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Demoiselle crane flies over Himalayas and over Everest during its yearly migration, so it'd be flying at least 30k feet high. I only know that from Planet Earth documentary, which …

Unless I screwed up the math, they would be quarter of a light year apart. Plenty of space for each black hole to form its own accretion disk.

Kepler’s laws should still provide a pretty good estimate, at least until black holes get much closer. I did a quick back of the envelope calculation, and looks like they’ll be rou…

1604. One could say we are overdue. I’m not sure about dust or other obstacles blocking it, but based on brightness alone a supernova in our galaxy should be visible with naked eye…

It would be. Which is why any pair of orbiting bodies will eventually collide. It’s just that for black holes this effect is insignificant (a merger would take much longer than the…

The potential to detect Supermassive Black Hole mergers is one of the reasons I'm really excited about the LISA project [1], and hope it actually gets funded and doesn't delay too …

In quantum mechanics, bosons are (often massless) force carrying particles like photons or gluons. Fermions are the massive matter particles, such as electrons or quarks. So, while…

So that xkcd “daylight savings time” meme was an actual movie?

The article didn’t mention this, but don’t u128s get mapped to SSE2 registers on most modern x86_64 processors, and not regular 64-bit ones?

That’s a pretty pedantic interpretation of the word application. In the context of software owned by most teams, that they may decide to run on single vs multiple hosts most applic…

Totally. But most applications are not stateful.

If you have the ability to spin up a new machine when the old one fails, and deploy your app onto it in one minute, it’s not a big leap to also run your app on two machines and avo…

Almost every modern router in a multipath network peeks at the next layer to implement flow hashing correctly.

One of the biggest misses with IP fragmentation was not requiring each fragment to carry the higher protocol header. Or at least do that for UDP. That decision alone would’ve made …

That would effectively kill software patents. Which is a fine outcome.

The absolute performance isn't very important for the stock price. What matters way more is the performance vis-a-vis market expectations. So in this case, the market was expecting…

This is a good example of the type of challenges you face as an author of widely used library. I can see a lot of scenarios where an optimization like this would bring benefits. Bu…