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by smolder 1y ago
Primordial black holes can theoretically be much smaller than those formed in the usual way from collapsed stars or neutron star mergers, etc, because the early universe was dense with matter already and perturbations could have caused grav
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by smolder 1y ago
I think both comparisons together paint a good picture: 15 times further than Pluto, which itself has an orbit ranging from 30 to 49 AU (the distance between Earth and the sun.)
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by smolder 1y ago
No one is really validating me for learning new things. I think the value of learning has more to do with whether you can leverage your learning in a socially positive way. It's hard to know whether learning about a particular topic wi
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by smolder 1y ago
I have mixed feelings about all of my supposed clever ideas being executed on by other people way ahead of me, but this is cool and you have my respect.
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by smolder 1y ago
This is easily understood in the context of ancient nights with no light pollution, and fewer distractions. Regrettably, I think some people will frame it in a way to try to support theories of ancient lost technology, alien influence, or s
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by smolder 1y ago
The reality is a bunch of people trying to secure their insurance relationship. Useless money absorbers are running things.
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by smolder 2y ago
How about a wifi feature that is useful on a LAN and doesn't need 'the cloud'? The annoying part of wifi appliances is that network connectivity almost always means phoning home to some server on WAN. Home routers or a separa
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by smolder 2y ago
Yeah I've been using an HP laptop with AMD chip and integrated graphics loaded with Pop!OS for an internet machine + some really minimal steam gaming (older 2D titles) and it's been effortless. The only shortcoming I've run i
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by smolder 2y ago
Likely they are different people, very little overlap, if any.
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by smolder 2y ago
That version is called the quantum eraser experiment. It really is brain bending.
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by smolder 2y ago
Ars has been one of the best publications across my whole experience with the internet, going on 20+ years. Without them I wouldn't have been clued into how broken the internet is.
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by smolder 2y ago
Approximately 100% but not exactly, given that engine braking downhill drives the accessories without any fuel. (Alternator, aircon, pumps, etc.)
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by smolder 2y ago
Regenerative braking is nice but as sibling pointed out it doesn't nearly recapture everything. Another factor is that the additional load whether accelerating up a hill or braking down one puts more current through the system. In fact
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by smolder 2y ago
> To answer your question Maybe I'm being pedantic, but that doesn't answer their question.
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by smolder 2y ago
This hostility towards ownership goes way beyond computers. There has been a decades long effort to exclude people from 'productive' society if they don't consent to being controllable and surveilled.
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by smolder 2y ago
This is a reminder why trying to be hip to sell a message is actually very often counterproductive. (See D.A.R.E.) That Quentin Question video made me cringe from the beginning to the eventual end when I closed it for being insufferable.
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by smolder 2y ago
Unfortunately the sort of exponential advance of technology we imagined through Star Trek seems to have been overoptimistic. If humans ever leave the solar system it'll be on something like a generational ship, or in some kind of freez
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by smolder 2y ago
Close on performance in a straight line isn't really close on performance.
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by smolder 2y ago
Don't click on weird stuff if you want to see less. Go in to your "My data in google" page and delete the weird stuff from your history and you should not see it so much. Also use the "not interested" feature in the
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by smolder 2y ago
You seem to be assuming competence on the part of the author. But, as is common with documents that lawyers generate, they probably don't care if it's reasonable or if practically every one of their users violates it. Like when yo
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by smolder 2y ago
I meant it a bit differently. You can still have drive to succeed even when money doesn't have much marginal utility. Social capital is a thing, not to completely discount money as a motivator.
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by smolder 2y ago
I think he'd be lined up with the other tech leaders just doing what's needed to gain power. He wasn't a saint, he was just a bit of a visionary with the greed to succeed.
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by smolder 2y ago
It's definitely embarrassing that people losing their shirts in crypto didn't see it coming. It's bad that people think a zero sum game is worth playing against incumbents. The marks aren't the worst part, though. Everyo
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by smolder 2y ago
It's unfortunate that it's more work and less reward to shut down fraud that to perpetrate it. I think its more of a problem than ever before, even though grifting has always been a thing.
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by smolder 2y ago
Likewise. I have no reason at all to "upgrade" to windows 11 even though my current hardware supports it.
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by smolder 2y ago
It definitely is shallow. It's on par with saying they used cringe language that is like, not a vibe. It doesn't mean anything concrete, and so it's impossible to rebuke and pointless to talk about.
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by smolder 2y ago
"woke and DEI phrases"? The way you're using these as labels is embarrassingly shallow, and I would hope, beneath the level of discourse here.
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by smolder 2y ago
I think with a certain crowd just being obstinately oppositional buys you political points whether it's well reasoned or not. IOW they may be acting like jerks here to impress the lets-be-jerks lobby back home.
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by smolder 2y ago
We need a modern equivalent for old school forums. They were full of people interested in a topic without a lot of noise from people who benefit from disrupting them.
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by smolder 2y ago
You forgot one of the best options: ignoring social media altogether.

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