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  1. If time flowed backward instead of forward, everything would flow backward, e.g., a star would gain mass-energy (an aging star has less mass than the gas cloud from which it was formed (ignoring incidents such as the intrusion of some object) ).. If one equation has a + sign and the other has a - sign, then they are not the same.
  2. "Electro luminescent (EL) light is technically described as a Light Emitting Capacitor (LEC)." I have rather something else than what you wanted to share..
  3. Wave on water (often) does not move a tons of water (in direction it goes), instead just transfers momentum between particles.. If you go with the sea current, you don't have to do anything, it flows beneath you, but when you fight against the current, things get rough. For modern means of transport, such transport is too slow. In different regions of the earth, the sea current flows in opposite directions, so the first explorers of America could sail with it (rather than against it) and reach America (or return), but they had to use it, not fight it. When you fly airplane from the US to the EU, and vice versa, you either fly with the wind and your actual speed is much greater than the speed of sound, or you fight against the wind and your journey takes much longer. It depends on how the wind is blowing and whether the pilot has flown into the right zone. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/jet-stream-flights-speed-of-sound If someone wants to achieve good speed on the water or underwater, they strive to minimize resistance between the vehicle and water molecules. If someone wants to achieve good flight speed, they strive to minimise resistance between the vehicle and air molecules. If this resistance cannot be avoided, water currents or air currents are used, which flow wherever they want. Before the invention of steam engines, in the age of sail, this meant that you sailed where the sea current took you, which meant that you did not sail the shortest possible route in a straight line. Today, the same applies to aeroplanes, only much more dynamically, because at different altitudes you can have winds blowing in opposite directions. (which looks funny in films, because you have a cloud flowing in +x, and at a different altitude a cloud flowing in +z, etc.) Perhaps in order to appreciate my statement, you need to know the speed of an ocean current? https://www.google.com/search?q=sea+current+speed
  4. ..and 99% of Russians are masochists.. ps. Because only a masochist could endure hundreds of years with rulers who were such criminals.. ps2. But average they are even less educated than the average American.. I recently saw a film in which someone (from old USSR) said that the only Western book that the USSR allowed them to read was "The Three Musketeers".. or something like that.. Since you come from Russia, can you tell us what Western literature was available in the USSR (required in the curriculum, i.e. you didn't have to look for it yourself on secret and dangerous places.. ;) )? Tell us what your parents, grandparents, and you had to read at school. Both Russian and foreign literature. This will be a more moderate topic of conversation. Contrary to appearances, school reading material can teach us a lot about what ordinary mortals have learned about the world around them. After all, what will be on the geography test? The average American knows nothing about geography. But in the USSR, geography was rather good. I remember those times. The history will be very subjective, so it would be very controversial, but if you want, share with your Western colleagues on the forum what they taught you. It would be quite a ‘nuke’.. ;) ps3. When they went to Ukraine, to Bucha, they stole toilet seats, because in their country they do it in a hole in the floor in a special little house outside the house.. The first ones who attacked were people who had never seen civilization before.. They stole all the electronic equipment, and later, when they tried to transport it to Russia, it was confiscated and dismantled, and the electronic components were used to manufacture new weapons.. When the Ukrainians recaptured the territory, they saw toilets without toilet seats... and took thousands of photos, amazed... ;) I know it sounds unbelievable, but they showed it for a week, two or three.. all houses in Bucha and every toilet without a seat..
  5. What does this have to do with computers? It's electronics.. This smells like preparations for a hacker scam to me. Normal people don't need to have remotely controlled routers/access points outside their place of residence. Anyway, You need to check the voltage provided by the router's power supply. Use a multimeter for this. If it shows 5V, then you don't really need to do anything (not much) to connect it to any existing power bank. I think that will be much more convenient. You need to buy a plug that fits this router/AP power supply, cut a USB-A cable, and solder + and - to the plug. Plug the USB-A into your existing power bank and the plug into the router/AP. It will take less time than writing this message. You didn't provide your router/AP specifications. However, if it uses a voltage other than 5V, you will indeed need to increase it using a step-up booster. The XL6009 on Ali Express is cheap. And from what I can see in the photos, it has an adjustable resistor. So what do you need to do? Measure the voltage that the router needs on its original power supply. Connect a multimeter to the step-up booster output and turn the adjustable resistor until you find the same voltage. Then make the cables as in the previous case.
