This is a pretty good summary of the process of working on a large, legacy code project. Even if it's one your past self wrote. That guy's an idiot. What was he thinking?
Differently Sane
'Normal' is a statistical average. There may be such a thing as a normal person, but I haven't met him yet.
My comments on books, games, guns, science, politics, and whatnot.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Pouring fuel on the fire
No not that one. The serious one.
So, after thousands of girls reported being gang raped, the British police and government officials responded by raping the girls some more.
Friday, January 10, 2025
"The Venn intersection of Bezmenov and Orwell"
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Quantum Zoo
Here is a handy diagram I made of the quantum zoo from the Standard Model. It doesn't include the two heavier "generations" of the massive particles (quarks, electrons, neutrinos).
e: electron (electromagnetism) (-90°)
v: neutrino (weak force)
y: photon (electromagnetism)
g: gluon (strong force) (holds quarks together)
u: up quark (nucleus, strong force, electromagnetism) (+60°)
d: down quark (nucleus, strong force, electromagnetism) (-30°)
W: W boson (electroweak force) (nuclear decay) (translates charge rotation) (± 90°)
Z: Z boson (weak force) (repels neutrinos)
H: Higgs boson (mass)
blue: matter
red: antimatter
green: force carrier
Note that particle decay involves a 90 degree shift (along with a spin reversal), and anti-particles are 180 degrees apart.
Pions are a type of composite particle made of a quark and its antiquark. They don't last long, but transmit the strong nuclear force to hold the nucleus together.
In this chart, "Q" is electric charge and "T" is my designation for what I call "chrono charge". Positive is matter, negative is antimatter, zero is neutral. Chrono charge replaces both lepton number and baryon number, and works better for most purposes. Chrono charge, like electric charge, is conserved, and must be an integer in a composite particle. Note that T + Q is always an integer - the definition of quantization.
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Happy New Year!
Hoping you all have a happy new year! May it be better than the last!
Hmm...
Perhaps, given the history of the last few years, I should stop saying that?
Enjoy 2025! Embrace the suck!
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Goblin Bazaar
Goblins are bizarre, but that's not what this anthology is about. It's about bazaars with goblins. Run by goblins. Goblins selling things. Goblins being sold. Goblins buying and selling you, if you let them.
It's a lot of fun. Go check out the Goblin Bazaar. It's the price of a fancy cup of coffee, but will last you a lot longer.
Cover art by Cedar Sanderson |