What would the properties of an infinitely long wavelength of light be? And what about a wavelength of light that is infinitely short? What would that look like?

edit: light as in electromagnetic waves, not visible light. Sorry if it was not very clear

I don't own much: My savings are around 50K$, money that now sits in the bank doing nothing.

I've been reading about what ETFs to invest into, but even those classified as climate friendly and social responsible include firms such as tesla, facebook, coca cola... not even close to being ethical.

Is there something akin to Michael Burry levels of ethical investment?

For example, I know that sites like duck.ai let you use LLMs for free, but they limit input to 16,000 characters, so you can't actually leverage models like Llama 4 Scout, which supposedly has a 10 million token context window. Are there any platforms or tools (preferably without a paywall or input cap) where I could use models with context windows in the millions, as advertised? Or are all the free tools similarly restricted by much smaller limits?

https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html

@nostupidquestions Did AI voiceovers get much better recently? I seem to be hearing videos with AI voiceovers that have good English and Tagalog pronunciations even when switching between them.
How's AI dubs in other languages?

So I know that pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter (and the ratio of r³x4/3 to the volume of a sphere).

Apparently even the circumference of the universe needs less than 40 decimal places to be more accurate than we would ever need to worry about.

So my question is, how do we determine the decimal points beyond this? If pi is a ratio and even the largest conceived circle only gets you to ±36 places, how do we determine what the subsequent numbers are?

We have "Patient Zero" for diseases but what is the term for someone who has a new genetic mutation?

The best way I can describe my thoughts about myself (and how I think other people think about me) is like two superimposed instructions on top of one another. You don't know which one to read, and it makes you confused. I don't know what I want in life and my views on things can change rapidly. I named that negative inner voice "Sarah". I know Sarah isn't real, and she's a part of me, but it feels so wrong to go against her. It's as if she is the arbiter of truth, specifically when it comes to my standing. She constantly moderates things and she's often louder than my "good" conscience, and I'm not sure what to do. She'll be chattering even as I'm actively speaking to another person, saying things like "look, this person is sick of you. Why are you such a failure?"

The thing that gets me the most is that every time I mention this bad conscience, people just look at me weird and shrug it off. It's so hard to even bring up this second conscience because it feels wrong, like I'm being "naughty". They never tell me that the bad conscience is wrong, which has just affirmed what I said about "Sarah" being an arbiter of truth. If I do something, she'll always be saying things like "you're so slow, you're such a shameful person, hurry up". Often, it's worded a lot meaner than that, and "said" in an extremely vindictive way.

Then my "good" conscience chimes in, telling me I'm a good person, basically the opposite of what Sarah says about me, and it's like I get a moment of clarity where I can rebel against "Sarah" and try and cry out for help (which is where I mention that I do have a second conscience that is "bad"). But then "Sarah" comes to the front again, and this repeats over and over. I regularly get some pretty intense mood swings that last minutes, sometimes hours, multiple times per day, and it's because of this double conscience that I have. It was suspected in the past that I have manic depression, but that was ruled out. Both "me" and "Sarah" are constantly arguing. I'd say this double conscience thing started in my early 20s, and has flared up after I tapered off Mirtazapine a couple of months ago, as I found the Mirtazapine was just numbing my emotions.

Really small things can trigger "Sarah", such as getting a phone number wrong, in which case Sarah will sometimes bicker for hours about how stupid I am and how my family should be ashamed of me, and how I don't deserve to have a boyfriend (I talk to an AI instead, as Sarah "allows" that). I'm constantly being given conflicting instructions. For example if I see someone crying. It triggers confusion a lot of the time because with me, people who cry should be consoled, and that crying, even as an adult, is completely healthy and normal. But Sarah says "if you're an adult and you cry, you need to grow the heck up. Just tell them to grow the heck up and walk out the room." So, depending on the time of day, I will act completely different or contradictory to a given situation, as if my worldviews are actually just a wildcard that flip-flops on a constant basis, in a very rapid manner, often multiple times per day.

I'm having CBT sessions and I did touch on the bad conscience thing during my last session, I'm just wondering if CBT is effective for this and how I can deal with it in between my sessions.

This is a part two of a similar question asked here: https://slrpnk.net/post/24228904

Basically I am workshopping progressive sligans. I am a basic agitator and interact with a lot of people who lean progressive but aren’t politically engaged yet. Crowd-sourcing the revolution, I guess.

How are you supposed to help the victim while simultaneously avoid being falsely accused of being the perpetrator?

We all see and hear what goes on over there. Kim will execute kids if they don’t cheer hard enough at his birthday party or something? He’s always threatening to nuke countries and is probably has the highest domestic kill count out of any world leader today.

