Yeah, their work-the-workers-literally-to-death culture is top notch.

Yep, pretty much, though the particle itself is the energy, not some kind of energy it gives off.

Mass and energy are convertible between each other, so you can think of it as the black hole losing mass equal to the mass of the particle, if it helps.

A funny way to describe Linus going from 0 to nuclear sub 1 second whether someone is being mildly obtuse.

Well, simply not possible. Might not be what you want to hear, but iOS simply isn’t for you if you’re not prepared to pay for pretty much everything.

Unlike Android there’s not a lot of good free stuff and you can’t pirate anything on iOS.

It’s not a particle in the regular sense you might know, like an electron. The pair that comes into existence is meant to annihilate immediately (meaning there’s zero energy gain or loss) but because of where it appeared it can’t.

When it appears as I described, there suddenly exists a real particle in the universe outside the black hole, so the universe gained +1 in energy.

But energy can’t be created or destroyed, so that +1 means somewhere there must be a -1. And that somewhere is the black hole which caused the particle to exist in the first place by swallowing its pair.

It’s not very intuitive, that’s the fun part about quantum mechanics: nothing is intuitive.

Depends on your definition of “true”. Is it scientifically true? No. Is it the actual science simplified a lot so it can be read by a non-physicist human being? Yes.

Are you talking about a mercenary group in general or this particular mercenary group which is kinda famous for raping?

Why the ad hominem? What’s sensible is an opinion, not an objective truth.

I’m not saying to kill him but to send him back. Sure, the end result might be the same, but that piece of shit doesn’t deserve anything from us.

Or maybe not, because that’s exactly why they murder us but we keep them in nice prisons instead.

He’s a commander in a mercenary group, how much more proof do you need?

Murdering and raping is over, time to seek some protection. They should put him back to Russia with a big sign saying “Hey, Putin, this guy tried to flee Russia! Wouldn’t it be a shame if he fell out the window?”

Ah, the traditional Russian values of hiding the truth from your superiors because there’s a culture of shooting the messenger of the bad news. Can’t see this going wrong when training an AI.

Very often a virtual particle–antiparticle pair appears and because they’re very happy they started existing, they immediately hug each other not knowing that will cause them to annihilate each other and disappear.

Every once in a while, the pair appears in a very interesting position: one is outside the event horizon of a black hole (let’s call this one Pinocchio) and the other inside it (let’s call it 3735928559). Because nothing can escape a black hole, they can’t really hug, so Pinocchio says “I’m a real boy particle” and stops being virtual and becomes real, while 3735928559 continues its descent into madness singularity.

Unfortunately, the process means there now exists something (Pinocchio) where there wasn’t anything before and that takes energy. And that energy comes from the particle that stayed behind which is now part of the black hole, so it effectively takes energy out of the black hole. You may have heard that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed, that’s essentially what happens here.

The Pinocchios go away from the black hole, so they can end up basically anywhere in the universe.

As for the timescales, they entirely depend on the black hole’s size. Really tiny black holes evaporate in a matter of seconds, the supermassive ones in a matter of trillions of trillions of trillions of trillions… years.

In fact, black holes will be the last macroscopic structures to exist in the universe because the evaporation is extremely slow - every planet and every star and every gas cloud and every atom will cease to exist long before the last black hole evaporates.

Just an advice: tell your gf you really don’t want to read it, that you need a break and that you mean it. Either she respects that or you need to find a new gf, preferably one who respects boundaries.

That skips a lot of the abuse they put Harry through.

Yeah, that’s true, everyone thinks they want a senior where usually someone who’s not a straight up junior is more than enough. And a fast learning and motivated junior is the best you can get, IMO, though those are pretty rare as well.

I have the opposite experience, when I was doing interviews I just skipped the very obviously underskilled people (which, IIRC were in the single digits) and interviewed pretty much everyone.

For context, I’m the main architect and dev of the company I was hiring for. Most of the candidates were horrible.

The main factor, IMO, is that everyone wants good engineers but good engineers don’t change jobs that often.

Meaning most of the candidates you interview will suck in one way or another.

And everyone calls themselves “senior” nowadays.

Saw that phone today and it’s so thin compared to my Fold 6, that surprised me.

I scored 8/28 on https://jsdate.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Well, better than I expected, tbh.

Could be worse, you could get the Munich agreement treatment from your allies.

I’m weirdly excited that soon it will be a full year of daily screenshots.