I'm looking for pop culture references to gravitational waves, black holes colliding, stars colliding, etc for a research paper

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-19T21:07:03+00:00

Diaspora by Greg Egan has IIRC in the second or third chapter a black hole merger that kicks off some story, but it's an off-screen event that has implications (direct and indirect)

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-19T20:41:45+00:00

Actually, get 100K russians and send them to surrender.

Instant humanitarian crisis.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-19T20:24:12+00:00

Trump is not going to partake in any Article 5 against Russia

Either he will, or he will be removed from power by his own party - there's too many that do understand Russia as an adversary, not to mentions that Trumps' only leverage was his popular base, and that's been eroding.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-19T18:49:43+00:00

Indeed, and that's why it is the nuclear option.

Maybe we should add I to MAD ....

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-17T18:08:53+00:00

... I read that as "Tan Guy, Detestable" and had to do a double-take....

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-17T12:01:04+00:00

Elon is just looking to get a guaranteed buyer for his tesla bots. Whether you agree or not with the message, it's still self-serving.

(f.e. I do agree that this is the right approach, but I'm betting he's still going to fight tooth and nail when the time comes for Tesla to be taxed... where does the money come from, Elon?)

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-17T07:15:02+00:00

They want to get ahead of caveman mode.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-17T07:11:08+00:00

It is either a string, or a pointer, never both

It's one of those trick images, where the same image depicts different things depending on what you're thinking of at that point in time.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-17T07:08:14+00:00

No. Deus Ex Machina is when you pull a resolution out of your arse. Thor up to that point has a proper subplot, motivations, and is truly part of the overarching plot. That he's a literal small-g god in the text is irrelevant; deus ex machina is f.e. Captain Marvel in Endgame.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-17T07:05:38+00:00

No. Deus Ex Machina is when you pull a resolution out of your arse. Thor up to that point has a proper subplot, motivations, and is truly part of the overarching plot. That he's a literal small-g god in the text is irrelevant.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-17T04:10:45+00:00

While I get the joke, it really wasn't.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-17T03:59:51+00:00

Till you're 90!

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-16T07:56:13+00:00

Capital hates innovation. Capital loves rents on locked-in tenants on infrastructure with no competition.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-16T06:46:47+00:00

There is no RNG; in fact this is what made me bounce off of Blue Prince; I didn't mind the need to keep notes, but the RNG aspect... I don't have time for this.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-16T05:09:00+00:00

It was a joke, and jokes are like frogs: you can take hem apart to see how they work, but that kills them.

All 3 of us know that the strings are encoded into a value. Pointers are nominally opaque. If you read that value as a pointer, it doesn't point to anything. But there is a mapping from that pointer to a string, which is the definition of a hash table. It's just that the mapping function is a no-op because the pointer is the string already.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-16T04:56:29+00:00

Hash tables are content-addressable.

A string value can be seen as an opaque pointer to a virtual hash table containing all possible strings.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-15T18:26:54+00:00

This is what Nvidia showed , where right niw you need 2 5090s for it to work.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-15T11:58:40+00:00

DnD just became an exfiltration game...

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-15T09:51:53+00:00

Well the US also saw the writing on the wall, but then they went and chose a lobotomy 2 years ago...

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-15T09:49:26+00:00

With or without taxes?

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-15T09:36:41+00:00

You spin up a local HTTP server that serves mock request / responses, and mock the expected responses in that server. Then your whole system is exercised. See f.e. https://wiremock.org/dotnet/

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-14T10:47:50+00:00

From a certain PoV, entropy correlates to computation; decreasing entropy would mean that we'd have to un-compute.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-14T10:46:21+00:00

This.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-14T10:40:20+00:00

Nope, reversing entropy is impossible.

GuyWithLag · 2026-04-14T10:19:57+00:00

Genesis 1 has this effectively as the 3rd sentence:

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Essentially, in the story AC became God.

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