That explains a lot.

Or perhaps it runs backward, relative to the universe you just left behind.

Yes. Already verified experimentally.

There are conjectures that every universe (and there are many) is the interior of a black hole. And that physical properties (like time, for example) are discontinuous at the event horizon. Both looking in and from the inside, looking out.

Time, for a traveler heading toward an event horizon, appear to slow down to observers sitting back a ways, watching. So, to the traveller, time in the universe left behind would accelerate. Their trip would seem normal, but the universe they see in their rear view mirror would die due to entropy/heat death and cease to exist as they crossed the horizon. The arrow of time would reduce to zero as they actually reached the horizon*. But once inside (if they survive) the observation would have to be considered relative to the flow of time inside. They might stop accelerating toward the hypothesized singularity at the center and begin decellerating as they travelled into the new universe. Consisting of a distributed but lumpy centerless mass with no singularity. Just as our universe is.

*Particles for whom there is no arrow of time in our universe are called photons. So, passing the event horizon probably involves a matter to energy conversion. Probably not survivable, IMO.

pYeah, right. Topologists don't know the difference between a cup of coffee and a donut.

Would that the City of Seattle take the same position on fentanyl.

Well, before AI, data centers were just another customer of the local utility. So, the "exact same regulations, environmental and otherwise" was sort of a given. That starts to break down when the DCs build and operate their own power plants.

The whole "Aunt Millie in upstate New York buys her power from a New Mexico solar plant" is sort of bullshit. When she turns her lights on, that power comes from Indian Point.

I worked for an outfit that considered this as a metric. At the staff meeting where this was brought up, I commented that this was unfair. I wrote mostly in C. And all my programs were one line long.

Yeah. Somewhere along the line, Gamestop was seduced by the market manipulation angle. It seems that they have not yet gotten such ideas out of their heads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSh0dAaqIA

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Like TFS said, dust control. So it evaporated or percolated into the ground.

... has been brought to you by your cities arts council. Who want the mandatory funding for the arts increased.

Just what we need. Another piece of avant-garde sculpture. Like the one in the lobby of our city hall. That disappeared over one weekend. An investigation led to a building janitor who thought it was construction debris and threw it out.

What if you have a job that you enjoy and involves being creative? Figure out what you enjoy doing and get a job doing that.

Now you'll have to excuse me. Amazon just delivered a 20 ton marble block. And I've got to go and chisel something out of it. A David, perhaps. Or maybe a Trump.

This is a great argument in favor of the UNIX philosophy.

[Is that Poettering sneaking out the side door?]

Why sign up with an ID service in Montenegro?

Printer is IPv6 only? How would it even work if my home network were "stuck on" IPv4?

I can understand the remote printing (not on the same network) part. But only up to the point where something jams and I'm not there to yank the plug and untangle it before it gets hopelessly borked.