Natanael

For somebody who claims to be acutely aware, you really seem to have no idea what goes into calibrating measurement devices to be able to measure physical constants. In particular you have no idea how many other units go into calibrating them, and how you fundamentally can not get an accurate reading of a physical constant without that calibration. And for somebody claiming I’m the condescending one, you’re awfully rude yourself

Just see the definition of the kilogram, and how it’s now defined in relation to time, c, and the planck constant.

While the second is the only base unit to be explicitly defined in terms of the caesium standard, the majority of SI units have definitions that mention either the second, or other units defined using the second. Consequently, every base unit except the mole and every named derived unit except the coulomb, gray, sievert, radian, and steradian have values that are implicitly at least partially defined by the properties of the caesium-133 hyperfine transition radiation. And of these, all but the mole, the coulomb, and the dimensionless radian and steradian are implicitly defined by the general properties of electromagnetic radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium_standard

Everything meaningful is defined as relative properties, as ratios to other forces and properties of nature.

You can’t measure the cesium frequency without having other units defined.

Wrong if you’re a photon. No time will pass as you cross the universe

It’s not useful to tell somebody it is constant without a way to make use of it. Without knowing how it’s defined relative to other things we can’t use it.

The thing about all the absolute physical constants is that they are almost all based on units defined relative to other things. Unitless constants (defined only as a ratio) are extremely rare (like the fine structure constant) - but even then you have to make up units to measure them (although you can still agree on unitless values with somebody else who chose different base units for measurements).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensionless_physical_constant

Every metric of speed of light is necessarily relative to other things. Even if you define as 1, now you must be able to know what one unit of time is relative to one unit of distance, and if you do not know that then you do not know that your speed of 1 means.

All fundamental units are defined relative to each other in physics, and all other units are defined relative to the fundamental units.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit

Everything in physics is defined by relative properties. Scale all fundamental units by the same factor and we can not detect any change in behavior whatsoever

Yes, a creator can create a closed source copy (independent of the GPL’d work), assuming they have full ownership or permission from all contributors

It’s not fully academic only because it’s common for companies to develop a GPL version and offer commercial licenses where the corporate customer is exempt

But none of this affect the users of the GPL version, so most people don’t care

Silverfish tend to look different

You can’t call it GPL3 and at the same time claim the copyright.

Weil you can (because you still own the copyright after giving your work that license), but you have given a legally binding promise to not impose additional restrictions so it won’t do you any good to try

Most companies that I see that are local to Europe are German, and I know a handful from here in Sweden

Posting for an audience of one

Consumer protection here kicks in after you paid for something, until then you’re just a visitor

A restaurant owner can kick you out for not liking your colors. They rarely do because it’s bad for business.

Two wrongs don’t make a right

Some people can only see linear grey scales

We have physical stores doing both. It’s not many, but common in office supply stores.

Here in Sweden you can list with and without, since businesses can buy without VAT (technically they get to subtract the VAT on purchases from their tax bill) so shops which have businesses clients tend to do both while regular shops only list it with VAT

You can do without moving parts entirely if you can move air by other means, which pretty much means just ionizing air and then using electric fields to accelerate it

They didn’t even evacuate their bases in advance! They didn’t even install air defenses at them! They did nothing whatsoever to prepare! They just assumed instant success!

No he didn’t follow a plan. The plans said things like Iran would counter attack and try to close the strait. Trump and his team didn’t even look at the plans. They went with Netanyahu’s suggestion

The biggest clue to that bombing is them admitting they asked AI for targets and it delivered outdated info

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/18/ai_warfare