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by qubex 2y ago
Read it several years ago and loved it. Greg Egan is my go-to source for hard sci-fi.
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by qubex 2y ago
If we don’t stamp out the use of these fake text generators our historical record will be destroyed.
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by qubex 2y ago
Facebook and its ilk are barred from issuing notifications on my devices. There’s so little real ‘friend’ interaction these days I don’t miss anything and they abused notifications so thoroughly by literally spamming me random group stuff t
184.
by qubex 2y ago
I set it up as a specific notification for my best friend with whom I used to chat over ICQ back in the late nineties/early twothousands,
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by qubex 3y ago
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but I can’t get it to run. I get an error message reading “Popcorn-Time” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Bin. I can’t diagnose anything sensible from the Console. What am I doing
186.
by qubex 3y ago
Why bother staying silent when one can slide some sarcasm in, eh?
187.
by qubex 3y ago
Well yes, but also it varies… on IBM AS/400 machines running OS/400 (currently iSeries if I’m not mistaken) the file system is basically a database and commands basically parse queries.
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by qubex 3y ago
BeOS squinted so hard its native file system BeFS came out as an impressionist painting: the live metadata made it very database-like in behaviour with live search results (back in the mid nineties) but fairly lacklustre “actual file system
189.
by qubex 3y ago
The image isn’t of an Enigma but of a Lorenz teleprinter encryption system. It was would be referred to now as a “stream cipher”.
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by qubex 3y ago
Sounded like Italy. Same exact situation. The interbank payment consortium even created a cashless payment system called “Satispay” that lots of consumers and small retail businesses use on a daily basis.
191.
by qubex 3y ago
Same. What I found was far more interesting and educating.
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by qubex 3y ago
Nostalgic BeOS user here and I can absolutely relate. BeOS enshrined the design epitome of the time — nineties cartoonish icons and draggable yellow tabs on windows — and ran rings around existing software on similar hardware. BeOS was mult
193.
by qubex 3y ago
Same. I absolutely loved how the reveal retroactively revised the whole story.
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by qubex 3y ago
This film gets bashed often but I remember seeing it in the cinema when it was released and I absolutely adored it, and still do. I’ve ’inflicted’ it on several friends and acquaintances — and keep in mind I’m no M. Night Shyamalan fan havi
195.
by qubex 3y ago
Don’t forget the guise of Father Christmas!
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by qubex 3y ago
Am I the only person here who remembers when AltaVista implemented their Raging Search lean search engine after cluttering themselves with the usual “web portal” riffraff of the late nineties? I was using www.raging.com (or was .org or .net
197.
by qubex 3y ago
That’s absolutely hilarious.
198.
by qubex 3y ago
I thought the exact same thing.
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by qubex 3y ago
Wolfram, is that you?
200.
by qubex 3y ago
Whoops.
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by qubex 3y ago
Fun fact my mother was a teen in the 1860s and lived on a farm adjacent to the BAC facility where they were assembling and/or testing components and fondly remembers the time they powered up one of the Olympus engines “and blew out chi
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by qubex 3y ago
Relativistic mass isn’t really sensible as a concept. Does something moving fast gravitate more because it has more mass? No.
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by qubex 3y ago
Oh heavens whatever caused you to believe this? The momentum p of a photon is given by p =h/ λ where h is the Plank Constant and λ is the wavelength. Compton won a Nobel prize for this.
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by qubex 3y ago
Having read Jaynes’s The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind season 1 of Westworld was amazing and transmuted into garbage thereafter.
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by qubex 3y ago
You’re often taught that E= m c² but the fuller equation is actually E²= m ₀²c⁴+ p ²c² where p is the momentum, so at high speeds mass fades into irrelevance and the velocity component of momentum becomes dominant. EDIT in classical physi
206.
by qubex 3y ago
> one per kilometre squared per century Okay so build a hundred km² (10 km per side) observatory and you’ve got yourself a ‘telescope’ to the same degree that super-kamiokande is sometimes described as being a “neutrino telescope”.
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by qubex 3y ago
Uhm… I suppose you’re misinformed or undetectably trying to be funny.
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by qubex 3y ago
What you’re described is just the logic behind patents eventually expiring.
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by qubex 3y ago
Those were the “much derided ‘content’” I mentioned.
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by qubex 3y ago
I didn’t even know that existed, and have never tried it, and wouldn’t know where to begin looking for it. Meanwhile Coca-Cola…

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