Drone motors are standardized. 1203 7500 KV 1.5 for example has a 12 mm diameter 3 mm tall stator, 7500 revolutions per volt and a 1.5 mm prop shaft. While you want to match the four mounted, you can replace all four with any other brand and just retrim the drone and you're done.

That dongle says it's not intended for gaming consoles, for good reason. They add latency, as conversion is active and not passive, and they do not support VRR. Nor will they allow HDR at over 60 Hz. At least not any I have found.

COBOL is designed around being transactional and error free. That's how it allows for fast batch processing. That's where its ability comes from. This is what allows mainframes to run COBOL code extremely efficiently.

If you know of another language which can solve that problem as efficiently, please, educate me.

COBOL is still the best at error-free transactions in batches. Many hopeful startups have tried to replace it in this role and gone under without a trace. There's nothing which can do that around today, except COBOL.

The combination of error free finance handling, ability to handle immense amounts of batches per time period, and everything being transactions, and all that built into the language and not an afterthought written as a class or similar, is unmatched.

This is also a set of requirements which is highly niche. HIGHLY nice. But within that niche, it stands alone.

Japanese uses 2136 official characters, the JÅyÅ Kanji, yes. But they are not enough. There are also the JinmeiyÅ kanji, a few thousand names which have to be known to be able to read and write. Basic proficiency is often seen as the JÅyÅ Kanji plus around 1000 names. Expert proficiency is at over 3000 names, for some 6000 total characters.

Sure, but the primitives are drawn with differences which are often subtle, but which make a huge change in legibility and aesthetics, when in combined kanji or hanzi. This is true in hand drawn or high resolution printed characters, but becomes a lot more important for fonts which are rendered with much lower resolution. For decoding, it's a cool shortcut, but for creating them the results will not be great.

That's why we have excellent public transportation. No need to drive. Or pay ridiculous amounts of money to own, maintain and house a car. Plus, living just about anywhere in Europe, I can walk to the grocery store to get what I need.

Not too new at all. There were enough chargers to make the trip two years ago, and they've been adding to that network constantly. Chargers in the EU are standardized and all offer Type 2, meaning you can charge any car anywhere. And if you have a legacy vehicle, you can get an adapter to Type 2.

What you often can't find is petrol which will work reliably in a 25 year old octo vehicle.

Not most, by far. Over 60 million housing units are still vacant, and in the previously completely empty cities where people have moved in, occupancy is often at 10% of capacity or so. A lot of the housing has simply been demolished, which has improved statistics somewhat, but a lot of unfinished housing also remains.

None of this is an indicator of collapse of the economy, and it has never been. The economy isn't dependent on people living in ghost towns. What it is an indicator of is massive private investment losses, as the majority of private investments in China are in housing.

"Simple supply and demand" requires ethics, or it doesn't exist.

We don't have reliable knowledge models built on LLM's. That's the core problem which they're unable to solve, still. There exists no LLM based knowledge model which works well, so that's still science fiction.

LLM's have use cases, sure. But they're a lot less general than they're being sold as.

Thanks to movies and hyperbolic descriptions the initial effects of nuclear weapons are vastly overestimated and their long term effects vastly underestimated. If you don't get hit by the initial flash and radiation, and you manage to find cover so the blast doesn't take you out, you stand a very good chance of surviving unharmed and be able to get away from the area of danger.

Even laying down in a ditch or similar is likely to be enough to not suffer any ill effects from the detonation itself. But then it's a race against time to get away from the fallout. Standing watching what's happening though, that's going to end badly. Flash burns and radiation will make short work of a human body.

Sure, there were a couple of people like that. They were outliers, even among those who kept using Usenet and Gopher.

Ironically, writer tools have moved away from WYSIWYG to content focused tools, making the circle complete. And Emacs and Vim remain not only popular, but for many tasks indispensible, tools of the trade.

What's happening with LLM's is different. It's not a couple of outliers. In most places, the outliers are the ones embracing the LLM's to mash out more LOC, as if that's a good thing.

Watching people misremember what "every office had in the 1990's" really hammers home how some people are blinded by marketing.

And without irony, "every office" is in the next sentence reduced to "one guy", who is described as an aberrant outlier.

LLM's are being shunned by professionals everywhere, for good reason. It's in certain areas in the US they're being adopted, mainly due to horrible metrics used to measure performance, but otherwise they're relegated to the equivalent of grammar checking.

So basically, you use Claude like other people use migration scripts. And you expect someone gets paid $70k+ a year doing migration scripts. If someone does, they've landed one helluva deal, lemme tellya.

Seriously, if this speeds up how fast you complete tasks, you've got no business holding the position you do in the first place. YOU are the junior programmer in this scenario.