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sparseMatrix

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Amateur Radio Guy (General Class Ticket), Python Programmer, UX implementor, Father, Husband of 25 years, Brewer, Technologist, Home Chef, Linux/Unix Whitebeard, Buddhist, Artist, Maker, Guitarist, Sailor, Generally Pervy Old Bastard.

Champion of Reason, Logic, and Philosophy.
Antifascist Punk.

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sparseMatrix,
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This message would be a lot more useful if you said something about what you removed, because I have no idea what you're talking about, or why you thought it inappropriate for m/politics

sparseMatrix,
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@Anomander

I've had kbin show me a 500 once or twice, but it was because my ethernet cable had slipped the socket.

I've gotten more complex custom errors of indeterminate type, generally when posting, but typically the error is in error, as the post completes as expected.

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@Anomander

This is the second error I described.

However, I was not trying to tell you what error you experienced, only offering my experience for comparison, or to add to the list of things you're hearing about.

Cheers and Good Luck

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@realcaseyrollins

I mean, there's a lot of motivation to not do anything with twitter but stay away from it

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@inkican

Babylon 5 was the show I wanted to like, knew I was supposed to like, was literally made for me by people who's work I freaking loved elsewhere; but as much as I wanted it to, it just never really spoke to me.

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I told my wife this morning, I think his lil plan is to go on TV for this press conference, declare the whole thing a witch hunt, claim it's because Jack Smith and all his mean judge friends have a boner for Trump, and everything's fine, it's all a sham.

He'll think this completely absolves him, because he has come out and told 'the truth' and all, and he'll waddle off back to Mar-a-lago, where the Deputies will be waiting for him.

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@oforgetaboutit

The Russian Embassy in Sweden, in a rude comment, confirmed the strike on the Swedish company SKF’s plant in Lutsk

So I am told.

That's really not the point though, is it.

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@Haus

Our household video consumption is pretty evenly balanced between broadcast and streaming.

#FuckCable

sparseMatrix, to kbinMeta
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How do I make a multipart post in a magazine?

I just tried posting the series of parts to my /mag, they showed up in reverse order in the microblog? WTF?

Please, if there is some advantage to this microblog thing, I'd love to know what is, and also how to make a post in my own magazine that does not feature a link.

'Threads/Microblog/People/Magazines' is where simplicity goes sideways in this webapp. It is not obvious what those things are; the couple of guides I've found don't discuss this focal point of confusion.

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@djidane535

Interesting but not really helpful. I found something in a recent FAQ that says I should add an article instead of a post, but the option to add an article is not on the menu on my instance, as it is in their screenie

Also I'm a mastodon user, and my account there is the focus of my microblogging activity. The user there follows this account, so my posts here, show up there. The short story is, the microblog here is essentially a right pain in my ass.

At least now I know what it is.

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@djidane535

Actually, it took a minute to sink in, but that is very helpful. Thanks for enduring my morning dimness :D

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@Pamasich

@djidane535

It's cool, user @djidane535 dropped some truth on me, and it finally soaked in.

I'll probably end up with some user scripts, or a browser extension, but I'm holding back until I know more about the ecosystem, what's useful, etc.

sparseMatrix,
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Sarcasm, you should check it out.

Also, body text is descriptive or commentary, not editorializing; the title is the original title.

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Latest update from AJC is that the Fulton County Website briefly served a Trump charging document, featuring a Racketeering Charge, and 18 others. It was quickly removed, apparently posted by mistake.

#news

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@fiat_lux

"Rivals on the world stage"

Does not refer to individuals

Bit dense, are ya...

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@CoffeeAddict

He's facing consequences now. The conspiracy trial he was trying to have moved to January just got it's schedule compressed down to 'today', the hearing got immediate billing, all witnesses were heard immediately and state organized crime charges leveled instanter.

This is, "having fucked around" he has now "found out".

"Trial" is incorrect. In my excitement I conflated "trial" and "hearing". That I got it wrong before coffe though, doesn't change how fucked this guy is.

Edited accordingly.

Addendum:
There are warrants out for him and 18 accomplices. They have 3 days grace to turn themselves in. Anyone who doesn't turn themselves in by then will be subject to arrest.

They gave him enough time with socmed to finish hanging himself.

"You love to see it, especially late in the summer."

sparseMatrix,
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This should be the one that gets him jailed. My guess is, it'll be a significant fine; but any of us would be in jail already.

sparseMatrix,
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WOOPS, it's witness tampering in the state trial, not the federal one. Prior comment still applies.

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@andyburke

@style99 @AmidFuror @wagesj45 @ForestOrca

It's what Trolls do in order to misdirect the energy in a discussion. Don't feed 'em.

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@explodingkitchen

My gut reaction when I first heard this story break was simply 'Giuliani'.

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@kelvin0mql

As my dad used to say, "You can't live with a grizzly bear. One of you will have to go."

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@CookieJarObserver

It doesn't seem like it would be, does it...

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@kelvin0mql

It's possible to draw parallels like that everywhere all over the bible; and it's not because of 'omg prophesy'

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@gk99

@nuke

"They always do" - I'm not talking skirmishes here.

I also do not disagree about the mindset. But that mindset has been well and contuously fed and watered; cultivated

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@anon6789

Me neither guy, and I find it tragic that somehow these fucks that cultivate these attitudes are even allowed in government when really they should be in the jail.

sparseMatrix,
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It's added by the software, its how everyone gets the replies

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@anon6789

@FaceDeer

My dude, your logic. Yet somehow, you arrive in the right place.

