He started writing his stories long before he was a Professor. It was while he was a young man fighting in the First World War.

Right, which works great if your daytime job is fighting in the trenches, but maybe less so if your only opportunity is software development or other mentally exhausting job.

Bravo lol

I use rsync.net in zfs send/receive mode, I push only encrypted snapshots and incrementals, the key has never left my local device (well I have a paper copy in a remote place).

This comment reads as if it were LLM-generated.

Agree.

> BTW, I know just enough about relativity

Unfortunately this is one of those things where that knowledge is not enough.

The GR model of spacetime is that it is locally Minkowski but globally a manifold of Minkowski patches.

Wow. One of the links is titled "Clarifying the Hierarchy of Information-Derived Gravitational Tensors in Consciousness Field Theory". The References section has 4 entries, all written by the author of this blog.

Actually - on that particular topic - you might want to read the articles and the math before forming an opinion - start from information geometry and fisher information metrics of information processing - which is what that particular line of thought is all about...Everything on that particular line of exploration is built up from fisher information where "consciousness" is defined as a high complexity information processing geometry and so its measurable. Because its defined as a measurable physical process, not as a magical quality, it's a mathematical argument. But of course that would require reading, and sufficient knowledge to understand it.

Not sure if this was the intended joke, but that’s how we are already travelling the universe.

If you want to steer the solar system in a new direction, you can use a Shkadov thruster. Why leave home behind when you can just carry it with you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_engine

I was under the vague impression that there is a single moment when the gravitational force in the core of the proto solar system outweighs (ha!) the electromagnetic repulsion of deuterium/tritium nuclei and fusion is achieved.

The resulting radiation pressure clears out the debris from the solar system’s accretion disk, and this process surely is not instantaneous but is relatively fast.

You _can_ create a human. Or at least participate in its creation.

A SIGSEGV is not guaranteed when calling an address that does not have a function.

Are you talking about C? In C it's not guaranteed whether a non existing function will result in an actual function call. As soon as an actual function call was generated by the compiler, a modern CPU is very likely to trap.

We are talking about an optimization of a language implementation here. This would be very much written in a ASM or another language were this is defined.