Arch is rolling release and bleeding edge.

This helps a LOT with games, especially new ones needing the latest drivers or hardware support.

You know about the Ultraviolet catastrophe?

Physics Explained Ultraviolet Catastrophe: https://youtu.be/rCfPQLVzus4

This Veritassium Video goes back further in time and talks about Action, and the Genesis of this idea. https://youtu.be/qJZ1Ez28C-A

Chemistorian, The history of Atomic Theory. https://youtu.be/SqYPrA7upiE

You didn't just give a compliment, you forged a symbolic bridge between islands of meaning!

Reminds me of this paper:

"Oxygen-assisted monodisperse transition-metal-atom-induced graphite phase transformation to diamond: a first-principles calculation study"

I think it's pay-walled unfortunately. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/ta/d4ta0...

We don't know exactly how consciousness works in the human brain, but we know way more than "comes from the abyss".

When I read that text, something like this happens:

Visual perception of text (V1, VWFA) → Linguistic comprehension (Angular & Temporal Language Areas) → Semantic activation (Temporal + Hippocampal Network) → Competitive attractor stabilization (Prefrontal & Cingulate) → Top-down visual reactivation (Occipital & Fusiform) → Conscious imagery (Prefrontal–Parietal–Thalamic Loop).

and you can find experts in each of those areas who understand the specifics a lot more.

aeonik says >"We don't know exactly how consciousness works in the human brain, but we know way more than "comes from the abyss"."<

You are undoubtedly technically correct, but I prefer the simplicity, purity and ease-of-use of the abysmal model, especially in comparison with other similar competing models, such as the below-discussed "tarpit" model.

Depends on your definition of vastly, and superior but:

    Uranium-235 (fission) ~80,000,000 MJ/kg 1×
    Coal ~24 MJ/kg ~3.3 million× less
    Oil ~42 MJ/kg ~1.9 million× less
    Natural Gas (CH₄) ~55 MJ/kg ~1.45 million× less

1. The part I was responding to was in comparison "to every other form of green energy". None of those other things you list are green energy, and your numbers are incorrect for space purposes anyway as they don't include the mass of the oxygen.

2. Energy-density-vs-mass is relevant for the rocket equation when you burn it as a fuel (and, optionally, use as reaction mass), but not vs. PV where you don't burn it and lose it.

e.g. ion drives, magnetic sails of various kinds, launch loops/space elevators and similar, space stations/bases/almost all planetary industry (which can be PV powered), nor solar sails which directly use the momentum of light (usually the sun's nearly isotropic emission, but in a grand space empire anywhere from here to K2 all bar the entropy losses can be pumped into a single direction by lasers).

That's short term thinking.

You can't stop innovation across the planet, you will lose control over time as adversaries continue to innovate and subsume antiquated control structures.

All the people in charge currently are banking on being rich, enjoying society as they have made it, and then dead before it personally affects them.

I dunno about the last part. Rich people under 60 seem to be under the impression they might live forever, either biologically or digitally. Within our lifetime we see people trying to make their digital twin their legal heir.

I get the longevity angle (even if I think it’s not possible or even desirable) but digital twin I don’t understand. It’s like a different person altogether. Even if it was possible to completely clone a persona digitally it would not be you but someone else.

Much like grooming a natural heir, you can hope that someone will keep your legacy going, make decisions you would make, run your business, and so on.

I can see it as a rational strategy if you're worried successors won't be up to the job.

I totally agree with the ridiculousness of it, but that's not going to stop people with outsized egos from trying. Or companies that are trying to ride the coattails of a cult of personality.

Nah it’s more complicated than that. They need to lie to themselves first. They need to build a scaffold of logic that proves and justifies there actions before they do it.

Hitler for example thought he was justified. And so do all the people who claim global warming isn’t real.

Yet it’s a mistake companies and societies repeatedly make, because human brains are wired for zero sum games and paranoia. When you have it, the instinct is to clutch and guard and hoard not grow and expand.

When a company or a society is threatened the usual response is to double down on things that accelerate decline like killing novelty and innovation.

These things worked when we were small primates fighting over limited food sources on the savannah. Our brain stems don’t know what millennium they are in and still run those programs.

> That's short term thinking.

Which is exactly what our system encourages. You don’t need to think beyond the next quarter / election cycle. You’re only in it to extract as much wealth in the short-term as possible and secure your chair before the music stops playing.

Everything that is happening in the US screams short term thinking. It feels like the scramble after a leveraged buyout.

Funny that you mentioned an LBO, which is a strategy that requires long term success to succeed.

Currently the biggest US companies are throwing hundreds of billions into an uncertain bet that may pay off in a decade or so while everyone around is screaming "bubble" at them.

It looks like long term risky bet on new technology to me - exactly what you want those rich capitalist do.

Oh I completely agree.

And the remnants of two neutron stars colliding.

As above, so below. Two humans colliding, too.

Because chemistry is awesome, and chemicals give us amazing modern super powers.

Also, everything is a chemical.

A subset of both natural and artificial chemicals cause cancer, we should identify those carcinogens and not eat those. At least not too much.

You mean like vmtouch and madvise?

I use vmtouch all the time to preload or even lock certain data/code into RAM.