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901.
by qubex 6y ago
I think what you’re getting at is technological stagnation (at least in terms of the utility users draw from protocols) but a succession of rolling waves of network-effect-driven client adoption. And that’s the key point: if the user experi
902.
by qubex 6y ago
Spreadsheets & Databases
903.
by qubex 6y ago
Coming from the background of a family business that operates in the field of industrial coatings: in a related note, keratin-based paints & resins were touted as being “the next big thing” pretty soon (about a decade ago).
904.
by qubex 6y ago
In my experience, SideCar provides a very poor experience. (I’ve never tried their product, but at the moment I’m writing on an iPad Pro and I’m VNCing into my Mac using Edovia Inc’s Screens , which is an excellent iOS/iPadOS VNC clie
905.
by qubex 6y ago
With 52.4 million, I can make her dance a jig.
906.
by qubex 6y ago
On a related note: I’ve always been curious on the distributions of submissions, comments, and karma.
907.
by qubex 6y ago
It’s falling with “Network Error” instantly for me. I’m assuming we’ve collectively embraced it to death.
908.
by qubex 6y ago
This is an excellent analysis. For me the key quote is “ One of the trends that’s jumped out is that lockdown orders have tended to ratify public behaviour as much as prescribe or circumscribe it ”. The author argues quite convincingly (wit
909.
by qubex 6y ago
No, but since using satellites on trajectories you hope will be perturbed is essentially ‘scanning’ anyway, it would be preferable to do it with a light-beam than with physical objects.
910.
by qubex 6y ago
Above he mentions that “if it were there from the start it would obey the same rules”... so I guess he does... though where evidence for this comes from isn’t clear from me (unless it’s some kind of circular logic along the lines of “if it
911.
by qubex 6y ago
Of course if there was enough dust in interstellar space to reflect a laser beam (as happens when we see the traces of glowing beams shone through carbon dioxide gas) we could just prove the heavens with laser beams until suddenly we saw a
912.
by qubex 6y ago
You have an object the mass of a gas giant. Planets by definition sweep their local neighbourhood clear of objects. So the black hole is going to carve out an area that is largely devoid of other bodies, and particularly in the context of a
913.
by qubex 6y ago
These a few tiny craft sent off into the depths of interstellar space. The chances of anybody ever picking one up are so ridiculously small, so utterly infinitesimal, it doesn’t even need to be thought about. Not only that, but even if they
914.
by qubex 6y ago
No. Who implied that?! Starlink will be a network of very near earth communication satellites. This black hole, if it exists, is far far further out than Pluto. The probes wouldn’t be even remotely reminiscent of Starlink satellites either.
915.
by qubex 6y ago
You are correct: a black hole whose Hawking temperature is less than that of the cosmic background radiation is “colder” than the space it is immersed in and consequently absorbs energy (and mass-energy equivalence) from the heat bath it is
916.
by qubex 6y ago
> conservation of momentum is the right way to think about that So you’re saying you’d expect a body that were captured at an arbitrary angle to end up orbiting in the same ecliptic as the planets roughly around the sun’s equator?
917.
by qubex 6y ago
Any gravitating body whose size is less than its Schwarzschild radius becomes a black hole. As the article remarks (can’t quote it exactly because I’m using a client that has an irksome modal interface) some of the ideas floated is that thi
918.
by qubex 6y ago
Unfortunately I misread the title as “Lord of the Urine” and... was concerned.
919.
by qubex 6y ago
Obviously, nothing can ‘hit’ a black hole: anything that does just gets absorbed by it as it falls in. However, more broadly speaking, the angular momentum is conserved, so the result would be more or less the same. However, given the enorm
920.
by qubex 6y ago
This is both a very obvious and a very interesting proposal: locate an apparent source of gravitation by observing the gravitational effects it has upon a fleet of small (almost point-like) craft. However, there’s something that niggles me.
921.
by qubex 6y ago
I didn’t single out Othogonal for being (necessarily) lesser , I singled it out for being mainfestly different from most of his other stuff, in the sense that it occurs in a Universe with physical laws evidently different from that of
922.
by qubex 6y ago
Permutation City is one of Greg Egan’s better-known works, and I strongly suggest you look into the rest of his ouevre which (aside from his Orthogonal trilogy) tends to be of a consistently high standard. https://www.gregega
923.
by qubex 6y ago
I’m waiting for Godot 4.0 (runs and hides)
924.
by qubex 6y ago
That’s a real “blast from the past” vibe. I’m absolutely impressed!
925.
by qubex 6y ago
That’s exactly the scene I thought of but the last time I saw that film I was 11 in 1992 and I had no idea what the title was! Thank you!
926.
by qubex 6y ago
Textual ones. In English. Approximately compliant with the rules, in most cases at least.
927.
by qubex 6y ago
This reminds me of the oddball comment I read somewhere to the effect that “ come-from , despite all the humour, turns out to be a very sensible parallel-safe alternative to go-to ”. Can’t remember the exact wording nor the source, though
928.
by qubex 7y ago
Actually POWER won’t die, because it has IBM behind it and the POWER architecture forms the backbone of their highly profitable mainframe and high-end server business. What I was referring to as possibly dying was POWER on the desktop gener
929.
by qubex 7y ago
I am sorry to be so blunt, but you clearly have no understanding of the importance of having a fully open and auditable high performance system without any remote management devices or dark corners in the hardware or the firmware for backdo
930.
by qubex 7y ago
I’d willingly pay a dollar a month for a service that credited two dollars a month to my PayPal account.

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