DF's patch notes are legendary, even more so than The Sims

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I don't see how an encoding thing could produce only \0, you'd expect mojibake or at minimum, some variation

Oh I'm well aware, that's the joke.

"Writers who use subtext are cowards"

Yeah Musk clearly has no idea what he's talking about, but the OP seems to be correctly discussing the case of a universe with no charge sources and thus no J either

They are not quoting the full equations, they're embedding assumptions about a special case they want to talk about

Eq 2 saying there's no charges makes sense because they're talking about deriving how self-supporting EM waves are allowed without needing anything else to interact with

Explanations that hew to realism in a universe like this can make things worse, because they require you to examine a sequence of events which is secretly not entirely sensible in the first place.

... And I'd struggle to disagree with them

I'm in the first couple of chapters of Binding Thorns atm and 1) Thuan's first meeting with Asmodeus becomes very funny with the irony of "that's your future husband!" 2) I'm dying to hear Nga(?)'s logic for sending him of all people as a spy but 3) I guess it worked out for her?

Your outfits are so goood

It's not quite that simple - they let it get this far in the first place, so the question is what changed