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My HN reader displays this topic as "Universe expected to decay in 10 years, much sooner than previously thought". And it's not wrong, that _is_ much sooner th
by foreigner 1y ago
My HN reader displays this topic as "Universe expected to decay in 10 years, much sooner than previously thought".
And it's not wrong, that _is_ much sooner than previously thought!
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- munificent 1y agoI mean, it's already decaying. So it will be decaying in 10 years too. It's really a question of when it will stop decaying.
- Bluestein 1y agoThere go my vacations! :)
- nkrisc 1y agoIt used to be decaying. It's still decaying, but it used to, too.
- wpasc 1y agoThe Universe asked me, "Guess what? I'm decaying" I said, "Dude, you've gotta give me time to guess"
- shikon7 1y agoIf there is nobody left to observe when it stops decaying, will it ever stop decaying?
- Traubenfuchs 1y agoComplete/Finish might be clearer.
- isk517 1y agoConsidering 10^1100 years was the previously postulated time to decay then, assuming the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy is correct in their 10^78 years calculation, 10 years is still significantly closer to the correct date.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoWhat’s it called when the exponent is off by an order of magnitude, ha..
- simpaticoder 1y agoOOM off by one OOM is 10^10, so its a factor of 10 billion.
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- mensetmanusman 1y agoYes, but I want a new term that emphasizes how far off it is. Order of magnitude changes are hugely impactful in all areas of life. OOM changes in the OOM is probably inconceivable to the human mind.
- mhh__ 1y agoIf these trends continue.... Ayyyy
- nokeya 1y agoWe are doooooomed!
- King-Aaron 1y agoLooking forward to Universe II Electric Boogaloo
- ianburrell 1y agoFirefox displays 10^78 with boxes for superscript. Chrome doesn't have any problem.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoIt could either be your fonts and/or your particular platform. I've seen this sort of thing before elsewhere, I think on Windows with certain fonts IIRC. I opened it on Firefox 138.0.1 on aarch64 for mac and there weren't any artifacts.
- anticensor 1y agoWindows has limited font substitution support, that's probably why.
- deepsun 1y agoI'm on Firefox -- no problems. Both on Android and Linux.
- kulahan 1y agoDisplayed just fine in Brave as well, for the curious.
- kiwijamo 1y agoFirefox on Android mobile displays it fine. Probably an OS level font issue.
- joshdavham 1y ago> My HN reader [...] What reader do you use? I've only ever used vanilla HN.
- moomin 1y agoGood time to take out a 30-year mortgage.