Sensei

We are glad that at least in the subject of defense of this planet we share common views..

The best are plasticine and polymer clay, thermosetting clay. You can make any toy out of them.

Photons absorbed by matter increase internal energy, i.e. body temperature. It is possible to indirectly detect light by studying the increase in body temperature.

The temperature rise (e.g. absorption of light) can be stored by an electronic device for later use on a memory card, etc. It does not need to be read by a human. It can be analyzed by a computer and autonomously perform certain actions. It does not have to be electronic. A bimetal can cut off the gas supply when too high a level is reached (used in gas water heating).

Absorption of photons by atoms and molecules increases internal energy. You don't have to see the light to feel it, i.e., the increased temperature. MW, IR were detected centuries ago by the first scientists, who learned that the light split by the prism had an invisible (to the human eye) range that increased the temperature of the water.

I don't see any added value in your OP. The photon is absorbed by the eye and converted into electrical impulses. I think that's obvious. The same is true for any other electrical device that responds to photons of any frequency, whether it is visible light, infrared light, ultraviolet light, radio wave.. The CPU then takes care of the rest and interprets it accordingly..

Some people will do anything to get money, commit countless crimes, will do anything to keep the wealth they have.. How to find out if a husband and wife love each other in a poor family? Give them a Lotto win and observe what happens later.. Without money, there would be no drug producers and drug dealers, except for those who are addicted.

Modern operating systems are complex and sophisticated entities. What user see is less than a tip of iceberg.. Modern operating systems are multithreaded, which means that multiple applications can run in parallel. If an extensive operation is running in the background, the processor and graphics card are busy performing tasks, not what you are asking them to do. Hence the delays and user frustration. Use Control-Alt-Delete and open Task/Process Manager and identify where the computer is losing all its power on what it is busy with. In the case of a web browser or other web application, each keystroke may send data to/from the web server, and poor internet transmission speed can be a bottleneck and a source of slowdown. Yeah, I know, it's annoying.. In extreme cases, it could be a symptom of a hacker hacking into your computer. i.e., the hacker runs code that mirrors your desktop, which requires extensive screen capture and sending it over the network. Hexadecimal or decimal format are only for human convenience (in documentation and source code). For a computer, it is always binary format. Keyboard sends scan codes (PS/2 keyboard) or HID scan codes (USB keyboard). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scancode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_human_interface_device_class The scan codes are converted by the operating system into virtual keyboard codes. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/inputdev/virtual-key-codes This happens at the application level when the developer uses the MapVirtualKey or MapVirtualKeyEx function: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-mapvirtualkeya Finally, the virtual key codes are converted to ASCII (ToAscii() function), or more commonly these days, Unicode (ToUnicode() function): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-tounicode https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-toascii The proper name is framebuffer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framebuffer

A computer, as the name implies, computes. Other electronic devices also computes, f.e. changing the volume of a sound is an analogous multiplication. In a computer, the main difference is that what is done is controlled by a program that can be changed on demand.

The computer has read-only memory (ROM/BIOS) and regular read-write memory (RAM). The read-only memory contains the booting instructions which reads data from the boot sector of the boot drive and later passes control to the bootloader which loads operating system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootloader Processors have instructions. Hundreds or thousands performing various basic tasks. Logical operations, arithmetic operations, binary operations, memory operations, floating point operations, special purpose operations. They are performed in sequence. This is called a program. A program can be stored in ROM or RAM. Programs are loaded from external storage (HDD, SSD, flash drive, etc.) into RAM, and then executed by the OS. A modern processor can execute billions of instructions per second. Programmers write programs in their favorite language that they know or like, or that is required to perform a specific task (not all languages are good enough for every task). High level languages are compiled into final CPU instruction set ("machine code") (e.g. C/C++), interpreted by virtual machine (Java/C#), or interpreted by interpreter (e.g. Python, Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Bash). Interpreters are slow (1000x slower than C/C++), virtual machine code (Java/C#) is "just" 4x slower than C/C++. You can try out some languages without installing anything in an online debugger accessible through a web browser. Here you have Python (just press "Run" button): https://www.onlinegdb.com/online_python_debugger Read the Python tutorial and start coding in the online debugger https://www.google.com/search?q=python+tutorial W3Schools has easy to understand tutorials for newbies https://www.w3schools.com/python/default.asp

A defective component such as a processor, integrated circuit, etc. often emits heat when it is damaged. More current flows through the short circuit and this energy must be dissipated in some way. IR = infrared.

