I was reading legal cases of divorced parents, one who wants to vaccinate their children and the other who doesn’t, this weekend. The judge always sides with the parent who wants to vaccinate.
Currently programming an NES emulator. This is like the 5th iteration over the last 10 years since it’s been an obsession of mine for years. Got kinda motivated to try it again since nintendo is burning all the switch emulators down and I want to get skilled enough to try one of those. So far I’ve got a near perfect 6502 emulator with BCD support (The NES uses a different version without, but I thought it’d be useful for later projects) written in rust, currently writing out the PPU and losing hair. I’m the most excited about this version because I actually sort of know what I’m doing now, I have horrible dyslexia and dysgraphia so I often failed to actually read technical docs all the way through, but I’ve improved a lot on that recently. Got the emulated CPU running software within about 6 hours combined effort, so we’ll see how the rest goes.
If you zoom in really hard into how “electricity” works you find it mostly has to do with electromagnetic fields.
If you zoom in on electromagnetic fields you get quantum mechanics.
If you zoom in on quantum mechanics you find a lot of disagreement, basically the best scientists today still don’t fully understand our observations.
So in essence we still don’t really understand electricity.
At best you get physics that describes phenomena like vanderwaals forces describes the magnet force but they don’t explain how to phenomena exist, how those forces form.
Or i am just to stupid to understand the current scientific meta. I have always been dissatisfied with how unrevealing physics was and how much questions it never answered while getting a passing grade though.
The best scientists don’t understand the observations whatsoever. They have some theories they cobbled together to fit the observations, but pretty much no real world evidence to back up the basis of those theories (not sure if I worded that one well). Good example is dark matter. That’s not a thing we know of at all. That’s a made up idea they created to make some math work, because they absolutely cannot account for how much matter in the universe the math says we are supposed to have. In other words, the math says things like gravity just don’t work unless there is a LOT more matter in the universe than what we are able to observe (I might be wrong about the gravity example. I have not read up on this in a while.)
Gravity is becoming almost a personal vice for me, and i know i am risking to be seen as ridiculous for even saying so.
Supposedly its one if the fundamental forces, but fundamental in this context means forces not reducable to more “basic” interactions.
But we already know that gravity is caused by curvatures in spacetime. Which we believe are caused by mass.
“Spacetime” is not classified as a fundamental force.
I have personally (internally) started to use the term “gravity effect” because it fits my own model of the universe much better.
My own model of the universe is by all accounts some dumb ape bs, but as i am coming to terms with, so is most of established human knowledge.
I have real fears of one day finding myself on the side of science deniers, but a freaking love science…
I thought electricity was just a stream of electrons flowing in one direction like a provoked stampede.
Did Bill Nye lie to me?
Yes he did. Its the holes. The holes move.
But beyond circuits I, the OC is right. It quickly gets into field theory, where electricity in wires is just a special case.
After this comment got into reading this comic and learning about the élan school. I was gonna search how much of it is true but the comic is so long that the research will have to wait until tomorrow. If you have a lot of time, it’s worth a read.
Learning more about Ancient Cahokia.
One of my boyfriends is really into (and good at) fighting games. I haven’t even played one in decades, and when I did it was just to button mash lol. I wanted to play with him so I’ve been deep diving into those. Now we play Battle Craze together.
Edit for delete cuz i did not mean for that to be submitted.
I just found out that Christopher Columbus was apparently Jewish and Spanish. This was the least interesting fact I have learned in recent memory.
He was said to have written in his maritime diaries that he saw UFO-reminiscent light formations while travelling to and from America that resembled Jewish iconography.
I learned quite a lot yesterday about the creation of Call of Duty licence by the Infinity Ward studio. Quite interesting to see how the story unfold, and how defining to the whole industry a single studio could be
I’ve been reading a lot about personal finance. The Millionaire Next Door really opened my eyes.
I also learned about leading and lagging indicators and thought that was cool!
I played Adastra and it hit me super hard. Watching a bunch of critical analysis videos of it, I found that “post-Adastra depression” is a thing and I wasn’t just losing my mind because I’m a freak.
