My first intro to this idea was in Frank Herbert's "Hellstrom's Hive" from 1973. That book would make an awesome movie; sure wish someone had done so.

In many ways, antimatter particles look like regular particles moving backwards in time. As an armchair cosmologist with a truly BS in math, I wonder if the direction of time's arrow is why we have matter rather than antimatter, or both, in our universe? Further, if time and a particular direction swap places across event horizons, can the cross product of those two dimensions gimbal around another dimension, producing a unique version of matter-antimatter pairs in each blackhole interior/new inside of a new universe? Basically. does the direction in time that you are traveling thru a quantum field determine the properties of the particle (wavicle) produced by that field?

You're not alone on that one. Purposeful ambiguity increases click-thru I suppose. Do you think msmash has that sort of finesse?

I would classify neither HPE or Juniper's networking gear as "expensive buggy crap." Both of them produce fantastic equipment and have for decades.

Agreed completely.

Still with you.

Err... what? There's no "for free" involved, that's where the whole "earn income to support your life" bit comes in.

By all means, don't make your job your life--there are certainly better things out there. But being asked by your employer to give a fuck and put some effort in is certainly not a bridge too far.

Perhaps his kid is working those long hours not just to earn money but to, at least in his mind, to help build his career.

Or, maybe, he's at a promising startup that's yet to release a product (let alone go public) and has gobs of stock options and he's not really working "shifts" but ends up working those sorts of hours to help make the company the next Alphabet so he will be a centi-millionaire or better. Paying a dog walker is pretty cheap if that's the case.

Or, maybe, he's earning a lot per hour and much more than he could make elsewhere but a requirement of the job is to work those long hours so leaving "early" would cost him his job, not just a few hours pay a week.

Not everyone punches a time clock and only does so to earn an hour's pay.

My wife and I figured that out during covid. We were both "essential" employees and by the time we took care of work and our two children, we had no time for anything else. Our dogs were living shitty lives and it killed us to do it but we rehomed them. I was upset about it but after it was done, I was even more upset that we hadn't done it sooner... because we let them live those shitty lives while we kept on keeping on trying to figure things out.

This is just plain incorrect.

The freaking summary points out that "Tech giants Microsoft, Google, and Amazon plan to spend $80 billion, $85 billion, and $100 billion respectively this year on AI infrastructure." That's a quarter trillion dollars worth of infrastructure (that has not a thing to do with bitcoin or EVs) which is going to require a shit ton of power.

On a more personal and anecdotal note, I work for a company that serves the power industry and one of our customers (a gas turbine manufacturer) will be increasing their capacity by more than 3x over the next five years--this is not speculative, they have already taken the orders, their capacity is booked through the end of the decade, and the reason is the datacenter boom. Most of our other customers are dealing with similar growth and their stated reasoning is the same.

Spellchecker failure: What's a Uninerse?

Time runs faster in the middle of a void than anywhere else in the universe. I'd like to see a map of how old the universe is based on local density. If we are in a void, we are ahead of the universal average, but how far? I doubt this has much bearing on the Drake Equation, but it's nice to imagine that we are some of the first lifeforms to attain self awareness and technological skills. Either way, a documentary describing the lifetime of a photon as it travels between voids and galactic cores would be fascinating. What does the uninerse look like from each of these places?

Saw a clip from a thread recently. Some guy said "If men didn't exist, who would protect you?"

A woman replied "Protect me from who?"

Almost certainly.

This is far less likely, and in fact whoever they interconnect with probably ends up paying higher rates than they do today.

They won't hold or harass you. They'll simply say "Entry denied. Your flight home is at 2:00. Have a nice day." and your expensive vacation or business trip is now ended. Congratulations on the self-own.

They don't care. It's that simple; their strategy is all about maximizing short term profits and there is no interest in "next generations" or any other kind of market growth.

This is... utterly untrue.

Reperforming the song is not going to change the end date of the copyright of the work by a single day. The copyright term was fixed when it was created (if a corporate work) or when the author dies (typically 70 years from that date) for anything for the last half century or so.

As an example: Bohemian Rhapsody was written by Freddie Mercury who died in 1991. The copyright is going to expire in 2061 and no amount of re-recording will change that.