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It’s something that shouldn’t be possible. Scientists have been left baffled by a star that appears to be older than the universe itself. It's probably just using a fake ID
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This is one of those articles where you first think "oooh" and then read it and wonder that if this is the quality of logical reasoning of scientists, we're all doomed.
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News.com.au edited: Pseudo-Scientists have been left baffled made ecstatic by a star that they can pretend appears to be older than the universe itself.
Fruggin' astronomers/astrologists!
Their bollocks kicks to needed are.
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No, it's just the science illiterate journalists who need that treatment.
The Plank satellite's data has produced the best estimate of the universe, tightly constraining it to 13.799 ± 0.021 (13.778 to 13.820) billion years.
We don't have the ability to constrain the properties of really old stars outside of clusters well enough to get tight estimates of their age,with the result that the best that can be done for HD-140283 is 14.46 ± 0.8 (13.66 to 15.26) billion years.
As anyone with a halfway decent science/math background would understand any number within the range is supported by the data; and that the overwhelmingly more plausible explanation is that the stars true age is almost certainly at the very low end of the range; and that more precise measurements of the stars parameters/better models of that type of stars evolution would almost certainly constrain its age farther downward as they have in the past. The current age estimate - from 2013 - lopped ~750m years off the previous upper end of the estimate range; which had gone all the way to 16bn years.
HD 140283 - Wikipedia
Strange 'Methuselah' Star Looks Older Than the Universe | Space
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Julia's creators detail the challenges of developing a new programming language. "Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you, Julia"
20-30% of Julia developers also like R, Matlab, and Bash. Yeah. not for me.
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It's name?
More seriously, one reason I really like C++ is that I like working on the types of projects for which C++ is the best, or at least very good, choice.
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If executed, the flaw could permit an adversary to access the computer’s kernel memory, which could potentially result in them gaining access to sensitive information, like passwords, tokens, and private conversations. I'm just going to auto-post this headline every two weeks
Because that's about as often as they find new variants.
(It's patched, btw)
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What makes me give pause is that there is pretty much a "mass killing" every five minutes, in the US, but none of them are killing these monomaniacally obsessed "researchers", who seem to be doing everything they can possibly do to cause as much to as many people as they possibly can.
Where are the tweets about these "Enemies of Society"?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Running Wine on Windows has been a fever dream of those responding to the siren call of "we do what we must, because we shouldn't" since at least 2004, when someone tried compiling Wine in Cygwin and trashed the registry of the host system. We do this...not because it easy, but because it is hard.
Some people need better hobbies.
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But, nobody cares about 16-bit apps, do they? Furthermore, Win10 has compatibility mode, right? (I don't know because I don't run that crap on my computers.)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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- 64-bit Win10 does not run 16-bit applications. It does, however, run most 32-bit applications.
- If anyone still needs to run an unported 16-bit application, I would think that something like VMWare, VirtualBox, or DOSBox would be a better solution.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I would think that something like VMWare, VirtualBox, or DOSBox would be a better solution.
But linux fan-bois are more interested in the struggle (installing wine on windows) than the actual result (running an app in wine).
The better option is to install linux in a vm, and install wine in that vm (as opposed to dickin' around with win10).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Shame on you!!! How dare to forget 8 bit applications!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Here you go... 
8 Bit Computers
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"I'm the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude"
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I really need to watch that movie again. (thank you for the reminder)
TTFN - Kent
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Oh, for f***k's sake.
Why can't people focus on getting the work done, rather than on their preferred (and usually incredibly inefficient) ways of doing it?
If the work can be done more efficiently on linux, then do it on linux!
Wasting everyone's time on "Oh, I can do it here, I can do it there! Aren't I clever!" cr@p doesn't get people's salaries paid.
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The issue with this workload is that evidence suggests working significantly more than 40 hours a week for a prolonged period actually makes you less productive, and there are plenty of developers on record about the mental and physical cost of sustained crunch periods. My six-hour work week is killing me!
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So you only do 47 hours' work in the 60 hours, rather than 33 hours' work in 40.
No employer is gonna buy this. We need to find a better excuse.
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Some weeks, when I'm on a tear, I honestly want to put in more time and I generally do.
Other weeks, when writer's block hits, I need to scale it back a bit and focus on SA stuff. I'm lucky that my management seems to understand this.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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All the way back in October 2018 we heard that the next major version of Windows 10 would be code-named Vibranium, with the more minor Windows 10 19H2 update being code-named Vanadium. Great - an imaginary material that absorbs all action it contacts
"Last version of Windows EVAH!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: an imaginary material that absorbs all action it contacts
That's the wrong vibranium.
The original vibranium dissolved metal, leaving only a sludge of dead computers.
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That works too.
I thought they retconned that to "anti-metal"?
TTFN - Kent
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There is no ret-con.
Only morons buy into ret-cons.
And only complete idiots buy into reboots.
I never even reboot my computers.
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The algorithm, called SentiMATE, worked out by itself the basic rules of chess as well as several key strategies—including forking and castling. "I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization"
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