The article states "the reactor is often called an "artificial sun" on account of the enormous heat and power it produces".

No. It's called an "artificial sun" because it's an attempt at replicating the nuclear fusion process that powers the sun and other stars.

-1 for misleading physics vulgarisation.

if a tweet is true.

There are other models that are somewhat "simpler", notably an idea elaborated over several years by Jean-Pierre Petit, that negative mass could explain the structures we observe. https://januscosmologicalmodel....

In that model, negative mass would accumulate outside of the visible universe, interact very weakly with photons except in slowing them down and artificially aging distant galaxies with some extra red shift. More relevant here, it would "repel" galaxies, adding a second term that Petit claims is consistent with observations.

This has not gained much traction in the scientific community, where many consider Petit as illegitimate or simply wrong. Having dug a little into the model myself, I found it wanting on many aspects, but at least as far as the large-scale structures of the universe are concerned, some numerical simulation seem quite interesting to explore further, notably Petit's simulation demonstrating how his model makes spiral galaxies much more stable that they would be without negative mass.

Scott Adams, famous for being the author of Dilbert cartoons, and also a solid supporter of Trump, has some very interesting things to say about this in his latest video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?....

This video lists a number of actual scientific articles showing that masks don't really work, and worse, bad masks increase the risk of infection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I've tried to find similar scientific studies proving that masks do work in the context of something like COVID, and so far, I was rather unsuccessful. It's unfortunate that the original post cites as scientific evidence an article that provides weak evidence, if at all, for the efficacy of masks.

Anybody who really believes HCQ is unproven is being manipulated. There are few treatments that are know as well as this one. I have yet to see any MD testify that they tried it and it did not work. There are many testimonies that show how efficient it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Also, hydroxychloroquine is hardly new or "unproven".

https://cdn.qmap.pub/images/20...

The red pill is about knowing the truth, both in the movie and in "alt right memes" (translation: any idea that is incompatible with far-left ideology).

Red-pilling obviously has nothing to do with misogyny, although depicting it as such is typical of a class of mind-control tactics that rely on emotions. Specifically, triggering an emotion has the "interesting" effect that it lowers your #Q and destroy your ability to analyze rationally. Interesting for the manipulator, that is.

This is the basis for race baiting, for appeals to "mansplaining" or "misgendering" or "big money" or "alt-blah", for sleeping giants and other attempts at censorship, for anything that portrays the other side as deserving hate, scorn, mockery, for being such sub-humans that they deserve to be silenced, removed from society, deprived of their rights and treated like monsters. "Smelly Wall-Mart shoppers" also fits in that category.

All are ad-hominem attacks of the lowest sort. But they are convenient tactics, sometimes even a strategy, when you have insufficient facts to support your side. No facts? Emotions will save us, our safe spaces will save us, we take the blue pill.

It's unfortunate that Slashdot filters this kind of blatant manipulation less and less from their stories.

And the semi-colons toohttps://c3d.github.io/xl/

(WIP, it's vaporware at the moment).

It's probably a good idea to re-think about the programming language too to take advantage of Moore's law to write and generate better, more concise code.

Current WIP: https://c3d.github.io/xl/

I agree with the general sentiment. My own answer to this was something called "concept programming", which focuses on the translation of ideas into code. The following presentation gives an outline of what this means and a few early results: http://xlr.sourceforge.net/Con....

From that I derived a concept programming language called XL, https://github.com/c3d/XL. Which keeps evolving too fast to ever stabilize. Two semi-stable variants emerged, however, one called Tao3D for interactive real-time animations (http://tao3d.sourceforge.net), one for distributed programming and the Internet of Things (https://github.com/c3d/elfe).

Both variants demonstrate, technically, how well the concept programming approach works, and how well it answers the original posters questions. However, nobody cares. None of these languages ever reached a "good enough" status, i.e. a status where you can really make a living out of programming them.

I'm still working on this, though, and I still believe that the original idea is sound. It just needs more focus on execution, ironing out all the details (e.g. having a complete runtime support library), building a community, etc, things I never really had enough resources to do well enough.

The poster posits a very materialistic view as being self-evident. In reality, it's very restrictive.

Postulating that there is no soul but only a physical state of gray matter is a bit like postulating that there is no software but only bit states in the transistors of a computer. It seems self-evident, and it's true in a very restricted sense. But at the same time, it's clearly the best way to completely misunderstand what software or soul are.

In France, for a couple of years, we had a "Camp d'été décolonial" (Uncolonial Summer Camp, I kid you not) organized for people who have to suffer "institutional state racism", which is interpreted as "anybody but white". See https://www.marianne.net/socie....

I am all against racism. But you don't fight racism against black people by making a virtue of racism against white people.

A few years back, I stopped using Firefox after Brendan Eich was attacked and ultimately evicted from his role as Mozilla CEO just for having dared giving $1000 to proposition 8 a few years earlier.

I left Twitter and Facebook a few months ago after witnessing active censorship and speech control myself, and noticed that these companies were obviously using political orientation as a primary criterion for account suspension. Based on my experience, leaning right put your accounts more at risk than harassing or assaulting women on-line, or even blatantly recruiting for ISIS.

Now I have to consider replacing Google with alternatives too for the same kind of bullshit?

All these are attacks on freedom of though and freedom of speech, plain and simple. What's wrong with Silicon Valley? Do you think freedom is an option or what?

So attributing "the gender gap in technology to biology-based differences in abilities" is "allow stereotyping and harmful assumptions", but it's somehow OK to write that "male gender roles remain highly inflexible, and that this is a bug, not a feature"? The way that whole thing is playing si a good example of applying a ridiculous amount of social pressure to ignore actual data or belittle minority opinions.

Not yet. There is no news reader and no M-x doctor in systemd yet.