im enabling skynet but plz admire the vocabulary i used in my post

would not be surprised if shes the first fpotus

She’s not even US born. Nice try.

if the establishment lets that happen it would be incredible for the US imo. But weren't there also pushes for her to get fired even if Harris got elected? Of course not as strong or immediate as it happened with Trump, but the Lobbies weren't happy either way...

put implies overwriting instead of updating.

upsert is for you insert/update.

update already means overwriting.

semantically PUT is exactly upsert.

upsert is update + create if not exists, which is exactly PUT

any update without overwrite is "append" or "extend" (or something else)

append or extend is adding keys without updating existing keys. update can add keys and update existing keys.

put will blow away existing keys if they dont exist in the new payload. which is why it cant be upsert.

... it depends on how the given server defines PUT of course (also how we define upsert, and does upsert make sense outside a DB setting? well, of course some DBs have a HTTP/ReST API.)

that said, usually PUT is meaningful for a URL (or URI), and in these circumstances it's like upsert, and it cannot blow away other keys, as it operates on one key, given by the URL

of course if we assume a batch endpoint, sure, it then can do non-upsert-like things

this whatsboutism comment reminds me of ralph wiggum ‘im helping’

the venn diagram of people supporting golf courses but objecting to data centers has a much smaller overlap than you think

It's not whataboutism. The point is it's a tradeoff. Would the whiners shut up if Facebook bought and shut down the local golf course? Probably not. Google remediated a flood-irrigated alfalfa farm (really!) near Las Vegas (I am not making this up) to zero out the water demands of their Henderson datacenter. This did not prevent the national press from making hay (did you see what I did there?)

this is a test run to see how humans revolt against the machines. valuable data will be procured

Deepmind team is trying to solve the problem. Not their AI alone. The novel creativity AIs can produce atm are hallucinations.

Id wager quantum computers even in their infancy are more capable of generating valid solutions humans are incapable of.

Matter is very much pinned to the space its in. If the space between two galaxies expands, the distance between the two galaxies grows. If matter wasnt pinned the distance between the two galaxies would remain the same despite the expansion.

Things dont fall to the ground because the earth pulls on them. Earth is pulling in the space around it, and those things come with it. See the river model of general relativity for a more thorough explanation.

I think the point is that the force of gravity is so much stronger than the expansion that the (equivalent) force a normal-sized star exerts on your body from the other side of our galaxy is greater than the force expanding space between you and that star. One of them, not all of them together.

All of them together are so much stronger it's not even funny. And that's for the "underdense" region that we are in. Not a void, but about half of our galaxy's environment does count as a void.

You apparently didn't try walking around. Give it a shot - you'll find that the matter you are made of isn't pinned to the space it's in.

Gravity ensures that structures at the cluster level and below don't expand as the space they're in expands. The space they're in is expanding just like it is everywhere (assuming a cosmological constant) - gravity just holds them together. Which is what I mean when I say matter isn't pinned to space - it just slides through it.

Gravity is too weak to affect distant objects, so we see the effects of the universe's expansion when we look at them.

i walked around and it involved force and energy.

i will clarify. in the absence of other forces, matter is indeed pinned to the space it is in.

you talk about gravity as if its something distinct from what is driving the expansion of the universe.

we have that model, its what newton proposed.

I believe all of the current theories being seriously considered hold that whatever is causing expansion isn't gravity, so yes I do talk as if gravity is distinct from what is driving the expansion of the universe.

Regarding being "pinned," that still fails to account for inertia. The idea that there's a specific piece of space that we're stuck to implies there's a rest state at which there is no motion independent of any observer. We know that's not the case.

My original point was that gravity and the other forces that hold us together are so much stronger than whatever is causing expansion that the expansion of space doesn't affect us at small scales. The space we're occupying is expanding. We're not dragged along with it. The Triangulum galaxy doesn't move away from us because gravity keeps the Local Group together. We do see the expansion of space between us and distant objects, but that's because there's no force strong enough to hold those distant objects to us. That's not because we're "pinned" to our location, but because the space between us is getting larger.

Not so long ago, noone knew about the weak force, and even the most brilliant minds would never think electricity and magnetism are two sides of the same coin. Now we have a theory that unites all three under the same umbrella.

In many interpretations of GR it is believed that mass deforms spacetime, but is also influenced by the spacetime it moves through. In the absence of mass, spacetime expands. Carrying along any mass with it. When mass is present this default expansion is overpowered by its influence which causes a contraction. Hence black holes.

Gravity is still colored by classical definitions so most assume its power is unidirectional. However there is a quantitative factor for expansion in the very same Einstein equation which defines GR.

We need to stop thinking of gravity as a force acting on objects, and rather something that acts on spacetime. Many people advocate this but stop at the rubber sheet analogy, which is completely devoid of the idea that the sheet actually moves as well.

> Things dont fall to the ground because the earth pulls on them. Earth is pulling in the space around it, and those things come with it.

Gravity wells aren't pulling surrounding space toward their centre. They're only pulling other masses that occupy the surrounding space.

seems like this is just giving up on quantum gravity and saying the pauli exclusion principle will hold regardless of the gravitational force.

stuff can still happen after the heat death. the universe will keep expanding, and quantum foam will keep foaming.

heat death just implies no work can be done. time still flows

And potentially leads to things like Boltzmann Brains, given enough time! Quantum fluctuations can still create wildly improbable things, even if only briefly.

the big bang happened everywhere

With the caveat that by some awkward metric 'everywhere' was much smaller when it happened.

Well, that depends whether the universe is infinite. In any case, everything was closer together and hotter.

Infinities come with a spectrum, some are smaller than others . . .

and some universes are finite.

It's more correct to just say location had no meaning until something existed in the universe.

There's really no way to know if there was something in existence before the big bang however. We just lack evidence of such a thing.

I think "the big bang happened everywhere" is more correct than your take. The big bang dlrefers to the early period of a spacetime with an initial moment. At that initial moment the distance between all points is zero. But there still are a full 3d set of locations. Starting at this initial moment, distances between points grow quickly. Thats the bang.

It is true that in GR you can't speak of "before" the big bang, but the big bang itself is a feature within time. It happens at the first moments of time and everywhere in space. And if you replace the initial singularity with a dense quantum foam and thus are able to extend time into the past in some quantum sense, the big bang doesn't go away.