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Pretty sure we can't resolve brown dwarfs farther than a few 10k ly (well inside the confines of our galaxy).

Even ignoring the AI costs, 'rework' is going to be more expensive as soon as you have customers. For example any sort of data migration. Or UX expectations. Or public API interfac…

I'm not sure you'd need to directly fetch to determine if they resolve. One could probably inject an img tag and see if it resolves.

96% of us are already given ~5k a month for 40hr/week of work. If UBI is just printed, then sure there would be economic problems; but I think the idea is you redistribute it via t…

You'd never have a `compare(std::string a, std::string b)` function in your code base. It would make copies of the strings (and destroy them). So it seems to me the article is comp…

It's hard to know how to take this given that their first example (function call overhead) seems deeply flawed -- you'd never have a 'compare' strings function take std::string by …

Does being the destroyer in the dark forest scenario not reveal yourself to other destroyers? Also while I'm sure a relativistic kill vehicle could neutralize a planet, will it als…

It might be better to say raw_ptr is a dumb pointer wrapper. raw_ptr is discouraged in favor of unique_ptr/WeakPtr/RefCounted; but it is used in places where you'd have a T* at res…

IMO the friendly fire on his camp was a cover/false flag to begin the "march for justice". The coordination/speed his coup attempt had couldn't be set up in such a short amount of …

I don't think this logic applies to the demographics of today. The total number of humans to have ever lived is calculated to be ~105 billion. So assuming you're applying that logi…

I'm pretty sure the issue with Spectre/Meltdown is about an OS process reading other processes' (or kernel) memory. These are fundamentally chip issues, not developer issues. See h…

* Planet Nine discovered/spotted * No evidence for Dark matter WIMP theory * Firefox switches to blink

What doesn't work with short division and multi-digit divisors?

A web search says your approach (which I admit I don't follow) is off by a factor of 40 -- the Sun moves approximately 500k mph around the galactic center. A speed 8x slower than t…

FWIW, Bill Warner's PhD is in math & physics.

It wouldn't be JSON then. Give this new thing a new name and move on.

I read that to mean there was only one study that was randomized & controlled. Basically when you say "there are studies that show X" you aren't saying anything because "studies" a…

Speaking of scale, Pluto is more than 2.6 billion miles from Earth at closest approach :).

Setting up the wait for 10k file descriptors will still be O(n), the actual wait is O(1). And presumably you're waiting many times, and not changing which 10k files you're polling …

So, to paraphrase, "if things were not as they are we could come to a different conclusion". Yes, that is a thought, it was not worth writing down though.

In Seattle, over the last 8 years I've averaged 2933$/year on my car (which I own outright). That includes insurance, licensing fees, parking, gas, maintenance, tickets, rental cos…

I think the core of COM is sound (pure interfaces, QI, refcounting, IDL). I think the ugliness is due to threading issues and being welded on to Win32 message pumps. If you have a …

For Excel 2007 (on Win8.1) you 'just' middle click (wheel-click) on Excel if it is pinned to the task bar (which is how I happen to have things set up -- same thing as opening two …

How about if you want to override just one part? It doesn't make much sense with "padding", but for something like "border: red solid 2px;", how do you override just the color if y…

Your zoom appears to be set to 125% (not sure if that absolves IE or not -- I see similar lines in Opera when zooming). Looks okay to me at 100%.