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by aardvark179 2y ago
No, they would have as much mass as the black hole plus the energy of the photons (they still distort spacetime and exert a gravitational force, and have inertial mass) and you still have to move that mass with you. You may have increased y
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Charge here is just one thing that has to be conserved. Baryon number is a property of quarks and must also be conserved, and this prevents a neutron turning into an anti neutron as that would have opposite baryon number. There are others s
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by aardvark179 2y ago
This comes up every time this sort of thing is discussed on HN. Sustained 1 g acceleration takes a staggering amount of fuel, and carrying enough to slow down again makes it even worse.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Debuggers are great, right up to the moment they aren’t. Conditional break points can be slow enough that you may be better off putting the condition in the code and hitting a normal breakpoint on the rare occasions the condition is true. C
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Maybe not, “next best thing,” I don’t know about American English but in British English next best means second best.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
I think he renamed it when stuff first started coming out about Justin Rolland’s online behaviour.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Doesn’t work on iOS, I think they have overridden that user action - which makes this site pretty much useless for any of the to Es I might ever actually want to use it.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Chloroplasts also evolved from separate organisms and are now effectively organelles. So this is t a one off event.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
It is an excellent documentary, even if you've had little or no exposure to his work.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Just the normal iOS notes app.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
I just make a checklist in a note on my phone. It’s accessible even when I have no network access and I can share it with people.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
I was very confused by the HN headline because it subtly changed the capitalisation of the original. Ai Weiwei is quite different to AI Weiwei.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
There were lots of things people really were hoping to see from the LHC, and weren't seen. supersymmetry being one example. Not seeing those things is just as important to everyone involved as seeing them is, so although the theories m
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Moss may have caused the late Ordovician mass extinction, trees, and flowering plants both likely caused huge ecological changes when they evolved and spread, but I don’t know if they caused the mass extinctions that are roughly correlated
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by aardvark179 2y ago
I think most people would know just from the headline.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
It’s interesting the divide we see here between particular implementation choices, and very general design principles. FWIW I think this exposes some of the tensions in Emacs’ design itself. The fact that everything is customisable is both
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Thanks, I hate it.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Why, “Start coding already!” rather than something like, “Start writing already?” I think half the barrier to people building sites is that they think they need to know how to code, and that seems scary, but they do know what they want to w
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Give developers an alternative to classes that favors a higher performance ceiling and statically analyzability over flexbility. Is an entirely reasonable goal. Object shape in JS tends to go through a fixed pattern of mutation im
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Not actually true. The title sequence was hand drawn, and the series didn’t even start filming until after Tron had come out.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
I’m not sure I agree, but there is definitely a sense of enclosure and protection. He made some space beautifully well lit (the office attached to his home in Oak Park is a good example) but others parts of his houses seem to offer ways to
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by aardvark179 2y ago
I think I am more likely to accept Wheeler’s path compared to Penrose’s because, although I think they may have both made category errors, Wheeler seems to have known that consciousness wasn’t the actual thing, and he wanted to work out wha
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Tony worked for years on email and DNS things at Cambridge, and now works for ISC on DNS stuff. He doesn’t post here (or anywhere else) for promotion or advertising, but he has run a link blog of anything he thinks looks interesting for dec
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Much as some aspects of the Alpha were great its weak memory model would have resulted in even more concurrency issues than we have now, and way more explicit fences.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Generally all quantum computing operations have to be reversible at the gate level, so you can’t have a simple thing like an AND gate, and this can make things more complex. As you either need to put some out put to a qubit you don’t care a
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by aardvark179 2y ago
It’s a hang over from the civil war I believe.
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by aardvark179 2y ago
I think there is likely also bias in the data (what was considered significant) and inaccuracies in locations (many things assigned to Google’s head office).
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by aardvark179 2y ago
These days there is some Machinery in the JVM for creating truly anonymous classes that can be garbage collected ( https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/22/docs/api/java.base... ...) ), but they
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by aardvark179 2y ago
Not wanting to be promoted is fine, but it does come at a cost because along with that extra responsibility you may also be sacrificing influence over the things you do care about. You can still have that influence through other ways, but i
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by aardvark179 2y ago
The world needs both more and less concurrency FUD. It needs more because too many people think their libraries are safe due to things like the GIL when they likely have bugs that will occur occasionally, and it needs less because that beli

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