Infinitesimal fractions of a second. It is difficult to even conceive the forces that occur near a black hole.

Gravity on Earth is 1 g. A black hole with a mass equivalent to our Sun would have a gravitational force of around 1.6 trillion g. A very fast car like a Tesla Model S can accelerate at 1 g. A really fast missile can accelerate at 100 g. The gravity at the event horizon would accelerate every atom in the theoretical 10 km capsule 1.6 trillion times faster than a Tesla Model S, and hundreds of billions of times faster than the fastest rocket you can imagine.

The reality is that no capsule we could ever hope to construct would survive even approaching the event horizon, much less passing it and returning. No matter in the entire universe could survive it.

No, it is theoretically impossible. Gravity beyond the event horizon is powerful enough to tear matter apart. As in, literally rip atoms apart. No material, no matter how exotic could ever be used to lower anything into a black hole. It would literally tear anything apart, atom by atom.

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I say you ain't foolin anybody with that prosthetic eye.

I think on a very long time scale, the direct manipulation of the gravitational force (within a single frame of reference) is the most significant discovery mankind has yet to make. This technology would change everything.

It would be the greatest enabler on our path toward becoming an interstellar species. It would also revolutionize life here on Earth. With the ability to manipulate gravity, everything from travel to manufacturing would be forever changed in similar ways that manipulating the electromagnetic force changed our world.

Gravity is the only fundamental force humans are unable to directly manipulate. Tackling that problem is the most fundamental and significant problem we have yet to solve.

Crypto and blockchain remind me of NoSQL. When NoSQL hit the developer sphere, you couldn't be blamed for getting the sense that NoSQL was going to replace RDBMSs. They didn't, of course. RDBMSs like MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and MS SQL are still far more popular, but NoSQL has still exploded in popularity.

Instead of displacing relational databases, document-oriented databases augmented developers' toolsets. That's the future I see for blockchain as well. It becomes just another tool for solving problems.

Crypto currency is the first major implementation of blockchain technology, and because we — as a society — place so much emphasis on monetary success, crypto exploded. It's quite possible that all crypto currencies are ultimately revealed as nothing more than speculative casinos. I'm not entirely predisposed to that idea, but I do acknowledge that it's possible. The 2022 crypto crash lends a lot of credibility to that viewpoint. Nothing can erase the potential utility of crypto currencies, but their practical utility has yet to be demonstrated. The longer we go without a success in that regard, the less likely it seems to become truth.

Blockchain technology, however, is very fundamental. It's a brilliant idea, and a building block that could underpin any number of solutions. The question is whether or not there are any problems which demand said solution.

Looking at blockchain through a business lens, I see only one major benefit: the distributed nature of blockchain means you can run a massive database with no direct cost. I think of this like peer-to-peer multiplayer gaming technology. While the dedicated server model is still pervasive, the P2P model enables smaller publishers to create multiplayer games without the expense of massive centralized server infrastructure. P2P is "distributed" multiplayer gaming.

So how can this distributed nature of blockchain enable business? Since blockchain is a database, the possibilities are endless. Right now, the technology has been largely pigeonholed to keeping ledgers for currency, but NFTs and smart contracts are earnest attempts at expanding the horizon. IMO, NTFs aren't a great business though, and smart contracts are more of a protocol than a business. It's likely that these sorts of protocols will layer on top of blockchain technologies to create something meaningful, but it's difficult to see what that will be today. That doesn't mean it's more or less likely; just that it's difficult to see the future.

That shouldn't come as a shock to anyone. The future is difficult to see. Even people who we consider very good at it tend to get it wrong much of the time. I do think that blockchain is too novel an innovation to whither into complete obscurity though. I'm absolutely confident that it has a role to play in the future. I just think the corruption of its utilization at the start has soured public perception of it, which may extend its incubation period a bit.

>And so these Photoshop files (PSD) have the Pantone colors in the file data, not just the RGB values?

Yes. For example, if you used Pantone 289 (a dark blue) in your file, Photoshop embeds that color as a separate color “channel” in the file.

>So then when you display the file, it has to map to the color system the computer users? Is that accurate?

Also correct. The PMS 289 blue has a corresponding RGB (almost all computer displays use red, green, and blue pixels) color “break”. The “break” tells the computer what color components most closely match PMS 289.

>At this point, do you expect an "open standard" to replace Pantone or is there just too much investment?

That’s a really tough question. Businesses have been using and paying for Pantone for literal decades. There is a ton of work involved in making colors match across screen, print, textiles, paint, apparel, cosmetics, and architectural (and I’m sure more). Replacing that would take a tremendous amount of work. There are open alternatives, but they don’t have the breadth of industry solutions that Pantone does. The ability to pick a color and have it look the same on screen, in print, and on a dress isn’t easily replicated.

IMO, Adobe and Pantone will solve this stalemate, or businesses will get used to paying for Pantone directly. Small users who’s don’t want to pay will simply get by with “close enough” or alternatives that only work for screen and print, which is the most common use case by far.

Most printed material you see uses something called “four color process” printing. Four ink colors — cyan, magenta, yellow, and black — are printed in tiny dots of varying sizes in order to create the colors you see. If you examine some junk mail or photos in a textbook very closely, you’ll see these tiny dots.

