If the idea of curved space time, as described by General Relativity (GR), confuses you, consider the following analogy.
The theory of GR was sparked by Einstein’s “happiest thought”, that gravity and acceleration are equivalent.
That means that you, standing on the ground, are accelerating upwards. But you can detect no motion in that direction. How does that make sense?
Consider the amusement park ride sometimes known as “The Rotor”. It is a room sized cylinder that you walk into and stand against the back wall. Then the cylinder is spun up and you are pressed against the wall by centrifugal force. For you, gravity seems to shift and you feel as though you are lying on your back with the center of the cylinder above you.
Your acceleration vector is toward the center of the cylinder. But your velocity vector is parallel to the back wall, 90 degrees away from the acceleration vector.
So, when you are standing on the ground, accelerating upwards, your velocity vector, as you move through curved space time, is shifted 90 degrees into the dimension of that curvature, which is a dimension you cannot directly perceive.
OK, OK. Maybe my satire about the tax laws in the Great State of Bobolia might smell a tad of politics.
I am utterly amazed (and aghast) at the number of people who have told me that the lockdowns all happened under Trump. These folks have very short memories, and no clue how our federal government actually works. They must think the president is some kind of absolute ruler.
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I'm writing a chapter that contains a simple walk through of writing, and cleaning, a python application. What a hoot! It's been years since I wrote any significant python, but this is brining back to me why I love, and don't love, the language.
Western society was the salvation of this planet. Billions were hauled out of poverty and hunger. The rise of the middle class was a miracle.
Now Western society, in it's lazy ignorance and self-satisfied navel gazing, is on the verge of letting all that get torn down.
This was a fun interview about my Clean Coder book.
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Kamala Harris is NOT WINNING! Latest 2024 Trump v. Harris Numbers. youtu.be/ud1mP7aAWiM?si=Ceb2Pz6LnfxVxjQf… via #[1]
It's been quite a few years, but I'm firing up a Python plugin for IntelliJ and starting to do some exercises. This is going to be fun!
Cancel Culture is dead. It took over a decade to die; but it's gone now. Everyone knows that when democrats lose an argument they just fall back on throwing names like racist, or misogynist, or transphobe, or whatever ... and nobody cares anymore. Everyone just rolls their eyes and moves on.
Did you watch, last night, as the JOY rained down upon us from the heavens? Oh! THE JOY! The thick, sweet, corn syrup JOY that spilled and splashed all over the stage. My God! It was so, so, sweet that the Dexcom on my arm caught fire and nearly took the arm off.
Ballz to the Walz dudes! The democrats have chosen the socialist governor who let Minneapolis burn, and the socialist candidate who helped bail out the rioters. Bold move guys! Bold move!
So…Google has explained, to Congress, why searches involving Trump have been suppressed lately.
It was … a bug.
Because, you know, software has bugs, right? I mean — you can’t expect software to not have bugs, that’s unreasonable. Bugs are just a normal characteristic of all software, right? So don’t worry, we’ll fix it in the next release.
So now we understand that there are people who put a high value on bugs. Those people are… lawyers. Every time that we, programmers, tell the world that bugs are inevitable, the lawyers who defend corrupt practices smile.
I am in the midst of writing the second edition of Clean Code. It's a complete rewrite, and it's coming out very different from the first. Oh, the message is the same. But the presentation is entirely different.
Does it feel to you like the world is on a knife edge, and that major conflict is right around the corner? Would you like to know why?
1. Biden's Afghanistan disaster making the US look weak and incompetent.
2. Biden telling Russia that a small invasion wouldn't be a big deal.
3. Biden giving hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran allowing them to fund their proxies and attack Israel.
Oh. Did I neglect to mention Harris? Yeah, her too.
his is a pretty good explanation of the complexity of DNA replication. Your Unstoppable Copy Machine｜DNA Replication youtu.be/lv89fSt5jBY?si=J7TE02CEsXok7jwp… via #[1]
In the last two months I've lost 20 lbs. I've gone from 226 to 206, and I'm still losing. How? I just stoped eating carbs of any kind. I eat meats and fats. Nuts and cheese. That's all. No white bread. No buns. No tortillas. No chips. I eat as much as I want, and I often eat a lot. I'm very happy to eat a butter soaked steak, or a wad of garlic buttered shrimp. Or wings, wings, wings. Just no carbs. For snacks I eat jerky. I wear a dexcom and I monitor my glucose. I do spot exercises if it spikes. I do 2-4 long bike rides per week. Upon occasion (every two weeks or so) I'll have a carby meal like a Culver's burger, a hot dog, or a pizza. My glucose spikes and stays high for 12-16 hours in an oscillating pattern that gradually damps out and returns to normal. I don't gain any weight after those meals. A beer will spike my glucose for an hour but it rapidly falls back to normal. The area under the curve is minimal. Whisky and wine have no effect on the glucose at all.
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