- In this context I believe 'computer' refers to only general purpose computing devices, not fixed function calculation machines.
In some sense, early player pianos (IIRC with holes in paper that controlled key presses) weren't computers, but were a related precursor technology / infrastructure.
- I agree about nearly all of this, but in my fantasy I think the 'unsafe' library should be how to break the abstraction layer and adjust things directly when a good language model isn't provided.
JSON's just a nightmare though. The inane legacy of UCS2 / UTF16 got baked into Unicode 8, and UTF16 escapes into JSON.
- I would like a revision to bitfields and structs to make them behave the way a programmer things, with the compiler free to suggest changes which optimize the layout. As well as some flag that indicates the compiler should not, it's a finalized structure.
- Suckers Buckers seems safe enough for work to say on a text only Internet thread. Just don't read it aloud.
- Cyclical markets are the sort of thing 'National Strategic Reserves' should address...
Am I crazy for wanting this to be in Full ECC RAM modules suitable for composition into many device factors with hope that we'll finally go to reliable memory for all markets as a result?
- ID should be something the government provides to everyone "for free" (for taxes already paid, by all taxpayers).
That way anyone and everyone should be expected to have an ID and depriving someone of that ID or their use of real ID could be made a crime similar to unlawful detainment.
- Though it lacks in the headlines, my preference is to send the robots first to bootstrap local production. Unless we really screw up the worst case would be some extra garbage to clean up for future missions, and the best case is any sort of increase in local production capacity.
- Got any guesses about energy used for propulsion, cooling solutions (energy used for them as well as overall capacity), communications and how those might degrade over time in a real environment rather than just academic theory?
That's not even considering the increase in exposure to radiation outside of the Earth's atmosphere (absorbing materials) and weakened at distance protective EM field.
- Yes, and my desktops utilize ECC too for that reason. I only lack ECC in the places it's really difficult to avoid that tremendous drawback.
E.G. a Steamdeck is or smartphone are both relegated as toy devices that are not for serious computing.
- Same, but I also discovered a wonderful bonus in the difference between True ECC DDR5 and just the on chip BS stuff.
ECC DDR5 boots insanely fast since the BIOS can quickly verify the tune passes. This is even true when doing your initial adjustment / verification of manufacturer spec.
- Or, just provide 'basic healthcare' as a human right (and service for being taxed) and make ALL plans on top of that luxury services.
Wouldn't you like to STOP the insanity of "picking" a plan every year (or more) and also end the billing nightmare by just making it all single payer (the government of the people, for the people)?
- I'd feel better about a kid smart enough to learn how to get around DNS block lists and other forms of mass surveillance and filtering than one who free ranges and isn't even trying to get out.
- My personal opinion:
Trade Mark - as long as dues are paid
Patents a yearly cap of N things and only the most worthy get a 20 year patent, world wide.
Copyright ~ 5 years auto with exponentially more expensive renewals in 5 year blocks.
- I didn't finish GT:NH but if I ever set aside enough time to play a GregTech build again, GTNH is on the very short list.
- You can create a new empty array of variable size backed by a 32 Byte array as it's starting size.
The difference is really that [32]Byte is a single pointer (in compiler hands that you never touch) to a slab of 32 bytes of memory; the []Byte (of internal size 32 use 0-32) has the current allocated size, current used size, and a pointer (none of which you directly touch but two of which are trivial to affect with language semantics) values that point to a 32 Byte backing array.
The only time this matter is timing or performance critical code. With respect to cryptography, timing might be critical for performance, but it's absolutely critical for never taking _variable_ time to perform an operation based on data as well as not on key. In that respect this doesn't matter.
- Wasn't there something about the wormhole that required it connect two relatively large gravitational bodies rather than a single one? I also remember 'harmonics' related to having more than one Stargate on a planet, even if the other was unusable.
For sub light second I think Scifi tends to like something along the line of isolating a region of space in an energy field and then either shifting or transposing that area with another. At least for the not 3D body printer death machine version of teleportation. Though maybe that was a very poorly phrased description of imposing a probability shift via precisely regulated change of energy state for a reference frame to match the state of another region.
- Regulations to require work is done correctly the first time. Also inspections.
I like a government that pays workers to look out for my safety.
- Most people don't really want freedom of speech. Until they REALLY _NEED_ freedom of speech.
- Maybe work should be put into make the curriculum more engaging so that it's less drudgery and boring work and more rewarding.
A practical example of this from fitness is turning exercise into a sport.
* For hit movies buy an obscene number of copies to rent month 1
* Sell off some for a discount as the rentals dwindled
* Discount anything over a reasonable backlog / duplicates set shortly after
Offhand I think they tried to time this to end well enough before the release windows slid to TV + Ads distribution.
* Rent the backlog until dead or until they sold in a discount bin
Some independent shops also competed. I recall my parents kindly rented a few less popular games they happened to carry. Not sure about videos, might have been better for stuff not mainstream enough at the big national chain.