I actually would prefer people see them as ideals rather than unchanging facts of the universe, because unchanging facts don’t require you to fight to keep them like ideals do, and I’m tired of hearing diatribes about the world being just instead of people actually making it just.

Not if Random writes to global state, that’s a side effect that must be preserved

Wait till you find out how the runtime manages multiple concurrent timers

It’s normal where I live for students to say that. You can argue with that, but then I’d say it’s not worth singling out one person.

You sure you’re not just oversensitized to it? This feels like a false positive.

I didn’t get the impression reading that that they’re presenting themselves as an intellectual or a researcher, just that they’re a nerd going down rabbit holes.

omg it’s my personality 🤩

Everyone I argue online with is a Smurf?

Can it find my level? I lost it 🥺

per capita wealth: 👋

Okay, so it’s just a distributed linked list where earlier entries can’t be changed without changing everything up to the head? I guess I can see a few niche uses for that. In my head I was just thinking “surely that can’t be it” because it’s so simple, hence thinking the proof-of-[x] thing would also have to be part of it.

I don’t see how a blockchain is necessary there. Couldn’t they just use transaction databases and simple messaging between banks? Also, what is your definition of blockchain? Just a distributed linked list? Proof of work (the part I don’t understand the need for)?

The written form of how people speak to signal confusion, that thing where their people go from lower to higher pitch at the end of a sentence the way they do with questions, but with statements instead.

I’ve been using primarily webp for like half a decade and I haven’t noticed many compatibility issues or bad quality. I guess if your software hasn’t been updated in the past decade it won’t work, but in that case I guess we should never make a new image format again?

Actually, the distance doesn’t do weird things. If you traveled at slow speeds (up to like several thousand kilometers per second) time dilation and length contraction would still be negligible and your timing of how long the journey took would mostly line up with someone on Earth.

But if you’re traveling a significant fraction of the speed of light those effects become non-negligible. That’s where our normal understanding of a universal notion of objective time and distance breaks down.

The equations of special relativity are actually very approachable if you know algebra, you should play around with them and plug in some numbers!

I think it was confirmed that a single bit flip could have produced that effect, but it’s a huge leap to say it must have been cosmic rays. It could just be a hardware fault.

100000 years from an outside perspective, but because of time dilation you could make it take arbitrarily little time from your reference frame.

/dev/null is web scale, it maintains sub 1ms times no matter how much load you give it!

All in one body?

That’s great until someone says “I’m not being a dick, I’m just telling the truth” while being a dick. This is especially easy to pull off against minorities, because the aforementioned “truth” can be based on stereotypes or inaccurate media portrayals.