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My pet hypothesis is that it's all virtual particles. Sometimes stuff just happens. Literally, stuff happens. Matter spontaneously emerges from a vacuum, as a consequence of quantum fluctuations. A divot and a hole form at the same time. When they rejoin, they zero out. And they will tend to rejoin immediately because they both have mass and there's nothing else for a zillion miles.

We observe this as the Casimir effect. Stick two flat surfaces really close together, in total vacuum, and they can act like there's gas pushing them apart. The divot and hole bounce off separate things. Clever tricks to abuse this have not worked: see every EM engine blasting energy into a vacuum chamber. As an engineer, not a scientist, I suspect some of the particles being blasted get negative momentum, somehow, and that's why the net force is immeasurable. Virtual particles play by their own rules.

But virtual particles still have mass. They bend spacetime as gravity. Cancelling that out would require negative mass, and antigravity, which sadly seems too cool to exist. This means all those pseudo-atoms in deep space drag things toward them. It looks like there's stuff out there, because... there was. Briefly.

This could also explain universal expansion. This transient noise in the fabric of reality means empty space has mass. So whatever we consider our universe, it's surrounded on all sides by unfathomable quantities of nothing, and the nothing is tugging it in all directions. It's not just escape velocity from the initial explosion; things are accelerating.

Shower rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

A zigzag world line of schmoes with terrible taste in music.

The sino-soviet split of the modern age. in c/gaming@lemmy.ml

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Endingtron 3000 --> Startingtron 4000.

The sino-soviet split of the modern age. in c/gaming@lemmy.ml

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

"Where's the Popular People's ZA/UM?"

"He's over there."

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mv *.jpg is complete bullshit. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by mindbleach@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@sh.itjust.works

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'Well it's only passing mv a list of--' yeah yeah yeah, I know, and that's why I'm calling bullshit. It should be massively harder to execute filenames. Even if 1970s decisions make that the eternal hideous default: the lack of any idiot-proof standard workaround is incomprehensible.

StackOverflow's full of competing one-liners and people pointing out how each one is considered harmful. The least-skeezy options use exec. That sentence should make anyone recoil in horror.

This is not a filename problem. This is a tool problem. If a single printable character is going to silently expand into a list of names, then for god's sake, having it put each name in quotes should be fucking trivial.