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A CRT doesn't have to have resolution in the sense of pixels per inch (although many of them do). However "resolution" is a more general limit on how far away two distinct points can be.

A discrete grid of pixels imposes one kind of limit. But another kind of limit is that two slightly fuzzy dots will become indistinguishable if they blur into one another sufficiently.

The remaining amendments are, well, just amendments. They don't necessarily specify rights, and are generally not considered part of the bill of rights.

Yes, if by "we" you means "large scale cosmological structures".

But galaxies stay roughly constant size because gravity holds them together. Smaller things are also held together by various forces.

That is we see red-shifts when we observe distant objects. And comparing that to other distance estimates, we see that far away things are more red-shifted. As if they are moving away from us.

When we build cosmological models to explain this, we could choose reference coordinates for time and space in different ways. But if we choose to define time and distance in the usual way then we get a picture in which the distances between all galaxies is increasing with time.

I don't know enough General Relativity to give a solid explanation. But here is a rough over-simplification: Imagine you've spent the last 5 seconds blowing up a balloon, but there is an ant walking on that balloon, starting from a marked spot.

In the 1st second, the ant moved 10mm. But in the next four seconds you blew up the balloon, so that 10mm of rubber is now 70mm long. The total distance from the ant's starting mark to her end-point can now be well over than 70mm, even though she only walks at less than 10mm/second.

As the ant, so the photon.

This is what I keep reading, but when I visited there I observed both languages in apparently equal measure. Of course my observations were superficial -- I was a tourist who spoke neither language.

But I even if I am right, that just underscores your point. The fact that a request comes from Brussels, gives you very little clue what language the user wants. Especially if that request comes from a some foreigner working for the EU.

Things get passed because politicians vote for them. They might or might not listen to legal advice about their constitutionality before voting.

It's possible there is something we don't know that makes the rule constitutional. Other possibilities are:

1. The councilors who voted for it don't care, their strategy is to try to get away with anything and let the courts uphold the constitution.

2. The councilors actively want the courts to strike it down to generate a talking point at the next election.

There are plenty of voters who will reward both strategies, and they are over-represented among the politically active people.

That said, I've never seen the Milky Way.

I probably could if I went out somewhere far from the city, but I can't remember ever actually seeing it, even when doing star-gazing at school camp.

This business of /var/ not being writable early enough is probably to do with the wonderful complexities of modern Linux, and is just not a problem that OpenBSD has.

But should it not cause us to re-evaluate how much we respect the university and it's degrees?

An Engineering degree that really teaches stuff will be difficult. And some students will find it is not for them and leave. Preferably early before they have invested too much in it.

Which is to say that it is in fact costing the UK very much less than a bailout.

https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-energy-inte...

Just before they abandoned the peg as too hard to maintian.

But then as now, the actual IT rapidly becomes the boring part of the operation and the real business becomes, well the business. That of finding clients and tailoring your services to them.

In the complex plane (and all real analytic functions can be analytically extended into the complex plane), you can define the equivalent property as saying a (first!) derivative has the some value no matter how you chose to take the limit.

So just by virtue of having a well defined first derivative in a particular region you get all the Maclaurin series magic.

And there's also The Clouds by Aristophanes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clouds). And in my sometimes I suspect it might be the most accurate portrayal. But we'll never know.

We'll never really know how much the human Socrates matches Plato's literary character. But the reason for that is that Socrates never did write down his teachings, whereas Plato did.

It would be a funny old world in which Socrates had no objection to writing, but never wrote anything, but Plato did have a an objection to writing, but wrote lots of stuff, including lies about Socrates objecting to writing.

But then again, this is a funny old world.

I keep thinking servers should be written a bit more like embedded thingies. (Though I suspect the actual trend is in the other direction).

Both kinds of software deeply interested an asynchrony and concurrency (though not necessarily parallelism). And both also tend to talk over networks to other gadgets as part of a complex system. And since my job often revolves around putting out fires when severs OOM, I'd also like to see a lot less malloc().

It would be nice if software could place hard upper limits on how many resources (including RAM) it takes to serve a request and then reject requests early. With real-world languages and frameworks, we can only do very primitive approximations to this. But a framework written from the bottom-up with a malloc-is-evil mentality () might be able to do it.

That sounds complicated to me, in 2019 with 25 years of C++ experience. (And of course C++ error message sprouting mysterious stdlib templates also seems complicated to me).

Some who administers some SAP thing for a huge supermarket chain tells me they do all of their upgrades on weekends because their users aren't at work.

Makes sense for them, but it would be a crazy thing to do the consumer-focused interweb company that I work for.

Consider what you quote: > we’re likely limited by how quickly we can gather our thoughts

Now the amount of relevant info on a screen is typically small enough that a sighted person can zero in on it at a glance and perhaps just click a button without thinking.

I.e. the amount of info that deserves "gathering our thoughts" is typically very small. So if that is the bottle-neck, your colleague can keep cranking up the audio speed until low-level processing audio becomes the bottle-neck, which is a regime that sighted people never deal with even, not even the nerds who speed up their Joe Rogan podcasts.

What I want back are the duck-strangling noises that the dial-up modem makes when connecting.

... until the big disaster actually happens at which time at which point it's simply criminal that such things were allowed to happen.

But in the system as it is, Oracle shareholders bought shares on the understanding that Larry had some fiduciary duty to the owners of the company.