only boot worth licking is the goth boot …

by the way i’m not a science denialist, i just cannot follow that one particular argument (about the planck length).

the reason why companies are chronically understaffed is so companies save money. why pay more employees when the existing employees can handle the workload?

i don’t like trusting “experts” in fact. trusting “experts” is how we got into this mess. people let themselves be manipulated by the media. people need to think for themselves. yes, that includes not believing certain scientific results, but IMO it’s better to discard a scientific result that i cannot follow myself instead of becoming an authoritarian (i.e. one who believes in authors, i.e. other people’s writing) dependent.

like, what i don’t get, is how you’re imagining this.

people form a union, then strike, then what? simple, the company fires everyone who is on strike for “not fulfilling their work contract”. simple as that, the company hires new people. these can strike too and lose their jobs too. new people get hired. repeat until the people left working at the company are those who don’t strike in general.

what do you mean, “just strike”?

welllll i say that’s a reaaaly sketchy and irrational way to look at things.

like, even if you smallest ruler is 1 mm, that does not mean that smaller things don’t exist. they can still play a role, i.e. through chaotic behavior smaller perturbations could be up-amplified until they are measurable.

If you take the smallest distance that exists and divide it by the shortest amount of time that can pass

btw that’s a nonsensical argument. there can be both space and time smaller than that.

IMO it might be better to only look at natural units that don’t depend on the specific properties of matter (i.e. proton mass, electron charge, …)

arguably, there could be an alien civilization in our universe that is purely made of exotic matter somewhere really far away, we simply haven’t found it yet. It’s purely made of exons and kaions and yppsons and particles that don’t exist on earth, where an exon has a positive charge of 1.456… proton charges and an yppson has a negative charge of -4.132… proton charges and so on.

therefore i consider physical constants such as ħ and c and G more fundamental than e and such, because those numbers would be the same even for exotic matter, i claim.

then, is that reduced set of natural constants harmonizable?

that’s why the true progress is made if we simplify our mental models so they’re easier to explain … because then the next generation can get running faster and therefore get farther.

What most people don’t know is why Smurfs are blue. Well, the reason is because Smurfs only have sex once a year.

Face it: if you had sex only once a year, you’d be blue, too.

With WASM you’re looking at bundling every single dependency, every single runtime, framework and whatnot, in the final binary.

you just don’t know what you’re talking about. wasm has a module-import structure with which you can link libraries at program start-up, and some wasm runtimes also offer possibilities for linking libraries at run-time.

tbf the sun is a planet if you define “planet” appropriately

But isn’t WASM for web browsers

not really, no. WASM is a generic hardware-independent format for instructions. it’s like instructions for a virtual CPU, not a real one. it gets translated into the instructions for the real processor on the target device. in this way, it can run on any hardware.

comparing it to other setups such as java or javascript (which are also both hardware-independent), it runs much faster because it is much hardware-oriented, while java and javascript require abstract features such as a garbage collector, which makes real-time processes impossible.

hell yeah risc-v is hella cool :)

i just looked into how it works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V

seems very sane so far.

beautifully documented

i can attest, very nice indeed.

sexuality ftw!

explosions are for barbars. civilized people do slow controlled combustion.

“central limit theorem society” sounds like some futuristic af fiction thing straight out of neon genesis evangelion, alongside the scrolls from the dead sea and the central dogma.

could

could in the same sense that i could check all software i use for bugs and malicious code. realistically, i can’t, because it’s way too much work.