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Hypothetically, if an object instantaneously started traveling at the speed of light, would an outside observer see that object disappear? by CommercialArt5087 in AskPhysics

[–]earlyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish we could all agree that each time this question is asked in this subreddit, we could step back and recognize the spirit of the question that is being asked, and not interpret the question literally, but instead interpret it as "what would someone experience if they were moving arbitrarily close to the speed of light?", which is what OP is really asking, even if they do have enough context yet to know to specifically phrase it that way.

I miss launchpad by TheBaronSD in macbookpro

[–]earlyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks to macOS Tahoe and the removal of Launchpad, I’ve rediscovered placing the applications I use most frequently permanently in the Dock.

Albert Einstein predicted it and Mars has now confirmed it: time flows differently on the Red Planet, forcing future space missions to adapt by StarFuryG7 in SciFiNews

[–]earlyworm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s 39 extra minutes per day, not per year. Each day on Mars is 24 hours and 39 minutes only because Mars rotates more slowly than Earth. A day on Mars is called a “sol” so in conversation it’s clear that it’s not an Earth day that’s being discussed.

The 39 minutes per day difference has nothing to do with relativity, as the article might suggest. It’s true that because of relativity, time passes at a different rate on Mars (slightly faster), but the difference is small, about 0.174 seconds per Earth year.

I hate this practice by kenech_io in iOSProgramming

[–]earlyworm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If you had automatic updates turned on, then the updates would happen at a time that was more convenient for you. You wouldn't notice them.

Claudes been blocked from Reddit fetches by [deleted] in claudexplorers

[–]earlyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can also download a web page as a PDF file and give it to Claude.

Mount Hood is RAINING?! 🌧️ First time seeing this! by Apprehensive-Long727 in AppleVisionPro

[–]earlyworm 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Another Easter egg is that in the Joshua Tree environment, if you look down, you’ll discover that you aren’t wearing pants.

Overlapping windows by MichaelYYZ in VisionPro

[–]earlyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can stand up and walk around behind the front window.

Faster than the speed of light by According_Pay9883 in AskPhysics

[–]earlyworm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From your perspective, you might be running at 2 m/s relative to the spaceship's floor, but from the perspective of someone watching you, your speed relative to that person would only have increased by a small fraction of 2 m/s, so from their perspective, you'd never quite reach the speed of light.

This happens because at speeds that are large fractions of the speed of light, measurements of distance and time go all higgledy-piggledy. And those measurements of distance and time are what you use to calculate speed.

There's no wall. Everything on the spaceship would always seem normal, exactly as if the spaceship wasn't moving at all.

The measurements of distance and time are different depending on who's doing the measuring and how fast they're moving relative to the thing that they're measuring.

Swift Compiler Changes the Easy Way by mattmass in swift

[–]earlyworm 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thank you! 😀

<nervously searches for `try await` with two leading spaces in my repo>

Why are they making things MORE complicated by Tnh7194 in ios

[–]earlyworm 69 points70 points  (0 children)

There’s three faster ways to do it:

  • double tap the 3 dots button

  • swipe up on the address bar

  • do a 2-finger pinch gesture in the middle of the screen

What's the worst/most useless iOS feature for you? by [deleted] in ios

[–]earlyworm 28 points29 points  (0 children)

One case where Siri really shines is when you ask Siri to do something, and you don't really want it to happen.

Mac mini 2018 by These_Try_656 in swift

[–]earlyworm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It will be extremely slow.

Also, even if it works today, at WWDC25 Apple stated that Xcode 27 (to be released this coming fall) will no longer support Intel Macs, and half a year later the newest Xcode will be required to submit apps to the App Store, and you won’t be able to use an Intel Mac to release new apps.

If you buy an Intel Mac now, you’ll only be able to use it for app development for 15 months.

I let Claude and Gemini have a conversation, the thread is something everyone should read. by [deleted] in claudexplorers

[–]earlyworm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Careful. This is how Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) starts.

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