  6. During fermentation of wine etc. you use fermentation pipe which looks like: It can also be used for fermenting vegetables. Although I didn't have to do that. It allows CO2 to escape without O2 getting inside. Without O2, microorganisms that need it will not be able to grow. My personal experience tells me after a week everything is already consumed.. ;) I'm eating Caroline Reaper, 3.5L still to eat, which dominates everything.. ;) Groats with Carolina Reaper taste the same as potatoes with Carolina Reaper, and the same as ground beef with Carolina Reaper.. ;) It is important that the vegetables we are fermenting (pickling is a wrong word - because it is with acetic acid and sugar) remain submerged under water at all times. They need to be weighted down with something so that they do not float to the surface. Pickling is a complete different technology. Online translators keep wanting to call what I want to say “pickling”..
  7. Yeah. I create more kefir by adding to the previous kefir bottle more milk and the next day+ have a new stuff which even tastes better than the one bought in the shop.. From what I can see online, carrots and radishes ferment in 5-10 days. Only peppers (paprika) have a long fermentation time, measured in weeks, from your list. I use a lot of garlic, onion, salt and black pepper. And that's enough to keep other microbes at bay, without blocking the air supply or keeping things in sterile conditions, etc., etc. For 1-2 liters, you need one (or half) garlic and probably one (or half) onion, and 5-10 g of salt. Plus whatever you want to ferment. ...check how much salt Kahm yeast can tolerate, and add a little more... ps. You can remove overdosed salt after fermentation by placing the product in fresh water for a moment.. ..or day.. People do this with herring that has been salted for months. Do they keep it in milk overnight? Or something like that.. The salt level in herring and the liquid then evens out.
  8. The “Google AI overview”, also known as Google Gemini LLM, simply summarizes the content contained in the links below. It does not create any content on its own. If the authors of these articles later write nonsense, the summary will also be nonsense. I don't understand what is unclear here that some people think it deserves a negative rating. Since there is very little information on this topic, mainly from links, it is easy to create articles that force AI to generate unreliable summaries. If LLM/"AI" or a human reads 10 articles in which red has a value of 0xFF0000 and nothing else, the result will be that red has a value of 0xFF0000, but if it reads 3 articles in which red has a value of 0xFF0000, 3 articles in which red has a value of 0x00FF00, and 3 articles in which red has a value of 0x0000FF, the summary will be worth a shit..
  9. You talk with the worst LLM (Google) and you complain.. Weird.. Talk to neanderthal about quantum physics..
  10. Sensei replied to Externet's topic in The Lounge
    Except they are not AI.. They are LLM. Except the same LLM gives response X, restart, the same LLM gives response Y, restart, the same LLM gives response Z... ps. What is the sense of making yet another thread about this crappy Google Gemini.. ? ps2. Giving the same answer to the same question would be a nightmare.. What ChatGPT "thinks"/"knows" about Google Gemini: Why waste time on Google Gemini? If LLM receives data from such "reliable" sources as Reddit, what can be expected? When you go to the obscure toilet, do you read what graffiti artists have scribbled there?
  11. I explained how to do it here: https://scienceforums.net/topic/139514-edit-and-report-function-seems-to-have-died-211025/#findComment-1302077
  12. Today, I was unable to vote on certain posts (neither for nor against). Therefore, I hacked this site by following the procedure below: Ctrl-U to open the source code. Ctrl+F and searched for “downvote” and found a piece of code, i.e.: <li> <a href='https://scienceforums.net/topic/139534-the-tibetan-cretins-of-the-himalayas-should-be-attacked-on-a-spiritual-plane/?&amp;do=reactComment&amp;comment=1302070&amp;reaction=7&amp;csrfKey=e60d72a2e6e187a42e19c1f62069af79' class='ipsReact_reaction' data-role="reaction" > <img src='//media.invisioncic.com/w334195/reactions/react_down.png' alt="Downvote" data-ipsTooltip title="Downvote" loading="lazy" width="120" height="120"> <span class='ipsReact_name'>Downvote</span> </a> </li>I copied and pasted the URL from the <a> tag into a new tab in my web browser: https://scienceforums.net/topic/139534-the-tibetan-cretins-of-the-himalayas-should-be-attacked-on-a-spiritual-plane/?&amp;do=reactComment&amp;comment=1302070&amp;reaction=7&amp;csrfKey=e60d72a2e6e187a42e19c1f62069af79I visited the website and voilà. A backdoor to downvote.
