his github profile has some gems:
As far as I know (Correct me if I’m wrong.), nobody else discovered more than one fundamental branch of mathematics (Von Neumann discovered several, but they are not quite fundamental), I did this about 4-5 times (dependently on how to count). It is kinda a world record.
Just want to say the English plural of museum is museums 😁 If you wanted to use the Latin plural for some reason, notice that you would need locative plural, not nominative! Best just keep to English eh
Ok bit of a smarmy response. Congratulations are what you're looking for? In any case, I think it's just an entirely optional package that is not of interest to many Arch users.
experienced user not enable pkgstats?
well I've never heard of it and I've been using Arch for well over a decade. I see it's actually a package of its own, rather than just a feature of pacman that you can enable.
Not sure if this is a joke, but if not this software is to help protect *against* ddos attacks, not for running them 😂
Not without the correct licence, no
You're mixing up nightmares now lol
Yes it's true that everything we perceive could be fake, when I turn my head to the left, the world that I was looking at before could disappear. That's not a new paranoia, it's been around for literally hundreds if not thousands of years.
The simulacrum hypothesis is a little different in that it tries to bring it up to date, and use statistical principles to show that our universe is very unlikely to be real.
The idea is that at some point, a life form will create machines so powerful that they can simulate the entire universe in a way that is indistinguishable from the real universe. There is a real universe in this vision, and it functions very much like the universe which we ourselves inhabit. We are not special in our simulated universe, just like the beings that do live in the real universe are not special. That is, every part of the universe exists in every simulation just as it does in the one real universe. By saying no beings are special, I mean that there are no shortcuts to fool one being (or group of beings) into thinking the universe is more complete than it really is - the entire universe is fully simulated.
I'm afraid you didn't understand what I wrote.
If it were to take 1 year to render each minute, it would take 6500 trillion years to simulate the universe from the big bang to now. That is, the parent universe which is running our simulation must run it for an impracticably long time.
As for your other point, yes each simulation has to be a similar universe to the one we ourselves live in. Only that way do you end up with vastly more simulated universes than real universes, and the conclusion that statistically we must be living in a simulated universe and not a real one.
If you don't have that part, then you do not have anything more compelling than Descartes' age-old nightmare that an evil demon could be deceiving us about everything we perceive.
It could take a year in U0 to simulate a minute in U1, and so forth, and we wouldn’t notice it.
I'm not sure about this. Our current universe is 13 billion years old. At one year to one minute, that would take over 6500 trillion years to simulate (I think).
The solar system will only live another few billion years or so. All the stars in universe will burn out in around 100 trillion years. So it would probably not be possible to run a simulation for that long.
"In order to bake an apple pie from scratch, you first have to create the universe"
If you don't create the universe, then you aren't really making an apple pie from scratch. In the same way, what you're referring to doesn't simulate the universe - not in the way that it is simulated in the simulacrum hypothesis.
In the simulacrum hypothesis, the entire universe is simulated. You exist entirely inside the simulation rather than being merely plugged into it, and so do I and so does every other consciousness that exists.
huh that's interesting, I've never seen a disclaimer like that before. At least they're honest I guess.
The "article" seems to be a summary of this press release from the European Central Bank: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr251030~8c5b5beef0.en.html (and this site lets you choose a language, so there's not even need to run it through Google)
Yep. The rest of us switched to metric a long time ago.