead in their blood and lead has contaminated the groundwater and polluted the air. For instance, there is NO safe level of lead in blood, and Herbert needleman in the early 70s found some American schoolchildren had as much as 14 micrograms per deciliter This is the reason it wasn’t banned until the 90s in most countries. One could say we’re still recovering from that in some ways.

And the worst part? They could have used ethanol, an organic substance that’s a major additive in alcoholic beverages. It also prevents engine knocking and is highly flammable, but otherwise not even close to as toxic as TEL was. You still woudlnt want to breathe it in, but it probably wouldn’t have polluted our air and ground so much. GM refused to use ethanol though because it couldn’t be patented (being naturally produced?) and it wouldn’t be very profitable to use it to prevent knocking. TEL was far more profitable.

Nor do they know about science communication apparently

Gattaca is a good movie about that