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Comment Re:Like a polarizer? (Score 1) 35

Sure, and we here on Slashdot are criticising the silly article. And I'm criticising your silly repeating of the silly claim that polarization is not a quantum phenomenon because you can "explain" it (in a very narrow energy range if you squint and don't look too close) using classical physics. I probably wouldn't have replied at all if you hadn't told one of your other replies "it's okay if you don't understand quantum mechanics."

The actual paper doesn't use "first quantum material" at all. It says "first class of room-temperature quantum materials that are intrinsically sensitive to the quantum statistical properties defining all forms of light". They actually write it all out twice, which suggests to me that they were aware that shortening it to "quantum material" would sound ridiculous.

In fact, on casual reading it appears to be a fancy polarizing filter that's also sensitive to coherence.

Comment Re:I learned on stick and never used it again (Score 1) 238

It's pretty straightforward. Instead of simple counting on your fingers you treat your right thumb as a 5, your left fingers as 10s and your left thumb as a 50, which lets you count to ten on one hand or a hundred on both. It's fairly obvious once you understand digital notation, but you could also teach the concept using it, just like an abacus.

If you really wanted to get carried away you could treat your fingers as binary digits and count to 1024.

Comment Re:That's nice (Score 1) 49

The systems aren't creative they're just really really fancy search engines that regurgitate what they have ingested.

Are we still saying this? These systems have solved a wide variety of open math problems some of which were borderline famous.

But what are the practical implications of that? Isn't it just as likely that those math problems haven't been solved because there was not any particularly good reason to solve them?

'Dem goal posts are a walking.

Comment Re: They're Russian (Score 1) 47

No Russian, nor US. I live in a country that is far more free and democratic than either of those.

Wonderful - now show the other 8 billion of us the path to being just like your free and democratic shining light on the hill.

I suspect like many of the better countries, yours probably has somewhere around the population of New York City.

Comment Re: They're Russian (Score 1) 47

Sure - it's not easy to get clear, unbiased answers when the country is ruled by fear and an iron fist. But some polling data has shown only 1/3rd of Russians said they would likely vote for the Party Unified Russia. So that means 65% - a vast majority - wouldn't say who they would vote for or would vote for someone else (https://wciom.com/our-news/ratings/rating-of-political-parties). Still nuke-able?

Then that is support for what the Government of Russia does.

I don't support nuking Russia of course, but as long as this present government is in power, what the Russian people support is irrelevant.

Comment Re:The more things change... (Score 1) 96

I enjoy coffee occasionally but i found out last year that those energy drinks are NOT for me. I had ONE with about 150mg caffeine and within a few minutes had cardiac palpitations that didn't subside for nearly 20 minutes. That has NEVER happened to me before & I'm not keen on it happening ever again

They don't taste very good either. I only ever tried a Red Bull once. Ick.

There are some other ingredients like taurine, and sometimes Ginseng that might have triggered your problem. Some even have B-Vitamins, but that isn't likely.

Comment Re:I would be peeing all day ! (Score 1) 96

Peeing a lot is one of the symptoms of diabetes. Just sayin'...

Then I've had diabetes for like 40 years!

Gotta pay attention to the color of that stuff, especially when you are sweating a lot. When I'd play hockey, I'd sweat off at least 10 pounds a game. That's 10 pints. If you don't recharge, you'll be peeing damn near brown. What's more, You have to recharge electrolytes. So right after a game, I had to grab a bag of potato chips. along with drinking water. Not complete electrolytes, but worked well enough till I got home. I suppose I could have brought potassium pills.

Pay attention to the pee color chart! https://www.usofga.com/wp-cont...

Comment Re:yes. (Score 1) 103

Oh no, I have Windows 11 at work, had also gotten a new workstation recently, and was having a pretty serious meeting with some clients over MS Teams too, then it decides to recommend that I play Farming Simulator through the Xbox app. This is an Out of the box experience, granted the machine was new, so it hadn't quite gotten all of its policies set up yet, but still fucking mental to happen on an enterprise machine.

Ack, that had to be level 11 embarrassing!

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