mr_mitm

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811.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
You seem to have mixed up your scenarios. In the standard model, i.e. constant dark energy, the universe ends in heat death. Big Crunch or Big Rip were never off the menu in the sense that our measurements couldn't exclude a value of w
812.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
It's not just convenience. Having a centralized authority - with all its downsides - comes with some crucial advantages. They can: * provide identities * moderate content * vouch for integrity * enforce a consistent set of features The
813.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
Isn't spoofing an email sender address much easier than taking over an account on a web-based forum? I think forums are very robust against that, while email and usenet are not.
814.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
That's regarding the size of the entries, not the frequency though. Many small comments in a short time frame will have a huge overhead. Also, there is a reason why binary content was first frowned upon, then became essentially a paid
815.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
Usenet has a few hard problems, no? Mostly related to moderation. You want to be able to edit or delete content, either your own, or, if you are a moderator, other content which turned out to be illegal later (which already implies content
816.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
But the claim was "th gravest of dangers". While your scenario is a nightmare, I'm not sure it qualifies as "the gravest".
817.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
You cannot create wormholes instantly, their creation is still bound by the speed of light. Also, the energy requirements for wormholes are well above of what one measly star can provide, not to speak of a host of other issues.
818.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
Interesting thought. I've never heard of this idea. Let's think it through. If I understood correctly, you suggest to turn the heat from fusion into a usable form of energy. On earth we'd do that using steam turbines. Harvest
819.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
> I'm on the spectrum, I can't tell what any "face emojii" mean. Then again, about 3% of all people are color blind.
820.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
I have premium access and I can select 4o in the dropdown menu on Android
821.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
There is the Hoyle state, a peculiar resonance state that is very important for nucleosynthesis. Without it, stars would not produce a lot of carbon. It appears to be finely tuned for complex chemistry and thus life to evolve. Wikipedia say
822.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
Sometimes I wonder how many unfinished (or should I say unpublished) works the greats like Mozart, van Gogh, Steinbeck, etc. had. Surely they didn't all produce masterpieces from the get go.
823.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
How do you resist the urge to generalize every little function you need? Doesn't it become overwhelming to make a library out of everything?
824.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
Getting a project to the point where it becomes clear that an idea works is one thing. But in my experience getting it polished to the point that other people can use it, and writing documentation and ideally test cases with it, and then au
825.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
Pretty much always. One exception might be the expansion of the universe
826.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
I have, and I did: https://github.com/AdrianVollmer/Congruence I consider it MeWare: written for me, but published for others to use because why not? But don't expect a polished product.
827.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
Yes, it's insane. The amount of clicks it takes to get anywhere, too. One of the neatest things of my client is that I can cycle through unified diffs of the history of one page with a single key stroke. It's not perfect (macros a
828.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
I use vim, mutt, tig, newsboat, jless (if that counts) pretty much daily. Also a TUI Confluence client which I wrote and which I am the only user of as far as I know. Navigating Confluence becomes a breeze.
829.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
Isn't that a good use case for the bookmark function? To answer the actual question: I don't. Either I read it immediately or will never get back to it. There is always enough fresh content. I don't need another backlog. And
830.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
Which ones do you know? I have only heard it referred to in this context, that there is the scientific method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
831.
by mr_mitm 2y ago
You could use one key per service. Almost like a passkey.
832.
by mr_mitm 3y ago
I heard comparisons of the number of stars in the observable universe to the number of all grains of sand on Earth's beaches, or the number of molecules in a bottle of air. Not sure if that helps anyone, though.
833.
by mr_mitm 3y ago
Whose work exactly? I'm always eager to read about this fascinating question.
834.
by mr_mitm 3y ago
Statistics is a very precise science. Can you show your work or is it just a gut feeling?
835.
by mr_mitm 3y ago
First of all: the question needs to be qualified by what we mean by "out there". The galaxy? The observable universe? The entire universe? The universe might be infinite, in which case: yes, there is life out there. We know the pr
836.
by mr_mitm 3y ago
It's not just the elderly generation though. Young people mostly use apps and might barely interact with an actual browser. Big browsers de-emphasize the URL bar more and more. Yes, you and I and probably everyone on HN will never hav
837.
by mr_mitm 3y ago
You're right that it doesn't help, but looking at regular non-technical people like my retired parents for example, I really wonder if it's a realistic expectation that people know what the important part of a URL are. They n
838.
by mr_mitm 3y ago
How could curl detect where it's piped to?
839.
by mr_mitm 3y ago
LLMs aren't a good fit to do the hardest part of our job. They're great at doing mental routine tasks, though. They take the easy, boring, menial yet necessary parts of our jobs off our hands.
840.
by mr_mitm 3y ago
Two of your three points don't apply to Moxie's and some other implementations, for example Singe Packet Authentication. You can have sufficient bits, and it doesn't have to be cleartext. Maybe it's technically not port

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