Linux by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
It ain't perfect, but it's decent enough.
From a technical point of view, it can do anything that Microsoft Windows can. Except being forcefully installed on every non-MacOS 2019 computer you can buy.
Ciro Santilli's conversion to Linux happened around 2012, and was a central part of Ciro Santilli's Open Source Enlightenment, since it fundamentally enables the discovery and contribution to open source software. Because what awesome open source person would waste time porting their amazing projects to closed source OSes?
Ciro's modest nature can be seen as he likes to compare this event Buddha's Great Renunciation.
Particularly interesting in the history of Linux is how it won out over the open competitors that were coming up in the time: MINIX (see the chat) and BSD Operating System that got legally bogged down at the critical growth moment.
Figure 1.
xkcd 619: Supported Features
. Source. This perfectly illustrates Linux development. First features that matter. Then useless features.
Video 1. Source. Just stop whatever you are doing, and watch this right now. "I'm on Linux, bitch, I thought you GNU". Fandom explanations. It is just a shame that the Bill Gates actor looks absolutely nothing like the real gates. Actually, the entire Gates/Jobs parts are good, but not genial. But the Linux one is.
ScopeFun by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
899 USD as of 2022, takes a year to ship as they gather up a lot of orders before producing.
Sounds so cool, especially the multi functionality. Shame so expensive.
How to decide if an ORM is good? by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
How to decide if an ORM is decent? Just try to replicate every SQL query from nodejs/sequelize/raw/many_to_many.js on PostgreSQL and SQLite.
There is only a very finite number of possible reasonable queries on a two table many to many relationship with a join table. A decent ORM has to be able to do them all.
If it can do all those queries, then the ORM can actually do a good subset of SQL and is decent. If not, it can't, and this will make you suffer. E.g. Sequelize v5 is such an ORM that makes you suffer.
The next thing to check are transactions.
Basically, all of those come up if you try to implement a blog hello world world such as gothinkster/realworld correctly, i.e. without unnecessary inefficiencies due to your ORM on top of underlying SQL, and dealing with concurrency.
British nuclear weapons program by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli's jaw dropped when he learned about this concept. A Small Talent for War, are you sure?
Nuclear reactor by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Some of the most notable ones:
Nintendo 64 game by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Cisco by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Video 1.
Nerds 2.0.1 excerpt about Cisco (1998)
Source.
Microtome by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Sonicator by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
These can be used to break cells apart from tissue, and also break up larger DNA or RNA molecules into smallers ones, suitable for sequencing.
Large Magellanic Cloud by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
One of the brightest natural objects in the sky, and by far the brightest not in the Milky Way! This is partly because it is relatively close to us.
Microsoft product by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Devboard battery power by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Many devborads require a 5V power supply.
This is common on wall transformers and USB, but not in batteries.
For battery power you need a transformer.
Moving magnet and conductor problem by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
This is a well known though experiment, which Richard Feynman used to emphasize
In the above experiment:
  • from the wire frame, the charge feels electromagnetic force, because it is moving and there is a magnetic field
  • from the single charge frame, there is still magnetic field (positive charges are moving), but the body itself is not moving, so there is no force!
The solution to this problem is length contraction: the positive charges are length contracted and the moving electrons aren't, and therefore they are denser and therefore there is an effective charge from that frame.
karlcow/markdown-testsuite by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
Ciro Santilli was contributing to this, when CommonMark left private mode and killed it, thus wasting many hours of Ciro's time.
Ferromagnetism by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
The wiki comments: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ferromagnetism&oldid=965600553#Explanation
The Bohr-van Leeuwen theorem, discovered in the 1910s, showed that classical physics theories are unable to account for any form of magnetism, including ferromagnetism. Magnetism is now regarded as a purely quantum mechanical effect. Ferromagnetism arises due to two effects from quantum mechanics: spin and the Pauli exclusion principle.
Lorentz transform consequence: everyone sees the same speed of light by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated +Created
OK, so let's verify the main desired consequence of the Lorentz transformation: that everyone observes the same speed of light.
Observers will measure the speed of light by calculating how long it takes the light going towards cross a rod of length laid in the x axis at position .
Each observer will observe two events:
  • : the light touches the left side of the rod
  • : the light touches the right side of the rod
Supposing that the standing observer measures the speed of light as and that light hits the left side of the rod at time , then he observes the coordinates:
Now, if we transform for the moving observer:
and so the moving observer measures the speed of light as:

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