These tiny dots are placed onto the paper by separate cyan, magenta, yellow, and black print mechanisms. That’s why ink jet printers have a black cartridge and a CMY cartridge. Some even have separate C, M, and Y cartridges. The same for laser printers. In commercial printing, there are separate ink wells and printing “plates” for each color.

Pantone colors are pre-mixed inks. Instead of printing individual dots of each color component, the ink pigments are pre-mixed and applied as the final color. This method gives you much better control over the final color, and it allows you to completely cover the paper with ink. Using the dots in four color process, you can only put down so much color before your start to get muddy colors.

This color palette limitation of the four color process (CMYK) is called a color space. The color space Tells you all the possible colors you can create using a particular color process. In print, we deal with the limitations of the CMYK color space. On screen, we deal with the limitations of the RGB color space. The RGB color space is larger than the CMYK color space, but by pre-mixing ink pigments, you can expand beyond the traditional CMYK color space.

Pantone also puts a lot of work into building color palettes that are consistent between CMYK, RGB, and pre-mixed Pantone colors. We take color consistency for granted. Matching a red on screen, in print, and in a fabric is incredibly difficult. Pantone let’s you pick a specific red color out of a color book, then provides ink formulas to accurately reproduce that red anywhere.

This is why Pantone is so popular with designers. It’s a tool that solves an incredibly common problem: color matching.

So many Pantone colors do have RGB counterparts, but Pantone “owns” the mapping of Pantone color to RGB. Adobe can’t use these mappings without paying for a license. What’s crazy is that this system has been around for decades. For as long as there have been digital publishing tools, software publishers have been buying licenses. It’s really remarkable that things have broken down to this point. Pantone is central to a very large part of the design industry across many types of media.

I loved the part when Mole says that sometimes he finds it difficult to say "I love you all," so he says, "I'm so glad we could be here together." Then at the end, he says "I'm so glad we could be here together." It was so touching and identifiable. For such a simple cartoon, it was a wonderful showcase of kidness and vulnerability.

Yes, but the record isn't designed to be interpreted by squirrels. It is speculated that mathematics would be the universal language amongst intelligent species, where "intelligent" is defined as being at least as advanced as the human race is currently.

Given the vastness of space, the chances that Voyager will ever been seen by another intelligent species is diminishingly small, even on the time scale of the entire universe. The only species who have any real chance of finding it would be incredibly sophisticated.

To a species so advanced, the puzzle of the record would be trivial. We can say this with confidence because the laws that govern our universe are the same no matter where you are (outside of black holes, maybe). So any species who have solved the incredibly complex challenges required to locate a spacecraft like Voyager would easily decode the record.

The quantum effects used in quantum computing only work over extremely short distances. A quantum computer is not the same as a (this is totally made up) "quantum entanglement transceiver". Quantum computers also must be kept extremely cold. A hypersonic missile is about the worst imaginable environment for quantum computing... Which doesn't solve any communications problems on its own.

What does any of that have to do with using a quantum computing?

I only pointed it out because it's not a great blanket statement because it gives the impression that there is something inherent about email that means it is stored as plaintext. I fully agree that security is hard, and securing against a government while operating within their jurisdiction is just about impossible, but your email may not be stored in plain text.

Just as an example, ProtonMail offers encrypted email with protection that is good enough right up to the point that a major nation-state takes a very strong interest in you. They're based in Switzerland as a means to make it more difficult to compel access to user data. Nothing is impossible, of course.

Your mail is not necessarily stored as plaintext. It depends on where your mail is housed. You can absolutely encrypt email at rest. The hard question is whether everyone you correspond with also encrypts email at rest.

>The research on PubMed is interpreted and summarised and that interpretation is in the abstract and conclusion sections. There are also review reports in PubMed similar to the publication ones you mentioned.

Importantly, it’s summarized and interpreted by the authors of the study. Review reports are helpful, but only to those with the time, base knowledge required to understand the material, and professional experience to evaluate claims.

u/mynameonhere's point is well made that simply reading a few studies on pubmed is a great way to develop an incorrect understanding of a very complex topic. Some studies are garbage, and the author won’t say so in the abstract or conclusion.

You have to accept that you can’t learn everything by “doing your own research”. There’s a lot more to it than that.

Yes. Processing payroll usually requires your employer to go through a whole process where taxes are calculated and withholding amounts are added in for various benefits. It’s a huge hassle to do this “out of cycle” for most companies.

With an advance, they’re just loaning you some money out of your next paycheck. They can just deduct it from your regular pay. Much easier.

Edit: just because it’s easier doesn’t mean they’ll do it. If you stop showing up for work, they’re out the money, so there’s some risk.

Yep. That’s what makes some aged whiskey so expensive. You can’t buy time.

Looks like what you've got there is an MR16 LED lamp. Many MR16 bulbs are halogen, but you can also get them in LED. What you have appears to be LED. If it no longer illuminates, you can buy a replacement by searching for "MR16 LED" online.

I despise the both of them, but that was glorious. Phil fucked up even letting him come out.

You could get some surface mount cable raceway, but instead of using the adhesive, just brad nail it to the baseboards. When you move out, a tiny amount of spackle will fill the holes left behind.

If BOTW has taught me anything, if you stand in that water, you'll regenerate 1/2 heart every couple of seconds.

The question is, how does this compare to prior periods? Are price reductions a normal part of the market mechanism? That is to say, is it all that unusual for someone to list a home at a high price, then drop the price to find the market fit?