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This app is really amazing, congrats!!!

Thank you for sharing the track: I got chills within the first few seconds... could it be a matter of the high-harmonic frequencies of the strings, and the crescendo combined with the spacious reverb of the place where the music is performed?

Congratulations: from a simple intuition about something that many wouldn’t have noticed, you wrote a beautiful article.

Interesting, but the opening line threw me off:

> Sure, I still make fun of the PHP I remember from the days of PHP 4.1, but even then I didn’t hate it. (ref. And “PHP: Training Wheels Without a Bike” is still in the Top 10 of my favorite memes.)

I still use it to build my latest projects, and for me it’s like breathing. Simple and functional. It’s not perfect, but no language is.

Merry Christmas from Italy!!!

I still use them to plug in my wired earphones.

So ChatGPT Atlas is basically Clippy's revenge: a helpful overlay that knows what you want before you do. What could possibly go wrong?

I think it's just because they always start developing for macOS or iOS first and only later move on to the others.

More than anything, now my chat history in the sidebar is growing out of control. I think they should have made it separate. Browser chats (mostly temporary, throwaway, and not very useful) are one thing, while my long ChatGPT sessions, the ones I actually want to keep visible and organized, are another.

Yes, I think the absence of preinstalled extensions gives a misleading impression of speed.

Trying it right now and it feels really fast.

One of the earliest references comes from John Michell in 1783, who, in a letter published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1784), suggested that a sufficiently massive object could exert such a strong gravitational pull that light would not escape—effectively predicting the concept of a "dark star," an early analogue of a black hole.

Another key figure was Pierre-Simon Laplace, who, in the first editions of Exposition du Système du Monde (1796), independently proposed the existence of such massive celestial bodies that could trap light. However, he later removed this idea from later editions, possibly due to skepticism over the corpuscular theory of light.

The first real attempt to quantify how much gravity might bend light was made by Henry Cavendish (circa 1783–1784). Though unpublished at the time, his notes (discovered in 1921) contained the first calculations of the bending of light under Newtonian gravity. Later, in 1801, Johann Georg von Soldner formally published a paper calculating the deflection angle of light passing near the Sun under Newtonian mechanics, obtaining a result (~0.85 arcseconds) that was later found to be half of what general relativity predicted.

These early discussions framed gravitational lensing in a purely Newtonian context, treating light as a particle affected by gravitational attraction.