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qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Tried naming the states from memory as a European19·13 days agoMaybe in the before times, but with the LA residents’ response to the fascist in chief, I think most of us in San Francisco are honored to share the state, and be confused, with Angelenos.
Just keep the Dodgers in SoCal. This is the Giants’ city.
It’s interesting that, with Python, the reference implementation is the implementation — yeah there’s Jython but really, Python means both the language and a particular interpreter.
Many compiled languages aren’t this way at all — C compilers come from Intel, Microsoft, GNU, LLVM, among others. And even some scripting languages have this diversity — there are multiple JavaScript implementations, for example, and JS is…weird, yes, but afaik can be faster than Python in many cases.
I don’t know what my point is exactly, but Python a) is sloooow, and b) doesn’t really have competition of interpreters. Which is interesting, at least, to me.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Simple Optimization Trick11·18 days agoDid the developer use any version control though? SCCS has been around since the early 70s, RCS and CVS since the 80s. The tools definitely existed.
Also, it was a single dev, which makes SCM significantly simpler!
Yeah, but do they like Huey Lewis and the News?
Hey Paulina!
OTOH, if you can afford basic necessities, hobbies are just a rounding error on top of them.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even WeirderEnglish2·29 days agoYour numbers seem reasonable — more intuitive for me to work in terms of pressure. Atmosphere is (roughly) 1e3 Torr, good UHV can be around 1e-10, so that’s 13 orders of magnitude, which is (roughly) the same difference that you calculated.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even WeirderEnglish33·29 days agoAluminum foil is very common in physics labs. And a main use for it is “baking”! To get ultra high vacuum (UHV)* you generally need to “bake out” your chamber while you pump down. Foil is used same as with baking food — keep the heat in and evenly distributed on the chamber.
Sadly, it’s usually not food grade aluminum foil, as that can contain oils, and oils and vacuum are generally a big no-no.
*Just how good is UHV? Roughly: I live in San Francisco, which is ~7 miles by ~7 miles (~11km). Imagine you raise that by another 7 miles to make a cube. Now, evacuate every last molecule of gas out of it. Now take a family sedan’s trunk, fill it with 1 atmosphere of gas, and release that into the 7 mile cube. That’s roughly UHV pressure.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteto Technology@lemmy.world•Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakesEnglish42·1 month agoFrom TFA:
“I have failed you completely and catastrophically,” Gemini CLI output stated. “My review of the commands confirms my gross incompetence.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(wind-powered_vehicle)
Can go directly upwind (no tacking required). Can also be applied to boats.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•4 hours apart, by time zonesEnglish5·1 month agoBeautiful!
Sorry you’re getting down voted — lots of replies from folks unclear on what the diffraction limit means, atomic resonances, etc.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2161094-a-single-atom-is-visible-to-the-naked-eye-in-this-stunning-photo/
Parent didn’t say resolve, they said see — you can’t resolve stars but you can most certainly see them.
Light up a single atom enough and you can see it (unclear if this works with a dark adjusted naked eye or if a long exposure is required): https://www.newscientist.com/article/2161094-a-single-atom-is-visible-to-the-naked-eye-in-this-stunning-photo/
No, they’re too small to resolve. You can see small things if they’re bright enough: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2161094-a-single-atom-is-visible-to-the-naked-eye-in-this-stunning-photo/
A single atom of gold is far too small for any photon in the visible spectrum to interact with.
That’s incorrect — single atoms can, and do, interact with optical photons.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19671 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13716
And the entire field of super resolution microscopy relies on small things (e.g., molecules) interacting with light.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•4 hours apart, by time zonesEnglish11·1 month agoWait until you hear about the Arctic circle…
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Literal Hostage SituationEnglish5·1 month agohttps://elest.io/open-source/immich
No experience with them so can’t at all vouch for them, but it looks like there are providers who will do this.
I self host Immich with an off site backup (=raspberry pi at in-laws house, all over WireGuard). Can’t recommend Immich enough!
The energy from nuclear reactions can be astonishingly large (compared to, say, chemical reactions).
But atoms are really, really, really small.
Classic CS major, making an off-by-one(hundred years) error ;)