I’m pretty sure “Humans, please ignore this post” wasn’t serious, and this article is mainly for humans.
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Or their mom might be a hacker.
Incidentally, there are many cases where I don’t care about my username at all and have to come up with something. I’d find it acceptable if they’d just give me a number and a password, or let me register just with a password (perhaps provided by them?), maybe plus e-mail.
Exactly—the term’s quite loosely defined.
How do you know meetups all meetups attract “losers”? What is—to you—the defining characteristic of such “losers”? How certain are you that your personal experience with one kind of meetup generalizes well to all meetups? How do you know there are fewer or no losers elsewhere, e.g. on the internet?
This is a good place to post your poem.
Thank you for this post. I have made similar experiences, and feel much more dim-witted when speaking in person (especially compared to others).
Upvoted for changing your mind.
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Just in case you’re not aware, this is a double-comment. I’ve seen this with another comment of yours recently. Probably happens when one double-clicks the comment button.
You might want to post this on the hpmor subredit page instead—or in the latest open thread. I don’t, however, think that a top-level discussion post is necessary for this.
In any case, Snape saying that the number of valence electrons of carbon is a meaningless fact is weak evidence that he didn’t read it in Harry’s mind.
There’s also leakage by diffusion of gasses, which might be non-negligible due to the high pressure gradient, although the diffusion coefficient e.g. of water through steel should be low. Not sure how that works out.
Most vessels are spherical or cylindrical, which is already pretty good (intuitively, spherical vessels should be optimal for isotropic materials). You might want to take a look at the mechanics of thin-walled pressure vessels if you didn’t already.
It’s important to note that the radial stresses in cylindrical vessels are way smaller than the axial and hoop stresses (which, so to say, pull perpendicular to the “direction” of the pressure). This is also why wound fibers can increase the strength of such vessels.
Materials science undergraduate student here (not a mechanical engineer, my knowledge is limited in the area, I did not go to great lengths to ensure I’m right here, etc.).
A typical method to generate high pressures in research are diamond anvils. This is suitable for exploring the behavior of cells and microorganisms under high pressure.
For human preservation, however, you’d need a pressure vessel. As the yield strength of your typical steel is on the order of 100, maybe 300 MPa, you’re really up against a wall here, materials-wise. I don’t doubt that suitable alloys for human-sized pressure vessels at 350 MPa exist, however, such vessels will be expensive, and controlling processes within will be difficult. In any case, generating such pressures will probably not involve a moving piston.
I can’t really tell whether or not the procedure you’ve outlined is viable, but I’m quite sure it’s far from trivial, just from an engineering point of view.
The concerns of user passive_fist are also valid.
Please insert some line-breaks at suitable points to make your comment be more readable. At the moment it’s figuratively a wall of text.
Edit: Thank you.
If you make a joke on a day where jokes are made, but another person is not on the same day anymore, that person might not get the joke because they don’t think the day matters.
I hate april fool’s jokes across time zones. You don’t expect them on April 2nd, do you?
Although honestly, what kind of idiot had the idea to order the date mm/dd/yyyy?
But well-explained.
(paying a karma toll for this)
The username “Username” with password “password” can be used by anyone wishing to stay anonymous.
I have some time on my hands and would be interested in doing something meaningful with it. Ideally learn / research about AI alignment or related topics. Dunno where to start though, beyond just reading posts. Anyone got pointers? Got a background in theoretical / computational physics, and I know my way around the scientific Python stack.