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Everywhere was not an infinitesimal point, if the present Universe is infinite (as it seems to be). In this case, the Universe was already infinite at the very first meaningful instant of time.
Re:Map of the Universe on Friday November 18, 2022 @07:18PM (#33665003)
Also, the dark ages explanation is mistaken. From time 0 to 370,000 years: there were a bunch of short lived photons, but the Universe wasn't transparent to light. After a while, recombination and decoupling ended and this source of light ceased to exist, making the Universe dark again.

Only after ~200 million years the first generation of stars appeared, which we cannot hope to see with a telescope. The first proto-galaxies (too faint) and galaxies took even longer, hence this billion years of darkness.

Re:Map of the Universe on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:42PM (#33662721)
According to the main view, dark matter floats throughout the galaxy (and outside) but is much more concentrated near the center. A tiny amount is probably crossing your body right now, but there's no way to feel it except for the minuscule gravitational force coming out of nowhere.
Re:Map of the Universe on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:36PM (#33662625)
We are the center of the Universe. Of our observable universe, at least, by definition. And the total Universe might be much bigger, potentially infinite [or even smaller than the visible universe!]. Even if finite, the Universe would have no center. It's different from a finite amount of matter forming a sphere within an infinite grid, but much like a spherical surface that has no center (the sphere does, the surface does not).

> Would this graph essentially look the same if the observations were made elsewhere

Yes, an alien in a very far away galaxy would see a similar picture. If they are within a few billion light-years, they would see a younger red-shifted Milky Way.

Re:The absurd complexity of server-side rendering on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @01:30AM (#31093189)
SSR always means outputting the first html as seen from the user when the app is fully loaded and ready to be interacted with. A SPA usually starts with a minimal, blank html file and a huge JS file that mounts the DOM structure and then the user can see something. SSR does the exact same thing, but on the server. From the user perspective, SSR seems faster. From a SEO perspective, SSR is better because there's some initial content on the page.
Re:Each Firefox download has a unique identifier on Thursday March 17, 2022 @09:32PM (#30717764)
Some people use Tor within Firefox via a SOCKS proxy. This might defeat the protection given by Tor.
Re:Spotify was down on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:47PM (#30605613)
Or perhaps if you are a Russian person that was cancelled by them. They might like to do it afterwards with you, western citizen.
Re:Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS on Thursday February 03, 2022 @08:16AM (#30192003)
When a recruiter asks you to connect to a db with css, you leave immediately to never return.
Re:4x Smaller, 50x Faster on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @09:46AM (#29392660)
asciinema is for showing off, specially TUI interfaces.
Re:What's the Future of IDEs? on Thursday November 25, 2021 @12:12PM (#29343034)
You can easily do it and much more in neovim with telescope

https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim

Socialism cannot be removed by pull requests, only by brute force.
Why not Firefox at the browser section?
Re:Graphics for JVM on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @11:01AM (#25125300)
Dbeaver is really ugly, though. To the point of being unusable due to aesthetics, like many Java apps.
Not only we, but pretty much no one in the field. If you think about it, everybody got it all wrong, even the shape of the so called curve that was supposed to be flattened, the real number of cases, the mortality rate, the useless power of lockdowns in big countries, etc.
Re:List of Statements Independent of ZFC on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:58AM (#21832342)
The integers HAVE fewer subsets than the reals! Cantor's theorem tells us that the power set of any set has more elements than said set. It's also well known that the reals have the same cardinality as the power set of the integers.

Therefore, |P(R)| > |R| = |P(N)| > |N|, so the power set of the reals has more elements than the power set of integers.

The continuous hypothesis is the belief that no cardinal exists between |N| and |P(N)|. My previous argument fails if we pick two sets A and B, such that |A| < |B| < |P(A)|.

This can be done, depending on the window manager.

In my awesome window manager setup, super+tab always toggle the last 2 windows on the current tag (workspace). It's also possible to map super+1 to make an application be part of the current workspace (or open a new instance there). In this model, a window can be part of more than 1 workspace at the same time.