If you like such toys, buy an IR camera that plugs into your phone's USB-C. FLIR ONE PRO. If some electronic device is damaged, simply disassemble it, connect the power supply and start observation in IR. Damaged components often overheat and are visible in IR.

Wrong. You're lucky to have such cheap gasoline. Compare with the rest of the G20 world: "Average gasoline price in the Group of 20 in June 2023, by member country (in U.S. dollars per liter)" https://www.statista.com/statistics/1406584/g20-gasoline-average-price-by-country/ 1 gallon = 3.8 L In European countries, excise taxes and VAT are added, making up a significant portion of their budgets (so basically their governments screw their citizens - now financial experts wonder what they will do with EV which people can plug to their home installations, which means no income to budget from this sector anymore, unless they will somehow forbid such activity). Here, the retail price of 1L gasoline is $1.6. Before excise tax and VAT, the price is.. $0.9 per L. In addition, the largest gasoline producers and distributors are state-owned. And the corporations send the money they earn year after year to the budget as dividends. Ethanol can be made from CO2 and H2O and solar energy. The automotive industry can still use liquid fuels (which is desirable for some applications).

You are mistaken. Check the dates and times. The post in this thread predates the one which you mentioned..

I never post and rarely read the forum from a cell phone or tablet. But often on a regular computer, when making a longer reply that involves copying and pasting links or quotes from articles (which requires switching tabs and/or browser windows), the forum software automatically reloads the page. Sometimes it ends up with the whole post disappearing while editing, sometimes it's still there, but you have to click "reply to this topic...".

Not many people, at the same time, that is, if you are watching a TV screen, you don't have time to read (especially technical/scientific articles that require special attention). I wasn't talking about ability, but about how someone spends their (free) time. It was not a prejudice, but a joke. Play of words. And true one. It applies to every nation. But Americans have one of the largest shares of Netflix (53% of U.S. homes had a subscription in 2022, which is counted in tens of millions). If you spend all your free time after work after school watching episode after episode, you don't have time for anything else, including reading valuable (or not valuable) things. You don't have to be a genius to understand this.

+1 to the Americans Most Americans don't read. They have Netflix..

"Intriguing"/"controversial" statement from someone who suspends and bans people..

I just bought new, fresh (dry) pasta, and on it it says "put 100 g of pasta per 1 liter of boiling water, slowly enough not to interrupt the boiling of the water". Let's check your method with tap water, no boiling water..

I like my pasta overcooked rather than raw. 3 minutes sound like a joke. 3 minutes for how much pasta and how much water? Last time I made 133 g of dry pasta, cooked it for 20-30 minutes, and it absorbed all the water from the pot and grew to maybe 500 g. There are different types of pasta, with or without eggs, with different contents. Each of them requires different treatment. Remaining water from pasta cooking is used for meat, sauce, soup, not wasted. I also often reuse the potato water in subsequent dishes.

I have not bothered to participate in this (idiotic IMHO) thread, but.. This question creates the idiotic philosophical question, "does everything must have to consist of something". (which will be endless loop of dependencies)

LOL. This applies not only to children..

Laser rangefinders don't work and it is a worldwide scam?

A random particle travels through a B field and changes its direction of flight, accelerating/decelerating due to the presence of field B and the absence of field E. Doesn't it "do the work"? What do you mean at quantum scale "do the work"? It is the particles that do the work, i.e., accelerate/decelerate under certain circumstances, and they do it on both sides, the test particle and the particles that created the B-field..

Sounds like Sisyphean work, i.e. endless job. The lake gets ions from higher elevations and from the soil, over which you have no control. Try different water filters and check the results before filtering and after filtering. https://www.google.com/search?q=drinking+water+filter+for+hard+water Instead of modifying all the water in the lake, try modifying only what the animals drink. It will be more economical.