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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Every one had already been launched.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All of these options are still better than spending full price for a pair of jeans that were lovingly crafted to start with holes in them!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Easy: recognizing bird calls on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

The difference is that aether unraveled pretty quickly when we started seriously looking for it because experiments kept being outright inconsistent with what it was predicted we would see if it were there, whereas there are lots of independent lines of evidence that all point to the dark matter existing in the same page, so it really is not the same situation at all. The only problem with dark matter is that it doesn't show up in our particle detectors (so far, at least), but there is no law of the universe that says that everything that exists has to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It helps to realize that mass is just a bookkeeping label that we assign to the "internal" energy of a system, where the choice of what counts as being "internal" is somewhat arbitrary and depends on the level we are studying.

For example, if you measure the mass of the nucleus of some atom, and then compare your measurement to the sums of the masses of the protons and neutrons inside of it, then you will see that the numbers do not agree. The reason for this is that much of the mass of a nucleus is actually the energy of the strong force bonds holding the nucleons together.

But you can actually drop down another level. It turns out that the vast (~ 99%) majority of the mass in the proton in turn does not come from the quarks but from the energy of the gluon field holding them together.

And if you drop down yet another level, the quarks get their mass through their interactions with the Highs field.

So in short, it is energy all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

because no way I’m going to touch WASM with a 10 meter long pole

I think that you should look into WASM a little more closely because it is not web-specific at all; it is more like an alternative to the JVM that is a bit lower level and designed to be interpreted/JIT compiled more efficiently. You do not need to embed a web browser or anything similarly heavy into your app to use it; you can just use via Wasmtime, which is a library written in Rust with bindings to other languages that is officially supported by the maintainers of the WASM standard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Wrong--it's a cube!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I disagree; I think that we do care about it being popular enough that it incentivizes software and hardware vendors to support it rather than ignoring it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes this can help, but lately I've been running into the opposite problem where people have been following this advice to such a degree that one cannot ever figure out what is going on without having to constantly jump around to find the actual code involved in doing something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because some of us are bitter at the trees for generating so much pollen at this time of year and want revenge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Spotted the INTERCAL programmer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Because it looks like that functionality uses special compiler functionality only available on GCC and clang?

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