>Publishing by itself does little to advance science
I strongly disagree. Publishing advances science the same way communication advances culture. Imagine Einstein didn't published any of his work. How many decades back in technology and quality of life we'd have been now?
It's like any evolutionary beneficial trait gets transferred to all population in one generation instead of many. It saves precious time.
Let me put it this way: there is "publishing" and there's Publishing™
Before electronic communications became popular, publications would publish "letters to the editor" which were kinda like an informal paper with a partial discussion or results (some publications still do that, btw).
My point here is that Publishing™ took place of simply publishing to share results with your colleagues and now the main objectives of Publishing™ is to dodge picky reviewers and to get your publishing score up to get more grants
Thank FSM for Arxiv and for researchers sending "drafts" or "unofficial" versions around
Same here. Coincidentally I just upgraded from 8 GB to 32 GB and this was the first time my new RAM was full. FF ate 30 GB! :-)
I also didn't saw the memory usage in process manager, only in Windows Task Manager. Also interesting: Closing the tab did not release the memory, the process keeps eating more RAM until I kill it. By the way, I'm using FF 115.14.0esr.
Will it really help today, when anyone with any serious intent doesn't launch their attacks from one or two standalone hosts, but buys botnet capacity?
I don't think this attempts to address botnet attacks, but to be fair, there are very few tools that you can just run on a single physical or VPS host that can effectively defend against a botnet. Frankly, most things that aren't Cloudflare (or in the same ballpark) will be ineffective against well-crafted botnet attacks.
This is useful in a defence-in-depth scenario, same as fail2ban. You might be able to defeat the odd hacker or researcher doing recon on your host, and sometimes that's good enough for you.
If you need botnet protection, you shop around for botnet protection providers, and you get a botnet protection solution. Easy as.
Well yes, of course. The way the different angles are computed isn’t intuitive. If a ball bounces off a table, it doesn’t change direction from its normal reflected bounce just because it didn’t hit the center.
That’s why I’m suggesting there must be something that guides the idea that hit position changes the angle. If the paddle was actually parabolic, and just drawn as a rectangle, that’s an intuitive reason for the different reflective angles.
> That’s why I’m suggesting there must be something that guides the idea that hit position changes the angle.
Fun. The guiding principle for all games should be: is it fun?
The reason the position of impact determines the angle is because it’s more fun, Not because it’s realistic.
Realism is rarely fun.
It’s a game, not a physics simulation.
Edit:
Additionally, if you only implement perfect reflection and have a rectangular arena, then the only bounce angles that can occur are the initial ball angle A and 90 - A on the top and bottom sides. That’s not fun.
I guess AI is the next thing that's still opt-in now, will be opt-out tomorrow and then no-escape. It would be interesting to read a nostalgic thread from 2070...
That's life isn't it? Mailing addresses, electricity, car-based transportation in the US, technologies and cultural institutions change and create worlds dependent on them to function. There was probably a time when the very idea that you stayed up after the sun set was seen as a silly modern affliction and indeed for most of human prehistory humans did not have access to artificial lighting. Now there are people, like me, who consider themselves as night owls.
