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New comment by melon_madness in "SEO lessons learned by writing a blog post every day for two years"

melon_madness — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:35:10 +0000

The article is also very survivorship-bias-y. His blog happened to do fine without him doing any SEO, but that doesn't mean all SEO is pointless.

New comment by melon_madness in "Why are some things darker when wet?"

melon_madness — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 22:05:14 +0000

Conservation of momentum doesn’t mean that the momentum of the emitted photon has to be equal to that of the absorbed photon. It means the sum of the momentum of the emitted photon and the mirror must equal the momentum of the absorbed photon, assuming the mirror had no momentum to begin with.

New comment by melon_madness in "Why are some things darker when wet?"

melon_madness — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:30:18 +0000

I don't think this is quite the photoelectric effect. The atoms absorb photons and re-emit photons--they aren't emitting electrons.

New comment by melon_madness in "Why are some things darker when wet?"

melon_madness — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:28:25 +0000

Conservation of momentum, I think

New comment by melon_madness in "What are your options for cognitive enhancement?"

melon_madness — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 13:16:44 +0000

I'm pretty sure when Decartes said that, he meant that that's the only thing we know for sure to be true, since everything else could be a hallucination. He wasn't making an argument for cognitive enhancement... was he?

New comment by melon_madness in "Facebook Horizon"

melon_madness — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 11:40:21 +0000

Cybering always finds a way

New comment by melon_madness in "Facebook Horizon"

melon_madness — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 11:31:48 +0000

What? Why?

New comment by melon_madness in "Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization"

melon_madness — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:16:44 +0000

Mystery solved

New comment by melon_madness in "Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization"

melon_madness — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:34:11 +0000

Funny because they still got the 99.997% right

New comment by melon_madness in "What an attacker gets from Apple devices if they sniff Bluetooth traffic"

melon_madness — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:33:20 +0000

Yeah true, they could easily give both options

New comment by melon_madness in "What an attacker gets from Apple devices if they sniff Bluetooth traffic"

melon_madness — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:13:31 +0000

To be fair I quite like that feature. Usually if I'm disconnecting from a WiFi it's because it's not working very well and I want to use my mobile data instead. If I forget to turn it back on I'd end up using way too much data.

New comment by melon_madness in "Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera"

melon_madness — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:17:51 +0000

As I understand it, they tried to design a new plane that wouldn't require pilots to be re-trained on how to use it, if they'd already been trained on an older model. That's the UX I'm referring to.

New comment by melon_madness in "Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera"

melon_madness — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 09:09:53 +0000