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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikipedia is a good starting point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe . I'm not an expert on the topic, but if I'd like to dig deeper, I'd visit Amazon, look for cosmology books, pick something that's expansive, looks like a textbook, plus point if the title contains the word 'introduction' (you'll see the irony inside). It's the best if you find something from after 2010 (after Planck and WMAP missions). I found Weinberg: Cosmology, but that's from 2008. If you have your favorite textbook, check it out from the local library, but make sure NOT to download it from Library Genesis (http://libgen.is/ is the site to avoid) because that would cause the publisher financial losses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Age estimation is a tricky thing - there are no brass labels on distant galaxies showing their age, or if there are, the letters are too small to see. There are several different methods, and while there's some disagreement between them, it's on the magnitude of 0.1Gyr, not 13.7+/-13.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They could also urge to remove the coat and tie from the list of necessary clothes. While it was probably practical in 19th century England, it's a torture in 2023 Spain

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What does this even mean?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (45 children)

Just lovely, when you think you found a browser that works decently and cares about privacy...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just checked Lemmy stats - how is it possible that we lost 400 000 users recently? If people check it out and leave for good, wouldn't that still be counted in the user base?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Basically there are two color models, additive and substractive. RGB is additive - turning on red it triggers the red receptors in the eye. If you turn on all three it triggers all your color receptors and you'll see white. That is all the visible spectrum, if you look at the Sun (which you shouldn't) you perceive it as white even if the maximum of the emission is at green.

When mixing paint (subtractive model, like CMYK on printers) if you mix all colors, they absorb different part of the light and don't reflect anything visible for you, and you'll see black(ish)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if you sell everything and work for 237 more years?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Has anyone tried this? What are your opinions?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Any turn-based strategy game could be good - you can stop playing Civilization any time you want, right? There's no need to go one more turn

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I didn't say this happened yesterday :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If I remember correctly, the last bulk addition of countries happened sometimes in summer, we traveled to the Czech republic with a passport on Friday, and came back without it on Sunday, and it was definitely not a New Year

 

With their recent update it seems they are on the last step to making their free version completely useless – are there any good alternatives out there? Preferably something that has a similar android app. I know I could use ssh+vi in a text file, but I'd prefer something a bit more streamlined

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