Chris B
@chrisprobably.bsky.social
I think, I worry, I love nature. I worked as a physicist long ago, now I write code for a living. I write fiction, or aspire to.
They also used them, in combination with other things, to accurately calculate the size of the moon and the distance from the earth to the moon. This over 1500 years before Galileo. A lot of sophisticated mathematics and geometry was invented to predict eclipses
March 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
They also used them, in combination with other things, to accurately calculate the size of the moon and the distance from the earth to the moon. This over 1500 years before Galileo. A lot of sophisticated mathematics and geometry was invented to predict eclipses
I say boil it until it's done, no longer than that. The box suggestions give us a hint that this will take longer, most likely, than it takes to brush your teeth, but not so long as it takes to watch an episode of Game of Thrones. The box should never be your master
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I say boil it until it's done, no longer than that. The box suggestions give us a hint that this will take longer, most likely, than it takes to brush your teeth, but not so long as it takes to watch an episode of Game of Thrones. The box should never be your master
Peace and blessings to you all,
me
me
March 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Peace and blessings to you all,
me
me
that resonates with one or two of you. But the news, and my mind reading it, have been grim. If I wrote now what I'm feeling, I'd be screaming about politics. If that's what you want to read Lord knows there's no shortage of it out there... but it isn't what I want this little space to become.
March 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
that resonates with one or two of you. But the news, and my mind reading it, have been grim. If I wrote now what I'm feeling, I'd be screaming about politics. If that's what you want to read Lord knows there's no shortage of it out there... but it isn't what I want this little space to become.
I haven't been posting much recently, but just to say to you all: I'm fine, nothing's happened to me. I just haven't been feeling the urge to write for a while. I want to write things that bring joy, or wonder, or the lure of the strange, or perhaps to say something true
March 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I haven't been posting much recently, but just to say to you all: I'm fine, nothing's happened to me. I just haven't been feeling the urge to write for a while. I want to write things that bring joy, or wonder, or the lure of the strange, or perhaps to say something true
When he's also Paul Morphy: Oh, and checkmate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
When he's also Paul Morphy: Oh, and checkmate.
And you just capitulated to this by voting for cloture, hoping everyone on our side will be bamboozled by a string of kabuki votes afterward.
You had one opportunity, literally only one, to actually fight for any of this. And you gave it up for nothing.
The entire Dem leadership needs to go.
You had one opportunity, literally only one, to actually fight for any of this. And you gave it up for nothing.
The entire Dem leadership needs to go.
March 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
And you just capitulated to this by voting for cloture, hoping everyone on our side will be bamboozled by a string of kabuki votes afterward.
You had one opportunity, literally only one, to actually fight for any of this. And you gave it up for nothing.
The entire Dem leadership needs to go.
You had one opportunity, literally only one, to actually fight for any of this. And you gave it up for nothing.
The entire Dem leadership needs to go.
You have absolute freedom to run your department however Elon says.
Well, that reassures me very not.
Well, that reassures me very not.
March 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
You have absolute freedom to run your department however Elon says.
Well, that reassures me very not.
Well, that reassures me very not.
As a child I would have climbed up each branch of that tree and had a different adventure with my friends in every one.
March 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
As a child I would have climbed up each branch of that tree and had a different adventure with my friends in every one.
He was encased in carbonite, in perfect hibernation. And on the the third day the angel Leia pushed some buttons on the side of his container and he rose again...
March 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
He was encased in carbonite, in perfect hibernation. And on the the third day the angel Leia pushed some buttons on the side of his container and he rose again...
The devils ruling hell take grave offense at this comparison: they would never tolerate such sloppy disorder. They will demonstrate to Elon what efficiency in tormenting people really looks like just as soon as he arrives.
March 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The devils ruling hell take grave offense at this comparison: they would never tolerate such sloppy disorder. They will demonstrate to Elon what efficiency in tormenting people really looks like just as soon as he arrives.
I know, she's hard to find. I keep fishing and fishing with a lure shaped to imitate a young King Arthur, but do far only the most ill tempered pike have ever lunged at it...
March 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I know, she's hard to find. I keep fishing and fishing with a lure shaped to imitate a young King Arthur, but do far only the most ill tempered pike have ever lunged at it...
Fortunately I suspect horses don't place much stock in symbolic representations of anything, so they likely just ignore it. It's us with our big prefrontal cortexes that imagine pasts and futures and find this creepy...
