It really does feel like we (humanity) are on the precipice of something. We're smack in the middle of an era that entire books will be written about. I really don't like thinking about the decades to come and what kind of world our grandchildren will have.

Yup. They did. At least they cited it I suppose.

I've committed sins in production code that I would never dream of doing in one of my published open source projects. The allure of " no one will ever see this" is pretty strong

I lived there briefly with a Czech roommate who took me on tours through the "real" city. Also had a British friend there and we went through the usual tourist destinations now and then. The astronomical clock was neat, but the castle was so much more interesting and far less crowded than the old town.

Incidentally, I didn't drink before said roommate introduced me to Czech beer. What I wouldn't give for a nice frosty Kozel here in the states...

Honestly I still kind of prefer that to gitlab et al. It's nice to not have to leave my terminal to setup a new repo. It takes so much more effort to log into a website and dismiss a bunch of notifications before I can click even more buttons to create a new repo.

I like having all my repos accessible through the website, but I really just want to create new projects through ssh like a civilized person.

If/when we build space elevators, then orbital solar might make sense to use the tether to transfer power. Even with the lower cost of putting mass in orbit, I don't think it'd be any cheaper than terrestrial solar.

Besides, by the time we figure put space elevators, we'll already have commercial fusion, right?

Depending on the work, it may also require frequent trips to the hearth for torch work. You really don't want to use an oxy/propane torch in a sealed glovebox.

In short, it's too much hassle and makes the work more difficult and much slower.

Just as soon as they realize that short-term immediate profit is not the only goal that any business could ever possibly have.

Pretty much the day after never, or right after the collapse of capitalist society. Whichever comes first.

But in C#, that is a batshit insane thing to suggest. I'm not even sure if it's even legal in C# to take a pointer to an arbitrary address outside of your memory. That's.. That's just not how this works. That's not how any of this works!

I've seen research papers on using this method to do gesture detection as well.

Maybe I'm just ignorant of linux filesystems, but this seems like the obvious thing to do. Do ext and friends not have a file table like this?

Believe it or not, the UK is not the entire world.

In the US, we have vast stretches of highway with nothing in sight. You can pretty easily find yourself many miles away from the nearest town and with no cell service to call for help. If you get a flat in the middle of the actual desert we have, you're absolutely fucked without a spare. Your options are to wait and hope someone else drives by to offer help or just start walking. Maybe you'll find a gas station before you run out of water. Even in the more densely developed areas of the country you can find yourself stranded a long way between towns. It's happened to me twice before and it's not at all an uncommon story.

For instance, if your widget includes an ESP32 and a switching power supply, you are (notionally) guaranteed to never fail certification due to bad behavior from the ESP, but if you botch your power supply design and are spewing out noise in the KHz to MHz range, you still fail certification.

Even if every individual component in your device carry their own certification, you still have to certify the product as a whole. Poor PCB design can produce bad EMI. Maybe you're running SPI over a long wire or your traces are routed in a way that accidentally creates an antenna at your SPI clock frequency. Hell, even something as simple as toggling a GPIO pin once a second can emit high frequency EMI under the right conditions.

There are a lot of ways to unintentionally produce harmful EMI, and that's exactly why FCC certification is required for everything. This stuff is hard to get right and there are endless gotchas and exceptions and edge cases and you have to know about and account for all of them.

Or might be something much more subtle. I know C++ can behave this way, but I don't have in depth experience with C# JIT or x86 assembly.

To assert that your perspective is the only thing that matters is to assert that nobody else matters.

Therefore: Dr. Nurse Doctor

If you had a molecule which functions in a similar way, it'd probably work in blood. The real trick is getting it to release the oxygen in the presence of CO2.

Immune response is a different matter that I don't know enough about to weigh in on. I'd assume there's ways around it. Possibly immunosuppressor drugs for the (hopefully) short time you're on the synthetic blood.