It's interesting to me

[674458993c71aOlfred]

You mean unintuitive?

Uh, yeah I've meant that.

[674458993cb88sarge945]

I also have trouble with "newer tech".
Somehow I get the feeling someone is sitting there and is trying to make it as intuitive as possible.

As a software developer, I find a simple command line program with a few options is WAY easier to figure out than some complex combination of apps and services all running in sync with fancy web services. Getting Trello running with Bitbucket is a confusing mess.

I can tell you the intricacies of how different file systems work, but I don't know what an Instagram story is.

I like it better this way personally.

[674458993cd05fox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JR499ukLNM

[674458993d223Kolya]

I can tell you the intricacies of how different file systems work, but I don't know what an Instagram story is.

You'll love this then:

Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever - The Verge
Modern college students aren’t organizing their files into folders and directories, forcing some professors to rethink the way they teach programming.

The abstract is a bit misleading, it should be: "STEM students who can't find their own files take pride in their ignorance, forcing some professors to wonder how they can accommodate these imbeciles."

[674458993d561RocketMan]

Give every new file a unique colourful icon and throw it right in the middle of the desktop.  Isn't that how they like it?

[674458993d779Kolya]

Tuned black DeLorean video

I was wondering what's up with the static gravel. Turns out it is a rendering. Not that I'd cared much if it was real.
A DeLorean has to look like a mid 80s aluminium box straight OUTATIME. Everything else is just a sports car.

How did Doc get a DeLorean anyway? What was its original purpose? Doc doesn't seem like the guy.

[674458993d8dffox]

I take it that Doc had to use a sports car to get decent enough acceleration to hit those 88mph on innercity parking lots and stuff. In that regard the DeLorean was actually a fairly bad choice though. Those gullwing doors were just too futuristic to pass, I guess. Or in the words of Doc himself "The way I see it, if you build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style? Besides, the stainless steel construction made the flux dispersal..."

#SOKO Autoposer

[674458993da55Kolya]

Pixel animation tutorial in a gif.

Source: https://www.patreon.com/sadface_RL/posts?filters%5Btag%5D=Animation

[674458993de03Kolya]

DARPA Funded Researchers Accidentally Create The World's First Warp Bubble
Warp drive pioneer Dr. Harold G “Sonny” White has reported the successful manifestation of an actual, real-world “Warp Bubble.”

• The peer-reviewed paper referenced in the article: Worldline numerics applied to custom Casimir geometry generates unanticipated intersection with Alcubierre warp metric
• The original 1994 paper by Miguel Alcubierre The warp drive: hyper-fast travel within general relativity. Miguel Alcubierre
• Follow-up article by thedebrief.org: Meet The Man Behind NASA and DARPA’S Warp Drive Programs
• Harold G. White on Wikipedia
• Alcubierre Drive on Wikipedia

[674458993dfc5RocketMan]

To put this in perspective, Einstein's theory of general relativity includes "field equations" which dictate the shape or topology of space-time under various conditions.  The solutions to these equations permit finite, self-contained spaces in which the properties of space-time differ from the surrounding area.  Mass and energy can be negative for example.  While the means by which a field can be thus manipulated is extremely limited, it is not impossible.  In the above, another old idea (using charged plates, like you'd find in a capacitor), can create these negative field densities and a very precise location within the field, you get your warp bubble.

Because of the physical properties of these fields, if you could create one large enough to envelop a craft of some sort, you could fake faster than light travel by simply distorting space in front of and behind you, to make the space between you and your destination smaller.

If this all sounds familiar, that's because it is.  The theoretical framework for these fields has been around since before Star Trek.  I guess it's only now that experimental evidence of such a field has been discovered. 

[674458993e238notanavatar]

If you want the 'interesting' bits of GR, try reading about the warp drive envisioned in the Alien universe (weyland).


For faster-than-light travel, the ship uses a Romberg-Rockwell Cygnus 5 tachyon shunt, which allows for FTL travel by generating a virtual mass field at sublight velocities. As the intensity of the field builds to a supercritical point approaching an asymptotic maximum, i.e. infinity, the ship undergoes a quantum state change, and the mass of the ship is turned into mirror image tachyons of the same energy state. In this form the ship is incapable of sublight speeds, and can exceed c while in real space. By changing the energy state and mass of the ship, the speed can be controlled; higher masses slow the ship, lower masses speed it up. The system allows for a normal cruising speed of about three quarters of a light year per solar day, which is equivalent to about 270c, or Warp 5.3 to you Trekkies out there. This translates to a little under eight weeks to cover that distance.

Where it gets awkward is how the tachyon drive plays with physics; essentially, whereas at high sublight speeds approaching c you experience time dilation (the apparent slowing down of the flow of time relative to an external reference), this doohickey has the opposite effect - at FTL speeds you experience time expansion, in which the flow of time accelerates at a rate proportional to the SQUARE of the speed, meaning that if not isolated from the effect, you age very quickly, hence the hypersleep freezers we see on screen.

I would love if someone verified that with the actual equations BTW! The key is negative mass.

The theory I find most interesting now is the 'dark fluid' theory.
theconversation.com/bizarre-dark-fluid-with-negative-mass-could-dominate-the-universe-what-my-research-suggests-107922

Explains alot of stuff in a way you can imagine, with bubbles. Watch the NASA youtube videos with the astronauts playing with a drop of water in space, putting air inside of a drop of water, and so forth... the imagination starts to wonder

[674458993e3bcKolya]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4ML2rK8wy8

[674458993e653notaavatar]

Kolya
that would make a emergency alarm tone for a air lock or something

also, negative mass physics would be interesting to put inside of a video game physics puzzle. If you explore those strange physics it would give new life to a system shock 3 being like half life 2 with the physics engines. Half life 2 got the ex-soviet ghetto-engineering vibe right.. now if only someone would do it for space

btw for people that think HL2 physics is a gimmick, I wanna see you live in eastern Europe farm area for several months in the winter, the questions that come to mind about what is acceptable use for a car or how to perform a repair will confuse a hardened mechanical physicist.

[674458993e75eKolya]

Lone Lada (2021) by aleha_84

[674458993e8edicemann]

Love it

[674458993ea05fox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gry36cT3TdI

[674458993eb59fox]

Another christmas, another scoop by Project Zero (Spectre/Meltdown):
"A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution"

[674458993eccdfox]

CCC/rC3: "Listen to Your Heart: Security and Privacy of Implantable Cardio Foo" -> video of this lecture

Long story short: you can play Doom on the programmer of pacemaker-implants now. Yay!

[674458993ee01Kolya]

The discussuion about photo recolouring was split off into its own topic here.

[674458993ef05Kolya]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImU1mG7QC4I

[674458993f0abZylonBane]

"No video with supported format and MIME type found."

[674458993f261voodoo47]

they should give the can opener people a call.

[674458993f3feKolya]

That youtube crash collection  of the can opener is most entertaining. And a good explanation of why that waterfall is such a good idea.

[674458993f59dvoodoo47]

yep. speaking of youtube, it's been persistently offering animal hoof treatment videos to me for months now. I have no idea why - I'm mostly watching food and video games related content, with some sprinkles of WW2 on top, never, EVER in my life have I expressed interest in any kind of animal treatment videos (unless dry rub counts). and youtube is like, here is a video of an infected cow hoof being opened and cleaned by a veterinarian, spraying fluids all over, and you ARE going to view it eventually, because our algorithm decided so.

um, no?