SmoothOperator

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[–] SmoothOperator 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From its own cover,

It is written by experimental physicists and aimed to provide the interested amateur with a bridge from undergraduate physics to quantum field theory. The imagined reader is a gifted amateur possessing a curious and adaptable mind looking to be told an entertaining and intellectually stimulating story, but who will not feel patronized if a few mathematical niceties are spelled out in detail.

This might sound pretty casual, but it gets into all the math of it, with an aim at practical use.

[–] SmoothOperator 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The book "Quantum field theory for the gifted amateur" is really good. It's helped me understand quantum fields a lot better, and I work with quantum mechanics every day.

[–] SmoothOperator 1 points 3 days ago

That's just Imperium propaganda.

[–] SmoothOperator 3 points 1 week ago

That's really cool! They never did this for Witcher 3, did they?

[–] SmoothOperator 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Calling HITMAN a crappy live service thing is hardly fair. True, the always online part feels really unnecessary, but beyond that it is a stellar single player game with the best Hitman gameplay of the last two decades, a large selection of excellent maps with variants and extra missions, as well as a really impressive rogue-like mode added later for free.

The elusive targets and seasonal content can be completely ignored, and the game would still be a major milestone in modern singleplayer games.

[–] SmoothOperator 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think we are - the previous comment is talking about the total genocide of all domesticated animals, which seems beyond sheep under solar panels.

[–] SmoothOperator 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Really nice work! Should've worn his helmet 💀

[–] SmoothOperator -1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Sounds nice. Possibly while not killing them or milking them, while also trying to breed them back to a more naturally viable state?

[–] SmoothOperator 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Surely there exists a space between us breeding, mass murdering and torturing domestic animals with cruel factory farming on the one hand, and wiping them off the face of the earth on the other.

Wouldn't you say that both extremes constitute disastrous consequences for huge parts of the entire world's biosphere?

[–] SmoothOperator 3 points 3 weeks ago

True, but I, at least, had to do a double take. I'm not a native speaker, but it's much the same in my native language.

Being understandable feels like the minimum ask of language, isn't it better to also make it easy to read to a broad audience?

Not saying you have to be a dick about it, just that prescriptivism has its benefits.

[–] SmoothOperator 6 points 3 weeks ago

According to Wikipedia Fahrenheit is not based on that, but on the freezing point of brine (0 degrees F) and an approximation of average human body temperature (100 degrees F).

[–] SmoothOperator 1 points 3 weeks ago

Mouse brain maybe?

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