  13. You send each other polite messages that make no sense and have no effect, and I still haven't seen a single line of C/C++ code... you can't be real programmers.. Programmers would write code in the first line, not nonsense.. Paste the code using MC & GEANT4 here..
  14. So you didn't get anywhere... ? ;) That's how this nonsense about “curvature of space-time” ends... You have billions upon billions of particles, and you try to create a model that describes how they interact with each other, and you have something called a “field”... (it's difficult to perform mathematical operations x vs y on each particle). In order to perfectly model the interaction between the Earth and the Sun, it would be necessary to calculate the effects of each particle of the Sun on each particle of the Earth, but this would take longer than the entire lifetime of the universe. So we do the following: “we add up the mass of all the Sun's particles, and we get roughly the center of the Sun,” “we add up the mass of all the Earth's particles, and we get roughly the center of the Earth,” and then we use the function between these centers. This only gives an approximate result.
  15. I copied and pasted your post into ChatGPT, and it replied, “That's a straw man argument”... ;) Feel the pain...
  16. It will fly very close to Jupiter, so its influence on acceleration will be very significant. It is clear that Jupiter's gravity will change its trajectory. https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/
  17. Not at all. As I said, to understand why such things happen, you should start by analyzing and calculating the influence of the planets on a given object, at a given time or even time span. I gave you the formulas, all you had to do was plug in the values, and you would have seen that for example Jupiter, which is 100 million km away from the object, exerts a force 635 times greater than the 2*10^-8 m/s^2 you mentioned: Jupiter’s gravitational acceleration becomes equal to 2.0*10^-8 m/s^2 (the value from your OP) at a distance of approximately 8 billion km (53 AU = 10 times as much as it is from Sun to Jupiter).
  18. ..and when you calculate whether an object will hit the Earth in a few or several decades, you have to be much more precise. 10,000 km in one direction or the other, and it will either hit the Earth or not (some/any object).. @Bjarne-7 Even the arrangement of the planets at a given time causes some gravitational acceleration. So, first you have acceleration in one direction, and then you have acceleration in the other direction (deceleration), simply because the planets change their position relative to the Sun. Take the positions of your object and some/every planet. Calculate the distance between them. Find the mass M of the planet (Wikipedia) and use F=ma, a=GM/r^2 to calculate its approximate influence on your object. The easiest way to do this is in a spreadsheet. The wobble of a star was one of the first methods used to check whether a star had any massive exoplanets orbiting around it (=the center of mass of a star system is not located in the center of the star) (=a star attracts planets to itself, and planets attract their star to themselves). So you reverse Newton's equation and you get the mass that an exoplanet must have in order to have such an effect on its star.
  19. If you are afraid that someone is using “AI”/LLM for malicious purposes: if you ask ChatGPT to create a virus that attacks DNS servers, it will tell you that it does not do such things, and that will be the end of the session. But if you write that you need an application that creates as many threads as you want, and each of them connects to the port you want on the UDP protocol, it will generate the code for you without batting an eye. The difference between malicious virus code and a regular utility application is only in the purpose.To know what prompt to write, you need to be knowledgeable about the subject yourself. People who are unfamiliar with the subject are not even be able to formulate a prompt that works. If someone create an LLM for drug design, for example, it will work with virus and bacteria design too. It's hard to imagine it not working. Medicines will not work without knowledge about how viruses and bacteria function on molecular level. With knowledge of how they work, they can also be designed. You are talking about some non-existent yet “AI”/LLM. Existing LLMs, such as ChatGPT, are not creative in any way. For example, it will not come up with a physical theory for you. On the contrary, it will claim that yours is wrong. Most people who use this on a daily basis simply don't know anything about the subject they're asking about, so for them it's a big “wow” that it works. But when someone who knows what they're doing asks a question, they can see the mistakes they're making. And then with every answer you get, you're saying, “Why did you write that line of code that way? It's wrong.” And so you can spend hours making corrections to corrections. But to know where LLM made a mistake, you have to know the subject yourself..
