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Alex Asks “How Does Rolling Friction Work?”
Friction should be pretty straight forward. When non-smooth objects slide across a non-smooth surface, a force is created in the direction opposite to the direction of travel. But what I didn’t understand at first was where friction comes from for a rolling object. For a sliding object, the key word is sliding. Microscopic deformities on…
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Nintendo suffers from their own incompetence
So historically, Nintendo has suffered the ire of gamers everywhere for their harsh anti-piracy stances. They routinely take down ROM hosting sites, shut down emulators, ban the sale of jailbreak hardware, etc etc. And usually this gets them a lot of flack since this harms game preservation and personal ownership rights. And to a sense,…
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This conversation had a lot more legs than I thought it would
A while back I was at a friend’s house and I thought of a question that would soon become the topic of conversation for the next hour or so: “Would you rather have 1 million dollars, or the power to make anyone shit themselves on command?” I don’t know exactly why this popped into my…
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This may be an undercooked thought
A while back I wrote an article discussing the question of whether you can find your phone number within pi. Just to summarize real quick, we do not currently have a proof that pi is a “normal number” and thus cannot definitively say that pi contains all finite sequences. So the only way to currently…
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Got lost. Then hunted by goats
Friend and I went hunting for railroad spikes the other day. We kinda got lost. Not my fault tho, I was using a very reliable navigation device. Her phone died It got dark and we ran into this sign. It’s a miracle we survived the night
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Go Piss Girl
I was recently reminded of this meme while watching a video from a popular mug salesman. I forget the exact context of why this was brought up, but it made me realize there were two possible interpretations of the phrase “go piss girl” in a vacuum. One interpretation of the phrase is to instruct someone…
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Every Pen I Stole at Modex 2026
I recently returned from Modex 2026, the supply chain and logistics trade show in Atlanta. In addition to being able to visit the booths and exhibitions of various companies, I also had the pleasure of partaking in the age-old tradition of getting tons of free stuff. I made it my mission to steal I mean…
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Does 0.9999… = 1 make sense in respect to other base numerical systems?
The other day I was thinking about how 0.99999 repeating is equivalent to the number 1. Which suddenly got me wondering, how can this actually be true? 0.999… is only a representation of the closest we can get to the integer one using the symbols available to us in base ten (decimal counting system). Because…
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3D Printing Enthusiasts Kinda Remind Me of AI Enthusiasts
3D printing as a hobby has become more popular in recent years as the technology becomes more accessible to average people. But at the same time I’m realizing it’s kinda being overhyped the same way AI is being overhyped. Frequently on social media I’ll see people make short form video of 3D printed stuff and…