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My understanding is ground based telescopes imaging in the same wavelengths also have to deal with distortion in the atmosphere, star link interference would be easier to filter out compared to the other stuff (which is why locations for these mega ground based telescopes are chosen with utmost care )

Disclaimer. Not a physicals or astronomer, just a enthusiastic backyard amateur astronomer who reads a lot about telescopes .

yeah this sounds normal and a lot like what I feel too, No real profound ideas or aha moment still, but I do end up spending a lot of time alone, either walking or biking or swimming , the best I can get out of that time is the ability to fill my nice to have todo list with some random diy projects, or web tools I know I wont prioritize building ever. But I do still like to spend that time alone lost in aimless thoughts as I feel it enables me to feel happiness and pleasure when I do have company or I am interacting online with friends and colleagues.

I suspect this alignment is more about the planets being aligned from our view point, not that they are in the best configuration for pulling off gravity assist for spacecrafts wanting to use the alignment in their favor like voyager 1 and 2 did, IIRC that configuration was set to repeat every 176 years or so.

Source: recently watched the voyager documentary

ah I missed those while I was watching the livestream, probably distracted with something at work, but what I saw was some 5 different graphs with 10core laptop pc, so was like what happened to comparison with M!.

It was super interesting for me to see Apple not directly compare M2 to M1 in any of the graphs, why not directly tell us how much better it is than its predecessor as opposed to PC Laptop peers ?

do we really have to limit 80 chars now? don't we all have bigger monitors and wider screens to accommodate 120 perhaps?

I guess I should rephrase and give better references, but my overall point was as long as we are consuming the required intake and at the same time if we don’t we are feeling thirsty, then drink water. The idea I wanted to challenge was that everyone will benefit from drinking x amount of water.

Id caution against the myth of water drinking for all cures

As long as you listen to your body and hydrate when thirsty, a lot of our water requirements are satisfied with our food intake and our body is quite good at regulating water and electrolyte levels.

See https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-nutrition/water-myt...

I just wanted to point out I loved the fact the op used expat to describe his status in the US and not immigrant. I’ve always hated we had two different words to describe the same thing.

I came across a post which said use the words dying, clots, brake, and whump (statistically expect worse cast 2 guess since 20/26 alphabets used in 4 guesses, worked every time for me (although with this strategy you are ending up needing 5 guesses all the time and in rare occasion need the 6th guess.

tldr, energy density of the universe remains same while the universe is expanding, so yes space is being created, and yes physical distances between things are changing (outside of the local influence of gravity that is, so no distance between earth and moon is not changing for example).

Now a longish answer, space is like a stage or a backdrop, it's not made of anything, yet we can model the behavior of radiation and matter within space, also we cannot talk only about space, we have to talk about both space and time since they are intertwined. So spacetime has geometry, ie it can be curved by presence of matter, and space tells matter how it can move (geodesics),

As for the expansion of space itself, Hubble observations found that every star outside the local group is moving away from earth and not only are they moving away from earth but they are speeding up as they move away from us, also we observe that the acceleration is proportional to the distance to those stars, for example a star 100 light years away is racing away 2x faster than a star 50 light years away (we inferred this based on the redshifting of the light coming from these stars that are moving away from us), based on these observations, we can conclude that the space between stars itself is expanding at rate proportional to the distance between stars, ie something like the opposite of positive pressure is pushing stars away and the further they are from each other the stronger the push away, we have some sort of always accelerating negative pressure affecting everything. This negative pressure is referred to as dark energy and it is responsible for this expansion of space. To put it another way outside of local cluster of galaxies, gravity is losing the battle against this negative pressure expanding force we call dark energy and eventually everything would be so far away that light from these distinct racing away stars won't ever make it to earth no matter how long we wait, which is why the author ends with future astronomers would see a barren universe.

disclaimer: I am no physicist, just another nerd who's watched a lot of documentaries and thinks he understands a thing or two about this stuff but could totally be drawing the wrong analogy or incorrect in some technical way for the above explanation, so I am happy to be corrected and learn.

