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New comment by anonymous2024 in "What we know so far about Spain train crash"

anonymous2024 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:47:20 +0000

I still don't know why the train drivers don't have a simple data: The distance to the train that is next in in that railway in its direction. With this information, that accident will have never happened.

New comment by anonymous2024 in "How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?"

anonymous2024 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:16:35 +0000

When very non-intelligent humans give the A.I. the ability to manage weapons without supervision.

New comment by anonymous2024 in "How to write an effective software design document"

anonymous2024 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:13:42 +0000

The design "doc" is needed, but not the static doc for printers, a more dynamic one where you don't need a 50 pages doc with lots of links between pages, but a very good dynamic diagram with some text.

New comment by anonymous2024 in "It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop"

anonymous2024 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:08:26 +0000

It can be in Spain. Since three years ago, all the public administrations webs can be used correctly from Linux. You don't need any privative software any longer. Also it is gone for good the "Works only with IE", so unfortunately common some years ago.

New comment by anonymous2024 in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

anonymous2024 — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:38:42 +0000

And also VPNs are tools to open doors in the minefield of legislations that they need to create to improve the incoming of some business, not of the people that voted for them.

New comment by anonymous2024 in "Almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values"

anonymous2024 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:56:28 +0000

What I understood was: 9_A = 1001_2 needs 4 bits, set or not set as the minimum length of the binary representation. 52_A = 110100_2 needs 6 bits 6 bits is less than 4*3+1=13 bits

New comment by anonymous2024 in "Almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values"

anonymous2024 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:41:04 +0000

Someone has also noticed another curiosity: The number of bits of the biggest number (in binary notation) in a path is less than the number of bits of the initial number (in binary notation) * 3 + 1

New comment by anonymous2024 in "Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)"

anonymous2024 — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:45:22 +0000

I wonder. How does Rust syntax compares with https://www.hylo-lang.org/ syntax? That also is memory safe, typesafe, and data-race-free.