phcorcoran

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[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

As a parent who doesn't try to convince childless people to have children... fair point.

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure but if my password is the entire lord of the rings trilogy as a string, hashing that would consume some resources

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

In an unarmored context, which applied very often throughout history, the spear is easier to use and especially lighter, which makes it a better and more nimble weapon. Spears can also be much longer than heavier pole arms whilst remaining usable, keeping the danger further away from the user

The speed at which one can move a spear tip is impressive and getting stabbed by it has large stopping power. The spear can also parry attacks in a large sweeping area, which makes it hard for anything else than another spear to get through

The more complex pole weapons start to shine in an armored context, where stabbing someone at the end of your long pointy stick becomes harder. Then, the hook-y, chop-y and spike-y bits of the halberd can really help tackle the armor

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure if my comment is whoosh, but just in case; it's the transliteration of the letters in the picture if you read them as cyrillic letters, highlighting that they should be understood as faux-cyrillic instead

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think this (admittedly long) video is a good summary https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PfrtN2LlgSI

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but you can totally control the margin size in LaTeX if you learn the right incantation

backslash UsEpAcKaGe letterpaper H-maaaaaaargin point seventy-niiiiiine inch brackets GEOOOOOMETRY

then you spread the entrails slightly and stab towards the sky. Really don't see what the big fuss is all about.

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We had to replace the entire screen assembly for that at the time but I'm sure it's possible to do something less drastic if you are just working on your own machine

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I worked on repairing Macs during that period and I suspect that no wifi card except this specific one would fit in the relevant slot of the machine.

They weren't standard formats as far as I know and couldn't be used across models because the shape of the actual card was never the same. It's possible the connectors didn't change though, or that a third party manufacturer made new cards specifically for that model, although that seems unlikely.

Another commenter (u/bloodfart) wrote that the connector was a standard mini pcie connector; I can't confirm but that's plausible and would mean it's a lot more likely that an upgrade may be possible

One note of caution, it was really easy for an uninitiated repair person to sever the antenna wire from its connector when trying to disconnect or reconnect them, the cables are quite thin

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Getting books from the library to read?

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Thank you, the page you sourced references a 2024 paper inspired by the Oppenheimer movie that was super interesting to read

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

I don't know what chain reaction exactly they were thinking of, but from modern fusion research, I believe we can confidently say that the atmosphere would need to be interior-of-a-large-star-level dense, and even then I'm not sure you'd get nitrogen fusing with anything without a lot of hydrogen or helium around. Nitrogen-nitrogen fusion seems extremely implausible for sure

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