No we don't. We just want Russia to be a good neighbor and stop attacking everyone around them.

I used to think this was more or less true. But now I see it's been heavy-handed propaganda the whole time. To debunk it just look at the map of Israel over the last 80+ years. From nothing, to barely a dot, to growing and growing. Is that possible in an honest way, i.e. by purchasing land like you'd do in your own country ? No, it's been done by stealing it outright, piece by piece. No wonder the people it's been stolen from are pissed and trying to fight back, no matter how you call them. Israel is the only country which hasn't defined official frontiers; let that sink in.

As you imply, Perl is naturally obfuscated. I worked in Perl for a year and was so relieved when that was over. I remember as a beginner, I would submit a 20-line piece of slow code and ask for advice on how to improve it, then a better programmer would come up with a 5-line version, then a guru would offer a cryptic 2-line code, and finally an elder god would spew forth a one-liner which would freeze your blood upon decipherment attempt...

Indeed there's a lot of variability from year to year. I teach a course of embedded Linux kernel programming. Last year students were okay but not great. 2 years ago it was just chatgpt and I barely passed them. 3 years ago they were from very good to perfect. Etc...

...and FFTs. I've used FFTs in so many projects that I don't understand how any student who doesn't understand Fourier Transforms, or even the concept of frequencies, can pass. And nowadays wavelet transforms are a bit more useful, even if harder to implement, represent and interpret. I remember trying to get the concept (not even the maths) of Fourier transforms to a colleague and it was like talking to a wall.

I think that these are all just adult album alternative format stations that keep playing that one Wilco record.

But you can sell derivatives of derivatives or crap like that. I remember doing the same simulation and trying to find corrections (taxes or others) to make it more 'fair'... But didn't play with it too much.

Because it would be hugely expensive to put them back in 2 years, and thus 'wasteful'. And it would break the continuity of data. What a bunch of cunts this administration is. When all is said and done I seriously hope some of them will be found out to have colluded with foreign powers and hung for treason.

If AI services are becoming too expensive in the current environment, we can look to nature for help. There is a an abundant species of large mammals in the ape family that can be trained to do this kind of work as well.

I always knew there would be a time when I wouldn't know the top famous singer... But a time when I wouldn't have any idea how to pronounce his name, no, I did not expect that. But back on topic, good; but now throw the entire Trump crime family in the slammer for insider traffic too. Why do *they* get a free pass ?!? Or rather a *very* lucrative pass.

This particular statistic has nothing to do with Iran, but we can expect a significant global boost for renewables due to the currently ongoing debacle. Businesses and governments worldwide knows how bad this hurts, and is still going to hurt. They know that they need to decouple from oil strategically. The cheapest route to do that is solar + batteries (for most of the world). Some northern countries (Scandinavia, Canada, northern Russia, plus a bit of central europe) - will of course need "winter generation" in addition. Norway solves that with Hydro. Others will need nuclear in addition.

There will most certainly be an acceleration in buildout due to this debacle. That won't shop up in the statistics for another year - but it'll be there.

Finally, anyone who has paid a modicum of attention to geopolitics in the last 45 years know of the Strait of Hormuz. It was quite central in the "Tanker Wars" in the early 80s. Not to mention for people who paid a modicum of attention around 20-25 years ago when Iran started developing their "speedboat strategy".

Well, speaking for myself, I've always used Xilinx for my embedded OS related projects, but the choice was actually done by the hardware guys.

Do people actually double-boot ? I tried it in the early 2000 to try Linux out, but once you have your tools setup on one OS, you are reluctant to reboot and break all your workflow. Running the lesser OS in a VM is the way to go and has been for a long time.

Another thing that pisses me off is the language confusion. I have a system in english, google is configured in english and when I do a search in english all the top replies are in the language of the country I'm in.

Apparently, the elite also own all the newline characters.

Pica FTW!