March 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Fortunately I suspect horses don't place much stock in symbolic representations of anything, so they likely just ignore it. It's us with our big prefrontal cortexes that imagine pasts and futures and find this creepy...
Overhearing a conversation in the background: aging ladies, the sort you'd expect to be organizing a garden, talking geopolitics and describing the federal government in language that would scorch concrete.
When the aging ladies are angry enough they can reshape the world. They run everything.
When the aging ladies are angry enough they can reshape the world. They run everything.
March 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Overhearing a conversation in the background: aging ladies, the sort you'd expect to be organizing a garden, talking geopolitics and describing the federal government in language that would scorch concrete.
When the aging ladies are angry enough they can reshape the world. They run everything.
When the aging ladies are angry enough they can reshape the world. They run everything.
I always found those trophy heads disturbing, but never saw one of a horse before...
March 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I always found those trophy heads disturbing, but never saw one of a horse before...
If i cause the chaos and I know the timing of the crash, I can make lots of money shorting things. So all that stuff can be extremely beneficial to a tiny group of insiders.
March 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If i cause the chaos and I know the timing of the crash, I can make lots of money shorting things. So all that stuff can be extremely beneficial to a tiny group of insiders.
Variations of this idea have been done many times. My favorite among them is Arthur C. Clarke's story of printing pi to septiillions of digits and finding a message written there. Such a message could only be placed by altering the structure of logic itself.
March 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Variations of this idea have been done many times. My favorite among them is Arthur C. Clarke's story of printing pi to septiillions of digits and finding a message written there. Such a message could only be placed by altering the structure of logic itself.
Distilling spirits is an ancient art, but distilling the spirits of cats is much harder than it sounds. This sort of liquor has a bite, and may leap clear out of the glass
March 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Distilling spirits is an ancient art, but distilling the spirits of cats is much harder than it sounds. This sort of liquor has a bite, and may leap clear out of the glass
You need to do it like the Count from Sesame Street: "One! One card. Two! Two cards! Ha ha ha ha".
The casino people really love that, especially when you keep it up for hours.
The casino people really love that, especially when you keep it up for hours.
March 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
You need to do it like the Count from Sesame Street: "One! One card. Two! Two cards! Ha ha ha ha".
The casino people really love that, especially when you keep it up for hours.
The casino people really love that, especially when you keep it up for hours.
With respect this is dead wrong: how you felt was always at the core of it. Their feelings of power came only from seeing evidence of your fear and pain and anger: they could gain nothing from bullying someone who ignored or laughed at them. It's not they had no empathy. They had antiempathy.
March 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
With respect this is dead wrong: how you felt was always at the core of it. Their feelings of power came only from seeing evidence of your fear and pain and anger: they could gain nothing from bullying someone who ignored or laughed at them. It's not they had no empathy. They had antiempathy.
In 1984, this sort of retroactive "truth correction" was literally Winston Smith's job. Pereptive fellow, Orwell, he noticed this role is always necessary. See? Our new leaders will discover they have need for a civil service after all.
February 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
In 1984, this sort of retroactive "truth correction" was literally Winston Smith's job. Pereptive fellow, Orwell, he noticed this role is always necessary. See? Our new leaders will discover they have need for a civil service after all.
If the world is mostly Trumps, we're doomed indeed, but mercifully he's a rare sort of monstrosity. I would say: Be a Zelensky in the face of Trumps....
February 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
If the world is mostly Trumps, we're doomed indeed, but mercifully he's a rare sort of monstrosity. I would say: Be a Zelensky in the face of Trumps....
It is. It only happened to me a few times, just after I'd had surgery to my neck. Always in dreams, for some reason. Pure terror, mercifully it's not happened for a long time.
February 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It is. It only happened to me a few times, just after I'd had surgery to my neck. Always in dreams, for some reason. Pure terror, mercifully it's not happened for a long time.
basic arrangement of parts is the same: fundamental fermion and its antiparticle bound together by gauge field. You're right the similarity breaks down in detail because QCD (SU(3)) behaves quite differently than QED (U(1)). Still... kinda parallel.
February 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
basic arrangement of parts is the same: fundamental fermion and its antiparticle bound together by gauge field. You're right the similarity breaks down in detail because QCD (SU(3)) behaves quite differently than QED (U(1)). Still... kinda parallel.