the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

we tend to think of oxides as insulative, which makes tin dioxide *really weird*
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but in cases like, say, astronomy, you might think of copernicus or galileo as founders, and both of them were wrong about a bunch of stuff but they were also right about a bunch of stuff

and newtonian mechanics (n.b.: newton's laws were probably stolen from hooke, but newton gets credit anyway because history) is still perfectly valid when not dealing with exceptional situations
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maybe medicine in the broader sense, looking at Galen as the "founder" and very little of his work has any actual scientific merit as we understand
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I wonder if there's any field other than psychology that has a prominent historical figure seen as the field's founder, but also whose every word on the topic is generally regarded by those in the field as pretty much just plain wrong
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The person at the store was very confident that they could help us find whatever we needed, even after Felthry said we're looking for something a bit unusual.

When it said that unusual thing was a USB-to-IDE adapter, they seemed surprised at the idea that someone might need something they don't stock.

I guess they probably usually just need to help someone find a laptop or something, though.
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oh hello again stress over what-if-i'm-just-being-annoying
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i know there's some musicy people here, does anyone know what the current good software for viewing midi files as sheet music is?
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consider:

otterroos
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also kangaroo tails
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hmmmm

otter tails

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*hands you a Laplace transform*
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wow, it's unanimous... huh.
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teleportato
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anyone mathy here able to explain why people say it's wrong to think of df(x)/dx as a literal ratio of infinitesimal quantities?
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neat math/physics puzzle: For a rigid pendulum of mass m and length L, starting at rest with an angle θ from vertical, find the tension in the massless rod that supports the pendulum as a function of time

i think this is a particularly interesting one to puzzle through because it's not the thing you're normally asked to do with this and i wonder if it's possible to solve this without ever solving for the pendulum's motion
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now i want an empanada but we already had lunch
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a calzone is just the empanada of pizza
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whoever answered less than zero i would very much like to know what you mean
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