Well, there go my vacation plans.

The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is only 25,000 ly from Earth. Assuming constant acceleration, and sufficient technology to protect and keep things running for all that time - no mean feat - reaching a substantial percentage of light should make that reachable within a hundred or so thousand light years, even with a flip and slow-down halfway.

Seque 1 is only 75k ly.

Andromeda is much farther; I didn’t catch it in the article, but I got the impression the strands were identified between the more local clusters.

Not so dumb for a bunch of us using VPNs with exit nodes in other time zones.

If it doesn’t work, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

Doveryay, no proveryay

You’re in a casino. Your ability to judge risk is already demonstrably low.

Hexagons are the bestagons.

I think this would only be comfortable and lay nicely if the bestagons are slightly curved, and I wonder if a topologist might answer how that would affect the tiling.

A curve on one axis seems manageable, but unless you’re making pauldrons, you’re going to have octagons that bend in two directions at the shoulder. Making those tile correctly seems as if it might be challenging.

I’ll be back.

You must bring us… a shrubbery!

I don’t recall which one anymore, but there are web sites that take text you type and convert it to Unicode code points in different styles. DDG for “Unicode text converter” or something like that.

What if I never access Facebook, and have ever had a Facebook account?

A bridge, you say? Then we can cross to other galaxies! Our overpopulation problems are solved!

On a more serious note, I wonder how much this would increase our ability to cross the gulfs. Assuming we could eventually build machines that can endure for hundreds of thousands of years, would the presence of a gas bridge would make ramscoops a more viable intergalactic option?

Lemmy does. I don’t, but Lemmy will shank you in a dark alley for drug money, like an American Badger.

There’s a false equivalency here. Array sizes have nothing to do with static typing. For evidence, look at your own words: if undisputed strongly typed languages don’t support X, then X probably doesn’t have anything to do with strong typing. You’re conflating constraints or contracts or specific type features with type theory.

On the topic of array sizes, are you suggesting that size isn’t part of the array type in Go? Or that the compiler can’t perform some size constraint checks at compile time? Are you suggesting that Rust can perform compile time array bounds checking for all code that uses arrays?

Converse man lives in a converse world.

Maybe it depends on your definition of “part of”, but

a := make([]int, 5)
len(a) == 5
len("hello") == 5

Arrays in Go have associated sizes.

But that’s beside the point; what does array size metadata have to do with strong typing?

Most heads of state of western democracies do not have the authority to enact such measures, much less in so short a deadline. And their political opponents will simply drag their feet on any approval process and let you eliminate a rival. Most of the billionaires live in countries without a dictator (quite yet, anyway) who could comply, even if they wanted to.

You’re most likely right. No checking account at any bank has an interest rate that’s going to pay enough interest in 2 days to make such a scheme worthwhile, even if the sums were an order of magnitude greater than the numbers GP quotes. Especially with a $6 check processing fee, which is itself a scam.

It can’t have been for the interest.

Esperanto is going to be in the lower left somewhere.

The issue with the graph isn’t the contents, it’s the axes. What’s “objectively easy” for Europeans is not necessarily objectively easy for Asians.

Sounds like a great time for literate programming to make a come back.

OTOH, that’s a strength of OpenAI: writing reasonable-sounding explanations in plain speech.