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Comment Just a napkin calculation (Score 1) 12

The Vela pulsar is said to have a surface diameter of 12 miles. So, any point on its surface along the rotational equator, assuming rigidity, mass is moving hella fast. (2 pi (6 miles)) / ((1 / 11) seconds) = 667379 m/s That's about 0.2% of C, vs a point at its rotational pole. It's roughly 4x the fastest manmade object, the Parker probe, reaching 148000 m/s briefly while it did a gravity slingshot maneuver.

Comment Re:Pros don't buy top gear, consumers do (Score 1) 129

> I have a 6 year old MacBook Pro. I can barely tell it apart from the latest models, performance-wise.

You're a Pro and you can't see a performance difference between an i9 MBP and an M1 MBP? It's huge.

But as an alternative just touch both computers and you'll be able to tell by the temperature.

Comment Re: Any growth is at the cost of another buyer... (Score 1) 327

Again you thiinking as someone who hasnâ(TM)t experienced what Iâ(TM)m describing. Iâ(TM)m not discussing it makes sense Iâ(TM)m explaining it to you because you donâ(TM)t know it.

As I explained to you getting other currencies is regulated, and storing gold or cash at home is very unsafe.

But your first world reality is the only valid one right?

Comment Re: Any growth is at the cost of another buyer... (Score 1) 327

It does not.

Youâ(TM)re just seeing it with the eyes of (privilege) someone who never had to save in a high inflation currency in a country that prohibits buying foreign currencies. If you had lived in such a situation youâ(TM)d know cryptos offer a way out of being killed by inflation.

Thereâ(TM)s a reason why cryptos have been embraced more heavily in countries where the state is more oppressive.

Comment Re:Swift (Score 1) 98

> ObjectiveC is a MUCH, MUCH better language, but it's very hard to find work making apps in it these days.

As someone who has worked for the last 12 years as a full time iOS developer... ObjC is inmensely inferior to Swift in so many ways, the bigger one probably being the lack of optionals.

Because of optionals alone, pure Swift codebases deal away (almost entirely if it wasn't for IUOs) with what's the number 1 issue in ObjC, which is `nil` object exceptions.

And even if you disregard the technical advantages, the syntax is so much nicer and easier to read (and this is coming from someone who once thought ObjC was great!).

How is ObjC superior to Swift in any way?

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