melon_madness - Hackdot

Re:SEO lessons learned by writing a blog post every day for two years on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:35AM (#22180888)

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.

Re:Why are some things darker when wet? on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:05PM (#22006398)

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.

Re:Why are some things darker when wet? on Thursday January 09, 2020 @11:30AM (#22002553)

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

Re:Why are some things darker when wet? on Thursday January 09, 2020 @11:28AM (#22002519)

Conservation of momentum, I think

Re:What are your options for cognitive enhancement? on Monday December 09, 2019 @08:16AM (#21742285)

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?

Re:Facebook Horizon on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:40AM (#21090754)

Cybering always finds a way

Re:Facebook Horizon on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:31AM (#21090699)

What? Why?

Re:Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:16AM (#20755650)

Mystery solved

Re:Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:34AM (#20755451)

Funny because they still got the 99.997% right

Re:What an attacker gets from Apple devices if they sniff Bluetooth tr... on Friday July 26, 2019 @01:33PM (#20536532)

Yeah true, they could easily give both options

Re:What an attacker gets from Apple devices if they sniff Bluetooth tr... on Friday July 26, 2019 @04:13AM (#20533183)

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.

Re:Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to e... on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:17AM (#20390361)

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.

Re:Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to e... on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @05:09AM (#20390063)