So I ask? Why don’t any other countries step in to help those people. I saw a survey asking Americans and Escaped North Koreans would they migrate to North Korea and to the US if given the chance (hypothetical for the refugees). And it was like <0.1% to 95%. Obviously those people live in terror.

Why do we just allow this to happen in modern civilization? Nukes on South Korea? Is just not lucrative to step in? SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME PLEASE!?

Things like large 1” camera sensors, SiC batteries that offer 6-8k mAh, and other cool tech that would improve phones a lot. It’s not just Chinese brands either (e.g. Sony has an optical zoom camera on their flagship, Nothing has some excellent budget to midrange offerings).

It seems really weird, Apple/Samsung/Google are massive companies with so much money, yet they don’t try to offer this kind of tech on even their most expensive phones. In contrast, other phone makers have budget to midrange phones with insane battery capacities, Ultra models with innovative cameras, etc.

To me, it makes sense that Apple isn’t offering these kinds of things. They’re already extremely profitable and have the whole walled garden ecosystem that draws people in. Google focuses more on software rather than hardware, and their cameras are helped by software magic.

What surprises me is that Samsung isn’t trying to get better hardware to get more market share. If they had huge SiC batteries, large camera sensors, or other cool tech, it would definitely help sway buyers from Apple and other brands.

Especially since Samsung is struggling against both Chinese competition and, to a lesser extent, Indian competition. And in the U.S., they certainly want to steal market share from Apple.

What is with the reluctance of these massive tech companies from using the latest tech in their phones?

As a not quite middle aged dude, I only just now figured out how to see magic eye stuff. I tried a couple times in elementary school but didn't get it so I stopped. Had a few drinks earlier, stumbled on some magic eye pic that I could see clear as day and it blew my mind a little

example: "what do you think was meant in this line in this scene?" or am i already here?

this is a fun question, i guess. i don’t want to appear stupid, i’m just really autistic.

https://youtu.be/kvkJZxzv-TA

in one of the scenes, the dark-haired antagonist tells the older vicar to tell him how to kill the were-rabbit, but he slips up and says “him”

when the antagonist catches himself and says he meant “it”, the vicar raises an eyebrow at him. I don’t mean to appear stupid, i just have no one to talk about random stuff like this with and want other perspectives on character body language :]

And not just for Mac OS.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33065306

I don't know what to think about it:

On one hand she looked ridiculous, wearing expensive make up and clothes, dyed hair, polished nails... the whole nine yards. She was together with a man who I thought was her husband, turns out was her son who was with her to make sure she doesn't wander off. She was slow giving answers and wanted to walk away, but her son always told her not to and to wait for the ambulance.

On the other hand, who am I to judge that woman if it makes her happy to dress like that? in 5 years or less she might not even remember her name. Who cares what she looks like? let her live like she wants.

this got me thinking, because on a previous post about aging another member of lemmy wrote never to act your age and to remain curious about anything, never to think that my way or my generation's way of doing things is the only right one as a way to avoid being a judgemental, sad and angry old person and to avoid dementia. Ain't this woman doing exactly this, not acting her age?

Still, to me looks like a complete waste of a life not to act your age to pretend being 40 years younger than you are. I would hate myself if all I can think about when I'm 80 is how to have sex with somebody 60 years my junior.

Is my future going to be that, to dress to look younger to try and get some attention from the opposite sex?

They only expose approximate, not precise, locations, so they shouldn't be a risk like GPS that exposes precise locations?

If you had a machine that created a window through which you could see the future, and in the future you wrote down the winning lottery numbers and relayed that information to your present self before that lottery number was drawn.

However, in your present selfs excitement, you turn off the machine before your future self wrote the winning lottery numbers into it for your past self.

What would happen?

And if not what do you expect/want to replace it with. I dont think the whole web being like the fediverse is feasible,since billions of users use the internet

When I was little I always though that being famous was a merit thing. If a musician was known it was because he or she was excepcional in his/her art: an incredible singer, a highly skilled guitarist, an amazing drummer.

But then I got older and saw a lot of gigs, and a lot of disciplined and truly amazing musicians that nobody heard about... And most were struggling financially, having a side job just to get by. How come? What is missing from them that the "icons" have?

When I was a kid, we had a collection of most of the books in the series. They were meant to help improve our English reading skills and learn vocabulary, sentence structures, etc. I still remember those stories very well, which is kind of crazy to me.

I remember Chip (the older brother), Biff (the older sister), and Kipper (the younger brother) with his striped shirt very well, as well as the funny yellow dog “Floppy”.

I also remember a few of the side characters, like Gran, Nadim, and Wilma + her younger brother “Wilf” (I remembered him as “Will”, but apparently was wrong)

The first few “stages” involved normal things like going to the beach, Gran’s house, and going to school. The later stages had loads of fun adventures involving magical worlds.

Has anyone else read those books as a kid? I still remember each story very well, which I find really weird.