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sliken commented on Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?   quantamagazine.org/is-par... · Posted by u/mellosouls
ggm · a day ago
I am sure others will say it better, but the cat-in-the-box experiment is a shockingly bad metaphor for the idea behind quantum states and observer effect.

I will commit the first sin, by declaring without fear of contradiction the cat actually IS either alive or dead. it is not in a superposition of states. What is unknown is our knowledge of the state, and what collapses is that uncertainty.

If you shift this to the particle, not the cat, what changes? because if very much changes, my first comment about the unsuitability of the metaphor is upheld, and if very little changes, my comment has been disproven.

It would be clear I am neither a physicist nor a logician.

sliken · a day ago
Along similar lines, the double-slit experiment, seems simple. Two slits let light though and you get bands where they constructively or destructively interfere, just like waves.

However I still find it crazy that when you slow down the laser and one photon at a time goes through either slit you still get the bands. Which begs the question, what exactly is it constructively or destructively interfering with?

Still seems like there's much to be learned about the quantum world, gravity, and things like dark energy vs MOND.

sliken commented on Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?    · Posted by u/us321
tekla · a month ago
HAM radio is your best option.
sliken · a month ago
Sure, if you are smart enough. Maybe mount a small transmitter on a tree then use a directional antenna at a very low power and use the tree as a repeater.

Or use NVIS, which at least makes triangulation harder.

sliken commented on Tux Paint   tuxpaint.org/... · Posted by u/1317
sliken · a month ago
Not that I have to tell this crowd. Tuxpaint is free, get it from tuxpaint.org, do not buy it, do not download it as part of a "desktop". I was talking to the author, apparently it's sadly often used to trick people into buying or downloading malware.
sliken commented on Tux Paint   tuxpaint.org/... · Posted by u/1317
sliken · a month ago
I set up my kid, I think she was 3 or so, she started out with stamps of butterflies and the like. After awhile she looked at her hand, then mouse, then me, stared at me and said "ouch". I got a "travel" mouse that was half size or so, perfect for her hand and she loved using tux paint.

Don't forget to setup sound, preferably in stereo.

She used the hell out of it for years. One time on a call she was fascinated by fish. I printed out one of her drawings remotely while we were on the phone and she loved it.

sliken commented on Gnome and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux   linuxiac.com/gnome-and-mo... · Posted by u/raphinou
outadoc · a month ago
I was completely confused when I recently discovered this behavior. I've been using middle-click to open tabs in macOS and Windows for years, and I could not understand why it automatically pasted whatever was in my clipboard.

I think it makes total sense to change the default to be aligned with the other platforms, and leave power-users the choice to keep it enabled if they wish.

sliken · a month ago
Keep in mind the desktop env knows when you are left clicking a link or middle clicking. So on linux, usually it's left click to go to a link or middle click to open link in a new tab.

Middle click to open new tabs is compatible with middle click to paste.

sliken commented on Gnome and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux   linuxiac.com/gnome-and-mo... · Posted by u/raphinou
mrob · a month ago
This is IMO the correct decision, and I say that as a regular user of middle-click paste. Middle-click paste is a classic convenience/security tradeoff. It's faster than using the keyboard, but it makes it very easy to accidentally leak confidential information. In all such tradeoffs, the default setting should favor security.

Only if the option was removed entirely would I have reason to complain.

sliken · a month ago
In theory I'd agree as well.

In reality such features are often dropped, no settings in gnome-settings, and non default features are not tested in new builds.

So you end up googling how to get that feature back and the answer is manually navigating the config tree or using gnome-tweaks, both with large disclaimers that any changes might break your system.

No thanks, I'd rather have left click to select and middle click to paste, do we really have to involve the keyboard by default?

sliken commented on Gnome dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger   theregister.com/2026/01/0... · Posted by u/beardyw
greatgib · a month ago
This is one of the toppest things in Linux desktop.

I agree that it can be teached more widely but then it is so fucking convenient, I think that 4/5 of my need of copy-paste are efficiently done like this.

Gnome has really this problem of young crappy devs that want to make a name by themselves by "breaking" something, like Google style. If they can't disrupt, then there is no fame.

And I would easily guess that this guy is running is Linux-gnome desktop from a MacBook...

Remind me when the idiots currently in charge at Ubuntu suddenly decided to put the closing buttons for windows in the upper left corner to mimic OSX. They knew better... then it was the beginning of the downfall for Ubuntu that no sane person will use anymore.

sliken · a month ago
Similarly gnome-terminal used to have "new terminal" as the first option in the menu of a terminal. Then it got moved down to 6th item, then in the newer versions removed completely.

Very frustrating.

sliken commented on Gnome dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger   theregister.com/2026/01/0... · Posted by u/beardyw
_fat_santa · a month ago
The article makes it seem worse than it really is. All they seem to be doing is moving that functionality from being the default to an option that you enable.

Personally I heavily rely on the middle click to paste, especially with my docker workflows. Rather than having to click "CTRL+SHIFT+C" then "CTRL+SHIFT+V" every time, I just know whatever is highlighted will get pasted when I hit the middle click button. It's a subtle difference that saves maybe 1-2 seconds but combine that over the course of months and all of a sudden I've saved myself an hour with more efficient copy/paste.

sliken · a month ago
Sure. But it's a depreciation and there's numerous similar settings that are only available by tweaking settings manually or using gnome-tweaks. Right now nearly every linux app supports select with the left button and paste with the middle. It's fast, useful, doesn't require a keyboard, etc. Amusingly I've seen various logins block control-v, but middle click works. God forbid you use a password safe with your bank login.

When you use gnome-tweaks there's a ton of "WARNING you may break things" and of course anything off the default path is likely to receive zero testing.

Personally I find middle click to paste one of the differentiators between MacOS, Windows, and Linux. I'm pretty surprised it's not more common. I was amused the iterm2 added select without having to type control-c.

sliken commented on IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world   theregister.com/2025/12/3... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
przmk · a month ago
My ISP refuses to give you a static IPv6 prefix unless you're a business customer, despite having an "unlimited" amount of them. This results in me not bothering to set it up properly and focusing on IPv4 still.
sliken · a month ago
Do you have a static IPv4, presumably a single IP?

I find it useful, mine does change periodically, but I just have a script that Updates DNS when it changes:

   nsupdate -v -y "${KEY_ALGO}:${KEY_NAME}:${KEY_SECRET}" <<EOF
   server $DNS_SERVER
   zone $ZONE 
   update delete $RECORD AAAA
   update add $RECORD 300 AAAA $CURRENT_IP
   show
   send
   EOF
Sure some services might notice for a bit, but it's plenty good for me.

sliken commented on AMD officially confirms fresh next-gen Zen 6 CPU details   overclock3d.net/news/cpu_... · Posted by u/akyuu
rafaelmn · 2 months ago
Can they double the memory lanes without switching socket ? If not I feel like PC is going to fall behind even further compared to Apple chips. Having ram on chip sucks for repairability but 500gb/s main ram bandwidth is insane.

They stumbled into the right direction with strix halo but I have a feeling they won't recognize the win/follow up.

sliken · a month ago
No, but they can skip the socket, much like many of the mini-pcs/SFFs that include laptop chips in small desktops. Strix halo already doubled the memory channels and the next gen is supposedly going to move the memory bus from 256 bits wide to 384 bits.

u/sliken

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