Luckily there’s a preprint of the article on arXiv if you want to read the source material for the article.
My basic summary would be that they have a model for how variable a quasar should be over time, and they can see a difference in that variability depending on the quasar’s redshift, the distance from us. And that difference is right around what we expect from relativity.
Riven is quite possibly my favorite game ever. I had so much fun just wandering around immersing myself in the world.
An umbrella that encompasses ‘today I learned’, ‘damn that’s interesting’/‘mildly interesting’ etc sounds interesting, though I don’t know what one would call it.
Perhaps just "Interesting", that seems to be a simultaneously descriptive and broad enough name.
A bit of a meta comment/thought. Looking through the list of proposed communities, I see a few that were a “Reddit thing”, communities that would be like AskReddit, Ask Me Anything, and Today I Learned. In some sense, I wish for Beehaw to have its own identity. That it figure out its own way to do things. That might just be a differentiating choice of name for the same thing, but one that helps convey our values through the names’ connotations. Or it could be that we come up with our own ideas for communities that can cover a wide variety of topics.
In the text about our creed, Be(e) nice, I see a desire to be(e?) different. That Beehaw isn’t Reddit. I feel that should help guide the communities we create.
The Steam summer sale starts June 29th, so you shouldn't have to wait long for that discount.
My MarioKart 64 cartridge probably won’t inform me that Python2.7 was deprecated.
It also won't tell you if the OpenSSL library it uses has a vulnerability or not. I program mainly as a hobby and I still wonder how containers deal with that issue.
Universal Paperclips, mentioned in the book, is a journey. What starts as a clicker game turns into so much more. It's a free browser game, but in that old-time sense of freeware.
Yup! The GMs are a lot more active recently, adding things to the game continuously. And now there's regular scheduled events where the GMs push stories and interaction to a level we haven't seen in a decade.