Again, explain Switzerland. Similar gun control laws, much less violence.
Wrong. Switzerland is subject to Directive (EU) 2021/555 which means that all semi-automatic firearms are restricted to...
persons who have good cause, are older than 18 (or younger in case of hunters and sport shooters) and are not likely to be a danger to themselves, to public order or to public safety.
I doubt "because I want it" is a considered "good cause" in the EU.
Eliminate one tool...and people will...Uh....Find a way.
What you're missing is that most crimes committed are crimes of opportunity. And hey, wouldn't you know, the Charlie Kirk shooting actually turned out to be a crime of opportunity rather than a carefully executed plan. You may not like it but the fact is that if the guy didn't already have a lot of experience with and ownership of a rifle then Charlie Kirk would still be alive.
An ample and poorly regulated supply of guns is merely providing would-be criminals with opportunity.
Your arguments goalpost is zero crime which is idiotic because perfect is the enemy of good.
The C++ standards committee abandoned a detailed proposal to create a rigorously safe subset of the language, according to the proposal's co-author, despite continuing anxiety about memory safety.
Article at Le Monde (in French): “The C++ standards committee rejected a proposal to create a secure subset of the language. Members prefer to focus on the Profiles framework pushed by C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup.” https://www.lemondeinformatiqu...
"If you mark your code to apply a Profile, some features of the C/C++ language will stop working," he says. There is also a small problem, these guidelines were not integrated into version 26 of C++, but simply into a white paper. The controversy surrounding the security of C++ opens the door to another solution with the use of another language. The first advocated by several American authorities is Rust, but there is also Google's experimental Carbon project. Unveiled in 2022, it also aims to modernize C++.
If Profiles are eventually adopted, it may Balkanize C++ by dividing C++ into safe and unsafe subsets. C++ Profiles won't fix the issue of making C pointers memory safe. A proposal to implement pointer memory safety is TrapC, but for the C language, not C++. Some say make the switch to Rust, but that doesn't solve the safety problems lurking in billions of lines of existing C/C++ code.
Why don't these assholes ask the actual experts on the subject matter? Oh wait, you did and you didn't like the answers so you had them deleted.
Well... I guess it's time to hassle some unrelated companies until they give us the sound bytes we want instead of addressing the actual problem of lax gun control.
Two flying cars crashed into each other at a rehearsal for an air show in China which was meant to be a showcase for the technology.
I think this was a perfect showcase of the flying car concept.
The coding part of this isn't of any particular interest, what is interesting is that it solved a complex logic optimization problem: take a look
That said, this seems more like the kind of problem you would throw at mathematicians. While most real world applications are unlikely to have neat and tidy solutions, optimization problems like this really do exist. Being able to get quick solutions to these kind of complex optimization problem would radically reduce the number of people needed to solve such a problem.
This was an impressive solve but while it does work, I don't think the code is particularly well written.
Why is suicide bad if it's the will of the person?
Isn't it obvious? The corporate machinery needs an underclass to keep labor prices cheap. If you have alternative to a life of suffering then you might end up with a labor supply issue and have to pay more for labor! Do you really expect the companies to get slightly fewer profits just so life isn't so terrible that people would prefer death?
How many of these FUD stories about electric vehicles are we going to have?
Here are some diesel busses that caught fire:
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https://www.thestatesman.com/i...
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It just so happens that I'm writing a paper on Equatorial Guinea and upon being freed from Spanish rule, some ass declared himself president for life and about 10 years later another ass took over in a coup and guess what replaced the dictator? It was an authoritarian government lead by the ass that took over as a "president" (only the rich and loyal get to vote, not the poors). Equatorial Guinea is one of the largest oil producers in Sub-Saharan Africa and all the money goes to the "president" and his family. Only half the people have access to clean drinking water. It's rated one of the worst countries for freedom, getting a 5 out of 100. For reference, Afghanistan got a 6 out of 100 and North Korea got a 3 out of 100. See also: https://freedomhouse.org/count...
This is actually the same island that they tried to get a deal with Britain to store toxic waste on. The only reason it didn't go through is because Britain's got upset and their government suddenly decided against it. However, the people on the island were merely going to be casualties when the waste invariably leaked into the streams, aquifers, and ocean.
I honestly do not know why they expected anything different from this guy. He basically thinks they are ants to be stepped on.
While this is good, the concessions missed the mark because it doesn't enforce any API stability or mandate that the public API be the one that Microsoft uses. As a result, Microsoft's pledge has been made entirely in bad faith. Some things they will likely do is put out a half-assed public API that is technically compatible but keeps out the "Microsoft Exclusive" features that make it useful. Furthermore, they may "update" the API and break everyone's client that isn't use the Microsoft API every six months.
Let's hope this EU commission roasts them when they (invariably) act in bad faith.
However, in human scales this is unreachable. We need drastic extension of life, or suspended animation, or new physics that would allow for FTL travel.
This is incorrect. The passengers on a spaceship traveling at relativistic velocity will experience time differently. From inside the spaceship, it will seem like everything outside is speeding up but time is relative and compared to the outside, they are slowing down. Therefore, space travel under constant acceleration could enable someone to travel beyond the observable universe in a human lifetime while (depending on your rate of acceleration) billions of years have passed outside the spaceship.
Naturally, an amazing energy source to provide the thrust will be required. Antimatter/matter reactions look like a possible method for at least some distances. I'm not saying it's a solved problem, I'm saying it's not impossible to accomplish in a human lifetime.
While it may seem foolish to bother observing far away planets like this due to our lack of ability to reach them, one should remember that humanity has always had seemingly unobtainable goals that we have always dreamed of reaching. Despite the distant nature of our goals, things like this inspire us to expand our capabilities and strive to "reach for the stars".
Despite being mere fantasy for millennia, humanity has made amazing progress to reaching the goals of humanity which seem to be fundamental to human nature as they occur in stories from every culture and society: immortality, building an artificial person, traveling to alien lands. We have made progress toward these goals: our understanding of biology is improving, our technology has progressed to the point where AGI isn't an impossibility, and we've made it to the Moon and sent probes to the edge of our star system.
Humanity will not reach the new planets we find in our lifetimes (we're still working on Mars!) but unless humans are drastically altered or go extinct, we will continue to chip away at "the impossible" until we've actually managed to accomplished it.
Wake me up when we get to the moon.
Oh boy, do I have GREAT news for you!: Apollo 11: the first moon landing
Yet magic and hierarchy arise from the same source, and this source has a null pointer.
