ShaunaTheDead

Yeah, I was gonna say… Calculus is all about saying it’s infinitely approaching zero so let’s assume it is zero.

I think upgrading the RAM as you mentioned is going to make a big difference. While the physical RAM might be soldered to the motherboard, you could buy a fairly cheap SD card or USB and set the system up to use that as virtual memory. It won’t be as fast as actual RAM but it might help and large SD cards are honestly really cheap these days.

To everyone saying the Great Pyramids were built by slaves, no, that’s a misconception and was accepted historic fact in the past but has been amended.

From the Wikipedia article on Egyptian pyramid construction techniques:

The Greeks, many years after the event, believed that the pyramids were built by slave labour. Archaeologists now believe that the Great Pyramid of Giza (at least) was built by tens of thousands of skilled workers who camped near the pyramids and worked for a salary or as a form of tax payment (levy) until the construction was completed, pointing to workers' cemeteries discovered in 1990. For the Middle Kingdom pyramid of Amenemhat II, there is evidence from the annal stone of the king that foreigners from Canaan were employed.

... Evidence suggests that around 5,000 were permanent workers on salaries with the balance working three- or four-month shifts in lieu of taxes while receiving subsistence "wages" of ten loaves of bread and a jug of beer per day. Zahi Hawass believes that the majority of workers may have been volunteers. Most archaeologists agree that only about 4,000 of the total workforce were labourers who quarried the stone, hauled blocks to the pyramid, and set the blocks in place. The vast majority of the workforce provided support services such as scribes, toolmakers, and other backup services.

Link to the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_techniques#Great_Pyramid

Trig requires some assumptions and special tools, like SOHCAHTOA and what not that don’t really exist in standard algebra.

No, because the dog would know that if someone says “red” they probably mean “black” or some shade of black, and “green” would mean “white” or some shade of white.

Sure, it wouldn’t be black. If it was a pure red (absolutely no other colours, just pure 100% red) then it wouldn’t have a colour to a dog. It would have a shade, and it certainly wouldn’t be absolutely pitch black but close enough. If, however, it’s not a pure red then it would appear yellow or blue as in the picture you posted.

Although, the dog could tell the difference between the swords. Dogs are blind to red which means pure red things are like an absence of any colour, so red would appear black. Dogs can see blue and yellow which combine to form green which to them would be all of the colours, and so it would appear white. I’m sure an anthropomorphic dog would understand that when humans say “green” they mean “white” and when humans say “red” they mean “black”.

YouTube throttles some of the more popular instances. Find a less popular one. I was also finding that thumbnails and subtitles weren’t loading on some instances. After switching to a fairly obscure one, everything works. You could also try piped which I find generally works better and I like the interface better.

That’s true of any galaxies which aren’t gravitationally bound. At closer distances (tens/hundreds of millions of light years) gravity wins out over the expansion of space and keeps things together. At larger distances, the expansion of space wins out and clusters of galaxies will drift apart faster and faster until the combined speed of them moving away and us moving away from them will exceed the speed of light and we’ll never see those galaxies again.

Our neck of the woods is called the Local Group because scientists are bad at naming things and includes the Milky Way galaxy, and the Andromeda galaxy, as well as between 50 to 80 more galaxies.

As for the black holes, yes, eventually all that will be left are black holes for trillions of years until even those evaporate which is often called the “Heat Death” of the universe. That is just a theory, but if it’s true, it won’t happen for 1.07x10^106 years. Considering the universe is only 13.8 billion years old right now, that’s a very, very, very long time.

It’s important that they say structure because the scientific discovery is about how these galaxies are gravitationally bound in a cluster. That means that despite the expansion of space, these galaxies will never separate from one another, hence they are a single structure. It’s a breakthrough discovery because every model of the universe we currently use says a structure this large is impossible.

I’m not a professional, but just an enthusiast but I’ll try to simplify the article from my layperson perspective, so take my interpretation with a grain of salt.

The new theory seems to point to how Einstein’s theory of gravity considers the “energy-momentum tensor” to be unchanged in all scenarios. The energy-momentum tensor describes the relationship of energy as it changes between various forms, for example a stick of dynamite exploding changes the chemical energy stored in the dynamite into kinetic energy - the force of the explosion - and if you calculated the energy of both they would be equal to the initial chemical energy stored in the unexploded stick of dynamite. Which is called the “law of conservation of energy”, that energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed into a different form of energy.

