Ratio is just a single number. 4:3 can be expressed as 1.3333~ and it just says how much bigger one number is compared to another.
RE: Yes, I was able to read and understand the article. I also have 8 years of EE. Ratio is still a single number in the end. You can have an actual size of a monitor 1600 x 1200 and the ratio of sides is 1600/1200, which is just a single number. You can express it in multiple ways. You still need at least one size + understanding of what the aspect ratio is used to describe in a particular situation (units (mm, px, ...), ...) to be able to calculate the complete dimensions of a monitor screen.
Same issue with % or ppm, or whatever.
You always need a defintition to understand what the numbers are abstracting in any particular situation.
1. 10x more power than what? It changes, and you Just Have to Know.
2. It's 10x more power; so if you're measuring power, like pascals, then 10db means 10x more pascals. But if you're measuring something like voltage, then it's not 10x more voltage, it's something else.
3. And if you're talking about sound, you may be talking about objective power; or you might be talking about how much more powerful it seems to humans.
Laser pulses can ablate materials and the shorter the pulse the crisper the edges. Back in the 90’s or early 00’s they demonstrated pulses laser cutting of tissue where the heat damage to surrounding tissue had a width of a single cell.
Yeah and I think this and radiological tools are why chemo tattoos exist. The system has to react to the twitch you can’t control when a weird noise happens next to your head. Instead of stabbing bolts into your skull through your skin with a device Torquemada would have been proud of, they target versus the dots and if the dots move? Well this is where my knowledge runs out. Either they shut down the beam or they target in realtime. But either way the payload is delivered where it’s supposed to be or not at all.
I don’t know if they are using laser scalpels in surgery. My medical fascination mostly ends at diagonostics and experimental procedures. If I don’t know anyone with a disorder I tend not to hear about new procedures. My friend in college was helping a prof work on picosecond violet lasers and now we are on femtosecond.
I'm not certain, probably both. If the pt jumped out of frame it would probably abort. But they allow the pt to breathe normally and still receive treatment.
It doesn't make any sense to measure joules alone. _Any_ laser can output 2 petajoules. The only question is how long it takes to do that: hence Watts.
Yeah, or even if it were some more reasonable amount of energy that doesn't self-destruct it, there are probably applications where you want to hit a small area quickly without burning things around it.
Seems like you always start somewhere. First you have 25E-18, then bump it up to 1e-15, and maybe someday you are at 1e-9 and are doing inertial confinement fusion.
Journalists being a "check on the government" is a tale for the gullible. That's why there doesn't need to be any silencing of them. Glory to the exceptions, of course.
Yes. It would then be upon the government to do something about it, which would create some controversy, penalties for MS, and a political debate.
Same for refusing orders. It may change nothing, like in this story:
> One commander ordered a sapper to put two old women in
> a certain house ... and to blow up the house with them.
> The sapper refused ... The commander then ordered his
> men to put the old women in the house and the evil deed
> was done.
> [Covered allied persons] includes Nehterlands, which is a member of NATO.
Because the Netherlands signed the Rome Statute, it does not (italics mine):
> COVERED ALLIED PERSONS—The term ‘covered allied persons’ means military personnel, elected or appointed officials, and other persons employed by or working on behalf of the government of a NATO member country, a major non-NATO ally (including Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Argentina, the Republic of Korea, and New Zealand), or Taiwan, for so long as that government is not a party to the International Criminal Court and wishes its officials and other persons working on its behalf to be exempted from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
I would actually pay money to see that happen, should the opportunity arise.
Jokes aside though, remember that the prior commentator brought in the American Service-Members Protection Act as a weird form of whataboutism. Bringing that up does not transform the ICC into a European court, even if an actual American military intervention of The Hague would not bode well for the integrity of Dutch sovereignty and my advise to the European nations and citizenry that can’t grok the implications of hosting an international political institution is to convince the ICC to relocate itself so the Eurocentric among you stop mistaking it for a European court.
No, I don't want EU tech VC oligarchy. I just want to avoid big tech SaaS regardless of where it's from.
I've been quite happy with smaller local services for a loong time. Started using them in 2004 when I got my first website and aside from short try of gmail when it was still free, always used them.
No sympathy to anyone who justifies destruction of entire cities (like this https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1920242384111055286) as self-defense. Even in my small disgusting genocide supporting country in the center of europe, things are slowly starting to change at this point.
Many people don't deplore your government, they deplore the whole concept of political zionism as it is practiced - violent creation of Jewish state on the land inhabited by a lot of other people, driving many of them out, and avoiding solving resulting political issues repeatedly through the use of overwhelming force, insane militarization of society, long term occupations, blockades, assassinations, political imprisonment of opponents, and international political maneuvering and propaganda, for decade after decade after decade, in order to preserve Jewish majority rule over the territory.
More honest Israelis, like Meir Kahane, at least acknowledged that Jewish majority state is not compatible with democracy, when "greater Israel" is mostly occupied by non-Jews.
It doesn't matter whether you or other Israelis deplore your "current government". They can deplore it for all kinds of reasons, and replacement they'd prefer may not be much better wrt the issue above.
RE: Yes, I was able to read and understand the article. I also have 8 years of EE. Ratio is still a single number in the end. You can have an actual size of a monitor 1600 x 1200 and the ratio of sides is 1600/1200, which is just a single number. You can express it in multiple ways. You still need at least one size + understanding of what the aspect ratio is used to describe in a particular situation (units (mm, px, ...), ...) to be able to calculate the complete dimensions of a monitor screen.
Same issue with % or ppm, or whatever.
You always need a defintition to understand what the numbers are abstracting in any particular situation.
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