The feddit frontend has been offline for months, but the backend works just fine, so if you use another ui (such as an app) that instance can still be used. It’s a mess.

Yeah, but it’s a lot harder to cross. Like, I could build a shitty boat from wood myself. A spaceship? Not so much. Especially not if it’s actually supposed to leave this gravity well.

Still better than using file names.

It is. And yet, it just harvests upvotes. I don’t get it.

I’m not growing up, I’m just burning out… and I step in line to walk amongst the dead.

Yeah. That’s the one I considered more deeply. Still too big. Still only 3 years of promised security updates and only two major revisions of android. Nah, hard pass.

/edit just saw that I mixed up the Roman and Latin numbers in my previous post. Yeah, the 5 is what I meant by 5.

Last year I needed a new phone. The Xperia V (I think) just got released and seemed perfect… But in the end I decided against it because of their horrendous update roadmap and large phone sizes. I’m not going to buy a new phone every three years and I hate phones that can’t be used with one hand - and despite doing a lot of things right, those two points are just not addressed by Sony. I want their compact range back and I want Fairphone levels of updates.

Meh, use latex and git. Then you won’t have those stupid file names.

Tags on the other hand are the gift that keeps on giving.

git tag -a v0.999c -m "really the final draft this time, for sure"

To see her analysis, follow this link.

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I really don’t get why the time machine would have to do any calculations at all. The time machine is in this reference frame. You seem to assume that by going back through time you’d be teleporting through time, which leaves the open question of where you’d appear. However, I’d much rather assume that you’d actually be “going” through time. You wouldn’t cease to exist until you reappeared somewhere. Instead you’d be in the machine for some time until you’d get out of the machine again. That’d mean neither you nor the machine ever leave the reference frame.

Since I stay on earth now when I’m moving forward in time why wouldn’t I stay on earth when I move backward through time?

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This. Had to replace my trusted s10e. Picked the smallest I could get, which was an s23. It’s too big.

Don’t get the problem. Professor picks conference, grad student submits paper and professor’s group pays the trip. Isn’t that how it’s done? I always enjoyed those conferences.

Humans are going to persist

Pretty bold statement there. However, it’s just the civilization that needs to perish, not mankind, for our knowledge to be lost within a few decades.

Considering the number of civilisations that have perished (like, there were quite a lot) vs the number of civilizations that have persisted (uh… One? Which is young and just hasn’t dissolved yet) I’d say the chances for that to happen is definitely not zero. It’s not necessarily one either, of course.

Nah. Most modern media are so deeply unsuited for long term reliability we came up with the whole pattern of constant backups and replacements. However, once civilization collapses, these things won’t last very long.

Earth is just pretty damn good at crushing stuff. With plants constantly producing oxygen, our atmosphere just keeps oxidising everything, resulting in things breaking sooner or later. With earth’s core being liquid and tectonic movements everywhere, we can’t build large scale stuff that lasts. Sure, with a little luck somebody will find a human fossil at some point, but dinosaurs roamed this planet for hundreds of millions of years and finding one of their skeletons is quite an event - we’re pretty far from that.

Mankind has absolutely no idea how to preserve stuff for eternity on this planet. And a thumb drive (or digital storage in general) is not even something that’s supposed to last.

We have some pretty good styles at our company and we also had some at my university. It’s not beamer that looks bad, it’s just the default styles that suck. Use the metropolis styles, they’re decent.

Sounds nice. What’s the benefit compared to inkscape’s pdf/TeX export?

People use power point for academic presentations? I thought it was either beamer or, if you are a hipster scientist, reveal.

Great, now I’ve got tea on my sweater…

This really caught me by surprise.