There are infinitely many. But the cool math that Feynman worked out is that infinite diagrams (paths) kinda look random, unless they’re not random (aligned).

When you get enough infinite “randombess” you tend to cancel almost everything out (not actually random but phases that destructively interfere), so what you’re left with (when you “sum all paths”) are solutions that favour a particular direction or phase.

Hey there! Sorry, I got busy with work today.

I was just noticing that you have plenty of replies. I think you seem to have enough to go on with.

If you still need anything, hit a reply to this one and I can give you my 2-cents worth of opinion.

I think for those classic clicky dumb thermostats they should be called thermochaser.

You dial up a temp and that’s pretty much the least likely temp that you’re setting, the f****** think will overshoot panic, u-turn dive back past the set-point hit the breaks u-turn again apply full throttle.

Or perhaps a thermotease. For when you do that fine adjustment to try and make it just barely click then 10 seconds later it’s too hot or cold… so you give it anither tiny tweak thinking you gotta be close but no, it’s miles away from clicking - burning away, quietly mocking you.

First question. Was your router also your modem? As in describe each connection/device from street until you get to your router. (Do you also know your connection type? Some flavour of DSL, HFC, Fiber?)

Sure! Scooters could be lethal!

I’d love to see that normalised to how many of each vehicle type are in use aver the same time.

Initially, I see that and think trucks are less deadly than cars, but according to my brief Google search (https://www.statistiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/donnees-sur-le-parc-automobile-francais-au-1er-janvier-2024), there are 5x more cars than trucks, which puts them [trucks] over the top of cars in every category.

I guess that doesn’t really matter to the pedestrian. It still sucks to be killed by either.

I don’t really understand this reply and why this is a shower thought.

But, I take it back. Clearly not a pastor or sermon. Sorry, my bad…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b6781fe4-3459-42bf-adce-b9e26f7078b1.jpeg

Is this one of those “how do you do fellow kids” accounts made by a very young looking , middle aged pastor attempting to infiltrate social media?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C-q4bEULG64

Tim Minchin has a couple that’d entertain me.

Woody Allen Jesus (from memory this got cut from the original broadcast?) - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFdUJLebzU

A serious take on the season…

White Wine in the Sun - https://youtu.be/_CeY0VdhXK8

In about 2014 we flew through an airport where some of these “customs” types shows was being recorded. They had signs up everywhere (I think in multiple languages) saying “episodes of _____ are being recorded here. If you do not wish to be recorded please talk to the crew” (or something like that).

But who knows what they’ve filmed for their cut-away shots, from the far said of the arrivals hall.

I guess you should expect shots of you walking to be ok. But probably have the right to opt out of having your “case” filled.

Yeah, it depends on what you mean.

In many cases malware and phishing is hosted off other compromised sites. So, they build a list of Wordpress sites with vulnerabilities, and use the vulnerabilities to host their files on them. For example, imagine “legitimate-medical-site.net.com” is a real site. The attacker will use the exploit to upload malicious files in there somewhere like “legitimate-medical-site. net. com/qwertasdf/invoice.pdf”.

If the site gets blocked or shutdown it’s no loss to them.

Another technique, especially phishing wise, they will have a semi-plausible domain name (e.g. youbank-security-server .con). But they will register heaps of these. There are tonnes of top level domains that do next to no checking. These things cost a few bucks, so having it taken down is not a problem.

The combination of burner sites and domains mean they have a window of opportunity to run their attacks and scams before other protections kick in.

We’ve had many of these. We just leaver up the boards and tear them out.

You could plunge cut with a circular saw along the edge. Then work a chisel under it and just tear out the floor boards any way you can.

Then for the screws, I either tear them out with pincer pliers for the shallow ones (you can get decent leverage with pincer pliers). Or just cut them flush with the joists and leave them there (quick work with an angle grinder and cut-off disc).

PS. Sorry been trying to reply to you for a few hours but my client wouldn’t connect.

Just wondering, do you need to save the floor board?

TIFSNO? Today I Found Some Nonsense Online?

I secretly moved a bank of high school lockers about 1ft per day, every school day, for a whole year.

They were pretty light - those steel “backpack only” sized lockers in a about a 3x4 arrangement. Some days I’d just lean on the end of them to nudge them over, but skipping doorways and around corners meant extra planning and often meant I had to come in to school early.

The janitor caught me one morning. He agreed it was a funny prank and offered to help when we got to the staircase.

By the end of the year the lockers had migrated up one floor and over to a separate building.

I kept the secret for decades and only recently started telling the story.

Lexx is wild. I watched it originally on a pay tv channel that had cut the episodes up into ~25 minute blocks.

I first dropped into late season 2 and occasionally I’d miss an episode.

So, combined with the weird cutting, the no context and the standard Lexx craziness, I had NO idea what was happening. The whole thing was a fever dream. Highly recommend!

I actually think it’s was the best way to watch it first go round! Then, when I came back and do the whole series in order and it was almost as much of a surprise.

“size… of a dinner plate” !!

Yeah. “Nation state”, “Sophisticated”, “command injection”… where have I heard this before?

Ahh, that’s right - with every breach where they had basic vulnerabilities exposed, or admin credentials compromised.

There’s a very familiar and comforting writing style and tempo to these old magazines. Articles that feel like they were written by some kid hired from a BBS.

Definitely a feel that’s missing from modern blogs and computing or gaming news sites.

I love all these old Internet Archive scans. Very glad that these have been preserved.

Thanks.

Breadboard is a cool idea, but your first experiments will likely be super simple right?

Here’s a few thoughts.

How about some double conducting copper tape and sheets of craft paper or cardboard. (Double conducting conducts on the top as well as the sticky side so overlapping joins completes the circuit).

You can draw/plan and then route the copper sticky tape like a circuit board. Fashion basic switches from the copper tape around a cardboard flap, tape down any “flat” components like resistors.

Add some tinned leads to anything that would stick up from the board.

I often find the more tactile “MacGyver” approach is a better teaching aid as there’s no mystery behind the scenes (no hidden board wires, no pre-mounted components or connectors). Everything is built up from existing skills and experiences.

When you start to get more advanced, 80s Aussie kids grew up with:

https://archive.org/details/dicksmithsfunwayintoelectronicsvolume2/Dick Smith's Funway into Electronics Volume 1/page/n5/mode/1up?view=theater

That has a complete list of components needed for the projects in the book. Same idea as the copper tape, just with bits of wire and screws. The project in the book were all built onto a pre-drilled block of plastic with the schematic laid on top. They were fun little projects and easy enough to do - the flashers and sirens were a hit for me.