thomasqm's comments

On: A web app that can play musical scales according to mathematical equations

[thomasqm]

also log(x)

On: 17B life years could be saved if air pollution was reduced to WHO standards

[thomasqm]

From trustworthy wikipedia: "A 2011 study found that the amount of NMHC pollutants emitted by a leaf blower operated for 30 minutes is comparable to the amount emitted by a Ford F-150 pickup truck driving from Texas to Alaska. The two-stroke engines used in most leaf blowers operate by mixing gasoline with oil, and a third of this mixture is not burned, but is emitted as an aerosol exhaust. These pollutants have been linked to cancer, heart disease, and asthma," cited with https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/emissions-test-... and https://www.wsj.com/articles/leaf-blowers-are-loud-ugly-and-...

[R0b0t1 → thomasqm]

Ah, you're right. I remember seeing these ages ago, I wonder how I forgot. There's 4-stroke lawnmowers though, how bad are they?

On: Flocculant/Disinfectant Powder

[thomasqm]

amazon! probably

[creddit → thomasqm]

But why on earth call it that? It's the same number of syllables, more letters, additional punctuation and also not in common use. So odd.

On: Spirograph

[thomasqm]

You’re a crackpot! What is an atomic field? Are you referring to the electromagnetic fields generated by subatomic and ionic particles? If so, they are indeed a linear superposition, whose constituents do have wavefunctions, which do include (spherical) harmonics.

[reasonabl_human → thomasqm]

AFAIK, no such thing as a particle as traditionally discussed exists at the subatomic level. A ‘particle’ is really a quantum excitation of the appropriate field. At least that is how we learned it in particle physics using current field theory and Feynman diagrams

On: AirPods Causing Tinnitus (600+ reports since 2019?)

[thomasqm]

I noticed the same. Disabling or lowering noise cancellation in-app fixed everything.

On: Snakes Found a New Way to Slither

[thomasqm]

space lab space

[pvaldes → thomasqm]

We would end with a (probably) very confused snake floating around

[stephenr → thomasqm]

So, lab space in a space lab?

On: Show HN: Esochess, customized chess (3/4 player, capablanca, two king) in C/WASM

[thomasqm]

thanks, yeah havent implemented stalemate, and the ai is a bit crufty. funny to see you call it fast; with -O3, which is whats online, it takes up to ten secs and when enabling debug symbols, it takes millenia, likely because my vector implementation is relatively slow

On: Mathematicians will never stop proving the Prime Number Theorem

[thomasqm]

Why is it that posts from quantamagazine consistently appear on the front page, just to be debunked (though this one literally does not contain any substance!). Why do you upvote this?

On: Wikimedia enacts new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity

[thomasqm]

I do not read anything relating inclusivity to demographics. I think they are just discouraging ignorance of other editors.

On: Ask HN: Your must-read HN post?

[thomasqm]

I already read this one though.

[zippoxer → thomasqm]

I'll even go as far as to say that everyone here has already read it.