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Devac  ·  15 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 30, 2024

So many great milestones, and I only have a tiny one: today I used self-checkout at a store for the first time, because it was also the first time since pre-pandemic Devac-has-no-money times when I went to the store for less than a month's worth of supplies. Between this and not wanting to throw my smartphone at a wall just about every time I hold it, it's almost like I'm finally living in the '10s, yo! :P

Also, I signed up to get a forklift permit, because 1) they look fun to use, 2) why the hell not? The course is almost insultingly cheap for 20 hrs theory and 10 hrs driving under supervision, so my next couple of weekends are gonna be dope.





am_Unition  ·  14 days ago  ·  link  ·  

is forklift theory gauge invariant?

Devac  ·  14 days ago  ·  link  ·  

See, that's murky. For a properly defined Hamiltonian, you ought to have potential energy defined as independent of velocity, yet forklift theory allows 'lifting' (a Lie group acting a bit like a ladder operator) whilst moving and even accelerating[0] (left as an exercise to the reader). It's clearly an open system without total energy(t) constraint, though a more realistic model removes infinities by adding finite parameters, like LPG pressure or electric charge.

[0] - EDIT/addendum: It has to be stated that an OSHA-compliant operator can only apply lift/lower operator while velocity is zero. Toy-model (think phi-4 field) is a lot more permissible.

am_Unition  ·  13 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I made that comment to see what you would do with it, and you NEVER disappoint, my friend. Never.

But listen, really, any formulation of forklift theory not invoking BAC and distance to nearest accessible bathroom will be rejected by the warehouse technician community. That's the type of stuff you scienceforkers are so ignorant about. Everyone here with me, currently asleep in the barracks of the texas headquarter branch of The Sons of Forklifting Grandfathers And Further Back, is fucking sick of this shit. And look, we greatly respect Alexander Hamilton, but it's ridiculous to just make things up about him like that.

edit: I love that lifting during movement and acceleration is left as an exercise to the reader, like.. a job

Devac  ·  13 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    any formulation of forklift theory not invoking BAC and distance to nearest accessible bathroom will be rejected by the warehouse technician community.

There's an empirically-confirmed, cargo-independent statistical coincidence of bathrooms and charging stations limiting the forklift's half-life. Both forklift operator and forklift operator operator are confined by the cargo potential anyway, so it's implicitly included in the calculation.

am_Unition  ·  13 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You know I'll bet you are an operator operator, actually. That's what we call managers here in the forking class, you probably don't know that. I'll bet even your dad didn't drive forklifts.

I'm out of here

Devac  ·  13 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    operator operator

Like it's somehow my fault that capitalism is based on fermions rather than bosons.

am_Unition  ·  13 days ago  ·  link  ·  

you can't breed a bozo with a moron and then expect the kid to succeed, I don't care how little the thing weighs. Again, just so out of touch

Devac  ·  13 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Actually, morons are gluons, and therefore already massless vector bosons. In QCD, moron gluon sticks around, dizzy from all that spin and loops, unless made inert with either a barticle, lotto kiosk neutrino, or anything that carries cold beer-flavour.

am_Unition  ·  13 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, that's true. That's all true. It's been a while since I revisited the fundamentals of this thing we just made up, I'll admit.

    flavour

top of the strange to you, charmed I'm sure

edit; american quarks are like "what's up? wanna throw down? ..bottom quark, huh?"