Hamartiogonic

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

If you run a realistic physical simulation of a star, and you include every subatomic particle in it, you’re going to have to use very small time increments. Computers can’t handle anywhere near that many particles yet, but mark my words, physicists of the future are going want to run this simulation as soon as we have the computer to do it. Also, the simulation should predict events billions of years in the future, so you may need to build a new time tracking system to handle that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

If the manufacturer can stop your trains, then obviously anyone with the necessary hacking skills can do it too. Certain governments might be very interested in tampering with the logistics of another country.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Trump and the whole Brexit circus have set a very high bar, but somehow someone still manages to produce quality comedy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you considered installing Linux? Particularly something Debian Sid, Fedora, Gentoo or Arch? You’ll get to enjoy updates all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Can confirm. Trains are awesome!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Sunlight reflecting off water and making beautiful moving light patterns on the wall and ceiling. It’s truly mesmerizing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

After the first month of sweeping snow off your car every morning you being to wonder how long until spring. If you also need to shovel snow every morning, it happens even faster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If those numbers are real, that means that going with the cheap paper ends up being 50% more expensive in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

This is the raw material real toilet paper is made of. Similarly, you could also buy sewing thread to make your own rope. Not the most practical idea really, but it is possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The thing is, we don’t know is the speed limit is a hard problem.

Maybe will struggle with it for centuries or maybe we’ll find a way to avoid the problem within the next 130 years. Maybe we’ll find a way to bend space so that you don’t really need to travel very fast. Maybe wormholes become a viable option. Maybe we’ll build hyperspace gates or something like that.

Or maybe none of that is viable and a thousand years later we’re still struggling with the speed of light wishing there was a way around it.

At some point, microbes and immunology were a complete mystery. People dying after surgery was a hard problem and nobody knew how to fix that. Turns it, all you need is ethanol and penicillin, but we couldn’t even imagine it at the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

This is the way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Or maybe configure the firewall to block/allow only very specific things. It’s a bit more technical than just plugging in an Ethernet cable though…

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