Post Race!

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Glad I finally have central AC. One of the benefits of marrying my wife.

Glad to see romance isn't dead

[Shaggy Hiker]

Hard to be certain. You wouldn't expect cooling off to be a benefit of marriage.

[dday9]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...D=ansmsnnews11

[Shaggy Hiker]

That could be interesting. It has to get considerably more reliable, though.

[Niya]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...D=ansmsnnews11

You just took an hour of my time reviewing quantum mechanics, collapsing superpositions, and wave functions. Been a while since I followed up on the latest thing in quantum mechanics. One of my hopes is that before I die, someone figures out why the act of observing collapses a wave function. It's pure madness that reality actually operates like that. I would really really love to know why this happens.

[dday9]

I never took any advanced sciences or maths in school, so I never got to study quantum physics. None-the-less, this stuff still intrigues me.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm of two minds about it, but I can't tell what I really feel.

[FunkyDexter]

I'm positive I could be own spin on it.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm not sure that we should go there. Most people don't mind talking about things like neutrons, but discussions about most other particles tend to be charged/ Electrons, in particular, create a lot of negativity, whereas trying to talk about neutrinos tends to go in one ear and out the other.

[szlamany]

...One of my hopes is that before I die, someone figures out why the act of observing collapses a wave function. It's pure madness that reality actually operates like that. I would really really love to know why this happens.

I always thought it was the entanglement of the observer with the wave that caused the very act of observation to affect the observed.

I guess we will need to get to the next depth level of particle behavior to thus get a new way to observe that is thread-safe (so to speak).

I recall reading a few years ago how this quantum wave affect - if you can create two identical particles at the same time - thus getting the same wave attributes - can be used for secure transmission. If the transmission is on just one of the waves and both do not arrive in the same fashion, one will know that there was an attempt at interception. And the very act of intercepting destroys the wave and thus it's pay load.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Is the post race alive or dead? One can never be certain.

[dday9]

I started a new coding contest for any non-moderator/admin that is interested!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, but you're just looking for beknighted folks to be rooked into becoming a pawn in your game.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Just wanted to get some puns off my chess-ed.

[Bonker Gudd]

I'm almost out of Marmite.

[DEXWERX]

You just took an hour of my time reviewing quantum mechanics, collapsing superpositions, and wave functions. Been a while since I followed up on the latest thing in quantum mechanics. One of my hopes is that before I die, someone figures out why the act of observing collapses a wave function. It's pure madness that reality actually operates like that. I would really really love to know why this happens.

It's not so much an observer that causes wave function collapse, but the direct interaction of two quantum systems. And it doesn't actually collapse, more like become defined at the point of dimensional intersection.

similarly with entanglement... when two particles are entangled, they're really just sharing dimensional orientation. All points in space are actually connected, but interacting via degrees of dimensional intersection.

[dday9]

[DEXWERX]

I'm not a physicist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That guy cut me off the other day. Darn Charlie Brown looking driver!

[brad jones]

“Knock, Knock”
“Neutrino!”
“Who’s there?”


Funny right?

[brad jones]

okay, if you didn't like that one, how about:


We don’t allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here,” said the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar.




<< and this is why you don't start talking quantum physics and such around a geek >>

[Spooman]

Funny right?

Maybe it has something to do with Helvetica.
And clearly not as funny as that Darn Charlie Brown ..

[Shaggy Hiker]

Is Helvetica some kind of Turkish Hellesfont?

[brad jones]

And clearly not as funny as that Darn Charlie Brown ..

"Good Grief..."

[RobDog888]

96 degrees today and raining off and on. Weird day.

[szlamany]

86 degrees here and my pool is 72 degrees. Summer? No not dog days of august that's for sure...

[dday9]

Our high today is 86 with a 40% chance of thunderstorms, but our humidity is 82%.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Our high was supposed to be about 100 yesterday, but some cloud cover came in and dropped the temperature. Some places even got rain, but the clouds were pretty well wrung out by the time they crossed the valley. I could see the rain falling, it just never reached the ground in this area. Still, that probably cooled it down.

Highs today should be around 100, again, but totally dry. Morning humidity is 33%. That'll probably drop a good long ways as it heats up.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Post race can't be falling so low.

[Spooman]

Neither can the stock market.

[dday9]

I am redesigning my tutorial website.

[dday9]

It looks awesome.

[dday9]

I'm using twitter-bootstrap as the framework.

[dday9]

And all the lessons will be on one page, but displayed using JQuery.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's the web for you: Pages are continually being redesigned, and with different underlying technology.

[szlamany]

And all the lessons will be on one page, but displayed using JQuery.

I love jQuery! And I love JavaScript!

What are you using to "page" through the "lessons"?

[dday9]

I was going to have them be displayed using JQuery, but because I used several <iframes> of coding fiddles, it took too long to load the web page. Ultimately I decided to go the traditional route of having each lesson on its own page.

[dday9]

I love jQuery! And I love JavaScript!

What are you using to "page" through the "lessons"?

Basically, I had a bunch of <div>'s that contained the ID of the lesson. When the user clicked on the lesson's hyperlink, it would hide the visible <div> and show the desired <div>

[szlamany]

Does your current link to VB.Net Tut' in your signature go to this new page?

Page loaded real fast for me.

Have you ever considered using an Ajax call to get extra HTML you might need "after" the page loads? I do this in my web app...

[dday9]

No, the new website isn't live yet. I'm waiting on fixing my "previous" and "next" JQuery issue. I've considered Ajax, but to be honest, I think the traditional method will make me more money. I plan on monetizing the website by placing an ad on the right-side of the web site like how VBForums does.