I've got a couple of cardboard boxes in my garage that are over 50 years old, and they're still storing things just fine.

However, if I threw one under some mulch in the back yard, it would probably biodegrade within a few months.

The article didn't seem to have much more info than TFS so I'm guessing here, but in general, you may not need to generate net power for fusion to be useful for rocket thrust.

There's plenty of solar power available in space (at least near the inner planets), and as the Farnsworth fusor showed decades ago, it's not hard to generate fusion reactions if you don't expect positive energy output. For some space missions, propellant mass is very important, and getting the highest velocity exhaust is the goal. Using solar energy to induce fusion reactions could be one way to do this. Of course, like most ion drives, this would be very low thrust over long time spans.

How long before they add AI-generated tooltips to Notepad that show sponsored links to products and services related to what you typed?

I'll take that over loads as I scroll any day.

He might be, since in this case his advice is perfectly valid.

"But Derp! Derp! I can write perfect C++!!!!"

Just shut up.

#define PI 3.2

/ducks

The 800 comes with 15 up here.

What's wild is that I consistently get at least 30 up (usually closer to 50) with my wireless service from T-Mobile (which I replaced my Comcast with since 6 up was rough for working from home).

I would think that there's certain liberties you can take WRT latency for a broadcast you can't for a call leading to different codec selections.

To be fair, it's been hard for them to keep up with the constant churn of the "move fast and break things" COBOL culture.

OK, I give up. Which integer is out of range?

Why not send this to see if it helps:

100 FOR X=0 to 65535
200 POKE X, INT(RND(1) * 256)
300 NEXT X

42/6 seems a little tight for an HD video call too run smoothly with much else going on.

The downstream is fine, but 6 up leaves a lot of common uses wanting.