Here's one insight into philosophy (religion is completely philosophical for me) for those who are interested. There's this word 'nothing'. But there's a serious difference between the physicist's nothing and the philosopher's nothing. The physicist's nothing means 'can't detect anything', but the philosopher's nothing is the true nothing, whose detection is a logical contradiction of terms by definition: 'Nothing' is that which doesn't ontologically exist. Then again, 'nothing' is conceptually there among the metaphysical categories - in the category of non-existence. Existence is another metaphysical category that includes everything that exists.
The difference is subtle, so it needs further clarification: The physicist's nothing exists, but the philosopher's nothing doesn't. The physicist's nothing exists, because he has his instruments somewhere attempting to detect something, but when nothing is detected, the physicist says: "There's nothing there." So, for him, in that place (which exists) there's nothing. For the philosopher, however, if there's nothing, then even the place doesn't exist where to perform the experiment. The philosopher's nothing means true radical non-existence. If the place exists where to perform the experiment, then it's definitely 'something' for the philosopher, even when nothing is detected there.
The only insight this gives us is that you have either not taken or forgotten high school physics, and that you didn't bother to quickly check up on the subject matter before you decided to berate physicists. The lowest energy state, "nothing", is called a vacuum or the ground state. This ground state is more analogous to the noise between channels on your radio or TV than to the blank screen you get when you turn off your TV. I don't believe the word "nothing" even means anything in physics.
tl;dr Scratch everything your straw-physicist says and you're right on target.
Possible, I haven't actually checked. It didn't feel/look like 20,000 characters, it did feel like 8000 characters (the limit at my.opera)
I haven't really given the limit much thought; it's simply the default. But most posts (including this one) never even reach 1/10th of even 8,000, so it doesn't really seem necessary to restrict the few outliers.
Maybe there should be a rule that moderators who take part in a thread shouldn't do any moderation there ( other than purely janitorial tasks like cleaning up spam )
I'm not convinced that should be a rule, but it should do as a guideline. If you're personally invested in the thread, exercise restraint. Always try to differentiate between what you find annoying and what is not permissible. There's overlap, but they're not the same thing.
On the flipside, it's fantastic that you can read about some old computer system and run it on your browser seconds later, without installing anything. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if WordPerfect 5.1 in a JS emulator were more efficient than something like Google Docs.
Yup. I think a more accurate description of "the" problem is that being an atheist doesn't really mean anything. You're an atheist, and then what? That's the part that matters.
In case you were wondering about BS-Harou's philosophy, it is somewhat different from mine.
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I like having everything that doesn't require speed of native apps in the browser Also the advantages of web interface (access from any device with internet connection, no local space required, backups) are in my case more important than advantages of native clients (encryption, speed, offline access).
Somewhat ironically, I might go with native for similar reasons.
Thanks to Unison, I have all my files on all my devices. Local space? I bought a new 2TB HDD for €60-70 a few months ago, and in my phone I'd got a 32GB SD card. In my phone's case, its purpose is an offline copy of Wikipedia, a few dictionaries,, some offline maps, and of course the capacity to take pictures and videos. That way I have access everywhere regardless of Internet connection.
Backup? Keeping my data safe is the primary reason I want to keep it local, or at least backed up in local copies. To keep it safer, create a rotation of external HDDs you exchange while e.g. visiting your parents. Pay a dedicated backup service. But surely don't depend on those who provide free cloud services.
Also, if I don't shut down my computer, I have access to everything from anywhere in the world through SSH.
I prefer not to touch the HW stuff if it is not necessary.