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With coherent detection I think the separation between eyes would allow for this.
Except that this problem doesn’t specify distance between horseman, so I think it’s a bit bogus — no need to resolve an individual person to be able to tell that they’re there. And for hair color, if you make assumptions about the clothes being worn, you could perhaps infer color of hair, even if the hair isn’t resolvable (a person being a “single pixel” would have a different hue depending).
Dipoles are, effectively, not — so if you have a charged bit and another opposite charged bit, while an inverse relationship might exist between either one, the net effect is that it drops off much faster.
The thing with gravity is it tends to go one way, unlike, say, charge.
This is the real big brain hack with decibels — you can use a linear scale, it’s just that the units are logarithmic instead.
(Yes I know most people would call a dB axis logarithmic, it’s just a silly comment.)
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What steps do you take to secure your server and your selfhosted services?English3·23 days agoFail2ban config can get fairly involved in my experience. I’m probably not doing it the right way, as I wrote a bunch of web server ban rules — anyone trying to access wpadmin gets banned, for instance (I don’t use WordPress, and if I did, it wouldn’t be accessible from my public facing reverse proxy).
I just skimmed my nginx logs and looked for anything funky and put that in a ban rule, basically.
I was writing up my problem set answers once, and it involved the (complex analysis) residue. I wasn’t sure if there was a shortcut (as opposed to
\mathrm
); googlinglatex residue
did not produce the search results I was hoping for…
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Science Memes@mander.xyz•Least extreme biophysics phdEnglish3·1 month agoThis is obvious though — currently, you might test a drug on mice, then on primates, and finally on humans (as an example). It would be faster to skip the early bits and go straight to human testing.
…but that is very, very, very wrong. Science of course doesn’t care about right and wrong, nor does it care if you “believe” in it, which is the beautiful thing about science — so a scientifically sound experiment is a scientifically sound experiment regardless of ethical considerations. (Which does not mean we should be doing it of course!)
Now, taking a step back, maybe you’re right that, in the long run, throwing ethics out the window would actually slow things down, as it would (rightfully) cause backlash. But that’s getting into a whole “sociology of science” discussion.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Science Memes@mander.xyz•see the joke is that someone else does the workEnglish38·1 month agoThis is all based, most likely, on Griffiths’ textbook. Quoting here from this post https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1b97gt/magnetic_fields_do_no_work_but_magnetic_cranes/ :
The statement “magnetic fields do no work” is incorrect. Griffiths has mislead a generation of physics students on this. A correct version of the statement is that “magnetic fields do no work on objects with no magnetic moments” which is rather trivial. One could also correctly make the same statement about electric fields. However, electric monopoles are very common, so a situation in which there are no electric moments never occurs in normal circumstances.
tl;dr: use Jackson ;)
I can only remember this because I initially didn’t learn about
xargs
— so any time I need to loop over something I tend to usefor var in $(cmd)
instead ofcmd | xargs
. It’s more verbose but somewhat more flexible IMHO.So I run loops a lot on the command line, not just in shell scripts.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto politics @lemmy.world•Even The Wall Street Journal thinks Trump’s tariffs are ‘the dumbest’1·2 months agoYes, but your wine futures would be worthless, what with his unlimited water-to-wine abilities.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto politics @lemmy.world•Even The Wall Street Journal thinks Trump’s tariffs are ‘the dumbest’5·2 months agoYeah, I think the issue is that the other racist, xenophobic, antivax, generally incompetent policy choices are actually kind of what he campaigned on.
The tarrifs — even though he campaigned on them — are antithetical to his promise of lowering cost of living expenses.
That said, it’s the WSJ editorial page — their coverage of the Second Coming of Jesus would be its impact on your 401(k), so this type of coverage (and not e.g., social justice) is their bread and butter.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto politics @lemmy.world•Warren Buffett calls Trump's tariffs a tax on goods, says 'the Tooth Fairy doesn't pay 'em'7·2 months agoNo, but I think it’s good when someone with credibility among certain people reiterate something, even if it adds nothing of value to you and me.
Democratic and left-of-center politicians (or “liberal elite economists”) can say this until they’re blue in the face but Trumpers will dismiss it as I dunno, woke butthurtism or something. But when someone like Buffet says it, at least they (maybe) have to think a little bit before coming up with some mental gymnastics to dismiss him. And maybe along the way they’ll question, if only a little bit, the sanity of Trump’s policies.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Apparently, 12% of Technology Workers Believe that MacOS is based on Linux2·2 months agoNewer macOS is not Unix certified.
It’s UNIX 03 compliant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Apparently, 12% of Technology Workers Believe that MacOS is based on Linux4·2 months agoOne or two Linux distros were (are?) UNIX certified, though.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•iJustInventedSomethingEveryDevNeeds18·2 months agoI think
mplayer
has an ASCII output mode (VLC, too?), and I believeyoutube-dl
can output to stdout.The rest is, as they say, left as an exercise to the reader.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Science Memes@mander.xyz•your average entomology textbookEnglish9·2 months agoSounds like he was a mantis and was posting while copulating.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?1·2 months agoHaha yeah that was the counter example I was thinking of. I agree completely — you could make a Gentoo from source beginner distro, and I think you could make it reasonably “idiot proof,” but it would still be a bad user experience most likely (too much time spent compiling).
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Linux@lemmy.ml•Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?6·2 months agoIf your distro can’t be forked into a “beginner distro” then it’s fundamentally flawed IMHO.
To be clear, I’ve used Arch as my daily drivers for a while, and while it’s not the best fit for my needs (I use Debian mostly), there’s nothing that I experienced that was incompatible with a “beginner” distro.
This title makes it sound like he wouldn’t be a good Klingon, either. Which…is definitely true.
I bet he thinks he’d make a good Ferengi. But that’s insulting to the Ferengis…