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N_tro_P wrote: You claimed it is in fact reflected but then went on to say you can't determine the where the BH is because of missing data
Sorry, but I can't equate that with "no light reflects off of it but instead gets sucked into it". All the words are different, even down to the spelling.
N_tro_P wrote: the reflection curve could in fact be inverse (i.e. goes inward not outward).
That would be refraction, not reflection.
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N_tro_P wrote: Semantics
Indeed it is.
"Reflection" is "bouncing away from". That is its meaning.
It therefore does not -- cannot -- mean "getting sucked in".
That's about as semantic a point as you can get.
If you want to use words to mean something other than what they actually mean, don't expect to be understood.
... And don't intentionally misinterpret correctly used words that are carefully crafted not to be misinterpreted. That's just damned insulting.
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I suggest that you (consult a decent dictionary) AND (study physics).
Reflection is always AWAY FROM. Something cannot reflect light toward itself. Light that goes inward is refracted, and light that is diverted around something is diffracted.
I've given you all three key words: reflection, refraction, and diffraction. Have fun learning -- but don't come back claiming to be an expert on something that I've known, and worked with, for decades.
And I repeat: As always, I used precise wording. That is what I do. Always. If you want to reinterpret words in your own way, feel free; just don't expect anyone else to follow your personal preferences, or to understand what you are saying.
Claiming that light can be reflected inward is as bad as claiming that gravity pushes things away.
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You really are embarrassing yourself, here, because it's not only clear that you don't know basic Physics, but that you also don't know basic grammar, either -- i.e. you seem to think that the word "semantics" can be used derogatively.
Here's a tip: It can be used derogatively to the exact same extent that the words "syntax" and "punctuation" can be used derogatively -- and using the word as if it had negative connotations is exactly the same as using the words "syntax" and "punctuation" as if they had negative connotations.
I suggest that you do not base your English grammar on the way words are used in American-sit-com-style smarmy "humour", but instead that you, once again, consult a decent dictionary to learn what the word "semantic" actually means -- after all, what words mean is Precisely what the word "semantics" is all about.
Feel free to rant on, in the uneducated way that you have so far demonstrated. I will no longer read this thread.
p.s. bear in mind that no-one else in the entire world is reading this thread, either, so I would further suggest that you don't waste your time writing any replies -- although, from what I have seen so far, I somewhat doubt that you will take that advice.
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What they will likely try to take a picture of is the accretion disk of an actively feeding black hole.
edit: or possible a perfect Einstein ring of a single background star - though that would require some pretty specific alignments.
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Google has now formally responded to two antitrust charges brought against it by Europe’s Competition Commission, rebutting charges of exploiting the popularity of its search engine to boost its price comparison service, Google Shopping, and its ad placement service, AdSense. "What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?"
Your choice as to which of those two is unstoppable, and which is immovable.
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After the EU finishes with Google they start to take on the shipping companies that use their container ships to transport goods across the oceans.
Or perhaps farmers for hiding their seeds underground when they plant, thus depriving consumers the right to be sure they planted what they said they planted.
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Never overestimate the ability of a governmental bureaucracy to be immovable except when confronted with a government bureaucracy higher in the chain, if there is one. (This is especially when extorting money from a person, company or subordinate governmental bureaucracy.)
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Change will bring smaller downloads and quicker checking for updates. Didn't they promise that years ago?
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For all their failings, I'm actually fairly impressed with their progress in this regard as it stands already. I've a number of aspects to complain about with the update mechanism, but size isn't one of them. Checking? Well, that has enjoyed a chequered past.
Anyone that's bought a brand-new pc/console game and copped a multi-gigabyte release-day patch may feel just the same way. My internet's expensive. In many cases, the patch will cost me 50% of what the game did. Elephant that - I'm not going to drop another $15k on a car because they've rushed it to market, why should this be so different?
modified 3-Nov-16 22:33pm.
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The nation state has a single point of failure fiber, recently installed in 2011, and could spell disaster for dozens of other countries. "Our rights to prove, we will o'er all prevail"
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A VSCode person can (and probably will) answer in more detail, but at heart it's... | Hacker News[^]
Microsoft publishes a list of known good declaration files for popular npm packages to npm, under the scope @types: https://www.npmjs.com/~types
The 1.7 release of VSCode helpfully tries to automatically load type declarations for any npm package you use by requesting the equivalent declaration package under @types. When the package exists this is fine, because it's cached in our CDN.
What they forgot to consider is that most CDNs don't cache 404 responses, and since there are 350,000 packages and less than 5000 type declarations, the overwhelming majority of requests from VSCode to the registry were 404s. This hammered the hell out of our servers until we put caching in place for 404s under the @types scope.
We didn't start caching 404s for every package, and don't plan to, because that creates annoying race conditions for fresh publishes, which is why most CDNs don't cache 404s in the first place.
There are any number of ways to fix this, and we'll work with Microsoft to find the best one, but fundamentally you just need a more network-efficient way of finding out which type declarations exist. At the moment there are few enough that they could fetch a list of all of them and cache it (the public registry lacks a documented API for doing that right now, but we can certainly provide one).
Marc
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Oh for the love of...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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.
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Marc, you make me happy that my problems are dealing with gcc 4.4.7 on CentOS 6.8.
(I keep trying VSCode and keep not liking it.)
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They've released v1.7.1 to disable that feature until they can rethink it. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Oops!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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"This search engine remembers literally everything that's been on your computer" [^]Quote: Though Atlas Recall is a unique product, it's similar to Google's ecosystem that saves and tracks everything you do. When you're logged in to Google services, it collects and saves your activity, from where you go via Google Maps, to appointments you make with Google Calendar. You can search these services to find personal data.
But Atlas Recall takes that behavior and applies it to literally everything you do with your computer.
"The platform wars are over, nobody won, and no one will ever win them again," Ritter told CNNMoney. "We now have diverse sets of apps and platforms and services, and we move fluidly between all of them. What we want is something that works the way we use our devices and data."
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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One of the more compelling alternatives is a particle called an axion. Axions were first proposed to solve a different problem in physics, one involving the forces that pulls quarks and gluons together to form things like protons and neutrons. But if axions exist and have mass, they would seem to have the properties needed to produce the effects we ascribe to dark matter. Show all calculations for full score
I first read the particle name as "axiom", and thought it would be appropriate that Dark Matter is just the coalesced bad premises from all the arguments out there.
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In short, Gitless promises to solve some of Git’s core issues and help ease programmers’ work. The number of tools created to simplify Git should be telling someone something
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I still have no clue how to create a branch on the remote repo. The last time I tried, I ended up renaming the master branch on the remote, and I have no idea how I did that, or that it was even possible.
Marc
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If it's not too indirect for you, create a local branch and push it to the remote.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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