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I only have one rule: I only contact an open source developer if I believe resolving the problem would make the product better unless I am willing to offer them reasonable money to…

Polish guy here. And Lem fan, too. Ask anything you want.

Yes and yes. As far as we know anti-atoms (antihydrogen in this case) are as stable as normal atoms. To the point where it creates interesting questions -- if antiatoms are exactly…

I guess you can imagine similar evolution that a century ago drove invention of aircraft carriers. When it became clear that battleships would become too large, too heavy and too e…

> I don’t think the the utility of a tank is completely obviated. The whole point of tank, as the word suggests, is to be able to survive enemy fire. With proliferation of easy to …

> correction: literally 99.99999% of endpoints. You made up a number with no grounding in reality because of your bias due to being "general public". For corporate services it is a…

There is very little reason to DOS a client and a lot of reasons to attack servers. There is a huge number of public facing services that implement mutual auth and all those are po…

> This vulnerability affects parsing maliciously crafted certificates, so it will mostly affect clients. Actually, it is the opposite. You seem to be unaware of the fact that serve…

I looked at the data from some places I knew very well for over 3 decades (like around where I grew up and are still visiting parents regularly) and it looks noisy and mostly incor…

I think the main problem here is not necessarily the actual extent of the ice but rather rapid change and how we, people, are dependant on particular climate in particular parts of…

You can't "balance carbon cycle" because the problem is not the carbon cycle. Carbon cycle is fine. The problem is there is a huge amount of additional carbon that the cycle cannot…

Believe or not, that project is already underway and will use our Sun as a gravitational lens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens I predict in couple decades we…

There is a lot of occasions for observations if you are into it. This photo is not a happy accident, though. It took careful preparation. Let's see... it looks that at a distance o…

No, the title is not a clickbait. This is best photo of ISS transiting Moon I have seen, by a large margin.

Well, I decided to check the number. 20% is for uncharged, non-rotating BH. 42% (maximum) is for rotating black hole. I have to agree with 20%. 42% assumes that you are robbing the…

It should read "communication". The hardest think about engineering is communication. Requirements is a communication problem. You can help your engineering by making sure ideas ar…

You can also drop matter into black holes and this way recover energy necessary to sustain civilisation long after red dwarves are all dead cold. Compared to stars, this process is…

That identity has already been built on a lie. Russia invaded Poland on September 17th 1939 after secret deal with Germany to split Polish territory they agreed on before the war e…

Oumuamua is a bit larger than a blanket on your couch. Also, a mirror flying through space is very hard to detect. It reflects very well but only in some directions meaning it is b…

Lorentz factor at that speed is very small. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_factor

Any civilisation that can detect an object of that size and categorise it as being unnatural in origin would have vastly more advanced technology that would allow them to detect hu…

I am more interested in how they are planning to fit in all the apparatus in a probe that small and especially how they plan to send a usable signal back to Earth.

Storing UTC is not only not a silver bullet, in many cases it is just wrong. Timezone is an important context of the event. You can't tell if something happened on Wednesday if you…

I am continually amused that disposing nuclear waste is still such a hot (!) topic. There is simple and effective way of disposing the most dangerous types of nuclear waste (spent …

Send them to Poland and require to pass Polish driving license exam.