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  • The only reason why they are separate is corporate politics. At the time Google decided to make a web-browser-only laptop, Android codebase was a stinking pile of garbage, the tablet version of Android failed hard, and Android would not support such fancy gadgets as a mouse or an Ethernet cable, because oh no, they need to design a new page in system settings.

    It’s always easier to start a new project from scratch with a new team than fix the pile of shit that is your existing commercially successful operating system, because (oh no!) you have you integrate into the existing team, adopt their coding style, and fight their established management at each step, who only cares about phones and ignores even tablets, much less laptops.

    Both Android and ChromeOS used the same identical Linux version from day one. Both Android and ChromeOS can be installed onto the same exact hardware.

    So ‘merging’ most probably means that they will port Android on all Chromebooks, lock system settings, strip every app except Chrome, change the color theme so it looks more like ChromeOS, then kick one of the management teams out, to work on the Google’s fifth chat app, with AI, or forced to quit (developers need not worry, they are all moving to Android team to implement that system settings dialog for notifying the user that Ethernet cable is plugged).


  • When the star is sufficiently big, it will simply generate a smaller black hole at it’s center when collapsing, and the rest of the star mass that did not get included into the black hole will suddenly lose the structural support of the star core and will swing inwards and then outwards and form an accretion disk, because it’s impossible for all the outer mass to fall exactly at the center, there will always be some rotation and wobbling, and the black hole itself is very dense, so it will consume only as much mass as it’s cross-section. So that places the upper limit on the black hole size.

    There is no clear theory on how supermassive black holes were created, supposedly the specific region of space just happened to contain a lot of smaller black holes right after Big Bang, and they did not get enough time to fly away and merged, and then slowly fed on gas clouds.

    The stellar bodies like stars and black holes are also located very far away from each other and are very unlikely to ever meet, so two black holes colliding usually means that they have somehow traveled at sufficiently close distance from each other and got entangled, then they rotate each other for millions of years just bleeding their kinetic energy as gravitational waves, until finally they merge. So a black hole merging with another black hole is already an improbable event, but we are catching many such events because we are listening to the whole observable universe at the same time. And now imagine the chances of that merged black hole to bump into another black hole.

    For the same reason the merged black hole is always rotating, it’s just impossible for two black holes to collide exactly center-to-center, any small offset means they will orbit each other, and near collision they will orbit each other really fast.














  • The truth is people who want small phones also want them for the price of a clamshell feature phone with no 4G support. I’ve heard these complaints many times from older acquaintances, they want their old Nokia that can also run Viber and do videocalls, and they are not paying iPhone SE price, so there’s practically no market for small but high-spec phones, outside of luxury brands where you are buying an ancient chip with a leather back cover.