The Bloomberg article mentions $1 Billion in revenue annually though not profit.

This seems no longer true with apples imessage 0 click example [0] for instance. Perhaps you can say using iPhone and iOS which has such a crazy bug is user negligency .

- [0] - https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/19/zero-click-imessage-exploit/

I switched to eating light lunches and skipping breakfast a couple of years ago, lost 12 pounds, feel fitter and able to keep up with the demands of being a dad of a 11 month old baby along with a full time job. I would highly recommend this diet for folks finding it tough to restrict calories, restrict eating window and don't try to restrict calories as much.

what I would like to point out is that even though every galaxy rushes away and we can no longer see them eventually, its an amazing thing we were born at a time when they still here and the cosmic microwave background radiation is still detectible at all and we are able to piece together the beginnings and predict the end of the universe. That thought alone inspires me to look for meaning in our existence. I know its an anthropological line of thinking but its what I personally think is amazing about all this.

The How : The Hacker in Hacker News (HN) means a computer hacker and this story is about hacking. The Why: Because a community of hackers and non hackers alike who use HN found it interesting and upvoted it enough to make it to the frontpage. Hope that helps answering the how and why.

Thats a bad idea I think, if you get locked out of your gmail account, you might not be able to get a reset code on your GV number either.

Looks like I might have this particular gene, Although I can sleep longer most nights I can make do with just 5-6 hours and find it enough to function (I do drink a cup of coffee every morning but an hour or so after waking up so I dont mess with my natural ability to wake myself up), my wife would always be envious how I am able recharge my batteries with shorter sleep spans. Would be interesting to confirm this if 23andme has a new custom report to test this for me.

I thought micro plastics and chicken bones were going to be the lasting remnants of our current civilizations see [1] and [2]. [1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chicken-bones-may-... [2] https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/chicken-bones-and-plast...

I am not sure if its a case of too little too late or a case of maybe better late than never. I am so numb with the events of yesterday, unbelievable that we find ourselves in the situation where the president of the United States is deemed too dangerous to be given a platform to post his message to the world.

I guess parent comment is comparing facebook's quarterly revenue (~20 Billion) from ad sales, 50 million would be a fraction of a percent of 1 quarter of ad revenue I would imagine for a company like Facebook.

my only wish is some way to port the game you buy off stadia off to personal pc or some other cloud gaming service because I don't trust Google to stick with any of the products they launch (except maybe gmail and youtube), won't be surprised if they decide to kill stadia someday soon if it's not as successful as they hoped it would be.

Link to official summary on congress.gov

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/386...

yeah same here, most people find it damn peculiar that I have dreamless nights. I don't think depression is related to remembering (I am no doctor nor shrink) but anecdotally my wife has suffered severe depression for a long time and could remember most of her dreams just fine. I suspect it's something to do how memories are retained, I say that because I don't have sharpest short term memory.

thanks for sharing again. Living minimalistically and not marrying all the comforts of life is the key I guess. Makes sense although you will have to return to paying rent and a fixed place you call your own when you have kids. Goodluck.

Thats me too, I almost never dream , although I am sure I do dream every night, just that when I wake up I have no recollection, perhaps if it was an intense dream then I may sense if it was a sad dream or a happy dream, but rarely do I remember anything specific. I've always wondered if this is normal.

thanks for sharing, had a quick couple of follow up questions, how do you unsubscribe from paying monthly rent ? also did you get married and have kids ? if yes how did they factor in to your life ?

This seems to be available only in US unfortunately. https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/28/amazon-prime-members-can-c...

I would highly recommend reading this collection of essays compiled into a book titled "Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Gravitation" There was a competition for anyone to explain Einstein's work for the layman and a lot of people wrote essays to win the $5000 prize, this book has the top essays that were chosen and really helped me get a grip on the idea of relativity.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Einstein_s_Theories_of_...

Whats up with Apple's QA lately, update issues, the other issue with third party apps not working, I was really looking forward to try out the new safari (with all the promised battery life improvements). sigh