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Can you just maybe use a pane of glass? Not sure how that will interfere with the optical mouse, if at all.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Thanks for the help I forgot to mention I prefer a cushioned pad not a hard surface Happy Holidays
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You too!
Real programmers use butterflies
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Show down and you won't have a problem with Teflon. 
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Just increase the mouse's movement sensitivity. It's the management motto. More with less! 
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Marc Clifton wrote: Just increase the mouse's movement sensitivity.
"Better living through software." 
/ravi
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If you have a vintage mouse with a trackball, you need to clean the trackball and rollers.
If your mouse doesn't have a trackball, enjoy the exercise that comes with a higher coefficient of friction!
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Watching it right now... it's a sort of tragi-comedy.. where an asteroid is coming right at earth and going to extinguish all life in 6 months and... everybody is ignoring it! 
Anyway, the main protagonists are a little bit funny, there is the anxious professor caricature (professor do public speech all the time, they should be more chill), and also they want everyone to be terrified. Which seems pointless to me. I mean it would be good if it could spur some government action.. but that puzzle me.. my right wing quarter brother also ask me what he is supposed to be scared about when talking about covid.. and I wonder why all these people keep talking about fear like if... what does fear matter at all?
I guess, in a very round about fashion, I am wondering, what's the deal with "fear"?! I don't quite see why a good number of people seems so obsessed with this feeling... I guess I don't have a TV and I am not keeping up with the mood of the times... 
Altyhough, to take a stab in the dark, thinking of the popularity of scary movies I guess people just like to be afraid, perhaps? Who the hell knows! 
Errmm... other than that I am enjoying that movie so far!
And Riley Bina should not go back to DJ Chello like that, pffft, so, like, superficial, you know?! 
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Found a (bit controversial) comment on IMDB:
Quote: If you're intelligent enough to understand satire, you'll love this. But if you're like the 70% of Americans too stupid to understand this kind of comedy, and feel this film is making fun of you (because it is), you might not get it.
Don't Look Up (2021) - IMDb[^]
Ahem ...
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There is a saying in my country, ha yea, we say "Americans!", that says it all!
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Not here in America. We say Rednecks. And rednecks say "'Merica"(pronounced mur-i-cuh)
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Haha.. I have seen the iconic picture... 
My saying (not sure there is such a thing as that saying, but I pretend there is) could either be good or bad, just not neutral (like, f***). Because there are lots of crazy people in America. But there are lots of great people too!  
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I couldn't see it(no one could) and the moon was closer. But still scary, just like what happened to our friends and future overlords(see Jurassic Park...) the dinosaurs...
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Good try!
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Random thought for y'all for Christmas!
Blackholes might very well be empty inside! 😮
I am not sure what happen to the original matter that formed the black hole, but anything else that fall in the black hole later will never cross the event horizon before the end of times... 😮
The reason is, while they all accelerate to incredible speed while falling (like 99.99999% of light speed) their time is also slowing to a freeze (gravity slow time)...
Which mean, good news, next time you fall into a black hole, you will only cross the event horizon by the end of times. So you might die, but very well after everything else in the universe has gone cold and dark.... 😮
And it will only take you 5 minute - of your own relative time, so you don't even have to wait! 😆
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Many years ago, when Scientific American was published by Freeman & Co and was still a respectable publication, Freeman had special book offers to SA subscribers, such as a paperback version of Misner, Thorne and Wheeler: Gravitation. The ad claimed that it required a 'fundamental knowledge of elementary calculus', which I thought I possessed ... Well. Two thirds of its 1300 pages are still Greek to me.
But, this book has a chapter "§32.6 The fate of a man who falls into the singularity at r=0" (make sure that you thoroughly understand the 859 preceding pages ), discussing this situation in great detail and grave seriousness, rather than the tongue-in-cheek that the chapter title might lead you to think. The discussion appears far less optimistic about the experience than what Super Lloyd seems to suggest.
Please don't ask me for explanations. I do not claim to thoroughly understand the 859 preceding pages.
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Well.. I think you might be confused by a totally different phenomenon. Gravity gradient, which will split apart your body (aka spaghettification).
It only happen with small black hole though
Because on large black hole, with a larger event horizon, the gradient is weaker at the event horizon so, funnily enough, they are more "gentle"... (1/x is very gentle slope far enough away)
modified 24-Dec-21 20:43pm.
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Hmmm,
TLDR:
The 'stuff' falls in, but observers outside can't see it.
Not looking to get into a physics debate, but I think you may be misunderstanding whatever you are reading. The local frame of reference for particles falling into a black hole will have time at a normal speed.
The "frozen" in whatever you are reading is referring to observations made outside the event horizon. It even applies to observations made a few atoms away. Atoms right next to each other will experience time at different rates as objects approach the event horizon due to the extreme curvature.
Anyone watching objects fall into a black hole would see them slow down and 'stick' to the outside. But the particles themselves (local reference frame) time flows normally as they fall through.
This is a more accurate description. I'm surfing the net on my TV, this took forever to type.
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I think you misread what I said.
Look, like I said, it only takes you 5 minutes of your (own relative) time.
Thing is, those 5 local minutes will be enough for the whole outside universe to die a cold slow death....
look some detailed information here if you insist
Does time pass faster or slower close to the black hole?
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Super Lloyd wrote: those 5 local minutes will be enough for the whole outside universe to die a cold slow death.
Yep, maybe... assuming the universe will keep expanding and die a cold death. That's not settled yet. There is some new data making some arguments for steady-state.
We can use a simple mental experiment and make a good guess what it would look like if you were falling through. All of the star light that illuminated the object for billions of years falling would be experienced by the object over those 5 minutes. So we can make an educated guess that you would see extremely bright light right before passing through. Pure speculation of course, but a good guess.
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So we should have called them 'Oreo holes'!
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Well,
I've always thought calling them "Black Holes" gives the wrong impression. I've read that they were called "Frozen Stars" prior to John Wheeler giving the more popular name. I think "Frozen Star" is much more accurate and puts the emphasis on time dilation rather than light.
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If we start discussing various kind of our-world holes as analogies of black holes, we might end up running into some sort of censorship.
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Hmmm,
This is a good example of why I try not to discuss physics on internet forums. Most people don't understand what they are reading.
That's something completely different. That article is about Hawking radiation. I'm not commenting on it because I don't know if it's correct. Susskind argued about it for the last decade. I have no idea if he's right.
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