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@LevZadov

@kelvin0mql @be_excellent_to_each_other @FaceDeer

Not even going there right now. It is an adjacent issue.

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@Bizarroland

@kelvin0mql

You are saying something I've been saying for years. In fact, it was my parent's generation who I saw anticipating armaggeddon, and they expected it in the year 2000. It's what the lyrics of 'Party Like It's 1999' are all about.

I get the idea that when it didn't happen that way, it surprised a lot of them, and eventually pissed off a bunch of them. They felt like they'd been cheated out of the second coming, or something.

While my parents are passed now, and didn't really share the perspective anyway, I think there are still a bunch of these grizzled old assholes around, ready to see it all burn before they croak, just so they can be around when it happened.

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@readbeanicecream

I'm no authority, but I love this stuff. I read Dr. Hawking's book "A Brief History of Time", and it was not problematic for me.

My takeaway is that a black hole is a sort of manifold. It would follow that if there is a way into it, and stuff going into it, the stuff must be coming out somewhere.

The question is where that stuff comes out, and in what form, and when, in it's local time frame.

I had always envisioned this hypothetical 'other side' as a white hole. It seems like, since we haven't observed any white holes, that the exits must be elsewhere.

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@exscape

@readbeanicecream

By definition, a manifold has a place where things go in, and other things come out. So yes, it does in fact logically follow. If its a manifold, then it logically follows that what goes in comes out.

You're saying we know a bunch of stuff I'm not certain we know.

My understanding is that by definition, the singularity has infinite mass and infinite gravity, so there is no way it can gain mass; because infinity + 1 = infinity. It's the very nature of infinities. You can have a number of infinities, but manipulating them arithmetically always yields infinity. 2 x infinity = infinity. 3 / infinity = infinity.

Like zero, it is more identity than number. 0 = nothing, infinity = everything.

So if you hope to have me follow your narrative, you're going to address this assertion concerning increasing the mass of black holes first.

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@exscape

@readbeanicecream

A couple examples of manifolds:

  • exhaust manifold on combustion engine takes raw cylinder exhaust gases in pipes that all come down and combine into a single larger pipe that connects to the input of a catalytic converter.
  • the plenum in your attic is a manifold. One big duct runs from your air handler into a box with several ducts coming from it, delivering air to each of the vents. the ducts and the plenum form a manifold.

In literature, it means 'many and various'.

In mathematics, "a collection of points forming a certain kind of set, such as those of a topologically closed surface or an analog of this in three or more dimensions"

In Kantian philosophy, "the sum of the particulars furnished by sense before they have been unified by the synthesis of the understanding"

Origins: Old English manigfeald ; current noun senses date from the mid 19th century.

All from the wikipedia

They all have some descriptive relevance, but the one that really counts for us is the math one, suggesting the closed surface.

It wouldn't surprise me though if it still worked; there are many examples of topologically closed surfaces that can still be traversed, if in unexpected ways. I'm thinking of another manifold, the klein bottle, and of course the mobieus strip.

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@FfaerieOxide

@readbeanicecream @exscape

Thank you for linking that! I knew I had read that they could be, but I couldn't recall where. It might not have been Scientific American, but that'll do XD

While clearly they can be, infinity == infinity is still true, If I recall.

Also, I've got some simple problems with that crate analogy, Scientific American or not; any crate with an infinite number of anything inside it cannot be emptied, it's in the very definition of infinite. Consequently, neither crate will ever empty and the pairing will be an infinite pairing of apples and oranges.

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@exscape

@readbeanicecream

Also Idk what you are talking about nobody believing there's an actual singularity; I don't know what else you think is happening, or of what use the mathematics might be if it doesn't approach some degree of accuracy as concerns the physical character of the phenomena

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@Sodis

@readbeanicecream @exscape

According to my understanding, beyond the event horizon, gravity is infinite.

I am not a physicist - I'm a guy who read Prof. Hawking. Given the nature of llight vis a vis observation, inside the singularity, mass and gravity approach infinity.

Mass bends spacetime into gravity. Gravity bends light. Infinite mass > infinite gravity > stops light == singularity.

Note that things happening near the singularity are not the same as things that happen beyond the event horizon.

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@kjr

can't happen fast enough or cheap enough.

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@kjr

Not helping much here in Texas, though.

What Does Dark Matter Look Like? The Euclid Telescope Could Reveal It Soon (www.syfy.com)

We’re not even really sure about the nature and origin of all the inanimate stuff in the universe, not to mention any potential people. All of your favorite parts of the cosmos, from stars and planets to supernovae and black holes, is made of ordinary matter and accounts for only about 5 percent of what’s actually out there....

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@inkican

Dark matter looks like nothing, because that's what it is. Euclid will see a lot of things, but not dark matter. It is not a substance, it is a descriptive term for a breakdown in Newton-Einstein Gravitational Dynamics.

The new dynamic is the Milgromian Gravitational Dynamic.

https://scitechdaily.com/conclusive-evidence-for-modified-gravity-collapse-of-newtons-and-einsteins-theories-in-low-acceleration/?expand_article=1&expand_article=1

Incidentaly, this is not science fiction.

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