Recent content by Borek

And how do you judge, if the answer is beyond your knowledge?

They won't. The process has already started.

Several processes - one is that at some point "all questions were already answered", quite often it was enough to google for problem to find several discussions and explanations. Second is that demographics changed - people asking questions expected more and more to be treated nicely, so started...

Someone liked my post and it appeared in my feed. Interestingly, there is a paper now suggesting I was right and it is an artefact of the metrics used when training: https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664

At some point search for better solutions becomes quackery.

Pretty easy to build using any programmable microcontroller. Start with an Arduino, as it is cheap and probably the easiest due to tons of tutorials.

Wow. Last number I heard about was around 200.

All periodic tables try to somehow visualize properties that depend on the electron configuration (which makes them - consults dictionary - periodic). Many ways to skin that cat but none is perfect, so people try, and try, and try, and... (splitting hairs and waste of time if you ask me, but you...

Interesting (there were many). A bit surprising choice of color scheme, I am used to red for reactive non-metals and blue for reactive metals.

This. It is quite common that possible choices of elements that behave the way we need are very limited and we need to compromise.

+1, something is wrong now and then (although my mouse scroll wheel sometimes acts strangely and I never know if it is me, or some more general problem). edit: W10+Chrome

I am asking myself the same question.

That's the thing - that would mean killing his anonymity at PF.

We are. We were able to confirm his real name and obituaries are all over the net. He wasn't highly valued and respected just on the PF.

My understanding was that their specialty is a very precise timing (they are very fast), allowing well synchronized ignition of charges. But I can be completely wrong.