  20. Is the world ready for man-made viruses? I don't see any difference. “AI”/LLM won't produce them in a factory, it will only design them, and then humans will have to “put them together.” Viruses mutate, so whether humans or “AI”/LLM design them, it doesn't really matter, because sooner or later they will mutate and get out of control. It's only a matter of time. If they used the bacteriophage genome, then they did not create something new, they only created mutations of that bacteriophage genome in a computer. Without comparing both variants, before and after modifications, we know nothing about what has been changed between them and how these changes affected their reactions to the world.. These changes could just as well be cosmetic and meaningless or even meaningless. DNA and RNA, unlike computer code, are very forgiving of errors. If someone has the ability to create a virus from a string of AGCT on a screen, then they probably also have the intellectual and financial resources to do so manually without using “AI”/LLM.
  21. Sensei replied to Linkey's topic in Politics
    ..this does not tell us anything about how many square meters per capita there are in these apartments/houses.. This would exclude most cities. Where I live, no one has a single-story house in the city. That would be crazy. Even if someone builds a single-family house in the countryside, it has at least one floor (which in some countries means it has two floors). The ground floor is the ground floor. The first floor is the next level. And, of course, there's the basement. Nobody builds without a basement here. If it occupies 10x10 m² of land, and because it has three levels including a basement, this gives a usable area of approximately 300 m². And what about the basement? Is it also included in this area?
  22. Sensei replied to Linkey's topic in Politics
    I see a lot of room for misinterpretation here. “House size.” Do these statistics literally include only houses or apartments in skyscrapers? If I have an apartment in a tenement building and I rent it out, will it also be counted, and how? Just because someone owns an apartment, house, or tenement building does not mean that they cannot sublet it to someone else—in which case, the space per capita for themselves will decrease. Average of what? Owner? If I own 10 houses, how does that affect these statistics? The area of the house may include the garage area and areas that are completely unsuitable for living. Or even utility areas. How do you calculate the average? In the US, many houses stand empty because banks have taken them away from their owners. Are they also included in these statistics?
  23. Sensei replied to Linkey's topic in Politics
    Imagine how difficult it is to be a businessman in the US in today's political reality: you wake up in the morning and don't know if the containers you ordered a few weeks ago, which are sailing from another country, will bankrupt your company if you agree to pay the new customs duty, which changes every few days, weeks, or months. You would like to have problems like European businessmen, such as making sure that bananas and cucumbers are reasonably attractive..
  24. Sensei replied to Linkey's topic in Politics
    You've never been to the USSR. In Soviet times, you got food ration cards, and you were allocated a certain amount of meat, milk, bread, butter, vodka, etc. per person per month. You couldn't just go and buy, say, 10 kg of beef because you were having a birthday party. You would have to take food ration cards from your guests, and even then, the store probably wouldn't give you the 10 kg of beef you needed. From what I know, these definitions apply to fruit and vegetables that are sold retail to the final customers. In other words, vegetables that do not meet the standards are used to produce juices, preserves, and animal feed. Nothing goes to waste. These weird-looking creatures would be ignored by customers anyway, because in Europe, unlike in the US, customers can choose which fruits and vegetables they want. You choose what you want, weigh it, and stick a label on it. You don't get something unknown in a sealed bag, which is disallowed to open, and then if you bought it, have to throw it away when it turns out to be rotten. If something is ugly, does not meet aesthetic standards, it gets lower prices in stores. This week, I bought garlic for $0.25 per bulb, which was a 50% discount, but then I realized that it was smaller than usual. What I saved on the price, I worked hard to get these little ones out of their shells. What utter nonsense. Over the course of a year, 1% of the local population started their own business. And what does it look like in the US? To have such statistics, 3.4 million single-member companies would have to be created per a year. When I read such nonsense on the Internet, I really need a drink... ;) You should visit him more often. ;) I think that statistics on having a private psychiatrist say more about the problems of a given society... ;) Did those who voted for him go to a psychiatrist or not? Because I'm confused. Or maybe they did go and he hurt them? Here, you can start your own business using your cell phone. And with a PC, it's even easier. You can even have a video conference with your future accountant, who will do most of the work for you. That's where it all starts. It would take less time than writing this post.
  25. In 2016. Long before the real war. Actually, many would and already have. There were no elections after the attack in 2022. Which one of these are pro-russian? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election The simplest ones are the ones that are rigged. ;)

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