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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't make the source code proprietary or non-open, it just means it isn't a community driven project.

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

Slackware is still around, no past tense. What makes you think it was closed source?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have 4 sisters. I just couldn’t see myself allowing them

Why do they need you to allow them?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

It's the same in Ukrainian (and Russian): костюм

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ah, yes, quite a few systems use that. Iirc, when I first got into research I believe it was SPSS that have me pause (maybe STATA) when dates seemed to reference day in the 60s. It's been a while so I don't remember the specifics, but I always thought it was a neat way to handle dates.

Maybe it was 1 January 1970, the Unix epoch

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You are correct, I should have said there was an atomic clock out the window that the walker looked out at.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

https://www.quora.com/What-if-you-walk-forward-on-a-ship-moving-at-light-speed#:~:text=You%20would%20experience%20nothing.,of%20travel%20wouldn't%20exist.

Because of relativistic effects, from your point of view on the train you would just walk forward. But you would notice a strange effect while the trains were accelerating: ~~your atomically synchronized wristwatch~~ the clock you can see out the window has slowed down and stopped counting time. So it seems that your journey to the front of the train takes no time at all.

From someone standing on the side of the tracks catching a glimpse of you and the train as you whizz by, the front of the train is moving at light speed. You're at the back of the train completely frozen still, unable to move forward because the front of the train is moving away at light speed.

Weird things happen when you're talking about the limits of physical reality.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Sound is air vibration

Sound is not exclusive to air, it can be generalized to vibrations in any media. Whale song and dolphin echolocation are certainly sounds, and we're almost always talking about them propagating in water rather than air.

which has to travel from one place to the next

No, that isn't how sound works. In air this would be a description of wind, not sound.

just transfer kinetic energy to the adjacenct atom

This is actually a good description of how sound waves propagate.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

I swear he wants to bring aristocracy to the US

He wants to further entrench the oligarchy, I think. And it seems to be working.

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