The problem arises in high-energy situations where infinities start to appear in the equations. If you know much about math then infinities can break equations, and often in physics if there are infinities appearing in your equation then it usually means that you’re missing something crucial. So scientists can use a technique called renormalization which can apply tweaks to equations to reduce these infinity spikes. At these high-energy situations described, renormalization fails and the equations can’t be properly satisfied no matter how you tweak the variables. This is a big problem since a correct theory should be able to come up with answer for all possible situations that might arise within the system it’s trying to describe without breaking.

Einstein’s field theory - which is a model used to describe spacetime based on the distribution of matter within it - uses the curvature of spacetime, the relationship between stress and energy, and the cosmological constant. The new theory proposed suggests that adding to Einstein’s field theory with math that accounts for the relationship between temperature and entropy, and the relationship between charge and interaction changes the equation in such a way that the infinities disappear, even at higher energy levels which traditionally break field theory, and most importantly that it’s still consistent with observations.

Gitlab is quite good and used by a lot of open source developers.

A lot of it is also tied up with religion. Flat Earthers, for example, started by trying to reconcile biblical explanations of the Earth and the universe and it spiraled from there.

In case anyone wasn’t aware, nearly all space photos that you’ve ever seen have had their colours tweaked. It’s standard practice in space photography. Nebulae and galaxies and planets aren’t as colourful as they appear in photos. They do it either to make the features more obvious for study, or just to make them pop more to drum up interest in space exploration. Nothing wrong with it, just be aware that what you see isn’t reality but an interpretation.

I found Farscape impossible to watch because of the main character. The show suffers because of the classic misogynistic writing where all the female characters are tripping over themselves to get noticed by the bland, aggressive, stupid, and overly cocky “average Joe” that was thrust into an unusual situation. It’s extremely dated writing and as a woman, it really irritates me.

The rest of the show is great! But the main character just ruins it for me completely. Unfortunately that kind of writing is everywhere in older sci-fi. I started and gave up on Stargate: Atlantis for the same reason. I wish someone would release an edit with the more obnoxious parts removed because I can tell that I’m missing out on some great sci-fi but it’s just unwatchable to me.

On the other hand you’ve got shows like ST:TNG, ST:DS9, Battlestar Galactica, even Lexx, where either women are treated with respect and not overly sexualized, or if they are sexualized then so are the men, and the men are kind, intelligent, and curteous, or if they’re not then they’re probably a villain.

Do you think using a custom ssh key directory would prevent these malicious apps from working correctly or is there some environment variable that always points to the ssh key folder or I guess they could just run a search on the system for any files like *.pub. Are there any safety procedures that one can take to circumvent these kinds of attacks?

This feels like a great application of AI to root around through the code of packages in these repos and find ones that access the ssh key directory at all to be looked at more thoroughly by a human.

My biggest concern with Epic is their insistence on kernel level anti-cheat which is just ridiculous overkill and probably being used as spyware let’s be honest. They have many ties to China’s Tencent which has a 40% stake in the company and is known to basically just be an extension of the Chinese government.

There’s also the very odd fact that just having the Epic Games Store open in the background will deplete your laptops battery life by up to 20%. Is it just horribly optimized and uses all that battery even when idling, or is it doing something nefarious in the background? We don’t know.

As for exclusives, they have bought exclusives that were mostly crowd funded from the start which is quite the kick in the teeth to the early investors that helped get the project off the ground. And there were even some exclusives that were already listed for pre-order through Steam, forcing everyone to need to get a refund.

Plus, any good will that they’ve purchased so far is just in service of making a good name for themselves. They’ve been losing around $400 million per year since 2019 just to bring in new users. They’re going to suddenly turn around and start being cut-throat as soon as they think they can.

They are not consumer friendly, they want to dictate trends in gaming. Valve is already the king of that throne and they’re fairly benevolent and have pushed trends that are good for gaming and consumers overall. I have serious doubt that Epic would be anywhere near as good for gaming as Valve has been if they should actually become profitable, and an industry leader. Especially when it’s projected that they won’t be profitable until 2027, which means they’ll need to recoup their investment of nearly $3.2 billion since 2019.

There’s a lot of evidence to show that a small team of skilled craftsmen could have used water channels and animal skin floaters to lift the blocks into place.

Here’s a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1y8N0ePuF8

This is actually fairly accurate. Some of the guesses at how the technology would actually work are hilariously bad, but that also would have been extremely hard to guess at the time.